Sex, Cards, and Calculus: A Day with Badass Mathematician Émilie du Châtelet (1706-1749)
Starting from virtual scratch at the age of 28, Émilie du Châtelet made of herself one of the leading European mathematicians......
Dale DeBakcsy is the writer and artist of the Women In Science and Cartoon History of Humanism columns, and has, since 2007, co-written the webcomic Frederick the Great: A Most Lamentable Comedy with Geoffrey Schaeffer. He is also a regular contributor to The Freethinker, Philosophy Now, Free Inquiry, and Skeptical Inquirer. He studied intellectual history at Stanford and UC Berkeley before becoming a teacher of mathematics and drawer of historical frippery.