List of female mathematicians

Hypatia as imagined by Raphael.

This is a list of female mathematicians who are notable. Many have made significant contributions to mathematics.

The majority of mathematicians are male, although more women have entered mathematics since World War II. Women are still a small minority of notables in mathematics and neighboring branches of science such as physics. A number of prizes instituted by the AMS and other mathematical societies are aimed at changing this situation.

Prominent female mathematicians have included:

A

• Tatyana Afanasyeva (1876–1964)
• Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718–1799)
• Grace Alele-Williams (1932– )
• Florence Eliza Allen (1876–1960)
• Annie Dale Biddle Andrews (1885–1940)
• Winifred Asprey (1917–2007)
• Hertha Marks Ayrton (1854–1923)

B

• Clara Latimer Bacon (1866–1948)
• Grace Marie Bareis (1875–1962)
• Nina Bari (1901–1961)
• Ruth Aaronson Bari (1917–2005)
• Mabel Schmeiser Barnes (1905–1993)
• Charlotte Barnum (1860–1934)
• Lida Barrett (1927– )
• Agnes Sime Baxter (1870–1917)
• Lulu Hofmann Bechtolsheim (1902–1989)
• Alexandra Bellow (1935– )
• Suzan Rose Benedict (1873–1942)
• Elizabeth Ruth Bennett (1880–1972)
• Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (1914–1988)
• Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak (1938–2009)
• Joan Birman (1927– )
• Gertrude Blanch (1897–1996)
• Lenore Blum (1942– )
• Alicia Boole Stott (1860–1940)
• Mary Everest Boole (1832–1916)
• Valentina Borok (1931–2004)
• Marjorie Lee Browne (1914–1979)
• Kathrin Bringmann (1977–)
• Josephine E. Burns (1887–1969)

C

• Mary Cartwright (1900–1998)
• Sun-Yung Alice Chang (1948– )
• Émilie du Châtelet (1706–1749)
• Fan Chung (1949– )
• Marianna Csörnyei (1975– )
• Marie Curie (1867–1934)

D

Ingrid Daubechies is known for her Daubechies wavelets

• Ingrid Daubechies (1954– )
• Florence Nightingale David (1909–1993)
• Agnes Meyer Driscoll (1889–1971)
• Shakuntala Devi (1939–)

E

• Tatyana Ehrenfest (1905–1984)
• Karin Erdmann (1948–)

F

• Sarah Flannery (1982– )

G

• Sophie Germain (1776–1831)
• Shafi Goldwasser (1958– )

H

• Christine Hamill (1923–1956)
• Louise Hay (1935–1989)
• Caroline Herschel (1750–1848)
• Grace Hopper (1906–1992)
• Susan Howson (1973– )
• Hypatia of Alexandria (died 415)

J

• Sofya Yanovskaya (1896–1966)

K

Sofia Kovalevskaya is known for her contributions to partial differential equations

• Carol Karp (1926–1972)
• Linda Keen (1940–)
• Lyudmila Keldysh (1904–1976)
• Frances Kirwan (1959–)
• Nancy Kopell (1942– )
• Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850–1891)
• Cecilia Krieger (1894–1974)
• Krystyna Kuperberg (1944–)

L

• Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya (1922–2004)
• Judith Q. Longyear (1938–1995)
• Ada Lovelace (1815–1852)
• Līlāvatī
• Lilavati

M

• Jessie MacWilliams (1917–1990)
• Dusa McDuff (1945– )
• Winifred Edgerton Merrill (1862–1951)
• Maryam Mirzakhani (1977– )
• Ruth Moufang (1905–1977)
• Fotini Markopoulou-Kalamara (1971–)
• Manjula? (10 th century)

N

• Evelyn Nelson (1943–1987)
• Hanna Neumann (1914–1971)
• Florence Nightingale (1820–1910)
• Emmy Noether (1882–1935)

O

• Olga Arsenievna Oleinik (1925–2001)
• Kathleen Ollerenshaw (1912– )

P

• Raman Parimala (1948– )
• Rózsa Péter (1905–1977)
• Elena Cornaro Piscopia (1646–1684)
• Vera Pless (1931– )
• Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina (1899–1999)
• Cheryl Praeger (1948– )

R

• Marina Ratner (1938– )
• Mary Rees (1953– )
• Idun Reiten (1942– )
• Julia Robinson (1919–1985)
• Mary Ellen Rudin (1924– )

S

• Alice T. Schafer (1915–2009)
• Charlotte Scott (1858–1931)
• Nina Snaith
• Mary Somerville (1780–1872)
• Bhama Srinivasan (1935–)
• Irene Stegun (1919–2008)
• Esther Szekeres (1910–2005)
• Vera T. Sós (1930–)

T

• Éva Tardos (1957– )
• Olga Taussky-Todd (1906–1995)
• Audrey Terras (1942– )
• Theano (6th century BC)
• Ulrike Tillmann (1962–)

U

• Karen Uhlenbeck (1942– )

W

• Katrin Wehrheim
• Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler (1883–1966)
• Mary Wheeler (1931– )

• Melanie Wood (1981– )
• Margaret H. Wright (1944– )
• Dorothy Maud Wrinch (1894–1976)

Y

• Sofya Yanovskaya (1896–1966)
• Grace Chisholm Young (1868–1944)

See also

• Women in science
• List of female scientists
• Noether Lecturer
• Women in computing

External links

• Chronological Index of Women Mathematicians
• Alphabetical Index of Women Mathematicians
• Association for Women in Mathematics
• List of Noether Lecture subjects