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- Even though she was born in the UK, she lived and worked for 40 years in the United States.  

- She stands out above all as a key figure in women's access to training and careers in mathematics. Her work is important in pedagogy and maths.

- Predecessors of the work carried out by Angas Scott in antiquity are Theano of Crotone (c.546 - c. 450 BC), for her geometric constructions based on the golden number, and Hypatia of Alexandria (c.370 - c.416 AD), for her study and commentaries on the geometry of Apollonius' conics. Closer to her time we can find mathematicians and science communicators such as Sophia Brahe (1556-1643), Maria Cunitz (1610-1664), Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia (1646-1684), Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-1799) and Nicole Lepaute (1723-1788).

- In the scientific context of female creation, we can find Iginia Massarini, Vera von Schiff, and Charlotte Wedell. Along with Charlotte, they were the only four women who attended the first International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich in 1897. 

- Scott's contemporaries were renowned mathematicians and scientists such as Hilda Geiringer, Mileva Maric, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Grace Chisholm Young, Ida Noddack and Emmy Noether (considered by David Hilbert and Albert Einstein to be the most important woman in the history of mathematics). Her fellow member at the Edinburgh Mathematical Society was Jessie Chrystal Macmillan, a lawyer, mathematician, feminist and British pacifist and the second woman to be able to join this institution; Charlotte was the third.

- At Bryn Mawr, Scott supervised the PhD of seven women: Ruth Gentry (1894), Ada Isabel Maddison (1896), Virginia Ragsdale (1906), Louise D. Cummings (1914), Mary Gertrude Haseman (1917), Bird Margaret Turner (1920) and Marguerite Lehr (1925). 

- Scott created the Bryn Mawr College Mathematics Journal Club, which was designed to provide a meeting place for doctoral students, recent graduates and staff members to lecture on their mathematical research.

- Charlotte is credited with being the author of the first mathematical research article written in the USA that was widely recognised in Europe, "A proof of Noether's fundamental theorem", Mathematische Annalen, vol. 52 (1899).

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Calculation of the length of the circumference and the area of the circle.

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