Talk:List of African-American mathematicians

Joseph Dennis Mis-linked
The entry for Joseph Dennis links to a cricket play from the mid=1700s: Joseph Dennis I'm going to create a new entry for Joseph Dennis_(mathematician) and link to that instead. I'll try to figure out the current conventions regarding disambiguation pages and such. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JimD (talk • contribs) 09:32, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

Distressingly short list
By reading this page, one could reasonably draw the conclusion that there are precisely three living African-American mathematicians, none under 80 years of age.

This is quite false (there are, arguably, too few African-American mathematicians, but there are lots more than three!). I wish to question the merits of a page which serves to give an untruthfully discouraging impression of the current state of affairs: who benefits? Plclark 03:16, 29 September 2007 (UTC)Plclark


 * I started the article because someone else requested it. Presumably it benefits curious people, and it fulfills a role that isn't really well suited for a category. There is a danger that readers will get the wrong impression, which can be mitigated by expanding the list. Melchoir (talk) 08:53, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

75.74.52.184
the world is a loser and none of this can help —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.74.52.184 (talk) 18:10, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

im like really bored has anybody noticed that there are no female african american mathematicians and that is very wrong they are giving the men all the credit how dare they most women are at home doing work like cleaning or cooking that is not right the women should have enducation and be anle to be recognized  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.74.52.184 (talk) 18:13, 21 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Er... there are women on the list. Melchoir (talk) 00:00, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

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What is this article?
Is it a list, or is it a regular article? I think it should be split into an article describing the history of African-Americans in mathematics and a list of African-American mathematicians. 203.214.8.5 (talk) 05:57, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

Links should be to new website on Mathematicians of African Diaspora
I saw some links to photos/articles on Scott Williams original website http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/index.html. Last year, this website was updated. The new website is https://www.mathad.com/home. There are many good photos on this website that can be linked to. Mvitulli (talk) 17:16, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

Hilda Bastian
This page and contributions by are mentioned in a Vox article: The scientist who’s been right about Covid-19 vaccines predicts what’s next.

"There was the time she traveled the US on her own dime to research and take historical photos for a Wikipedia list of African American mathematicians."

// sikander { talk } 🦖 18:15, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I saw this article in Vox too, but cant' see that any of the photos on this article were contributed by . Mvitulli (talk) 00:33, 25 February 2021 (UTC)