List of women in mathematics

This is a list of women who have made noteworthy contributions to or achievements in mathematics.^[1]^[2]^[3] These include mathematical research, mathematics education,^[1]^:xii the history and philosophy of mathematics, public outreach, and mathematics contests.

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Maria Gaetana Agnesi wrote one of the first calculus textbooks in 1748. She was offered a professorship by the Bologna Academy of Sciences, making her the first female mathematics professor since antiquity, but it is unknown whether she accepted.^[4]

L. D. Adams (–1966), British mathematics reformer, president of the Mathematical Association
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
Ilka Agricola (1973–), German expert on differential geometry and its applications in mathematical physics
Dorit Aharonov (1970–), Israeli specialist in quantum computing
Beatrice Aitchison (1908–1997), American topologist who became a transportation economist in the US civil service
Lara Alcock, British mathematics educator and author
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
Linda J. S. Allen, American mathematician and mathematical biologist
Elizabeth S. Allman, American mathematical biologist
Ann S. Almgren, American applied mathematician who works on computational simulations of supernovae and white dwarfs
Melania Alvarez, Mexican–Canadian mathematics educator, organizer of summer mathematics camps for indigenous students
Yvette Amice (1936–1993), French expert on p-adic analysis who became president of the French mathematical society
T. A. Sarasvati Amma (1918–2000), Historian of ancient Indian mathematics
Astrid an Huef, New Zealand expert on functional analysis, president of New Zealand Mathematical Society
Nalini Anantharaman (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
Carolina Araujo, Brazilian algebraic geometer
Maria Angela Ardinghelli (1730–1825), Italian translator of Stephen Hales, mathematician, physicist and noble
Sandra Arlinghaus, founder of the Institute of Mathematical Geography
Marie-Claude Arnaud, French expert in dynamical systems
Elayne Arrington, American aerospace engineer, expert on Soviet aircraft
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
Michèle Audin (1954- ), French researcher in symplectic geometry
Tamara Awerbuch-Friedlander, American biomathematician and public health scientist
Hertha Ayrton (1854–1923), English engineer, mathematician, physicist, and inventor, winner of the Hughes Medal

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Alexandra Bellow (b. 1935) has contributed to ergodic theory, probability and analysis.

Wealthy Babcock (1895–1990), American mathematician, namesake of Kansas University mathematics library
Hajer Bahouri, Franco-Tunisian mathematician interested in partial differential equations
Rose Baker, British physicist, mathematician, and statistician
Viviane Baladi (1963– ), Swiss-French expert on dynamical systems
Jennifer Balakrishnan, American number theorist who solved the "cursed curve"
Deborah Loewenberg Ball, American mathematics education researcher
Hélène Barcelo (1954– ), mathematician from Québec, editor-in-chief of Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A
Grace Marie Bareis (1875–1962), American group theorist, first mathematics Ph.D. at Ohio State, and founding member of the MAA
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
Mildred Barnard (1908–2000), Australian biometrician, mathematician and statistician
Janet Barnett, American mathematician known for integrating the history of mathematics into her teaching
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
Estelle Basor, American mathematician interested in operator theory and the theory of random matrices
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– ), Hungarian-Swiss mathematician, proved Serre's conjecture on Galois cohomology of classical groups
May Beenken (1901–1988), American mathematician
Alexandra Bellow (1935– ), Romanian researcher in ergodic theory, probability and analysis
Margherita Piazzola Beloch (1879–1976), Italian researcher in algebraic geometry, algebraic topology and photogrammetry
Suzan Rose Benedict (1873–1942), first woman to earn a PhD from the University of Michigan
Georgia Benkart, American expert on Lie algebras
Sylvie Benzoni, French expert in fluid dynamics and partial differential equations, director of the Institut Henri Poincaré
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
Natalia Berloff, professor of applied mathematics at the University of Cambridge
Christine Bernardi (1955–2018), French expert on numerical analysis of partial differential equations
Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (1914–1988), applied mathematician, first female president of the MAA
Valérie Berthé (1968– ), French researcher in symbolic dynamics, combinatorics on words, and discrete geometry
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
Ushadevi Bhosle (1949–), Indian expert on vector bundles
Miggy Biller, British mathematician and mathematics educator
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
Graciela Boente, Argentine mathematical statistician known for her research in robust statistics
Natashia Boland (1967–), Australian mathematician and operations researcher
Aline Bonami, French mathematical analyst, president of the Société mathématique de France
Alicia Boole Stott (1860–1940), Irish–English four-dimensional geometer
Mary Everest Boole (1832–1916), self-taught author of didactic works on mathematics
Liliana Borcea, Romanian–American applied mathematician, expert on wave propagation
Valentina Borok (1931–2004), Soviet Ukrainian mathematician who studied partial differential equations
Celia Grillo Borromeo (1684–1777), Genovese mathematician and scientist, discovered Clélie curve
Maria Fernanda Botelho, Portuguese–American functional analyst
Élisabeth Bouscaren, French mathematician who studies the connections between algebraic geometry and model theory
Mireille Bousquet-Mélou (1967– ), French combinatorialist
Sylvia Bozeman (1947– ), African-American mathematician and academic administrator
Mary Bradburn (1923–2000), British mathematics educator, president of the Mathematical Association
Lillian K. Bradley (1921– ), first African–American woman to earn a doctorate in any subject at the University of Texas
Dorothy Brady (1903–1977), American mathematician and economist
Bodil Branner, founder of European Women in Mathematics, chair of the Danish Mathematical Society
Hel Braun (1914–1986), German number theorist
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
Anne Broadbent, Canadian researcher on quantum computing, quantum cryptography, and quantum information
Lia Bronsard (1963–), Canadian expert on interface dynamics, president of Canadian Mathematical Society
Margaret Brown, British mathematics educator
Susan Brown, English fluid mechanics researcher, possibly first female applied mathematics professor in UK
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
Ranee Brylinski (1957– ), American mathematician known for her research in representation theory and quantum logic gates
Annalisa Buffa (1973– ), Italian specialist in numerical analysis for partial differential equations
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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Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat is a leading authority on general relativity and is known for existence results in a variety of physical theories. In 1984 she made an influential study of supergravity.

Angelina Cabras (1898–?), Italian mathematician, physicist, and theoretical mechanics professor
Maria-Carme Calderer, Spanish–American researcher in applied mathematics
Nora Calderwood (1896–1985), Scottish mathematician, namesake of Birmingham University's Calderwood Prize
Erika Tatiana Camacho (1974– ), Mexican-American mathematical biologist
Sunčica Čanić, Croatian–American expert in modeling the cardiovascular system and devices for treating it
Ana Cannas da Silva (1968– ), Portuguese mathematician specializing in symplectic geometry and geometric topology
Lucia Caporaso, Italian algebraic geometer
Ana Caraiani, Romanian–American IMO medalist, Putnam fellow, expert in algebraic number theory and the Langlands program
Sally Elizabeth Carlson, first woman to obtain a doctorate in mathematics at the University of Minnesota
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
Bettye Anne Case, American mathematician and historian of mathematics
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
Josephine Chanler (1906–1992), American mathematician
Mei-Chu Chang, Taiwanese–American expert in algebraic geometry and combinatorial number theory
Vyjayanthi Chari, Indian–American expert in quantum algebra
Ruth Charney, American expert on geometric group theory and Artin groups, president of AWM
Marie Charpentier (1903–1994), first woman to earn a doctorate in pure mathematics in France and second to obtain a faculty position there
Émilie du Châtelet (1706–1749), French translator and commentator of Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica
Zoé Chatzidakis, French researcher in model theory and differential algebra
Jennifer Tour Chayes (1956– ), expert on phase transitions in networks, founder of the theory group at Microsoft Research
Karine Chemla (1958– ), French historian of Chinese mathematics
Margaret Cheney, American expert on inverse problems
Miranda Cheng, Taiwanese–Dutch mathematician and theoretical physicist, formulated umbral moonshine
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
Julia Chuzhoy, Israeli expert in approximation algorithms and graph minor theory
Mónica Clapp, Mexican researcher in nonlinear partial differential equations and algebraic topology
Joan Clarke (1917–1996), English code-breaker at Bletchley Park, numismatist
Jeanne N. Clelland, American expert on differential geometry and its applications to differential equations
Anne Cobbe, British algebraist
Doris Cohen, American mathematician, first female author in the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
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
Alina Carmen Cojocaru, Romanian number theorist
Coralie Colmez, French writer on legal mathematics
Pamela Cook, American expert in fluid dynamics, president of SIAM
Frances Cope (1902–1983), American researcher on differential equations, namesake of the Thorndike nomogram
Minerva Cordero, Puerto Rican expert on finite geometry
Sylvie Corteel, French combinatorialist, editor-in-chief of Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A
Elizabeth Buchanan Cowley (1874–1945), American mathematician, advocated high school teaching of solid geometry
Annalisa Crannell, American expert on water waves and geometric perspective
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
Helen F. Cullen (1919–2007), American topologist
Louise Duffield Cummings (1870–1947), Canadian–American expert on Steiner triple systems
Susan Jane Cunningham (1842–1921), founded the mathematics and astronomy departments at Swarthmore College
Ruth F. Curtain (1941– ), Australian-Dutch expert in infinite-dimensional linear systems
Carina Curto (1978– ), American mathematical neuroscientist

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Ingrid Daubechies is known for her Daubechies wavelets.

Donatella Danielli, Italian–American specialist in partial differential equations
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
Panagiota Daskalopoulos, Greek–American differential geometer
Ingrid Daubechies (1954– ), Belgian physicist and mathematician, known for wavelets
Chantal David, Canadian analytic number theorist and arithmetic statistician
Penny J. Davies, Scottish expert on wave scattering, president of Edinburgh Mathematical Society
Ineke De Moortel, Belgian mathematician who studies the sun's corona; president of Edinburgh Mathematical Society
Valeria de Paiva, Brazilian researcher in categorical logic
Lisette de Pillis, American researcher on the mathematics of cancer growth
Daniela De Silva, Italian mathematician known for her expertise in partial differential equations
Winifred Margaret Deans (1901–1990), British translator of German mathematics and physics texts into English
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
Ermelinda DeLaViña, Hispanic American graph theorist
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
Giulia Di Nunno (1973–), Italian expert in stochastic analysis and financial mathematics, promoter of mathematics in Africa
Auguste Dick (1910–1993), Austrian historian of mathematics and biographer of Emmy Noether
Alicia Dickenstein (1955– ), Argentine algebraic geometer, vice-president of the International Mathematical Union
Caren Diefenderfer (1952–2017), American mathematician, president of National Numeracy Network
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
Yvonne Dold-Samplonius (1937–2014), Dutch historian of Islamic mathematics
Suzanne Dorée, American group theorist and mathematics educator
Yael Dowker (1919– ), Israeli researcher in measure theory and ergodic theory
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
Moon Duchin, American expert in geometric topology, geometric group theory, and Teichmüller theory
Ioana Dumitriu (1976– ), Romanian–American numerical analyst
Nira Dyn, Israeli expert on subdivision surfaces

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Annie Easley (1933–2011), African-American computer scientist, mathematician, and rocket scientist
Sheila May Edmonds (1916–2002), British mathematician, Vice-Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge
Josephine D. Edwards, Australian mathematician, founded Australian Mathematics Competition
Mary Edwards (c. 1750–1815), human computer for the British Nautical Almanac
Constance van Eeden (1927–), Dutch nonparameteric statistician who contributed to the development of statistics in Canada
Tatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest (1905–1984), Dutch researcher in combinatorics and graph theory
Andrée Ehresmann, French category theorist
Thyra Eibe (1866–1955), first woman to earn a mathematics degree from the University of Copenhagen, translator of Euclid
Carolyn Eisele (1902–2000), American mathematician, historian of mathematics, expert on Charles Sanders Peirce
Kirsten Eisenträger, German–American researcher in computational number theory
Nicole El Karoui (1944– ), Tunisian–French pioneer in mathematical finance
Jo Ellis-Monaghan, American mathematician interested in graph polynomials and topological graph theory
Susanna S. Epp, American researcher in discrete mathematics and mathematical logic
Karin Erdmann (1948– ), German researcher in modular representation theory and homological algebra
Anna Erschler (1977– ), Russian–French expert on random walks on groups
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 (1964–), English researcher in theoretical population genetics and mathematical ecology

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Philippa Fawcett gained international fame when she obtained the top score on the 1890 Mathematical Tripos at Cambridge.

Vera Faddeeva (1906–1983), Russian expert on numerical linear algebra
Fariba Fahroo, Persian-American expert 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
Martha Isabel Fandiño Pinilla, Colombian and Italian mathematics educator
Marie Farge (1953– ), French mathematician and physicist known for her research on wavelets and turbulence in fluid mechanics
Mary Celine Fasenmyer (1906–1996), Catholic nun whose research on hypergeometric functions prefigured WZ theory
Lisa Fauci, American applied mathematician who applies computational fluid dynamics to biological processes
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
Anuška Ferligoj, Slovenian mathematical sociologist and researcher in network analysis
Jacqueline Ferrand (1918–2014), French researcher on conformal representation theory, potential theory, and Riemannian manifolds
Antonia Ferrín Moreiras (1914–2009), Spanish mathematician and first Galician woman astronomer
Joan Ferrini-Mundy, American researcher in mathematics education
Irene Fischer (1907–2009), Austrian–American geodecist for Mercury and Apollo spaceflights, member of National Academy of Engineering
Mary Flahive, American mathematician, author of books on difference equations and diophantine approximation
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
Hélène Frankowska, Polish–French control theorist and set-valued analyst
Ailana Fraser, Canadian researcher on geometric analysis and the theory of minimal surfaces
Haya Freedman (1923–2005), Israeli–British mathematician who studied the Tamari lattice and ring theory
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
Hannah Fry (1984- ), English complex systems theorist and public speaker

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These planar shapes with the same spectrum, discovered in part by Carolyn S. Gordon, gave a negative answer to the old question "Can you hear the shape of a drum?"

The Gray graph, the smallest cubic semi-symmetric graph, was discovered by Marion Gray while she was working at AT&T.

Isabelle Gallagher (1973– ), French researcher in partial differential equations
Irene M. Gamba, Argentine–American applied mathematician
Svetlana Gannushkina (1942–), Russian mathematician and human rights activist
Nina Gantert, Swiss and German probability theorist
Mary Cleophas Garvin (1899–1990), American mathematician
Hilda Geiringer (1893–1973), Austrian researcher on Fourier series, statistics, probability, and plasticity, refugee from Nazi Germany
Anne Gelb, American mathematician interested in numerical analysis, partial differential equations, and Fourier analysis of images
Ruth Gentry (1862–1917), American geometer
Maria-Pia Geppert (1907–1997), German mathematician and biostatistician who founded the Biometrical Journal
Sophie Germain (1776–1831), French number theorist, physicist, and philosopher, correspondent of Gauss
Marie Gernet (1865–1924), first German woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics
Irène Gijbels, Belgian mathematical statistician and expert in nonparametric statistics
Anna C. Gilbert, American expert in streaming algorithms and matching pursuit
Jane Piore Gilman, topologist and group theorist, distinguished professor of mathematics at Rutgers University
Gloria Ford Gilmer, American ethnomathematician
Josephine Burns Glasgow (1887–1969), American group theorist, active in American Association of University Women
Heide Gluesing-Luerssen, German mathematician specializing in algebraic coding theory
Julia Gog, English mathematical biologist, uses mathematics to study the spread of infectious diseases
Bonnie Gold, American mathematician, mathematical logician, philosopher of mathematics, and mathematics educator
Lisa Goldberg, American mathematical finance scholar and statistician
Rebecca Goldin, American expert in symplectic geometry
Catherine Goldstein (1958–), French number theorist and historian of mathematics
Shafi Goldwasser (1958– ), American-born Israeli theoretical cryptographer
Sherry Gong, second American gold medal winner at International Mathematical Olympiad
Enriqueta González Baz (1915–2002), first woman to earn a mathematics degree in Mexico, founder of the Mexican Mathematical Society
Maria Gordina, Russian–American mathematical analyst
Carolyn S. Gordon, isospectral geometer who proved that you can't hear the shape of a drum
Sigal Gottlieb, American expert in numerical simulation of the partial differential equations used in aerodynamics
Mary de Lellis Gough (1892–1983), American mathematician
Alice Bache Gould (1858–1953), American mathematician and historian
Gene Grabeel (1920–2015), American mathematician and cryptanalyst who founded the Venona project
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
Antonella Grassi, mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry and string theory
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
Judy Green, logician and historian of women in mathematics
Anne Greenbaum, American expert in theoretical and numerical linear algebra
Catherine Greenhill, Australian graph theorist
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
Lois Wilfred Griffiths (1899–1981), American expert on polygonal numbers
Elisenda Grigsby, American low-dimensional topologist
Margaret Grimshaw (1905–1990), English mathematician at Cambridge and author on Hilbert spaces
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
Laura Guggenbühl (1901–1985), American mathematician known for her work in triangle geometry and the history of mathematics
Colette Guillopé, French researcher in partial differential equations and fluid dynamics, former president of femmes et mathématiques
Alice Guionnet, French probability theorist
Geneviève Guitel, French mathematician who studied natural-language numbering systems
Kanta Gupta, Indian–Canadian researcher on abstract algebra and group theory
Neena Gupta, Indian mathematician who solved the Zariski cancellation problem

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Ancient Greek Egyptian mathematician Hypatia was the subject of many literary interpretations in the 19th and 20th centuries. Here, she is portrayed by Marie Spartali in an 1867 photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron.

Ruth Haas, American mathematician known for mentorship of other women mathematicians
Dörte Haftendorn, German mathematician, mathematics educator, and textbook author
Kari Hag (1941– ), Norwegian expert on quasiconformal mappings
Marjorie Hahn, American probability theorist and tennis player
Deborah Tepper Haimo (1921–2007), Ukrainian-Palestinian-American classical analyst, third female president of the Mathematical Association of America
Susie W. Håkansson (1940– ), mathematics educator, director of the California Mathematics Project
Ursula Hamenstädt (1961– ), German differential geometry
Christine Hamill (1923–1956), English mathematician specializing in group theory and finite geometry
Alison Harcourt, Australian mathematician and statistician known for branch and bound algorithms and quantification of poverty in Australia
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
Frances Harshbarger (1902–1987), one of the first female American mathematicians to receive a doctorate
Shelly Harvey, American researcher in knot theory, low-dimensional topology, and group theory
Maria Hasse (1921–2014), German graph theorist, set theorist, and category theorist, first female professor in science at TU Dresden
Rhonda Hatcher, American number theorist, winner of Haimo teaching award
Deanna Haunsperger, American mathematician, president of the Mathematical Association of America
Jane M. Hawkins, American researcher in dynamic systems, complex dynamics, cellular automata, and Julia sets
Megumi Harada, Canadian expert on equivariant symplectic and algebraic geometry
Louise Hay (1935–1989), founding member of the Association for Women in Mathematics
Ellen Hayes (1851–1930), American mathematician, astronomer, and political radical
Margaret Hayman (1923–1994), British mathematics educator, co-founder of British Mathematical Olympiad
Euphemia Lofton Haynes (1890–1980), first African-American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics
Olive Hazlett (1890–1974), American algebraist at the University of Illinois
Katherine Heinrich, Canadian combinatorialist, first female president of Canadian Mathematical Society
Nadia Heninger, American cryptographer, computer security expert, and computational number theorist
Cora Barbara Hennel (1888–1947), American mathematician, first woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics at the Indiana University
Dagmar R. Henney (1931– ), German–American expert on additive set-values and Banach spaces
Inge Henningsen (born 1941), statistician, writer and feminist
Rebecca A. Herb (1948– ), American researcher in abstract algebra and Lie groups
Constance Anne Herschel (1855–1939), British lecturer in natural sciences and mathematics
Grete Hermann (1901–1984), German mathematician and philosopher also noted for her work in physics and education
Patricia Hersh, American expert on algebraic and topological combinatorics
Kathryn Hess, American mathematician who uses algebraic topology to understand structures in neurology and materials science
Gloria Conyers Hewitt (1935– ), early African-American female mathematics PhD, MAA governor
Aparna Higgins, Indian-American graph theorist known for encouraging undergraduate research
Nancy Hingston, American differential geometer
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
Barbara R. Holland, New Zealand born Australian phylogeneticist
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
Annick Horiuchi, French historian of Japanese mathematics
Anette Hosoi, American mechanical engineer, biophysicist, and mathematician, studies fluid dynamics, robotics, and bio-inspired design
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
Anne Lester Hudson, American expert in topological semigroups, mathematics educator, and mathematics competition coach
Hilda Phoebe Hudson (1881–1965), English researcher on Cremona transformations in algebraic geometry
Sabine Van Huffel (1958– ), Belgian applied mathematician, expert on total least squares and applications to medical diagnostics
Rhonda Hughes (1947– ), American wavelet researcher, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics
Deborah Hughes Hallett, mathematics education reformer
Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann, German–American representation theorist and ring theorist
Mabel Gweneth Humphreys (1911-2006), Canadian-American number theorist and namesake of the M. Gweneth Humphreys Award
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
Marie Hušková (1942– ), Czech mathematician who worked in theoretical statistics and change-point problems
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
Eleny Ionel, Romanian–American symplectic geometer
Tasha Inniss, first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, director of education for INFORMS
Ilse Ipsen, German–American expert in numerical linear algebra
Shihoko Ishii, Japanese mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry
Vanaja Iyengar (died 2001), founding vice chancellor of Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam, a women's university in Andhra Pradesh, India

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Australian mathematician Nalini Joshi

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
Jacqueline Jensen-Vallin, American low-dimensional topologist, editor of MAA FOCUS
Svetlana Jitomirskaya (1966– ), Ukrainian mathematician working on dynamical systems and mathematical physics
Aimee Johnson, American expert on dynamical systems
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 receive a PhD in mathematics
Nataša Jonoska, Macedonian–American expert in DNA computing
Nalini Joshi, researcher in differential equations, Australian Laureate Fellow, Hardy Lecturer, president of Australian Mathematical Society

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Sofia Kovalevskaya is known for her contributions to differential equations, and gives her name to the Cauchy-Kovalevskaya theorem, the fundamental existence result for analytic partial differential equations.

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
Gabriele Kaiser, German mathematics educator
Eva Kallin, American researcher in geometric axiom systems, functional algebra, and polynomial convexity
Shoshana Kamin (1930– ), Soviet–Israeli mathematical physicist, wrote about parabolic partial differential equations
Sister Mary Cordia Karl (1893–1984), American geometer
Carol Karp (1926–1972), American researcher on infinitary logic, viola player
Yael Karshon, Israeli–Canadian expert on symplectic geometry
Fanny Kassel, French expert on Lie groups
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
Lyudmila Keldysh (1904–1976), Russian set theorist and geometric topologist
Ruth Kellerhals (1957– ), Swiss expert on hyperbolic geometry, geometric group theory and polylogarithm identities
Julia Kempe, French, German, and Israeli researcher in quantum computing
Claribel Kendall (1889–1965), one of the founders of the Rocky Mountain Section of the MAA
Patricia Clark Kenschaft, American mathematician, prolific book author, and activist for equity and diversity
Leah Keshet, Israeli–Canadian mathematical biologist, first female president of the Society for Mathematical Biology
Radha Kessar, Indian mathematician known for her research in the representation theory of finite groups
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
Ju-Lee Kim, Korean–American expert on the representation theory of p-adic groups
Chawne Kimber, African-American mathematician and quilter, incorporates social justice into mathematics teaching
Angie Turner King (1905–2004), American mathematics and chemistry educator
Faina Mihajlovna Kirillova, Belarusian optimal control theorist
Vivien Kirk, New Zealand dynamical systems theorist, president of New Zealand Mathematical Society
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
Erica Klarreich (1972– ), American geometer and writer
Maria Klawe (1951– ), Canadian–American theoretical computer scientist, president of Harvey Mudd College
Genevieve M. Knight (1939– ), African-American mathematics educator
Julia F. Knight, American specialist in model theory and computability theory
Tamara G. Kolda, American applied mathematician at Sandia National Laboratories
Nancy Kopell (1942– ), American researcher in the dynamics of the nervous system
Maria Korovina (1962– ), Russian research on functional spaces and differential equations
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
Ewa Kubicka, Polish–American graph theorist and actuarial scientist
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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Olga Ladyzhenskaya proved the existence of long-time solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations in 2+1 dimensions.

Ada, Countess of Lovelace wrote the first computer program, an algorithm for computing Bernoulli numbers on the Analytical Engine.

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
Jeanne LaDuke, American child actress, mathematical analyst, and historian of mathematics
Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922–2004), Soviet mathematician, proved convergence of a finite difference method for Navier–Stokes
V. Lakshmibai, Indian–American expert on flag varieties and Schubert varieties
Ailsa Land, British operations researcher known for developing branch and bound algorithms
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
Jean Ann Larson, American set theorist and historian of mathematical logic
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
Monique Laurent, French-Dutch expert in mathematical optimization
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
Anita Layton, Hong Kong–American applied mathematician who studies mathematical models of kidney function
Lê Thị Thanh Nhàn (1970– ), Vietnamese mathematician, vice rector for Science at Thái Nguyên University, won Kovalevskaya Prize
Alice Lee (1858–1939), helped discredit craniology
Joceline Lega, French applied mathematician interested in nonlinear dynamics
Anne M. Leggett, American mathematical logician, editor of AWM Newsletter
Emma Lehmer (1906–2007), Russian–American mathematician known for work on reciprocity laws in algebraic number theory
Marguerite Lehr (1898–1987), pioneer in the use of television to teach mathematics
Joan Leitzel (1936–), American mathematics educator and university administrator
Miriam Leiva, Cuban-American mathematics educator
Suzanne Lenhart, American researcher in partial differential equations, president of AWM
Annie Leuch-Reineck, Swiss mathematician and women's rights activist
Rachel Levy, American applied mathematician, mathematics educator, and blogger
Marta Lewicka, Polish expert in nonlinear elasticity
Florence Lewis (1877–?), American mathematician and astronomer
Sherry Li, Chinese–American developer of sparse parallel solvers for systems of linear equations
Winnie Li (1948- ), 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
Magnhild Lien, Norwegian mathematician specializing in knot theory
Elizaveta Litvinova (1845–c. 1919), Russian mathematician and biographer, defied czar's order forbidding women to study abroad
Marie Litzinger (1899–1952), American number theorist
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
Mayme Logsdon (1881–?), American algebraic geometer and mathematics educator
Ling Long (mathematician), Chinese–American expert on modular forms, elliptic surfaces, and dessins d'enfants
Lynette Long, American psychologist, mathematics educator, and textbook author
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
Katarzyna Lubnauer, Polish probability theorist and politician
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
Julie Lutz, American astronomer and mathematician who studies planetary nebulae and symbiotic binary stars

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Odile Macchi (1943– ), French mathematician and physicist
Marta Macho Stadler (1962– ), Basque expert on foliations and mathematical blogger
Barbara MacCluer, American expert on operator theory and author on functional analysis
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
Kathleen Madden, American expert on dynamical systems
Isabel 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 A. Maher, American expert in mathematics education
Carolyn Mahoney (1946– ), African-American combinatorialist, president of Lincoln University of Missouri
Maryanthe Malliaris, American mathematician specializing in model theory
Vivienne Malone-Mayes (1932–1995), fifth African-American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics, researcher in functional analysis
Eugenia Malinnikova, Russian–Norwegian expert in functional analysis and partial differential equations
Michelle Manes, American mathematician interested in number theory, algebraic geometry, and dynamical systems
Elizabeth Mansfield, Australian expert on moving frames and conservation laws
María Manzano (1950– ), Spanish mathematical logician
Matilde Marcolli (1969– ), Italian mathematical physicist
Fotini Markopoulou-Kalamara (1971– ), Greek theoretical physicist interested in foundational mathematics and quantum mechanics
Hannah Markwig (1980– ), German researcher in tropical geometry
Laura Martignon, Colombian–Italian researcher in neuroscience and decision-making
Emilie Martin (1869–1936), American group theorist
María del Carmen Martínez Sancho (1901–1995), first woman in Spain to gain a PhD in Mathematics
Katalin Marton (1941–), Hungarian information and probability theorist
Vera Nikolaevna Maslennikova (1926–2000), Russian researcher on partial differential equations, hydrodynamics of rotating fluids, and function spaces
Claire Mathieu, French algorithms researcher
Gordana Matic, Croatian–American low-dimensional topologist, expert on contact topology
Kaisa Matomäki (1985–), Finnish number theorist known for her work on multiplicative functions over short intervals
Lola J. May (1923–2007), American mathematics educator and early proponent of new math
Svitlana Mayboroda (1981– ), Ukrainian–American expert on boundary value problems for elliptic partial differential equations
Shirley McBay (1935– ), first African-American doctorate at the University of Georgia
Maeve McCarthy, Irish mathematician interested in inverse problems and biological modeling
Lynne McClure, British mathematics educator
Dusa McDuff FRS (1945– ), English researcher on symplectic geometry, winner of Satter Prize, first female Hardy Lecturer
Elizabeth McHarg (1923–1999), Scottish mathematician and translator, first female president of Edinburgh Mathematical Society
Lois Curfman McInnes, American researcher on numerical solution of nonlinear partial differential equations for scientific applications
Camille McKayle (1964– ), Afro-Jamaican-American mathematician and academic administrator
Danica McKellar (1975– ), American actor, author, mathematician, and education advocate
Joyce McLaughlin, American researcher in inverse problems
Jeanette McLeod New Zealand combinatorialist, popularizes mathematics through crochet and origami
Jennifer McLoud-Mann, Cherokee mathematician who discovered the 15th and last class of convex pentagons that tile the plane
Florence Marie Mears (1896–1995), American specialist in summation methods
Helen Abbot Merrill (1864–1949), American mathematician, educator and textbook author
Winifred Edgerton Merrill (1862–1951), first woman with a degree from Columbia University and first American female doctorate in mathematics
Uta Merzbach (1933–2017), German–American historian of mathematics, first Smithsonian curator of mathematical instruments
Jill P. Mesirov, American mathematician, computer scientist, and computational biologist, president of AWM
Ida Martha Metcalf (1857–1952), second American female doctorate in mathematics
Catherine Meusburger, German mathematical physicist interested in string theory
Marie-Louise Michelsohn (1941– ), American researcher on complex geometry, spin manifolds, the Dirac operator, and algebraic cycles
Kaisa Miettinen (1965–), Finnish industrial optimization researcher and academic administrator
Alison Miller, first American female gold medalist in the International Mathematical Olympiad, three-time Elizabeth Lowell Putnam award winner
Margaret Millington (1944–1973), English expert on modular forms
Eva Miranda, Spanish expert on symplectic dynamics
Maryam Mirzakhani (1977–2017), 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
Atsuko Miyaji, Japanese cryptographer and number theorist
Reiko Miyaoka, Japanese geometer known for her research on hypersurfaces
Colette Moeglin, French expert on automorphic forms
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
Rose Morton (1925–1999), American expert in the mathematical modeling of bubbles
Joan Moschovakis, American intuitionistic logician
Cathleen Synge Morawetz (1923–2017), 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
Magdalena Mouján (1926–2005), Argentine mathematician of Basque descent, operations researcher, computing pioneer, and science fiction author
Edith Alice Müller (1918–1995), Swiss mathematician and astronomer, studied the group theory of Moorish tile designs
Anna Mullikin (1893–1975), American mathematician, early investigator of point set theory
Emmy Murphy, American symplectic geometer

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Emmy Noether has been called "the greatest woman mathematician of all time".^[5] In the early 1920s she developed the modern formulation of ring theory. She is also known for a result in the calculus of variations known as Noether's theorem, which relates symmetries to conservation laws.

Anna Nagurney, Ukrainian–American mathematician, economist, educator and author in operations management
Hasibun Naher, Pakistani applied mathematician who studies tsunamis
Andrea R. Nahmod, American expert in nonlinear Fourier analysis, harmonic analysis, and partial differential equations
Pia Nalli (1884–1964), Italian researcher in functional analysis and tensor calculus
Seema Nanda, Indian researcher in applications of mathematics to biology, engineering and finance
Mangala Narlikar, Indian number theorist, author of Marathi-language mathematics books for schoolchildren
Sonia Natale, Argentine expert in abstract algebra
Caryn Navy (1953– ), blind American researcher in set-theoretic topology and Braille technology
Vicky Neale, British number theorist and mathematics popularizer
Gabriele Nebe, German researcher on sphere packings, lattices, and codes
Deanna Needell, American applied mathematician, won 2016 IMA Prize in Mathematics and Applications
Sara Negri (1967– ), Italian–Finnish proof theorist
Evelyn Nelson (1943–1987), Canadian researcher in universal algebra with applications to theoretical computer science
Gail S. Nelson, American mathematician, textbook author, and editor-in-chief of the MAA "Problem Books"
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
Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin (1983–), Irish celebrity and mathematics lecturer
Nancy K. Nichols, British applied mathematician and numerical analyst
Olympia Nicodemi, American mathematician and mathematics educator interested in wavelets and the history of mathematics
Phyllis Nicolson (1917–1968), British developer of the Crank–Nicolson method for solving partial differential equations
Barbara Niethammer (1963– ), German expert on the growth of particles in liquids
Kumiko Nishioka (1954– ), Japanese specialist on transcendental numbers and Mahler functions
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
Isabella Novik, Israeli–American expert on algebraic and geometric combinatorics
Frieda Nugel (1884–1966), one of the first German women to obtain a doctorate in mathematics
Helena J. Nussenzveig Lopes, Brazilian mathematician known for her research on incompressible Euler equations
Kaisa Nyberg (1948– ), Finnish cryptographer

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Ortrud Oellermann, South African and Canadian graph theorist
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
Dianne P. O'Leary (1951– ), American expert on scientific computing, computational linear algebra, and the history of scientific computing
Olga Oleinik (1925–2001), Soviet researcher on partial differential equations, elastic media, and boundary layers
Dorte Olesen (born 1948), first Danish mathematician to be appointed full professor
Gloria Olive (1923–2006), American-born New Zealand mathematician
Kathleen Ollerenshaw (1912–2014), British mathematician and politician, mayor of Manchester, educational advisor to Margaret Thatcher
Hinke Osinga, Dutch expert in dynamical systems, crocheted the Lorenz manifold
Barbara L. Osofsky, American algebraist, first woman in 50 years to address a national AMS meeting, first female AMS journal editor
Marie Françoise Ouedraogo (1967–), Burkinabé expert on pseudodifferential operators and superalgebras, president of African Women in Mathematics Association
Helen Brewster Owens (1881–1968), American suffragette, associate editor of the American Mathematical Monthly

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In 1678, Elena Cornaro Piscopia became the first woman to earn a doctoral degree.

Ilona Palásti (1924–1991), Hungarian researcher in discrete geometry, geometric probability, and random graphs
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
Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, Polish–American control theorist and mathematics educator
Maria Pastori (1895–1975), Italian mathematician, specialist in rational mechanics
Christine Paulin-Mohring, French mathematical logician and computer scientist, developer of Coq theorem prover
Barbara Paulson (1928–), American human computer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Nataša Pavlović, Serbian–American expert in fluid dynamics and nonlinear dispersive equations
Sylvie Paycha, French mathematician working in operator theory
Sandrine Péché (1977– ), French expert on random matrices
Irena Peeva, American researcher in commutative algebra and its applications
Jeanne Peiffer (1948– ), Luxembourgian historian of mathematics
Magda Peligrad, Romanian probability theorist known for her work on stochastic processes
Rose Peltesohn (1913–1998), German–Israeli researcher in additive combinatorics
Kirsi Peltonen, Finnish mathematician whose interests include differential geometry and the connections between mathematics and art
Cristina Pereyra, Venezuelan mathematician, author of several books on wavelets and harmonic analysis
Bernadette Perrin-Riou (1955– ), French number theorist, winner of the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize
Laura Person, American low-dimensional topologist
Rózsa Péter (1905–1977), recursion theorist, first woman elected to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Stefanie Petermichl (1971– ), German–French mathematical analyst, first female winner of the Salem Prize
Linda Petzold (1954– ), researcher in differential algebraic equations and simulation, member of National Academy of Engineering
Julia Pevtsova, Russian–American representation theorist
Flora Philip (1865–1943), first female member of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society
Cynthia A. Phillips, American expert on combinatorial optimization
Dominique Picard (1953– ), French expert on the statistical applications of wavelets
Sophie Piccard (1904–1990), Russian-Swiss mathematician, first female full professor in Switzerland
Ragni Piene (1947– ), Norwegian algebraic geometer, member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Lillian Pierce, American mathematician whose research connects number theory with harmonic analysis
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
Gabriella Pinzari, Italian expert on the $n$ -body problem
Jill Pipher (1955– ), researcher 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 proof complexity
Vera Pless (1931– ), American mathematician specializing in combinatorics and coding theory
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
Malabika Pramanik, Indian–Canadian harmonic analyst
Emma Previato, researcher in algebraic geometry and partial differential equations
Candice Renee Price, American mathematician, advocate for greater representation of women and people of color in STEM
Rachel Justine Pries, American arithmetic geometer and Galois theorist
Hilary Priestley, British mathematician who used topological methods to study distributive lattices
Mileva Prvanović (1929– ), Serbian differential geometer, first to earn a doctorate in geometry in Serbia
Ulla Pursiheimo (1944– ), Finnish control theorist who became the first female mathematics professor in Finland

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Jennifer Quinn, American combinatorialist

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Lacking any formal training, Marjorie Rice conducted a systematic study of pentagon tiling, discovering four of the fifteen known types of tiling convex pentagons.

Ami Radunskaya, American mathematician, specializes in dynamical systems and applications to medical problems, president of AWM
Virginia Ragsdale (1870–1945), American specialist in algebraic curves, formulated the Ragsdale conjecture
Kavita Ramanan, Indian–American probability theorist
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 (1938–2017), Russian–American ergodic theorist, member of National Academy of Sciences
Ethel Raybould (1899–1987), Australian mathematician and mathematics benefactor
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
Sarah Rees, British group theorist
Karin Reich (1941– ), German historian of mathematics and biographer of mathematicians
Anna Barbara Reinhart (1730–1796), Swiss mathematician, wrote commentary on Newton's Principia
Idun Reiten (1942– ), Norwegian representation theorist, member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Yuriko Renardy, Australian–American expert in fluid dynamics
Ida Rhodes (1900–1986), American pioneer in computer programming, designed the first computer used for Social Security
Marjorie Rice (1923–2017), American amateur mathematician who discovered new pentagon tilings
Christine Riedtmann (1952–), Swiss algebraist, president of Swiss Mathematical Society
Catherine A. Roberts (1965–), American applied mathematician and executive director of the American Mathematical Society
Siobhan Roberts, Canadian mathematical biographer
Julia Robinson (1919–1985), American researcher on diophantine equations, contributed to solution of Hilbert's Tenth Problem
Margaret M. Robinson, American number theorist and expert on zeta functions
Alvany Rocha, American specialist in Lie groups, computed characters of the Virasoro algebra
Alice Rogers, English expert on supermanifolds
Judith Roitman (1945– ), American specialist in set theory, topology, Boolean algebra, and mathematics education
Marian P. Roque, Filipina expert on partial differential equations, president of the Mathematical Society of the Philippines
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
Jean E. Rubin (1926–2002), American expert on the axiom of choice
Mary Ellen Rudin (1924–2013), constructed many counterexamples in topology
Mari-Jo P. Ruiz, Filipina graph theorist and operations researcher
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), Argentine–American analyst, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics
Claudia Sagastizábal, Argentine-Brazilian researcher in convex optimization and energy management
Laure Saint-Raymond (1975– ), French specialist in partial differential equations, member of the French Academy of Sciences
Ayşe Şahin, Turkish–American expert on dynamical systems
Graciela Salicrup (1935–1982), Mexican pioneer in categorical topology
Judith D. Sally (1937– ), American researcher 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
Winifred Sargent (1905–1979), English researcher on integration theory and BK-spaces
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
Karen Saxe, American expert on functional analysis and social choice theory
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
Michelle Schatzman (1949–2010), French numerical analyst
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
Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb, Austrian mathematician known for her research in image analysis
Marie-Hélène Schwartz (1913–2013), French mathematician known for her work on characteristic numbers of spaces with singularities
Jeanette Scissum, American mathematician known for her work on sunspot prediction
Charlotte Scott (1858–1931), British mathematician who promoted mathematical education of American women
Jennifer Scott, British numerical analyst
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
Esther Seiden (1908–2014), Polish–Israeli–American mathematical statistician known for her research on design of experiments and combinatorial design
Annie Selden, American mathematics educator, one of the founders of the Association for Women in Mathematics
Svetlana Selezneva (1963– ), Russian expert on discrete functions
Marjorie Senechal (1939– ), American expert on quasicrystals, author on history of science, editor-in-chief of The Mathematical Intelligencer
Seo Yeongsuhap (1753–1823), Korean poet and mathematician
Sylvia Serfaty, French expert on superconductivity, winner of the European Mathematical Society Prize
Vera Serganova, Russian-American researcher on superalgebras and their representations
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
Brigitte Servatius (1954– ), Austrian-American expert on matroids and structural rigidity
Nataša Šešum, expert in geometric flows
Mamokgethi Setati (1966– ), first black female South African to earn a PhD in mathematics education
Betty Shannon (–2017), computer at Bell Labs, assisted husband Claude Shannon with his research
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
Mariya Shcherbina (1958– ), Ukrainian expert on random matrices
Amy Shell-Gellasch, American historian of mathematics and book author
Diana Shelstad (1947– ), Australian–American mathematician, formulated the fundamental lemma of the Langlands Program
Irina Shevtsova (1983– ), Russian probability theorist
Brooke Shipley, American expert in homotopy theory and homological algebra
Patricia D. Shure, American mathematics educator and calculus reformer
Lesley Sibner (1934–2013), American differential geometer and Hodge theorist, produced a constructive proof of the Riemann–Roch theorem
Martha Siegel, American probability theorist and mathematics educator
Mary Silber, American expert in bifurcation theory and pattern formation
Alice Silverberg, American number theorist and cryptographer
Ruth Silverman, American computational geometer, founder of Association for Women in Mathematics
Evelyn Silvia (1948–2006), American functional analyst and mathematics educator
Rodica Simion (1955–2000), Romanian–American pioneer in the study of permutation patterns
Valeria Simoncini, Italian numerical analyst
Hourya Sinaceur, Moroccan expert in the theory and history of mathematics
Nathalie Sinclair, Canadian researcher in mathematics education
Sue Singer, British mathematics educator, president of Girls' Schools Association and Mathematical Association
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
Ionica Smeets (1979– ), Dutch number theorist and science communicator
Clara Eliza Smith (1865–1943), American mathematician specializing in complex analysis
Daphne L. Smith, the first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology
Karen E. Smith (1965– ), American specialist in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry, MAA Hedrick Lecturer, AWM-AMS Noether Lecturer
Kate Smith-Miles, Australian applied mathematician, president of Australian Mathematical Society
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
Laila Soueif (1956–), Egyptian mathematics professor and women's rights activist
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
Angela Spalsbury (1967– ), American functional analyst and academic administrator
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
Nicole Spillane (1988– ), French and Irish applied mathematician
Vera W. de Spinadel (1929–2017), Argentine–Austrian researcher on metallic means
Jean Springer (–2007), Jamaican–Canadian specialist in abstract algebra and academic administrator
Bhama Srinivasan (1935– ), representation theorist, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics
Hema Srinivasan, Indian–American mathematician specializing in abstract algebra and algebraic geometry
Gigliola Staffilani, Italian–American researcher on harmonic analysis and partial differential equations
Helene Stähelin (1891–1970), Swiss mathematician, editor of Bernoulli family letters, and pacifist
Gwyneth Stallard, British expert on complex dynamics and the iteration of meromorphic functions
Zvezdelina Stankova, Bulgarian–American expert on permutation patterns, founder of the Berkeley Math Circle
Nancy K. Stanton, American researcher on complex analysis, partial differential equations, and differential geometry
Marion Elizabeth Stark (1894—1982), one of the first female American mathematicians to receive a doctorate
Jackie Stedall (1950–2014), British historian of mathematics
Angelika Steger, German–Swiss expert on graph theory, randomized algorithms, and approximation algorithms
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
Anita Straker, British mathematics educator, president of the Mathematical Association
Anne Penfold Street (1932–2016), Australian combinatorialist, third woman mathematics professor in Australia
Ileana Streinu, Romanian–American computational geometer, expert on kinematics and structural rigidity
Catharina Stroppel, German researcher on representation theory, low-dimensional topology, and category theory
Marilyn Strutchens (1962– ), African-American mathematics educator
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
Nike Sun, American probability theorist studying phase transitions and counting complexity
Louise Nixon Sutton (1925–2006), first African-American woman to earn a mathematics PhD at New York University
Thyrsa Frazier Svager (1930–1999), African–American mathematician, donated entire salary to support African–American women in mathematics
Márta Svéd (–2005), Hungarian–Australian mathematician, wrote about non-Euclidean geometry
Marcia P. Sward (1939–2008), executive director of the Mathematical Association of America
Lorna Swain (1891–1936), British fluid dynamics researcher, early female lecturer at Cambridge
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
Wanda Szmielew (1918–1976), Polish logician who proved the decidability of the first-order theory of abelian groups

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Daina Taimina's crochet illustrates hyperbolic space.

Laura Taalman, American mathematician known for work on the mathematics of Sudoku and mathematical 3D printing
Daina Taimina (1954– ), Latvian–American mathematician, crochets objects to illustrate hyperbolic space
Tan Lei (1963–2016), Chinese–French specialist in complex dynamics and functions of complex numbers
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
Mina Teicher, Israeli algebraic geometer
Monique Teillaud, French computational geometer
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
Susanna Terracini (1963– ), Italian mathematician known for her research on chaos in Hamiltonian dynamical systems
Audrey Terras (1942– ), American number theorist specializing in quantum chaos and zeta functions
Ngamta Thamwattana, Thai–Australian expert in granular materials and nanotechnology
Theano (6th century BC), one or possibly two different Pythagorean philosophers
Sister Mary Domitilla Thuener, American mathematician, founder of Thomas More College, Kentucky
Janet Thomas, founder of the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute
Rekha R. Thomas, American mathematician and operations researcher
Abigail Thompson (1958– ), American low-dimensional topologist, educational reformer
Gillian Thornley (1940–), New Zealand differential geometer, first woman President of the New Zealand Mathematical Society
Ulrike Tillmann FRS (1962– ), German–English algebraic topologist
Sheila Tinney (1918–2010), Irish mathematical physicist, first Irishwoman with a mathematical doctorate
Françoise Tisseur, French–English numerical analyst
Jacqueline Naze Tjøtta (1935–2017), French–Norwegian researcher in kinetics, magnetohydrodynamics and theoretical acoustics
Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann FRSC, Polish–Canadian geometric functional analyst
Antoinette Tordesillas, Australian applied mathematician
Paula Tretkoff, Australian–American researcher in number theory, noncommutative geometry, and hypergeometric functions
Olga Tsuberbiller (1885–1975), Russian analytical geometer and textbook author
Laurette Tuckerman (1956– ), American and French researcher in computational fluid dynamics
Reidun Twarock, German-born mathematical biologist
Regina Tyshkevich, Belarussian graph theorist, co-invented split graphs

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Karen Uhlenbeck is a leading expert in partial differential equations and has worked on a variety of topics related to mathematical physics.

Olabisi Ugbebor (1951- ), first female mathematics professor in Nigeria
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
Pauline van den Driessche, British–Canadian pioneer in combinatorial matrix theory and mathematical biology
Maria Eulália Vares, Brazilian expert in stochastic processes
Dorothy Vaughan (1910–2008), African-American mathematician at NASA
Mariel Vázquez, Mexican mathematical biologist specializing in DNA topology
Argelia Velez-Rodriguez (1936– ), Black Cuban–American differential geometer
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
Siobhán Vernon (1932-2002), first Irish-born woman to get a PhD in pure mathematics in Ireland
Katalin Vesztergombi (1948– ), Hungarian graph theorist and discrete geometer
Maryna Viazovska (1984– ), Ukrainian mathematician, solved the sphere packing problems in dimensions 8 and 24
Eva Viehmann, German arithmetic geometer
Marie-France Vignéras (1946– ), French mathematician who proved that one cannot hear the shape of a hyperbolic drum
Monica Vișan, Romanian expert on the nonlinear Schrödinger equation
Marie A. Vitulli, American algebraic geometer, union organizer, and proponent for women in mathematics on Wikipedia
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, member of French Academy of Sciences
Elisabeth Vreede (1879–1943), Dutch mathematician, astronomer and Anthroposophist

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Katrin Wendland, expert on singularities in quantum field theories

Michelle L. Wachs, American specialist in algebraic combinatorics
Aissa Wade, Senegalese symplectic geometer, president of African Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Grace Wahba (1934– ), American pioneer in methods for smoothing noisy data, member of National Academy of Sciences
Erica Walker, American mathematician, studies racial and gender equity in mathematics education
Muriel Kennett Wales (1913–2009), Irish-Canadian mathematician
Judy L. Walker, American algebraic coding theorist
Lynne H. Walling, British number theorist
Joan E. Walsh (1932–2017), British numerical analyst, founder of the Numerical Algorithms Group
Marion Walter (1928– ), German-born mathematician who wrote about using mirrors to explore symmetry
Wang Zhenyi (1768–1797), Qing dynasty mathematician and astronomer
Lesley Ward, Australian harmonic and complex analyst
Rachel Ward, American applied mathematician who researches machine learning and signal processing
Mary Wynne Warner (1932–1998), British pioneer in fuzzy topology
Simone Warzel (1973–), German mathematical physicist, expert on the many-body problem
Sarah L. Waters, British expert in fluid mechanics and tissue engineering
Ann E. Watkins, American statistics educator, president of the Mathematical Association of America
Anne Watson, British mathematics educator
Johanna Weber (1910–2014), German–British mathematician and aerodynamicist, contributed to supersonic aircraft design
Charlotte Wedell (1862–1953), one of four women at the first International Congress of Mathematicians
Suzanne Weekes, American mathematician, cofounder of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Undergraduate Program
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
Eléna Wexler-Kreindler (1931–2002), Romanian–French algebraist
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
Alice S. Whittemore, American group theorist, biostatistician, and epidemiologist who studies the effects of genetics and lifestyle on cancer
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
Karen Willcox, New Zealand applied mathematician, expert on reduced-order modeling and multi-fidelity methods
Elizabeth Williams (1895–1986), British mathematician and educationist
Lauren Williams, American expert on cluster algebras and tropical geometry
Ruth J. Williams, American probability theorist, president of Institute of Mathematical Statistics, member of National Academy of Sciences
Talithia Williams, American statistician and mathematician who researches the spatiotemporal structure of data
Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Bulgarian–American researcher on graph algorithms and fast matrix multiplication
Stephanie van Willigenburg, Canadian researcher in algebraic combinatorics and quasisymmetric functions
Helen Wilson (mathematician) (1973–), British expert on non-Newtonian fluids, president of British Society of Rheology
Ulrica Wilson, African-American mathematician specializing in noncommutative rings and the combinatorics of matrices
Helen Wily (1921–2009), New Zealand mathematician and statistician
Sarah Witherspoon, American mathematician interested in abstract algebra
Barbara Wohlmuth, German expert on the numerical solution of partial differential equations
Julia Wolf, British mathematician specialising in arithmetic combinatorics
Gail Wolkowicz, Canadian mathematical biologist known for her work on the competitive exclusion principle
Maria Wonenburger (1927–2014), Galician–American group theorist, first Spanish Fulbright scholar in mathematics
Carol 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
Carol S. Woodward, American expert in numerical algorithms and software
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
Sijue Wu (1964– ), Chinese–American expert in the mathematics of water waves
Lucy R. Wyatt, British mathematician and oceanographer, studies high frequency radar oceanography and ocean surface waves
Cynthia Wyels, American mathematician known for her mentorship of Latino students

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Dianna Xu, American mathematician and computer scientist who studies computational problems on curves and surfaces

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Catherine Yan, Chinese-American mathematician interested in algebraic combinatorics
Grace Yang, Chinese-American expert on stochastic processes in the physical sciences, asymptotic theory, and survival analysis
Sofya Yanovskaya (1896–1966), restored mathematical logic research in Soviet Union, edited mathematical works of Karl Marx
Jane Ye, Chinese-Canadian researcher in variational analysis
Karen Yeats (1980– ), Canadian mathematician whose research connects combinatorics to quantum field theory
Florence Yeldham (1877–1945), British school teacher and historian of arithmetic
Lai-Sang Young (1952– ), Hong Kong born dynamical systems theorist
Virginia R. Young, American expert on the mathematics of insurance
Noriko Yui, Japanese–Canadian researcher on arithmetic geometry, mathematical physics, and mirror symmetry
Mariette Yvinec, French computational geometer

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Sara Zahedi (1981–), Iranian–Swedish researcher in computational fluid dynamics, former child refugee, and winner of EMS Prize
Thaleia Zariphopoulou, Greek–American expert in mathematical finance
Mary Lou Zeeman, British expert on dynamical systems and their application to mathematical biology
Sarah Zerbes, German and British algebraic number theorist
Ping Zhang, graph theorist and textbook author
Tamar Ziegler, Israeli researcher in ergodic theory and arithmetic combinatorics, won Erdős Prize
Magdolna Zimányi (1934–2016), pioneer of Hungarian computing

References

1 2 Morrow, edited by Charlene; Perl, Teri (1998). Notable women in mathematics : a biographical dictionary. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. pp. 98–101. ISBN 978-0-313-29131-9.
↑ "Profiles of Women in Mathematics". The Emmy Noether Lectures. Association for Women in Mathematics. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
↑ Grinstein, Louise S.; Schafer, Paul J. Campbell, eds. (1987). Women of mathematics : a biobibliographic sourcebook. New York: Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-24849-8.
↑ "Maria Gaetana Agnesi". Retrieved 19 August 2015.
1 2 Alexandrov, Pavel S. (1981), "In Memory of Emmy Noether", in Brewer, James W; Smith, Martha K, Emmy Noether: A Tribute to Her Life and Work, New York: Marcel Dekker, pp. 99–111, ISBN 0-8247-1550-0 .

External links

Chronological Index of Women Mathematicians
Alphabetical Index of Women Mathematicians
List of Noether Lecture subjects
Famous Female Mathematicians
MacTutor index of female mathematicians
Biographies of Women Mathematicians on the Women in Math Project
Green, Judy; LaDuke, Jeanne (2009). Pioneering Women in American Mathematics — The Pre-1940 PhD's. History of Mathematics. 34. American Mathematical Society, The London Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-0-8218-4376-5. Biographies available in the Supplementary Material at AMS

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[Morrow-1] 1 2 Morrow, edited by Charlene; Perl, Teri (1998). Notable women in mathematics : a biographical dictionary. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. pp. 98–101. ISBN 978-0-313-29131-9.

[2] "Profiles of Women in Mathematics". The Emmy Noether Lectures. Association for Women in Mathematics. Retrieved 23 August 2015.

[3] Grinstein, Louise S.; Schafer, Paul J. Campbell, eds. (1987). Women of mathematics : a biobibliographic sourcebook. New York: Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-24849-8.

[Agnesi-4] "Maria Gaetana Agnesi". Retrieved 19 August 2015.

[alexandrov-5] 1 2 Alexandrov, Pavel S. (1981), "In Memory of Emmy Noether", in Brewer, James W; Smith, Martha K, Emmy Noether: A Tribute to Her Life and Work, New York: Marcel Dekker, pp. 99–111, ISBN 0-8247-1550-0 .

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