By Lavinia Pisani

Gigliola Staffilani is the only Italian woman teaching full time pure mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Originally from Martinsicuro, a town in the Abruzzi region, her future was supposed to be as a hairstylist.

"I am glad that I could be a role model for many girls who may be interested in becoming a professional mathematician," she writes during our email interview. In fact, her story proofs that math is for women as well.

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Fonte: L'italo-Americano