Women mathematicians Women mathematicians Dorothy Maud Wrinch (married names Nicholson, Glaser) ( September 12, 1894 - February 11, 1976 mathematician and biochemical theorist best known for her attempt to explain protein structure using mathematical principles. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dorothy Maud Wrinch"
Émilie du Châtelet ( December 17, 1706 - September 10, 1749) was a French mathematician, physicist, and author. ...more on Wikipedia about "Émilie du Châtelet"
Emmy Noether (born Nöther) ( March 23 1882 – April 14 1935) was one of the most talented mathematicians of the early 20th century, with penetrating insights that she used to develop elegant abstractions which she formalized beautifully. ...more on Wikipedia about "Emmy Noether"
Fan Rong K Chung Graham (金芳蓉, pinyin: Jīn Fāngróng) (born October 9, 1949 in Kaohsiung), known professionally as Fan Chung, is a mathematician who works mainly in the areas of spectral graph theory and extremal graph theory (see graph theory for the general article). She received her doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in 1974, under the direction of Herbert Wilf. She is currently the Akamai Professor in Internet Mathematics at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in the United States. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fan Chung"
Gertrude Blanch (ca. 1897 - 1996) was an American mathematician who did pioneering work in numerical analysis and computation. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gertrude Blanch"
Grace Chisholm Young ( March 15, 1868 - March 29, 1944) was a mathematician educated at Girton College, England. Her early writings were published under the name of her husband, William Henry Young. For her work on calculus ( 1914- 16), she was awarded the Nobele Prize. ...more on Wikipedia about "Grace Chisholm Young"
Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper ( December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an early computer pioneer. She was the first programmer for the Mark I Calculator and the developer of the first compiler for a computer programming language. ...more on Wikipedia about "Grace Hopper"
Grete Hermann ( 1901- 1984) was a German mathematician and philosopher. She studied mathematics at Göttingen under Emmy Noether, where she achieved her Ph.D. in 1926. Her doctoral thesis, Die Frage der endlich vielen Schritte in der Theorie der Polynomideale, published in Mathematische Annalen, is the foundational paper for computer algebra. It first established existence of algorithms (including complexity bounds) for many of the basic problems of abstract algebra, such as ideal membership for polynomial rings. Hermann's algorithm for primary decomposition is still in use now. ...more on Wikipedia about "Grete Hermann"
Hypatia of Alexandria (in Greek: Υπατία) (c. 380 - 415) was a philosopher, mathematician, and teacher who lived in Alexandria, then a Greek city. Several works are attributed to her by later sources, including commentaries on Diophantus's Arithmetica, on Apollonius's Conics and on Ptolemy's works, but none has survived. Letters written to her by her pupil Synesius give an idea of her intellectual milieu. She was of the Platonic school, although her adherence to the writings of Plotinus, the 3rd century follower of Plato and principal of the neo-Platonic school, is merely assumed. Hypatia's contributions to science are reputed (on scant evidence) to include the invention of the astrolabe and the hydrometer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hypatia of Alexandria"
Ida Rhodes ( 15 may, 1900 - 1 february 1986) was a mathematician who became a member of the clique of influential women at the heart of early computer development in the United States. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ida Rhodes"
Jessie MacWilliams ( 1917- 27 May 1990) was a mathematician who contributed to the field of coding theory. She was born in Stoke-on-Trent, England and studied at the University of Cambridge, receiving her BA in 1938 and her MA in the following year. She moved to the United States and studied at Johns Hopkins University and Harvard. She spent most of her career at Bell Labs, where she worked on error-correcting codes and co-wrote The Theory of Error-Correcting Code with Neil Sloane. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jessie MacWilliams"
Judy Holdener is a Number theorist. She is an associate professor at Kenyon College. ...more on Wikipedia about "Judy A. Holdener"
Julia Hall Bowman Robinson ( December 8, 1919 - July 30, 1985) was an American mathematician, born in Saint Louis, Missouri. After spending several years at San Diego State College (now San Diego State University), she transferred to the University of California, Berkeley, where she completed her undergraduate and graduate degrees. In 1976, Robinson was elected as the first female member of the mathematical division of the National Academy of Sciences. In addition, she was the first woman president of the American Mathematical Society. She died of leukemia at the age of 65. ...more on Wikipedia about "Julia Robinson"
Maria Gaetana Agnesi ( May 16, 1718 – January 9, 1799) was an Italian linguist, mathematician, and philosopher. Agnesi is credited with writing the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus. She was an honorary member of the faculty at the University of Bologna. Her father, Pietro, was a wealthy mathematics professor. ...more on Wikipedia about "Maria Gaetana Agnesi"
Melanie Eggers Wood (Matchett), born 1981 in Indianapolis, Indiana, is a graduate student mathematician currently studying at Princeton University. She has set numerous "firsts" as a female in the area of mathematics, and is considered a "rising star" in this arena. ...more on Wikipedia about "Melanie Wood"
Olga Alexandrowna Ladyzhenskaya (Ольга Александровна Ладыженская; born March 7, 1922 Kologrive (Russia), died January 12, 2004 St. Petersburg) ...more on Wikipedia about "Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya"
Pelageya Yakovlevna Polubarinova-Kochina ( 1899- 1999) was a Russian woman mathematician and scientist, working in applied mathematics. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina"
Philippa Garrett Fawcett ( April 4, 1868 - June 10, 1948) was an English mathematician and educationalist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Philippa Fawcett"
Sarah Flannery (born 1982, County Cork, Ireland) was, at sixteen years old, the winner of the 1999 Esat Young Scientist Exhibition for development of the Cayley-Purser algorithm, based on work she had done with researchers at Baltimore Technologies during a brief internship there. The project, entitled "Cryptography - A new algorithm versus the RSA", also won her the EU Young Scientist of the Year Award for 1999. Her book "In Code", co-written with her father, retells the story of the making and breaking of the algorithm and of the enjoyment that she got, as a child and throughout her life, from solving mathematical puzzles. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sarah Flannery"
Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (Софья Васильевна Ковалевская) ( January 15, 1850 – February 10, 1891) was the first major Russian female mathematician and a student of Karl Weierstrass in Berlin. In 1884 she was appointed professor at Stockholm University, the third woman in Europe to become a professor. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sofia Kovalevskaya"
Marie-Sophie Germain ( April 1, 1776 – June 27, 1831) was a French mathematician, and one of the most important female mathematicians of all time. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sophie Germain"
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