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This is a list of women who have made noteworthy contributions to or achievements in mathematics, including mathematical research, [[mathematics education]], the history and philosophy of mathematics, public outreach, and [[mathematics contest]]s.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Morrow|first1=edited by Charlene|last2=Perl|first2=Teri|title=Notable women in mathematics : a biographical dictionary|date=1998|publisher=Greenwood Press|location=Westport, Conn.|isbn=978-0313291319|pages=98–101}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Profiles of Women in Mathematics|url=http://www.awm-math.org/noetherbrochure/TOC.html|website=The Emmy Noether Lectures|publisher=Association for Women in Mathematics|accessdate=23 August 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|editor-last1=Grinstein|editor-first1=Louise S.|editor-last2=Schafer|editor-first2=Paul J. Campbell|title=Women of mathematics : a biobibliographic sourcebook|date=1987|publisher=Greenwood Press|location=New York|isbn=978-0313248498}}</ref> |
This is a list of women who have made noteworthy contributions to or achievements in mathematics, including mathematical research, [[mathematics education]], the history and philosophy of mathematics, public outreach, and [[mathematics contest]]s.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Morrow|first1=edited by Charlene|last2=Perl|first2=Teri|title=Notable women in mathematics : a biographical dictionary|date=1998|publisher=Greenwood Press|location=Westport, Conn.|isbn=978-0313291319|pages=98–101}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Profiles of Women in Mathematics|url=http://www.awm-math.org/noetherbrochure/TOC.html|website=The Emmy Noether Lectures|publisher=Association for Women in Mathematics|accessdate=23 August 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|editor-last1=Grinstein|editor-first1=Louise S.|editor-last2=Schafer|editor-first2=Paul J. Campbell|title=Women of mathematics : a biobibliographic sourcebook|date=1987|publisher=Greenwood Press|location=New York|isbn=978-0313248498}}</ref> |
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Many of the best known mathematicians are male, although more women have entered mathematics since [[World War II]]. Women make up a significant collection of notable figures 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 improving the situation and recognition of distinguished female mathematicians. |
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{{see also|Timeline of women in mathematics in America|Timeline of women in mathematics worldwide}} |
{{see also|Timeline of women in mathematics in America|Timeline of women in mathematics worldwide}} |
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* [[Haesun Park]], Korean–American researcher in numerical analysis and the data sciences |
* [[Haesun Park]], Korean–American researcher in numerical analysis and the data sciences |
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* [[Karen Parshall]] (1955– ), American historian of mathematics |
* [[Karen Parshall]] (1955– ), American historian of mathematics |
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* [[Irena Peeva]], American researcher in |
* [[Irena Peeva]], American researcher in commutative algebra and its applications |
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* [[Rose Peltesohn]] (1913–1998), German–Israeli researcher in additive combinatorics |
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* [[Bernadette Perrin-Riou]] (1955– ), French number theorist, winner of the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize |
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* [[Rózsa Péter]] (1905–1977), recursion theorist, first woman elected to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
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* [[Linda Petzold]] (1954– ), researcher in differential algebraic equations and simulation, member of National Academy of Engineering |
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* [[Flora Philip]] (1865–1943), first female member of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society |
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* [[Ragni Piene]] (1947– ), Norwegian algebraic geometer, member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters |
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* [[Marie Anne Victoire Pigeon]] (1724–1767), French mathematician, writer, and teacher |
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* [[Faustina Pignatelli]] (d. 1785), princess of Colubrano, second woman elected to the Academy of Sciences of Bologna |
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* [[Jill Pipher]] (1955– ), researcher in in harmonic analysis, Fourier analysis, differential equations, and cryptography, president of AWM |
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* [[Elena Cornaro Piscopia]] (1646–1684), Italian philosopher, musician, and mathematics lecturer, first woman to earn a doctorate |
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* [[Toniann Pitassi]], American–Canadian computational complexity theorist, expert on on proof complexity |
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* [[Vera Pless]] (1931– ), American mathematician specializing in combinatorics and coding theory |
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* [[Elżbieta Pleszczyńska]] (1933– ), Polish statistician, disability rights activist |
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* [[Kim Plofker]] (1964), American historian of Indian mathematics, winner of the Brouwer Medal |
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* [[Harriet Pollatsek]] (1942– ), Lie theorist who has applied difference sets to error correcting codes and coding theory |
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* [[Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina]] (1899–1999), Soviet researcher in fluid mechanics, hydrodynamics, and history of mathematics |
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* [[Cheryl Praeger]] (1948– ), Australian researcher in group theory, algebraic graph theory and combinatorial designs |
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* [[Emma Previato]], researcher in algebraic geometry and partial differential equations |
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* [[Hilary Priestley]], British mathematician who used topological methods to study distributive lattices |
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[[File:P5-type11.png|thumb|upright=0.9|Lacking any formal training, [[Marjorie Rice]] conducted a systematic study of [[pentagon tiling]], discovering four of the fifteen known types of tiling convex pentagons.]] |
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* [[Virginia Ragsdale]] (1870–1945), American specialist in algebraic curves, formulated the Ragsdale conjecture |
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* [[Susan Miller Rambo]] (1883–1977), second woman awarded a PhD from the University of Michigan, delegate to 1928 ICM |
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* [[Sujatha Ramdorai]], Indian–Canadian algebraic number theorist, expert on Iwasawa theory |
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* [[Helena Rasiowa]] (1917–1994), Polish researcher in the foundations of mathematics and algebraic logic |
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* [[Marina Ratner]] (1938– ), Russian–American ergodic theorist, member of National Academy of Sciences |
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* [[Mary Rees]] (1953– ), British specialist in complex dynamical systems |
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* [[Mina Rees]] (1902–1997), first female President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science |
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* [[Karin Reich]] (1941– ), German historian of mathematics and biographer of mathematicians |
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* [[Nancy Reid]] (1952– ), Canadian theoretical statistician, president of Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Statistical Society of Canada |
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* [[Idun Reiten]] (1942– ), Norwegian representation theorist, member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters |
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* [[Ida Rhodes]] (1900–1986), American pioneer in computer programming, designed the first computer used for Social Security |
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* [[Marjorie Rice]] (1923– ), American amateur mathematician who discovered new pentagon tilings |
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* [[Julia Robinson]] (1919–1985), American researcher on diophantine equations, contributed to solution of Hilbert's Tenth Problem |
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* [[Alvany Rocha]], American specialist in Lie groups, computed characters of the Virasoro algebra |
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* [[Judith Roitman]] (1945– ), American specialist in in set theory, topology, Boolean algebra, and mathematics education |
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* [[Frances A. Rosamond]], Australian researcher in parameterized complexity, advocate for women in computer science and mathematics |
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* [[Mary G. Ross]] (1908–2008), first Native American female engineer, studied mathematics for aeronautics and celestial mechanics |
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* [[Alice Roth]] (1905–1977), Swiss mathematician who made significant contributions to approximation theory |
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* [[Linda Preiss Rothschild]] (1945– ), president of AWM, vice-president of AMS, co-editor-in-chief of ''Mathematical Research Letters'' |
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* [[Christel Rotthaus]], German–American researcher in commutative algebra |
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* [[Christiane Rousseau]] (1954– ), French–Canadian mathematician, president of the Canadian Mathematical Society |
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* [[Marie-Françoise Roy]] (1950– ), French expert in real algebraic geometry, co-founder of two organizations for women in mathematics |
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* [[Mary Ellen Rudin]] (1924– ), constructed many counterexamples in topology |
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* [[Iris Runge]] (1888–1966), German applied mathematician, translator and biographer |
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* [[Mary Beth Ruskai]] (1944– ), proved subadditivity of quantum entropy, bounded the electrons in an atom, advocate for women in mathematics |
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* [[Cora Sadosky]] (1940–2010), Argentinian–American analyst, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics |
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* [[Laure Saint-Raymond]] (1975– ), French specialist in partial differential equations, member of the French Academy of Sciences |
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* [[Judith D. Sally]] (1937– ), American researcher in in commutative algebra, Noether lecturer |
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* [[Jean E. Sammet]] (1928– ), supervised the first scientific programming group, helped develop COBOL |
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* [[Mildred Sanderson]] (1889–1914), American mathematician, established a correspondence between modular and formal invariants |
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* [[Marta Sanz-Solé]] (1952– ), Catalan researcher on stochastic processes, president of the European Mathematical Society |
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* [[Ruth Lyttle Satter]] (1923–1989), American researcher on circadian rhythms, namesake of Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics |
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* [[Lisa Sauermann]] (1992– ), German mathematician ranked third in the International Mathematical Olympiad Hall of Fame |
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* [[Carla Savage]], American researcher on parallel algorithms and combinatorial generation, secretary of AMS |
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* [[Jane Cronin Scanlon]] (1922– ), American researcher in partial differential equations and mathematical biology |
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* [[Alice T. Schafer]] (1915–2009), American differential geometer, founding member of the Association for Women in Mathematics |
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* [[Mary Schaps]], Israeli mathematician and academic administrator, researcher in deformation theory, group theory, and representation theory |
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* [[Doris Schattschneider]] (1939– ), American mathematician known for writing about tessellations and the art of M. C. Escher |
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* [[Tamar Schlick]], American applied mathematician who develops and applies tools for biomolecule modeling and simulation |
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* [[Leila Schneps]] (1961– ), American–French analytic number theorist and arithmetic geometer, archivist of Grothendieck's works |
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* [[Maria E. Schonbek]], Argentine–American researcher in fluid dynamics and associated partial differential equations |
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* [[Marie-Hélène Schwartz]] (1913–2013), French mathematician known for her work on characteristic numbers of spaces with singularities |
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* [[Charlotte Scott]] (1858–1931), British mathematician who promoted mathematical education of American women |
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* [[Elizabeth Scott (mathematician)|Elizabeth Scott]] (1917–1988), applied statistics to astronomy and weather modification, promoted equal opportunity for women |
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* [[Jennifer Seberry]] (1944– ), Australian cryptographer, mathematician, and computer scientist, one of the founders of Asiacrypt |
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* [[Rose Whelan Sedgewick]] (c. 1904–2000), first person to earn a PhD in mathematics from Brown University |
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* [[Sylvia Serfaty]], French expert on superconductivity, winner of the European Mathematical Society Prize |
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* [[Marjorie Senechal]] (1939– ), American expert on quasicrystals, author on history of science, editor-in-chief of ''The Mathematical Intelligencer'' |
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* [[Caroline Series]] (1951– ), English specialist in hyperbolic geometry, Kleinian groups and dynamical systems |
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* [[Lily Serna]] (1986– ), Israeli–Australian arithmetical guru of the SBS game show ''Letters and Numbers'' |
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* [[Mamokgethi Setati]] (1966– ), first black female South African to earn a PhD in mathematics education |
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* [[Tatyana Shaposhnikova]], Russian–Swedish researcher on multipliers in function spaces, partial differential operators, and history of mathematics |
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* [[Mei-Chi Shaw]] (1955– ), Taiwanese–American researcher on partial differential equations |
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* [[Diana Shelstad]] (1947– ), Australian–American mathematician, formulated the fundamental lemma of the Langlands Program |
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* [[Brooke Shipley]], American expert in homotopy theory and homological algebra |
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* [[Lesley Sibner]] (1934–2013), American differential geometer and Hodge theorist, produced a constructive proof of the Riemann–Roch theorem |
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* [[Mary Silber]], American expert in bifurcation theory and pattern formation |
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* [[Alice Silverberg]], American number theorist and cryptographer |
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* [[Rodica Simion]] (1955–2000), Romanian–American pioneer in the study of permutation patterns |
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* [[Hourya Sinaceur]], Moroccan expert in the theory and history of mathematics |
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* [[Ajit Iqbal Singh]] (1943–), Indian researcher in functional analysis and harmonic analysis |
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* [[Lucy Joan Slater]] (1922–2008), British expert on hypergeometric functions and the Rogers–Ramanujan identities |
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* [[Marian Small]], Canadian proponent of constructivist mathematical instruction |
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* [[Karen Smith (mathematician)|Karen Smith]] (1965– ), American specialist in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry |
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* [[Kirstine Smith]] (1878–1939), Danish statistician, created the field of optimal design of experiments |
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* [[Agata Smoktunowicz]] (1973– ), Polish–Scottish researcher in abstract algebra, constructed noncommutative nil rings |
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* [[Nina Snaith]] (1974– ), British researcher in random matrix theory, quantum chaos, and zeta functions |
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* [[Priyanshi Somani]] (1998– ), Indian mental calculator |
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* [[Mary Somerville]] (1780–1872), Scottish science writer and polymath, one of two first female members of the Royal Astronomical Society |
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* [[Christina Sormani]], American researcher on Riemannian geometry, metric geometry, and Ricci curvature |
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* [[Vera T. Sós]] (1930– ), Hungarian number theorist and combinatorialist |
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* [[Diane Souvaine]], American computational geometer, advocate for women and minorities in mathematics and gender neutrality in teaching |
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* [[Ayşe Soysal]] (1948– ), Turkish mathematician, president of Boğaziçi University |
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* [[Birgit Speh]], American expert in Lie groups, namesake of Speh representations |
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* [[Domina Eberle Spencer]] (1920– ), researcher on electrodynamics and field theory, founded fringe science organization Natural Philosophy Alliance |
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* [[Pauline Sperry]] (1885–1967), mathematician, musician, and astronomer, unconstitutionally fired from UC Berkeley for refusing to sign a loyalty oath |
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* [[Dolores Richard Spikes]] (1936–2015), African-American mathematician, first female university chancellor and first female president of a university system in the US |
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* [[Bhama Srinivasan]] (1935– ), representation theorist, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics |
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* [[Gigliola Staffilani]], Italian–American researcher on harmonic analysis and partial differential equations |
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* [[Nancy K. Stanton]], American researcher on complex analysis, partial differential equations, and differential geometry |
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* [[Irene Stegun]] (1919–2008), American mathematician who edited a classic book of mathematical tables |
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* [[Elizabeth Stephansen]] (1872–1961), first Norwegian woman to receive a mathematics doctorate |
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* [[T. Christine Stevens]], American researcher on topological groups, history of mathematics, and mathematics education, associate executive director of AMS |
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* [[Angeline Stickney]] (1830–1892), American suffragist, abolitionist, and mathematician, namesake of the largest crater on Phobos |
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* [[Ileana Streinu]], Romanian–American computational geometer, expert on kinematics and structural rigidity |
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* [[Bella Subbotovskaya]] (1938–1982), Soviet founder of the Jewish People's University |
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* [[Indulata Sukla]] (1944– ), Indian researcher on Fourier series, author of textbook on number theory and cryptography |
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* [[Catherine Sulem]], Algerian-born Canadian mathematician and violinist, expert on singularities in wave propagation |
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* [[Marcia P. Sward]] (1939–2008), executive director of the Mathematical Association of America |
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* [[Henda Swart]] (1939– ), South African geometer and graph theorist, editor-in-chief of ''Utilitas Mathematica'' |
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* [[Esther Szekeres]] (1910–2005), Hungarian–Australian mathematician posed the [[happy ending problem]] in discrete geometry |
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* [[Daina Taimina]] (1954– ), Latvian–American mathematician, crochets objects to illustrate hyperbolic space |
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* [[Rosalind Tanner]] (1900–1992), English mathematician and a historian of mathematics |
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* [[Éva Tardos]] (1957– ), Hungarian–American researcher in combinatorial optimization algorithms |
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* [[Olga Taussky-Todd]] (1906–1995), Austrian and later Czech–American advocate of matrix theory |
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* [[Jean Taylor]] (1944– ), American mathematician known for her work on soap bubbles and crystals |
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* [[Montserrat Teixidor i Bigas]], Spanish–American expert on moduli of vector bundles on curves |
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* [[Keti Tenenblat]], (1944– ), Turkish-Brazilian differential geometer |
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* [[M. B. W. Tent]], American mathematics educator, mathematical biographer |
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* [[Chuu-Lian Terng]] (1949– ), Taiwanese–American differential geometer |
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* [[Audrey Terras]] (1942– ), American number theorist specializing in quantum chaos and zeta functions |
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* [[Theano (philosopher)|Theano]] (6th century BC), one or possibly two different Pythagorean philosophers |
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* [[Rekha R. Thomas]], American mathematician and operations researcher |
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* [[Abigail Thompson]] (1958– ), American low-dimensional topologist, educational reformer |
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* [[Ulrike Tillmann]] <small>FRS</small> (1962– ), German–English algebraic topologist |
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* [[Françoise Tisseur]], French–English numerical analyst |
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* [[Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann]] <small>FRSC</small>, Polish–Canadian geometric functional analyst |
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* [[Reidun Twarock]], German-born mathematical biologist |
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* [[Regina Tyshkevich]], Belarussian graph theorist, co-invented split graphs |
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[[File:Uhlenbeck_Karen_1982.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|[[Karen Uhlenbeck]] is a leading expert in [[partial differential equations]] and has worked on a variety of topics related to mathematical physics.]] |
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* [[Karen Uhlenbeck]] (1942– ), American mathematician, MacArthur Fellow, National Medal of Science, Leroy P. Steele Prize |
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* [[Corinna Ulcigrai]] (1980– ), Italian researcher on dynamical systems, won European Mathematical Society Prize and Whitehead Prize |
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* [[Nina Uraltseva]] (1935– ), Russian mathematical physicist, specialist in nonlinear partial differential equations |
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* [[Brigitte Vallée]] (1950– ), French mathematician and computer scientist, expert in lattice basis reduction algorithms |
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* [[Tatyana Velikanova]] (1932–2002), Soviet mathematician, computer programmer, dissident, and political prisoner |
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* [[Michèle Vergne]] (1943– ), French specialist in analysis and representation theory, member of French Academy of Sciences |
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* [[Marie-France Vignéras]] (1946– ), French mathematician who proved that one cannot hear the shape of a hyperbolic drum |
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* [[Roxana Vivian]] (1871–1961), first female mathematics doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania |
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* [[Karen Vogtmann]] (1949– ), American geometric group theorist, namesake of Culler–Vogtmann outer space |
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* [[Claire Voisin]] (1962– ), French expert on Hodge structures and mirror symmetry |
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* [[Elisabeth Vreede]] (1879–1943), Dutch mathematician, astronomer and Anthroposophist |
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* [[Michelle L. Wachs]], American specialist in algebraic combinatorics |
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* [[Grace Wahba]] (1934– ), American pioneer in methods for smoothing noisy data, member of National Academy of Sciences |
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* [[Helen M. Walker]] (1891–1983), first female president of the American Statistical Association |
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* [[Judy L. Walker]], American algebraic coding theorist |
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* [[Lynne H. Walling]], British number theorist |
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* [[Marion Walter]] (1928– ), German-born mathematician who wrote about using mirrors to explore symmetry |
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* [[Johanna Weber]] (1910–2014), German–British mathematician and aerodynamicist, contributed to supersonic aircraft design |
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* [[Katrin Wehrheim]] (1974– ), American symplectic topologist and gauge theorist |
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* [[Guofang Wei]] (1965– ), Chinese–American differential geometer, found new positively-curved manifolds |
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* [[Katrin Wendland]], German mathematical physicist, expert on singularities in quantum field theories |
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* [[Elisabeth M. Werner]], researcher on convex geometry, functional analysis, and probability theory |
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* [[Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler]] (1883–1966), American researcher on infinite-dimensional linear algebra |
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* [[Mary Wheeler]] (1931– ), American expert on domain decomposition methods for partial differential equations |
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* [[Sue Whitesides]], Canadian mathematician and computer scientist, expert in computational geometry and graph drawing |
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* [[Sylvia Wiegand]] (1945– ), American algebraist, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics |
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* [[Anna Wienhard]] (1977– ), German differential geometer |
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* [[Amie Wilkinson]] (1968– ), American researcher in ergodic theory and smooth dynamical systems |
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* [[Elizabeth Williams (educationist)|Elizabeth Williams]] (1895–1986), British mathematician and educationist |
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* [[Ruth J. Williams]], American probability theorist, president of Institute of Mathematical Statistics, member of National Academy of Sciences |
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* [[Maria Wonenburger]] (1927–2014), Galician–American group theorist, first Spanish Fulbright scholar in mathematics |
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* [[Carol S. Wood]] (1945– ), American expert in model-theoretic algebra, president of AWM |
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* [[Melanie Wood]] (1981– ), first female American to compete in the International Mathematical Olympiad |
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* [[Sarah Woodhead]] (d. 1912), first woman to pass the Tripos |
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* [[Mary Lee Woods]] (1924– ), British mathematician and computer programmer |
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* [[Margaret H. Wright]] (1944– ), American researcher in optimization, linear algebra, and scientific computing |
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* [[Dorothy Maud Wrinch]] (1894–1976), Argentine–English mathematician and biochemical theorist, expert in protein structure |
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* [[Lucy R. Wyatt]], British mathematician and oceanographer, studies high frequency radar oceanography and ocean surface waves |
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* [[Sofya Yanovskaya]] (1896–1966), restored mathematical logic research in Soviet Union, edited mathematical works of Karl Marx |
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* [[Florence Yeldham]] (1877–1945), British school teacher and historian of arithmetic |
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* [[Lai-Sang Young]] (1952– ) Hong Kong born dynamical systems theorist |
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* [[Bin Yu]], Chnese–American statistician, president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics |
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* [[Sufiah Yusof]] (1984– ), British Pakistani mathematics prodigy, feminist blogger |
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* [[Thaleia Zariphopoulou]], Greek–American expert in mathematical finance |
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* [[Tamar Ziegler]], Israeli researcher in ergodic theory and arithmetic combinatorics, won Erdős Prize |
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==See also== |
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* [[Association for Women in Mathematics]] |
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* [[List of female scientists]] |
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* [[Noether Lecturer]] |
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* [[Women in computing]] |
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* [[Women in science]] |
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==References== |
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==External links== |
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* [http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/chronol.htm Chronological Index of Women Mathematicians] |
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* [http://www.scottlan.edu/lriddle/women/alpha.htm Alphabetical Index of Women Mathematicians] |
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* [http://www.awm-math.org/noetherlectures.html List of Noether Lecture subjects] |
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* [http://www.famous-mathematicians.com/top-10-female-mathematicians-time/ Famous Female Mathematicians] |
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* [http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Indexes/Women.html MacTutor index of female mathematicians] |
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{{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Female Mathematicians}} |
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[[Category:Women mathematicians|*]] |
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Revision as of 11:06, 11 September 2015
This is a list of women who have made noteworthy contributions to or achievements in mathematics, including mathematical research, mathematics education, the history and philosophy of mathematics, public outreach, and mathematics contests.[1][2][3]
Many of the best known mathematicians are male, although more women have entered mathematics since World War II. Women make up a significant collection of notable figures 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 improving the situation and recognition of distinguished female mathematicians.
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- Tatyana Afanasyeva (1876–1964), Russian–Dutch researcher in statistical mechanics, randomness, and geometry education
- Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718–1799), Italian mathematician and philosopher, possibly the first female mathematics professor
- Dorit Aharonov (1970), Israeli specialist in quantum computing
- Grace Alele-Williams (1932– ), first woman to lead a Nigerian university
- Stephanie B. Alexander, American differential geometer
- Florence Eliza Allen (1876–1960), second female and fourth overall mathematics PhD from the University of Wisconsin
- Elizabeth S. Allman, American mathematical biologist
- T. A. Sarasvati Amma (1918–2000), Historian of ancient Indian mathematics
- Nalini Anantharaman (born 1976), French mathematical physicist, winner of the Henri Poincaré Prize
- Annie Dale Biddle Andrews (1885–1940), algebraic geometer, first female PhD from the University of California, Berkeley
- Grace Andrews (mathematician) (1869–1951), one of only two women listed in the first edition of American Men of Science
- Kathleen Antonelli (1921–2006), Irish–American programmer of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer
- Maria Angela Ardinghelli (1730–1825), Italian translator of Stephen Hales, mathematician, physicist and noble
- Natascha Artin Brunswick (1909–2003), German–American mathematician, photographer, and journal editor
- Winifred Asprey (1917–2007), helped establish the first computer science lab at Vassar
- Tamara Awerbuch-Friedlander, American biomathematician and public health scientist
- Hertha Marks Ayrton (1854–1923), English engineer, mathematician, physicist, and inventor, winner of the Hughes Medal
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- Rosemary A. Bailey (1947– ), British statistician who works in the design of experiments and the analysis of variance
- Deborah Loewenberg Ball, American mathematics education researcher
- Nina Bari (1901–1961), Soviet mathematician known for her work on trigonometric series
- Ruth Aaronson Bari (1917–2005), American mathematician known for her work in graph theory and homomorphisms
- Ida Barney (1886–1982), American mathematics professor and astronomer
- Charlotte Barnum (1860–1934), mathematician and social activist, first female mathematics PhD from Yale
- Lida Barrett (1927– ), second female president of the MAA
- Jean Bartik (1924–2011), one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer
- Grace Bates (1914–1996), one of few women in the United States to be granted a PhD in mathematics in the 1940s
- Patricia E. Bauman, studies the mathematics of liquid crystals and superconductors
- Agnes Sime Baxter (1870–1917), second Canadian and fourth North American woman to earn a mathematics PhD
- Eva Bayer-Fluckiger (1951– ), Swiss mathematician, proved Serre's conjecture on Galois cohomology of algebraic groups
- Alexandra Bellow (1935– ), Romanian researcher in ergodic theory, probability and analysis
- Suzan Rose Benedict (1873–1942), first woman to earn a PhD from the University of Michigan
- Georgia Benkart, American expert on Lie algebras
- Bonnie Berger, American mathematician and computer scientist, researcher in computational molecular biology
- Marsha Berger (1953– ), American researcher in numerical analysis, computational fluid dynamics, and parallel computing
- Nicole Berline (1944– ), French researcher on index theory of elliptic differential operators
- Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (1914–1988), applied mathematician, first female president of the MAA
- Andrea Bertozzi (1965– ), American researcher in partial differential equations, studies mathematics of urban crime
- Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak (1938–2009), professor of combinatorics and head of mathematics at the University of Mumbai
- Sara Billey (1968– ), American algebraic combinatorialist
- Joan Birman (1927– ), American braid and knot theorist
- Gertrude Blanch (1897–1996), American numerical analyst
- Lenore Blum (1942– ), distinguished professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University
- Jo Boaler, British–American promoter of mathematics education reform and equitable mathematics classrooms
- Mary L. Boas (1917–2010), author of Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences
- Alicia Boole Stott (1860–1940), Irish–English four-dimensional geometer
- Mary Everest Boole (1832–1916), self-taught author of didactic works on mathematics
- Valentina Borok (1931–2004), Soviet Ukrainian mathematician who studied partial differential equations
- Celia Grillo Borromeo (1684–1777), Genovese mathematician and scientist, discovered Clélie curve
- Linda Bostock, author of English secondary school mathematics texts
- Sylvia Bozeman (1947– ), African-American mathematician and academic administrator
- Bodil Branner, founder of European Women in Mathematics, chair of the Danish Mathematical Society
- Marilyn Breen, American geometer
- Susanne Brenner, expert in the numerical solution of differential equations
- Kathrin Bringmann (1977– ), German number theorist, expert on mock theta functions, winner of SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
- Barbara M. Brizuela, American researcher on mathematics education in early childhood and elementary school
- Marjorie Lee Browne (1914–1979), one of the first African-American women to receive a doctorate in mathematics
- Sophie Bryant (1850–1922), Anglo-Irish mathematician, educator, feminist and activist
- Regina S. Burachik, Argentine–Australian researcher in convex analysis, functional analysis and non-smooth analysis
- Leone Burton (1936–2007), British researcher in ethnomathematics, founded book series on women in mathematics
- Ida Busbridge (1908–1988), studied integral equations and radiative transfer, first female mathematics fellow at Oxford
- Margaret K. Butler (1924–2013), computer programmer, director of the National Energy Software Center at Argonne
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- Maria-Carme Calderer, Spanish–American researcher in applied mathematics
- Ana Caraiani, Romanian–American IMO medalist, Putnam fellow, expert in algebraic number theory and the Langlands program
- Mary Cartwright (1900–1998), British mathematician, one of the first to analyze a dynamical system with chaos
- María Andrea Casamayor (1700–1780), only 18th century Spanish scientist whose work is still extant
- Emma Castelnuovo (1913–2014), Italian mathematics educator and textbook author
- Beatrice Mabel Cave-Browne-Cave (1874–1947), English pioneer in the mathematics of aeronautics
- Frances Cave-Browne-Cave (1876–1965), English mathematician and computer, taught at Girton College, Cambridge
- Anny Cazenave, French space geodesist, pioneer in satellite altimetry
- Zoia Ceaușescu (1949–2006), Romanian functional analyst, daughter of Communist leader
- Sue Chandler, author of English secondary-school mathematics textbooks
- Sun-Yung Alice Chang (1948– ), Chinese American mathematical analyst, member of National Academy of Sciences
- Ruth Charney, American expert on geometric group theory and Artin groups, president of AWM
- Émilie du Châtelet (1706–1749), French translator and commentator of Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica
- Jennifer Tour Chayes (1956– ), expert on phase transitions in networks, founder of the theory group at Microsoft Research
- Eugenia Cheng, English category theorist and pianist, uses analogies with food and baking to teach mathematics to non-mathematicians
- Graciela Chichilnisky (1944– ), Argentine–American mathematical economist and authority on climate change
- Phyllis Chinn (1941– ), American graph theorist and historian of mathematics
- Grace Chisholm Young (1868–1944), English mathematician, first woman to receive a German doctorate
- YoungJu Choie, Korean number theorist
- Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923– ), French mathematician and physicist, first woman elected to the French Academy
- Maria Chudnovsky (1977– ), Israeli–American graph theorist, MacArthur Fellow
- Fan Chung (1949– ), Taiwanese–American researcher in random graphs
- Mónica Clapp, Mexican researcher in nonlinear partial differential equations and algebraic topology
- Joan Clarke (1917–1996), English code-breaker at Bletchley Park, numismatist
- Marion Cohen (1943– ), American poet and mathematician, teaches the relationship between art and mathematics
- Miriam Cohen (1941– ), Israeli researcher in Hopf algebras, quantum groups and non-commutative rings
- Amy Cohen-Corwin, American expert in the Korteweg–de Vries equation and cubic Schrödinger equation
- Gertrude Mary Cox (1900–1978), researcher on experimental design, president of the American Statistical Association
- Marie Crous, 17th century mathematician who introduced the decimal system to France
- Marianna Csörnyei (1975– ), Hungarian researcher in real analysis, geometric measure theory, and functional analysis
- Stella Cunliffe (1917–2012), British statistician, first female president of the Royal Statistical Society
- Susan Jane Cunningham (1842–1921), founded the mathematics and astronomy departments at Swarthmore College
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- Christine Darden (1942– ), American aeronautical engineer who researches sonic booms
- Geraldine Claudette Darden (1936– ), one of the first African-American women to earn a PhD in mathematics
- Ingrid Daubechies (1954– ), Belgian physicist and mathematician, known for wavelets
- Florence Nightingale David (1909–1993), English statistician, winner of first Elizabeth L. Scott Award
- Valeria de Paiva, Brazilian researcher in categorical logic
- Lisette de Pillis, American researcher on the mathematics of cancer growth
- Mary Deconge (1933– ), one of the first African-American women to earn a PhD in mathematics
- Huguette Delavault (1924–2003), French mathematical physicist, activist for women in mathematics
- Laura DeMarco, American researcher in dynamical systems and complex analysis
- Shakuntala Devi (1939–2013), Indian child prodigy, writer, and mental calculator
- Cécile DeWitt-Morette (1922– ), French founder of l'École de physique des Houches
- Alicia Dickenstein (1955– ), Argentine algebraic geometer, vice-president of the International Mathematical Union
- Ada Dietz (1882–1950), American weaver who used algebraic expressions to design textiles
- Irit Dinur, Israeli researcher in probabilistically checkable proofs and hardness of approximation
- Mary P. Dolciani (1923–1985), developed modern method for teaching high school algebra in the United States
- Agnes Meyer Driscoll (1889–1971), American cryptanalyst during both World War I and World War II
- Cornelia Druțu, Romanian mathematician, won Whitehead Prize for research in geometric group theory
- Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin (1905–1972), first woman full professor of mathematics in France, expert in fluid mechanics and abstract algebra
- Ioana Dumitriu (1976– ), Romanian–American numerical analyst
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- Annie Easley (1933–2011), African-American computer scientist, mathematician, and rocket scientist
- Mary Edwards (c. 1750–1815), human computer for the British Nautical Almanac
- Tatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest (1905–1984), Dutch researcher in combinatorics and graph theory
- Carolyn Eisele (1902–2000), American mathematician, historian of mathematics, expert on Charles Sanders Peirce
- Nicole El Karoui (1944– ), Tunisian–French pioneer in mathematical finance
- Susanna S. Epp, American researcher in discrete mathematics and mathematical logic
- Karin Erdmann (1948– ), German researcher in modular representation theory and homological algebra
- Hélène Esnault (1953– ), French algebraic geometer, winner of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
- Maria J. Esteban (1956– ), Basque-French applied mathematician, president of International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
- Alison Etheridge FRS, English researcher in theoretical population genetics and mathematical ecology
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- Fariba Fahroo, Persian-American expert in in pseudospectral optimal control, winner of AIAA Mechanics and Control of Flight Award
- Etta Zuber Falconer (1933–2002), one of the first African-American women to receive a PhD in mathematics
- Lisa Fauci, American applied mathematician who applies computational fluid dynamics to biological processes
- Mary Celine Fasenmyer (1906–1996), Catholic nun whose research on hypergeometric functions prefigured WZ theory
- Philippa Fawcett (1868–1948), English educationalist, first woman to obtain the top score in the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos
- Joan Feigenbaum (1958– ), theoretical computer scientist, co-inventor of trust management
- Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein (1912–2006), helped decipher Japanese Purple cryptography, worked on Venona counter-intelligence
- Käte Fenchel (1905–1983), Jewish German researcher on non-abelian groups
- Elizabeth Fennema (1928– ), researched attitudes of young women towards mathematics and their classroom interactions
- Jacqueline Ferrand (1918–2014), French researcher on conformal representation theory, potential theory, and Riemannian manifolds
- Irene Fischer (1907–2009), Austrian–American geodecist for Mercury and Apollo spaceflights, member of National Academy of Engineering
- Sarah Flannery (1982– ), winner of the EU Young Scientist of the Year Award for her teenage research on cryptography
- Erica Flapan, American researcher in low-dimensional topology and knot theory
- Irmgard Flügge-Lotz (1903–1974), German aerodynamics researcher, first female engineering professor at Stanford
- Irene Fonseca (1956– ), Portuguese–American director of the Center for Nonlinear Analysis at Carnegie Mellon University
- Phyllis Fox (1923– ), American mathematician and computer scientist, collaborator on the first LISP interpreter
- Marguerite Frank (1927– ), French–American pioneer in convex optimization theory and mathematical programming
- Ailana Fraser, Canadian researcher on geometric analysis and the theory of minimal surfaces
- Herta Freitag (1908–2000), Austrian–American expert on Fibonacci numbers
- Susan Friedlander (1946– ), English–American researcher in fluid dynamics, first female editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of the AMS
- Charlotte Froese Fischer (1929– ), Canadian–American expert on atomic-structure calculations who predicted negative calcium ions
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- Irene M. Gamba, Argentine–American applied mathematician
- Jane Piore Gilman, topologist and group theorist, distinguished professor of mathematics at Rutgers University
- Hilda Geiringer (1893–1973), Austrian researcher on Fourier series, statistics, probability, and plasticity, refugee from Nazi Germany
- Sophie Germain (1776–1831), French number theorist, physicist, and philosopher, correspondent of Gauss
- Lisa Goldberg, American mathematical finance scholar and statistician
- Shafi Goldwasser (1958– ), American-born Israeli theoretical cryptographer
- Sherry Gong, second American gold medal winner at International Mathematical Olympiad
- Carolyn S. Gordon, isospectral geometer who proved that you can't hear the shape of a drum
- Judith Grabiner (1938), American historian of 18th and 19th century mathematics
- Evelyn Boyd Granville (1924– ), one of the first African-American women to receive a PhD in mathematics
- Marion Cameron Gray (1902–1979), Scottish telephone engineer, discoverer of the Gray graph
- Mary W. Gray (1939– ), author on mathematics, mathematics education, economic equity, discrimination law, and academic freedom
- Cindy Greenwood, Canadian statistician, winner of Krieger–Nelson Prize
- Ruth Gregory, British mathematical physicist specializing in general relativity and cosmology
- Margaret Greig (1922–1999), English applied mathematician, developed theory for worsted spinning
- Birgit Grodal (1943–2004), Danish mathematical economist, studied atomless economies
- Edna Grossman, German-born American designer of the Data Encryption Standard and of the slide attack in cryptography
- Helen G. Grundman, American number theorist
- Weiqing Gu, Chinese–American researcher on differential geometry and the mathematics of cancer growth
- Geneviève Guitel, French mathematician who studied natural-language numbering systems
- Kanta Gupta, Indian–Canadian researcher on abstract algebra and group theory
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- Susie W. Håkansson (1940– ), mathematics educator, director of the California Mathematics Project
- Betz Halloran, biostatistician who studies causal inference and the biostatistics of infectious diseases
- Ursula Hamenstädt (1961– ), German differential geometry
- Christine Hamill (1923–1956), English mathematician specializing in group theory and finite geometry
- Bronwyn Harch, Australian environmental statistician, applies mathematical sciences to agriculture, environment, health, manufacturing and energy
- Frances Hardcastle (1866–1941), group theorist, one of the founders of the American Mathematical Society
- Valentina Harizanov, Serbian–American researcher in computability and model theory
- Jenny Harrison, American expert on generalized functions and minimal surfaces
- Kathryn E. Hare, Canadian expert in harmonic analysis
- Shelly Harvey, American researcher in knot theory, low-dimensional topology, and group theory
- Jane M. Hawkins, American researcher in dynamic systems, complex dynamics, cellular automata, and Julia sets
- Louise Hay (1935–1989), founding member of the Association for Women in Mathematics
- Ellen Hayes (1851–1930), American mathematician, astronomer, and political radical
- Euphemia Haynes (1890–1980), first African-American woman to gain a PhD in mathematics
- Olive Hazlett (1890–1974), American algebraist at the University of Illinois
- Dagmar R. Henney (1931– ), German–American expert on additive set-values and Banach spaces
- Rebecca A. Herb (1948– ), American researcher in abstract algebra and Lie groups
- Grete Hermann (1901–1984), German mathematician and philosopher also noted for her work in physics and education
- Gloria Conyers Hewitt (1935– ), early African-American female mathematics PhD, MAA governor
- Hoàng Xuân Sính, first female Vietnamese mathematician, student of Grothendieck, founder of Thang Long University
- Dorit S. Hochbaum, American expert on approximation algorithms for facility location, covering and packing, and scheduling
- Judy A. Holdener (1965– ), American number theorist who simplified the proof of Touchard's theorem on perfect numbers
- Tara S. Holm, American algebraic geometer and symplectic geometer
- Olga Holtz (1973– ), Russian numerical analyst, winner of the European Mathematical Society Prize
- Grace Hopper (1906–1992), American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral
- Susan Howson (1973– ), British mathematician known for work on algebraic number theory and arithmetic geometry
- Celia Hoyles (1946– ), British mathematician, president of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
- Hu Hesheng (1928– ), differential geometer, president of Shanghai Mathematical Society, member of Chinese Academy of Science
- Verena Huber-Dyson (1923– ), Swiss–American group theorist and logician, expert on undecidability in group theory
- Annette Huber-Klawitter (1967– ), German algebraic geometer, expert in the Bloch–Kato conjectures
- Hilda Phoebe Hudson (1881–1965), English researcher on Cremona transformations in algebraic geometry
- Rhonda Hughes (1947– ), American wavelet researcher, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics
- Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann, German–American representation theorist and ring theorist
- Fern Hunt (1948– ), American mathematician known for her work in applied mathematics and mathematical biology
- Joan Hutchinson (1945– ), American graph theorist who extended the planar separator theorem to graphs of higher genus
- Hypatia (died 415), head of the Neoplatonic school at Alexandria, murdered by a Christian mob
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- Milagros D. Ibe, Filipino mathematics educator, vice chancellor of the University of the Philippines Diliman
- Ilse Ipsen, German–American expert in numerical linear algebra
- Vanaja Iyengar (died 2001), founding vice chancellor of Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam, a women's university in Andhra Pradesh, India
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- Trachette Jackson (1972– ), researcher in mathematical oncology, second African-American woman to become a Sloan Fellow in mathematics
- Jessie Marie Jacobs (1890–1954), fired from mathematics instructorship for having a child, aided husband Hermann Muller's Nobel-winning genetic research
- Lisa Jeffrey FRSC, Canadian expert in symplectic geometry and quantum field theory
- Svetlana Jitomirskaya (1966– ), Ukrainian mathematician working on dynamical systems and mathematical physics
- Katherine Johnson (1918– ), calculated the trajectory for Project Mercury and the 1969 Apollo 11 flight to the Moon
- Eleanor Jones (1929– ), one of the first African American women to achieve a PhD in mathematics
- Nalini Joshi, researcher in differential equations, Australian Laureate Fellow, Hardy Lecturer, president of Australian Mathematical Society
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- Margarete Kahn (1880–c. 1942), one of the first female German doctorates, contributed to Hilbert's sixteenth problem
- Suzan Kahramaner (1913–2006), one of the first female mathematicians in Turkish academia
- Eva Kallin, American researcher in geometric axiom systems, functional algebra, and polynomial convexity
- Shoshana Kamin (1930– ), Soviet–Israeli mathematical physicist, expert on parabolic partial differential equations
- Carol Karp (1926–1972), American researcher on infinitary logic, viola player
- Svetlana Katok (1947– ), Jewish Russian-American founder of Electronic Research Announcements of the AMS
- Bruria Kaufman (1918–2010), Israeli theoretical physicist who collaborated with Einstein on general relativity
- Linda Keen (1940– ), American mathematician and computer scientist, president of AWM
- Ruth Kellerhals (1957– ), Swiss expert on hyperbolic geometry, geometric group theory and polylogarithm identities
- Claribel Kendall (1889–1965), one of the founders of the Rocky Mountain Section of the MAA
- Leah Keshet, Israeli–Canadian mathematical biologist, first female president of the Society for Mathematical Biology
- Barbara Keyfitz (1944– ), Canadian–American researcher on nonlinear partial differential equations, president of AWM and ICIAM
- Olga Kharlampovich, Russian–Canadian group theorist who solved the Tarski conjecture on first-order theories of free groups
- Charlotte Kipling (1919–1992), English statistician, ichthyologist, and cryptographer
- Ellen Kirkman, American algebraist
- Frances Kirwan (1959– ), British specialist in algebraic and symplectic geometry
- Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen, Danish researcher in mathematics education and the philosophy and history of mathematics
- Maria Klawe (1951– ), Canadian–American theoretical computer scientist, president of Harvey Mudd College
- Julia F. Knight, American specialist in model theory and computability theory
- Nancy Kopell (1942– ), American researcher in the dynamics of the nervous system
- Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach (1941– ), French differential geometer, namesake of the Kosmann lift
- Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850–1891), first major Russian female mathematician, worked in analysis, differential equations and mechanics
- Bryna Kra (1966– ), American mathematician who applies dynamical systems in number theory and combinatorics
- Edna Kramer (1902–1984), American mathematician and author of mathematics books
- Cecilia Krieger (1894–1974), third person and first woman to earn a Canadian mathematics PhD, translator of Sierpiński
- Anna Zofia Krygowska (1904–1988), Polish mathematician known for her work in mathematics education
- Vera Kublanovskaya (1920–2012), Russian inventor of the QR algorithm for computing eigenvalues and eigenvectors
- Daniela Kühn, German–English combinatorialist, expert on infinite graphs, winner of the Whitehead Prize
- Krystyna Kuperberg (1944– ), Polish–American topologist who found a smooth counterexample to the Seifert conjecture
- Rachel Kuske, American–Canadian expert on stochastic and nonlinear dynamics, asymptotic methods, and industrial mathematics
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- Izabella Łaba (1966– ), Polish–Canadian specialist in harmonic analysis, geometric measure theory, and additive combinatorics
- Carole Lacampagne, American mathematician known for her work in mathematics education and gender equality
- Christine Ladd-Franklin (1847–1930), American psychologist, logician, and mathematician
- Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922–2004), Soviet mathematician, proved convergence of a finite difference method for Navier–Stokes
- Nan Laird (1943– ), American biostatistician, discoverer of the EM algorithm
- Susan Landau (1954– ), American mathematician and computer scientist, known for internet security and denesting radicals
- Glenda Lappan (1939– ), developed Connected Mathematics curriculum, led National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Irena Lasiecka, Polish–American expert in control theory of partial differential equations
- Renu C. Laskar, Indian–American graph theorist, specialist in domination numbers and circular arc graphs
- Kristin Lauter, American researcher in elliptic curve cryptography, president of AWM
- Ruth Lawrence (1971– ), child prodigy, British–Israeli researcher in knot theory and algebraic topology
- Anneli Cahn Lax (1922–1999), American mathematician, winner of the George Pólya Award
- Lê Thị Thanh Nhàn (1970– ), Vietnamese mathematician, vice rector for Science at Thái Nguyên University, won Kovalevskaya Prize
- Alice Lee (1858–1939), one of the first women to graduate from London University
- Emma Lehmer (1906–2007), Russian–American mathematician known for work on reciprocity laws in algebraic number theory
- Suzanne Lenhart, American researcher in partial differential equations, president of AWM
- Winnie Li, Chinese–American researcher in number theory, coding theory, automorphic forms, and spectral graph theory
- Paulette Libermann (1919–2007), French specialist in differential geometry
- Lillian Rosanoff Lieber (1886–1986), American mathematics professor and author of popular books on science and mathematics
- Elizaveta Litvinova (1845–c. 1919), Russian mathematician and biographer, defied czar's order forbidding women to study abroad
- Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu (1974– ), Taiwanese–American researcher in algebraic geometry and symplectic geometry
- Deborah Frank Lockhart, administrator at the National Science Foundation
- Susan Loepp, American algebraist and cryptographer
- Judith Q. Longyear, American researcher in graph theory and combinatorics
- Ada Lovelace (1815–1852), wrote the first computer program as part of her work on Babbage's Analytical Engine
- Edith Hirsch Luchins (1921–2002), Polish–American mathematician, experimented on psychology of mathematical problem solving
- Monika Ludwig (1966– ), Austrian researcher in convex geometry, member of Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Élisabeth Lutz (1914–2008), French student of Weil, showed how to compute torsion subgroups of elliptic curves
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- Sheila Scott Macintyre (1910–1960), Scottish researcher on the Whittaker constant, co-author of German–English mathematics dictionary
- Chrystal Macmillan (1872–1937), Scottish Liberal politician, barrister, feminist and pacifist, first female honours graduate in mathematics from University of Edinburgh
- Jessie MacWilliams (1917–1990), English researcher on error-correcting codes
- Ada Maddison (1869–1950), British mathematician known for her work on differential equations
- Penelope Maddy (1950– ), American philosopher of mathematics
- Dorothy Maharam (1917–2014), American mathematician who made important contributions to measure theory
- Carolyn Mahoney (1946– ), African-American combinatorialist, president of Lincoln University of Missouri
- Vivienne Malone-Mayes (1932–1995), fifth African-American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics, researcher in functional analysis
- Matilde Marcolli (1969– ), Italian mathematical physicist
- Fotini Markopoulou-Kalamara (1971– ), Greek theoretical physicist interested in foundational mathematics and quantum mechanics
- Emilie Martin (1869–1936), American group theorist
- Vera Nikolaevna Maslennikova (1926–2000), Russian researcher on partial differential equations, hydrodynamics of rotating fluids, and function spaces
- Gordana Matic, Croatian–American low-dimensional topologist, expert on contact topology
- Lola J. May (1923–2007), American mathematics educator and early proponent of new math
- Dusa McDuff FRS (1945– ), English researcher on symplectic geometry, winner of Satter Prize, first female Hardy Lecturer
- Danica McKellar (1975– ), American actor, author, mathematician, and education advocate
- Joyce McLaughlin, American researcher in inverse problems
- Florence Marie Mears (1896–1995), American specialist in summation methods
- Helen Abbot Merrill (1864–1949), American mathematician, educator and textbook author
- Jill P. Mesirov, American mathematician, computer scientist, and computational biologist, president of AWM
- Winifred Edgerton Merrill (1862–1951), first woman with a degree from Columbia University and first American female doctorate in mathematics
- Marie-Louise Michelsohn (1941– ), American researcher on complex geometry, spin manifolds, the Dirac operator, and algebraic cycles
- Alison Miller, first American female IMO gold medalist, three-time Elizabeth Lowell Putnam award winner
- Maryam Mirzakhani (1977– ), first Iranian female IMO gold medalist, first female Fields medalist, researcher on the symmetry of curved surfaces
- Irina Mitrea, Romanian–American researcher in partial differential equations known for outreach to women and minorities
- Susan Montgomery (1943– ), American researcher in noncommutative algebra
- Sophie Morel (1979– ), French number theorist and contributor to the Langlands program, first female tenured mathematics professor at Harvard
- Joan Moschovakis, American intuitionistic logician
- Cathleen Synge Morawetz (1923– ), Canadian–American researcher on the partial differential equations governing fluid flow
- Ruth Moufang (1905–1977), German researcher on non-associative algebraic structures, namesake of Moufang loops
- Anna Mullikin (1893–1975), American mathematician, early investigator of point set theory
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- Anna Nagurney, Ukrainian–American mathematician, economist, educator and author in operations management
- Andrea R. Nahmod, American expert in nonlinear Fourier analysis, harmonic analysis, and partial differential equations
- Seema Nanda, Indian researcher in applications of mathematics to biology, engineering and finance
- Caryn Navy (1953– ), blind American researcher in set-theoretic topology and Braille technology
- Gabriele Nebe, German researcher on sphere packings, lattices, and codes
- Evelyn Nelson (1943–1987), Canadian researcher in universal algebra with applications to theoretical computer science
- Claudia Neuhauser, German–American mathematical biologist whose research concerns spatial ecology
- Hanna Neumann (1914–1971), German-born mathematician who worked on group theory
- Mara Neusel (1964–2014), German–American invariant theorist and advocate for women in mathematics
- Mary Frances Winston Newson (1869–1959), first female American to receive a PhD in mathematics from a European university
- Phyllis Nicolson (1917–1968), British developer of the Crank–Nicolson method for solving partial differential equations
- Florence Nightingale (1820–1910), English founder of modern nursing, pioneer in information visualization and statistical graphics
- Wiesława Nizioł, Polish researcher in arithmetic algebraic geometry
- Emmy Noether (1882–1935), German researcher in abstract algebra and theoretical physics, named "the greatest woman mathematician of all time"[5]
- Margarita Nolasco Santiago, Mathematics textbook author, member of Puerto Rico Senate
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- Hee Oh (1969– ), Korean–American dynamical systems theorist, expert on equidistribution in fractal structures
- Kathleen Adebola Okikiolu (1965– ), British–American researcher on differential operators, developed curricula for inner-city children
- Olga Oleinik (1925–2001), Soviet researcher on partial differential equations, elastic media, and boundary layers
- Kathleen Ollerenshaw (1912– ), British mathematician and politician, mayor of Manchester, educational advisor to Margaret Thatcher
- Mollie Orshansky (1915–2006), American economist and statistician, set poverty thresholds for household income
- Barbara L. Osofsky, American algebraist, first woman in 50 years to address a national AMS meeting, first female AMS journal editor
- Helen Brewster Owens (1881–1968), American suffragette, associate editor of the American Mathematical Monthly
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- Erika Pannwitz (1904–1975), German geometric topologist who proved that every knot has a quadrisecant
- Raman Parimala (1948– ), Indian mathematician known for her contributions to algebra
- Haesun Park, Korean–American researcher in numerical analysis and the data sciences
- Karen Parshall (1955– ), American historian of mathematics
- Irena Peeva, American researcher in commutative algebra and its applications
- Rose Peltesohn (1913–1998), German–Israeli researcher in additive combinatorics
- Bernadette Perrin-Riou (1955– ), French number theorist, winner of the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize
- Rózsa Péter (1905–1977), recursion theorist, first woman elected to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- Linda Petzold (1954– ), researcher in differential algebraic equations and simulation, member of National Academy of Engineering
- Flora Philip (1865–1943), first female member of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society
- Ragni Piene (1947– ), Norwegian algebraic geometer, member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
- Marie Anne Victoire Pigeon (1724–1767), French mathematician, writer, and teacher
- Faustina Pignatelli (d. 1785), princess of Colubrano, second woman elected to the Academy of Sciences of Bologna
- Jill Pipher (1955– ), researcher in in harmonic analysis, Fourier analysis, differential equations, and cryptography, president of AWM
- Elena Cornaro Piscopia (1646–1684), Italian philosopher, musician, and mathematics lecturer, first woman to earn a doctorate
- Toniann Pitassi, American–Canadian computational complexity theorist, expert on on proof complexity
- Vera Pless (1931– ), American mathematician specializing in combinatorics and coding theory
- Elżbieta Pleszczyńska (1933– ), Polish statistician, disability rights activist
- Kim Plofker (1964), American historian of Indian mathematics, winner of the Brouwer Medal
- Harriet Pollatsek (1942– ), Lie theorist who has applied difference sets to error correcting codes and coding theory
- Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina (1899–1999), Soviet researcher in fluid mechanics, hydrodynamics, and history of mathematics
- Cheryl Praeger (1948– ), Australian researcher in group theory, algebraic graph theory and combinatorial designs
- Emma Previato, researcher in algebraic geometry and partial differential equations
- Hilary Priestley, British mathematician who used topological methods to study distributive lattices
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- Virginia Ragsdale (1870–1945), American specialist in algebraic curves, formulated the Ragsdale conjecture
- Susan Miller Rambo (1883–1977), second woman awarded a PhD from the University of Michigan, delegate to 1928 ICM
- Sujatha Ramdorai, Indian–Canadian algebraic number theorist, expert on Iwasawa theory
- Helena Rasiowa (1917–1994), Polish researcher in the foundations of mathematics and algebraic logic
- Marina Ratner (1938– ), Russian–American ergodic theorist, member of National Academy of Sciences
- Mary Rees (1953– ), British specialist in complex dynamical systems
- Mina Rees (1902–1997), first female President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Karin Reich (1941– ), German historian of mathematics and biographer of mathematicians
- Nancy Reid (1952– ), Canadian theoretical statistician, president of Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Statistical Society of Canada
- Idun Reiten (1942– ), Norwegian representation theorist, member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
- Ida Rhodes (1900–1986), American pioneer in computer programming, designed the first computer used for Social Security
- Marjorie Rice (1923– ), American amateur mathematician who discovered new pentagon tilings
- Julia Robinson (1919–1985), American researcher on diophantine equations, contributed to solution of Hilbert's Tenth Problem
- Alvany Rocha, American specialist in Lie groups, computed characters of the Virasoro algebra
- Judith Roitman (1945– ), American specialist in in set theory, topology, Boolean algebra, and mathematics education
- Frances A. Rosamond, Australian researcher in parameterized complexity, advocate for women in computer science and mathematics
- Mary G. Ross (1908–2008), first Native American female engineer, studied mathematics for aeronautics and celestial mechanics
- Alice Roth (1905–1977), Swiss mathematician who made significant contributions to approximation theory
- Linda Preiss Rothschild (1945– ), president of AWM, vice-president of AMS, co-editor-in-chief of Mathematical Research Letters
- Christel Rotthaus, German–American researcher in commutative algebra
- Christiane Rousseau (1954– ), French–Canadian mathematician, president of the Canadian Mathematical Society
- Marie-Françoise Roy (1950– ), French expert in real algebraic geometry, co-founder of two organizations for women in mathematics
- Mary Ellen Rudin (1924– ), constructed many counterexamples in topology
- Iris Runge (1888–1966), German applied mathematician, translator and biographer
- Mary Beth Ruskai (1944– ), proved subadditivity of quantum entropy, bounded the electrons in an atom, advocate for women in mathematics
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- Cora Sadosky (1940–2010), Argentinian–American analyst, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics
- Laure Saint-Raymond (1975– ), French specialist in partial differential equations, member of the French Academy of Sciences
- Judith D. Sally (1937– ), American researcher in in commutative algebra, Noether lecturer
- Jean E. Sammet (1928– ), supervised the first scientific programming group, helped develop COBOL
- Mildred Sanderson (1889–1914), American mathematician, established a correspondence between modular and formal invariants
- Marta Sanz-Solé (1952– ), Catalan researcher on stochastic processes, president of the European Mathematical Society
- Ruth Lyttle Satter (1923–1989), American researcher on circadian rhythms, namesake of Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics
- Lisa Sauermann (1992– ), German mathematician ranked third in the International Mathematical Olympiad Hall of Fame
- Carla Savage, American researcher on parallel algorithms and combinatorial generation, secretary of AMS
- Jane Cronin Scanlon (1922– ), American researcher in partial differential equations and mathematical biology
- Alice T. Schafer (1915–2009), American differential geometer, founding member of the Association for Women in Mathematics
- Mary Schaps, Israeli mathematician and academic administrator, researcher in deformation theory, group theory, and representation theory
- Doris Schattschneider (1939– ), American mathematician known for writing about tessellations and the art of M. C. Escher
- Tamar Schlick, American applied mathematician who develops and applies tools for biomolecule modeling and simulation
- Leila Schneps (1961– ), American–French analytic number theorist and arithmetic geometer, archivist of Grothendieck's works
- Maria E. Schonbek, Argentine–American researcher in fluid dynamics and associated partial differential equations
- Marie-Hélène Schwartz (1913–2013), French mathematician known for her work on characteristic numbers of spaces with singularities
- Charlotte Scott (1858–1931), British mathematician who promoted mathematical education of American women
- Elizabeth Scott (1917–1988), applied statistics to astronomy and weather modification, promoted equal opportunity for women
- Jennifer Seberry (1944– ), Australian cryptographer, mathematician, and computer scientist, one of the founders of Asiacrypt
- Rose Whelan Sedgewick (c. 1904–2000), first person to earn a PhD in mathematics from Brown University
- Sylvia Serfaty, French expert on superconductivity, winner of the European Mathematical Society Prize
- Marjorie Senechal (1939– ), American expert on quasicrystals, author on history of science, editor-in-chief of The Mathematical Intelligencer
- Caroline Series (1951– ), English specialist in hyperbolic geometry, Kleinian groups and dynamical systems
- Lily Serna (1986– ), Israeli–Australian arithmetical guru of the SBS game show Letters and Numbers
- Mamokgethi Setati (1966– ), first black female South African to earn a PhD in mathematics education
- Tatyana Shaposhnikova, Russian–Swedish researcher on multipliers in function spaces, partial differential operators, and history of mathematics
- Mei-Chi Shaw (1955– ), Taiwanese–American researcher on partial differential equations
- Diana Shelstad (1947– ), Australian–American mathematician, formulated the fundamental lemma of the Langlands Program
- Brooke Shipley, American expert in homotopy theory and homological algebra
- Lesley Sibner (1934–2013), American differential geometer and Hodge theorist, produced a constructive proof of the Riemann–Roch theorem
- Mary Silber, American expert in bifurcation theory and pattern formation
- Alice Silverberg, American number theorist and cryptographer
- Rodica Simion (1955–2000), Romanian–American pioneer in the study of permutation patterns
- Hourya Sinaceur, Moroccan expert in the theory and history of mathematics
- Ajit Iqbal Singh (1943–), Indian researcher in functional analysis and harmonic analysis
- Lucy Joan Slater (1922–2008), British expert on hypergeometric functions and the Rogers–Ramanujan identities
- Marian Small, Canadian proponent of constructivist mathematical instruction
- Karen Smith (1965– ), American specialist in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry
- Kirstine Smith (1878–1939), Danish statistician, created the field of optimal design of experiments
- Agata Smoktunowicz (1973– ), Polish–Scottish researcher in abstract algebra, constructed noncommutative nil rings
- Nina Snaith (1974– ), British researcher in random matrix theory, quantum chaos, and zeta functions
- Priyanshi Somani (1998– ), Indian mental calculator
- Mary Somerville (1780–1872), Scottish science writer and polymath, one of two first female members of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Christina Sormani, American researcher on Riemannian geometry, metric geometry, and Ricci curvature
- Vera T. Sós (1930– ), Hungarian number theorist and combinatorialist
- Diane Souvaine, American computational geometer, advocate for women and minorities in mathematics and gender neutrality in teaching
- Ayşe Soysal (1948– ), Turkish mathematician, president of Boğaziçi University
- Birgit Speh, American expert in Lie groups, namesake of Speh representations
- Domina Eberle Spencer (1920– ), researcher on electrodynamics and field theory, founded fringe science organization Natural Philosophy Alliance
- Pauline Sperry (1885–1967), mathematician, musician, and astronomer, unconstitutionally fired from UC Berkeley for refusing to sign a loyalty oath
- Dolores Richard Spikes (1936–2015), African-American mathematician, first female university chancellor and first female president of a university system in the US
- Bhama Srinivasan (1935– ), representation theorist, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics
- Gigliola Staffilani, Italian–American researcher on harmonic analysis and partial differential equations
- Nancy K. Stanton, American researcher on complex analysis, partial differential equations, and differential geometry
- Irene Stegun (1919–2008), American mathematician who edited a classic book of mathematical tables
- Elizabeth Stephansen (1872–1961), first Norwegian woman to receive a mathematics doctorate
- T. Christine Stevens, American researcher on topological groups, history of mathematics, and mathematics education, associate executive director of AMS
- Angeline Stickney (1830–1892), American suffragist, abolitionist, and mathematician, namesake of the largest crater on Phobos
- Ileana Streinu, Romanian–American computational geometer, expert on kinematics and structural rigidity
- Bella Subbotovskaya (1938–1982), Soviet founder of the Jewish People's University
- Indulata Sukla (1944– ), Indian researcher on Fourier series, author of textbook on number theory and cryptography
- Catherine Sulem, Algerian-born Canadian mathematician and violinist, expert on singularities in wave propagation
- Marcia P. Sward (1939–2008), executive director of the Mathematical Association of America
- Henda Swart (1939– ), South African geometer and graph theorist, editor-in-chief of Utilitas Mathematica
- Esther Szekeres (1910–2005), Hungarian–Australian mathematician posed the happy ending problem in discrete geometry
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- Daina Taimina (1954– ), Latvian–American mathematician, crochets objects to illustrate hyperbolic space
- Rosalind Tanner (1900–1992), English mathematician and a historian of mathematics
- Éva Tardos (1957– ), Hungarian–American researcher in combinatorial optimization algorithms
- Olga Taussky-Todd (1906–1995), Austrian and later Czech–American advocate of matrix theory
- Jean Taylor (1944– ), American mathematician known for her work on soap bubbles and crystals
- Montserrat Teixidor i Bigas, Spanish–American expert on moduli of vector bundles on curves
- Keti Tenenblat, (1944– ), Turkish-Brazilian differential geometer
- M. B. W. Tent, American mathematics educator, mathematical biographer
- Chuu-Lian Terng (1949– ), Taiwanese–American differential geometer
- Audrey Terras (1942– ), American number theorist specializing in quantum chaos and zeta functions
- Theano (6th century BC), one or possibly two different Pythagorean philosophers
- Rekha R. Thomas, American mathematician and operations researcher
- Abigail Thompson (1958– ), American low-dimensional topologist, educational reformer
- Ulrike Tillmann FRS (1962– ), German–English algebraic topologist
- Françoise Tisseur, French–English numerical analyst
- Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann FRSC, Polish–Canadian geometric functional analyst
- Reidun Twarock, German-born mathematical biologist
- Regina Tyshkevich, Belarussian graph theorist, co-invented split graphs
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- Karen Uhlenbeck (1942– ), American mathematician, MacArthur Fellow, National Medal of Science, Leroy P. Steele Prize
- Corinna Ulcigrai (1980– ), Italian researcher on dynamical systems, won European Mathematical Society Prize and Whitehead Prize
- Nina Uraltseva (1935– ), Russian mathematical physicist, specialist in nonlinear partial differential equations
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- Brigitte Vallée (1950– ), French mathematician and computer scientist, expert in lattice basis reduction algorithms
- Tatyana Velikanova (1932–2002), Soviet mathematician, computer programmer, dissident, and political prisoner
- Michèle Vergne (1943– ), French specialist in analysis and representation theory, member of French Academy of Sciences
- Marie-France Vignéras (1946– ), French mathematician who proved that one cannot hear the shape of a hyperbolic drum
- Roxana Vivian (1871–1961), first female mathematics doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania
- Karen Vogtmann (1949– ), American geometric group theorist, namesake of Culler–Vogtmann outer space
- Claire Voisin (1962– ), French expert on Hodge structures and mirror symmetry
- Elisabeth Vreede (1879–1943), Dutch mathematician, astronomer and Anthroposophist
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- Michelle L. Wachs, American specialist in algebraic combinatorics
- Grace Wahba (1934– ), American pioneer in methods for smoothing noisy data, member of National Academy of Sciences
- Helen M. Walker (1891–1983), first female president of the American Statistical Association
- Judy L. Walker, American algebraic coding theorist
- Lynne H. Walling, British number theorist
- Marion Walter (1928– ), German-born mathematician who wrote about using mirrors to explore symmetry
- Johanna Weber (1910–2014), German–British mathematician and aerodynamicist, contributed to supersonic aircraft design
- Katrin Wehrheim (1974– ), American symplectic topologist and gauge theorist
- Guofang Wei (1965– ), Chinese–American differential geometer, found new positively-curved manifolds
- Katrin Wendland, German mathematical physicist, expert on singularities in quantum field theories
- Elisabeth M. Werner, researcher on convex geometry, functional analysis, and probability theory
- Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler (1883–1966), American researcher on infinite-dimensional linear algebra
- Mary Wheeler (1931– ), American expert on domain decomposition methods for partial differential equations
- Sue Whitesides, Canadian mathematician and computer scientist, expert in computational geometry and graph drawing
- Sylvia Wiegand (1945– ), American algebraist, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics
- Anna Wienhard (1977– ), German differential geometer
- Amie Wilkinson (1968– ), American researcher in ergodic theory and smooth dynamical systems
- Elizabeth Williams (1895–1986), British mathematician and educationist
- Ruth J. Williams, American probability theorist, president of Institute of Mathematical Statistics, member of National Academy of Sciences
- Maria Wonenburger (1927–2014), Galician–American group theorist, first Spanish Fulbright scholar in mathematics
- Carol S. Wood (1945– ), American expert in model-theoretic algebra, president of AWM
- Melanie Wood (1981– ), first female American to compete in the International Mathematical Olympiad
- Sarah Woodhead (d. 1912), first woman to pass the Tripos
- Mary Lee Woods (1924– ), British mathematician and computer programmer
- Margaret H. Wright (1944– ), American researcher in optimization, linear algebra, and scientific computing
- Dorothy Maud Wrinch (1894–1976), Argentine–English mathematician and biochemical theorist, expert in protein structure
- Lucy R. Wyatt, British mathematician and oceanographer, studies high frequency radar oceanography and ocean surface waves
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- Sofya Yanovskaya (1896–1966), restored mathematical logic research in Soviet Union, edited mathematical works of Karl Marx
- Florence Yeldham (1877–1945), British school teacher and historian of arithmetic
- Lai-Sang Young (1952– ) Hong Kong born dynamical systems theorist
- Bin Yu, Chnese–American statistician, president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- Sufiah Yusof (1984– ), British Pakistani mathematics prodigy, feminist blogger
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- Thaleia Zariphopoulou, Greek–American expert in mathematical finance
- Tamar Ziegler, Israeli researcher in ergodic theory and arithmetic combinatorics, won Erdős Prize
See also
- Association for Women in Mathematics
- List of female scientists
- Noether Lecturer
- Women in computing
- Women in science
References
- ^ Morrow, edited by Charlene; Perl, Teri (1998). Notable women in mathematics : a biographical dictionary. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. pp. 98–101. ISBN 978-0313291319.
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