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To its credit, Notices has been publishing a series of profiles celebrating the work and careers of several accomplished women in mathematics.Deborah Loewenberg Ball might, at first consideration, seem an unlikely entry into that august company, in that neither her education nor her early life interests exhibited particular mathematical inclinations.Indeed, her first serious engagement with a challenging math problem came after she had graduated college, where she had majored in French.How she addressed that problem is an important part of her story.
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