List of women in mathematics

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Tatyana Afanasyeva (1876–1964), Russian–Dutch researcher in statistical mechanics, randomness, and geometry education

Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718–1799), Italian mathematician and philosopher, possibly the first female mathematics professor

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 leading transportation economist in the US civil service

Grace Alele-Williams (1932–), first woman to lead a Nigerian university

Stephanie B. Alexander, American differential geometer

Florence Eliza Allen (1876–1960), second female and fourth overall mathematics PhD from the University of Wisconsin

Elizabeth S. Allman, American mathematical biologist

Ann S. Almgren, American applied mathematician who works on computational simulations of supernovae and white dwarfs

Alice S. Alston, American expert in mathematics education

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

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

Maria Angela Ardinghelli (1730–1825), Italian translator of Stephen Hales, mathematician, physicist and noble

Natascha Artin Brunswick (1909–2003), German–American mathematician, photographer, and journal editor

Winifred Asprey (1917–2007), helped establish the first computer science lab at Vassar

Michèle Audin, 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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Wealthy Babcock (1895–1990), American mathematician, namesake of Kansas University mathematics library

Viviane Baladi (1963– ), Swiss-French expert on dynamical systems

Deborah Loewenberg Ball, American mathematics education researcher

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

Ida Barney (1886–1982), American mathematics professor and astronomer

Charlotte Barnum (1860–1934), mathematician and social activist, first female mathematics PhD from Yale

Lida Barrett (1927– ), second female president of the MAA

Jean Bartik (1924–2011), one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer

Grace Bates (1914–1996), one of few women in the United States to be granted a PhD in mathematics in the 1940s

Patricia E. Bauman, studies the mathematics of liquid crystals and superconductors

Agnes Sime Baxter (1870–1917), second Canadian and fourth North American woman to earn a mathematics PhD

Eva Bayer-Fluckiger (1951– ), 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

Bonnie Berger, American mathematician and computer scientist, researcher in computational molecular biology

Marsha Berger (1953– ), American researcher in numerical analysis, computational fluid dynamics, and parallel computing

Nicole Berline (1944– ), French researcher on index theory of elliptic differential operators

Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (1914–1988), applied mathematician, first female president of the MAA

Andrea Bertozzi (1965– ), American researcher in partial differential equations, studies mathematics of urban crime

Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak (1938–2009), professor of combinatorics and head of mathematics at the University of Mumbai

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

Natashia Boland (1967–), Australian mathematician and operations researcher

Alicia Boole Stott (1860–1940), Irish–English four-dimensional geometer

Mary Everest Boole (1832–1916), self-taught author of didactic works on mathematics

Valentina Borok (1931–2004), Soviet Ukrainian mathematician who studied partial differential equations

Celia Grillo Borromeo (1684–1777), Genovese mathematician and scientist, discovered Clélie curve

Mireille Bousquet-Mélou (1967– ), French combinatorialist

Sylvia Bozeman (1947– ), African-American mathematician and academic administrator

Dorothy Brady (1903–1977), American mathematician and economist

Bodil Branner, founder of European Women in Mathematics, chair of the Danish Mathematical Society

Marilyn Breen, American geometer

Susanne Brenner, expert in the numerical solution of differential equations

Kathrin Bringmann (1977– ), German number theorist, expert on mock theta functions, winner of SASTRA Ramanujan Prize

Barbara M. Brizuela, American researcher on mathematics education in early childhood and elementary school

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

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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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

Sunčica Čanić, Croatian–American expert in modeling the cardiovascular system and devices for treating it

Ana Caraiani, Romanian–American IMO medalist, Putnam fellow, expert in algebraic number theory and the Langlands program

Mary Cartwright (1900–1998), British mathematician, one of the first to analyze a dynamical system with chaos

María Andrea Casamayor (1700–1780), only 18th century Spanish scientist whose work is still extant

Emma Castelnuovo (1913–2014), Italian mathematics educator and textbook author

Beatrice Mabel Cave-Browne-Cave (1874–1947), English pioneer in the mathematics of aeronautics

Frances Cave-Browne-Cave (1876–1965), English mathematician and computer, taught at Girton College, Cambridge

Anny Cazenave, French space geodesist, pioneer in satellite altimetry

Zoia Ceaușescu (1949–2006), Romanian functional analyst, daughter of Communist leader

Sue Chandler, author of English secondary-school mathematics textbooks

Sun-Yung Alice Chang (1948– ), Chinese–American mathematical analyst, member of National Academy of Sciences

Josephine Chanler (1906–1992), American mathematician

Vyjayanthi Chari, Indian–American expert in quantum algebra

Ruth Charney, American expert on geometric group theory and Artin groups, president of AWM

Émilie du Châtelet (1706–1749), French translator and commentator of Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica

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

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

Mónica Clapp, Mexican researcher in nonlinear partial differential equations and algebraic topology

Joan Clarke (1917–1996), English code-breaker at Bletchley Park, numismatist

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

Coralie Colmez, French writer on legal mathematics

Elizabeth Buchanan Cowley (1874–1945), American mathematician, advocated high school teaching of solid geometry

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

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

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Christine Darden (1942– ), American aeronautical engineer who researches sonic booms

Geraldine Claudette Darden (1936– ), one of the first African-American women to earn a PhD in mathematics

Panagiota Daskalopoulos, Greek–American differential geometer

Ingrid Daubechies (1954– ), Belgian physicist and mathematician, known for wavelets

Valeria de Paiva, Brazilian researcher in categorical logic

Lisette de Pillis, American researcher on the mathematics of cancer growth

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

Laura DeMarco, American researcher in dynamical systems and complex analysis

Shakuntala Devi (1939–2013), Indian child prodigy, writer, and mental calculator

Cécile DeWitt-Morette (1922– ), French founder of l'École de physique des Houches

Alicia Dickenstein (1955– ), Argentine algebraic geometer, vice-president of the International Mathematical Union

Ada Dietz (1882–1950), American weaver who used algebraic expressions to design textiles

Irit Dinur, Israeli researcher in probabilistically checkable proofs and hardness of approximation

Mary P. Dolciani (1923–1985), developed modern method for teaching high school algebra in the United States

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

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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

Mary Edwards (c. 1750–1815), human computer for the British Nautical Almanac

Tatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest (1905–1984), Dutch researcher in combinatorics and graph theory

Carolyn Eisele (1902–2000), American mathematician, historian of mathematics, expert on Charles Sanders Peirce

Nicole El Karoui (1944– ), Tunisian–French pioneer in mathematical finance

Susanna S. Epp, American researcher in discrete mathematics and mathematical logic

Karin Erdmann (1948– ), German researcher in modular representation theory and homological algebra

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, English researcher in theoretical population genetics and mathematical ecology

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Cornelia Fabri (1869–1915), first female graduate from the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa

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

Irene Fischer (1907–2009), Austrian–American geodecist for Mercury and Apollo spaceflights, member of National Academy of Engineering

Sarah Flannery (1982– ), winner of the EU Young Scientist of the Year Award for her teenage research on cryptography

Erica Flapan, American researcher in low-dimensional topology and knot theory

Irmgard Flügge-Lotz (1903–1974), German aerodynamics researcher, first female engineering professor at Stanford

Irene Fonseca (1956– ), Portuguese–American director of the Center for Nonlinear Analysis at Carnegie Mellon University

Phyllis Fox (1923– ), American mathematician and computer scientist, collaborator on the first LISP interpreter

Marguerite Frank (1927– ), French–American pioneer in convex optimization theory and mathematical programming

Ailana Fraser, Canadian researcher on geometric analysis and the theory of minimal surfaces

Herta Freitag (1908–2000), Austrian–American expert on Fibonacci numbers

Susan Friedlander (1946– ), English–American researcher in fluid dynamics, first female editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of the AMS

Charlotte Froese Fischer (1929– ), Canadian–American expert on atomic-structure calculations who predicted negative calcium ions

Hannah Fry, English complex systems theorist and public speaker

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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

Mary Cleophas Garvin (1899–1990), American mathematician

Jane Piore Gilman, topologist and group theorist, distinguished professor of mathematics at Rutgers University

Hilda Geiringer (1893–1973), Austrian researcher on Fourier series, statistics, probability, and plasticity, refugee from Nazi Germany

Ruth Gentry (1862–1917), American geometer

Sophie Germain (1776–1831), French number theorist, physicist, and philosopher, correspondent of Gauss

Anna C. Gilbert, American expert in streaming algorithms and matching pursuit

Josephine Elizabeth Burns Glasgow (1887–1969), American group theorist, active in American Association of University Women

Heide Gluesing-Luerssen, German mathematician specializing in algebraic coding theory

Lisa Goldberg, American mathematical finance scholar and statistician

Rebecca Goldin, American expert in symplectic geometry

Shafi Goldwasser (1958– ), American-born Israeli theoretical cryptographer

Sherry Gong, second American gold medal winner at International Mathematical Olympiad

Carolyn S. Gordon, isospectral geometer who proved that you can't hear the shape of a drum

Mary de Lellis Gough (1892–1983), American mathematician

Alice Bache Gould (1858–1953), American mathematician and historian

Judith Grabiner (1938), American historian of 18th and 19th century mathematics

Evelyn Boyd Granville (1924– ), one of the first African-American women to receive a PhD in mathematics

Marion Cameron Gray (1902–1979), Scottish telephone engineer, discoverer of the Gray graph

Mary W. Gray (1939– ), author on mathematics, mathematics education, economic equity, discrimination law, and academic freedom

Cindy Greenwood, Canadian statistician, winner of Krieger–Nelson Prize

Ruth Gregory, British mathematical physicist specializing in general relativity and cosmology

Margaret Greig (1922–1999), English applied mathematician, developed theory for worsted spinning

Lois Wilfred Griffiths (1899–1981), American expert on polygonal numbers

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

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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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

Frances Hardcastle (1866–1941), group theorist, one of the founders of the American Mathematical Society

Valentina Harizanov, Serbian–American researcher in computability and model theory

Jenny Harrison, American expert on generalized functions and minimal surfaces

Kathryn E. Hare, Canadian expert in harmonic analysis

Shelly Harvey, American researcher in knot theory, low-dimensional topology, and group theory

Jane M. Hawkins, American researcher in dynamic systems, complex dynamics, cellular automata, and Julia sets

Louise Hay (1935–1989), founding member of the Association for Women in Mathematics

Ellen Hayes (1851–1930), American mathematician, astronomer, and political radical

Euphemia 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

Dagmar R. Henney (1931– ), German–American expert on additive set-values and Banach spaces

Rebecca A. Herb (1948– ), American researcher in abstract algebra and Lie groups

Grete Hermann (1901–1984), German mathematician and philosopher also noted for her work in physics and education

Patricia Hersh, American expert on algebraic and topological combinatorics

Gloria Conyers Hewitt (1935– ), early African-American female mathematics PhD, MAA governor

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

Susan Howson (1973– ), British mathematician known for work on algebraic number theory and arithmetic geometry

Celia Hoyles (1946– ), British mathematician, president of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications

Hu Hesheng (1928– ), differential geometer, president of Shanghai Mathematical Society, member of Chinese Academy of Science

Verena Huber-Dyson (1923– ), Swiss–American group theorist and logician, expert on undecidability in group theory

Annette Huber-Klawitter (1967– ), German algebraic geometer, expert in the Bloch–Kato conjectures

Hilda Phoebe Hudson (1881–1965), English researcher on Cremona transformations in algebraic geometry

Rhonda Hughes (1947– ), American wavelet researcher, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics

Deborah Hughes Hallett, mathematics education reformer

Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann, German–American representation theorist and ring theorist

Fern Hunt (1948– ), American mathematician known for her work in applied mathematics and mathematical biology

Joan Hutchinson (1945– ), American graph theorist who extended the planar separator theorem to graphs of higher genus

Hypatia (died 415), head of the Neoplatonic school at Alexandria, murdered by a Christian mob

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Milagros D. Ibe, Filipino mathematics educator, vice chancellor of the University of the Philippines Diliman

Ilse Ipsen, German–American expert in numerical linear algebra

Vanaja Iyengar (died 2001), founding vice chancellor of Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam, a women's university in Andhra Pradesh, India

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Trachette Jackson (1972– ), researcher in mathematical oncology, second African-American woman to become a Sloan Fellow in mathematics

Jessie Marie Jacobs (1890–1954), fired from mathematics instructorship for having a child, aided husband Hermann Muller's Nobel-winning genetic research

Lisa Jeffrey FRSC, Canadian expert in symplectic geometry and quantum field theory

Svetlana Jitomirskaya (1966– ), Ukrainian mathematician working on dynamical systems and mathematical physics

Katherine Johnson (1918– ), calculated the trajectory for Project Mercury and the 1969 Apollo 11 flight to the Moon

Eleanor Jones (1929– ), one of the first African American women to achieve a PhD in mathematics

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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Margarete Kahn (1880–c. 1942), one of the first female German doctorates, contributed to Hilbert's sixteenth problem

Suzan Kahramaner (1913–2006), one of the first female mathematicians in Turkish academia

Eva Kallin, American researcher in geometric axiom systems, functional algebra, and polynomial convexity

Shoshana Kamin (1930– ), Soviet–Israeli mathematical physicist, expert on parabolic partial differential equations

Sister Mary Cordia Karl (1893–1984), American geometer

Carol Karp (1926–1972), American researcher on infinitary logic, viola player

Svetlana Katok (1947– ), Jewish Russian-American founder of Electronic Research Announcements of the AMS

Bruria Kaufman (1918–2010), Israeli theoretical physicist who collaborated with Einstein on general relativity

Linda Keen (1940– ), American mathematician and computer scientist, president of AWM

Lyudmila Keldysh (1904–1976), Russian set theorist and geometric topologist

Ruth Kellerhals (1957– ), Swiss expert on hyperbolic geometry, geometric group theory and polylogarithm identities

Claribel Kendall (1889–1965), one of the founders of the Rocky Mountain Section of the MAA

Leah Keshet, Israeli–Canadian mathematical biologist, first female president of the Society for Mathematical Biology

Barbara Keyfitz (1944– ), Canadian–American researcher on nonlinear partial differential equations, president of AWM and ICIAM

Olga Kharlampovich, Russian–Canadian group theorist who solved the Tarski conjecture on first-order theories of free groups

Ju-Lee Kim, Korean–American expert on the representation theory of p-adic groups

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

Julia F. Knight, American specialist in model theory and computability theory

Nancy Kopell (1942– ), American researcher in the dynamics of the nervous system

Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach (1941– ), French differential geometer, namesake of the Kosmann lift

Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850–1891), first major Russian female mathematician, worked in analysis, differential equations and mechanics

Bryna Kra (1966– ), American mathematician who applies dynamical systems in number theory and combinatorics

Edna Kramer (1902–1984), American mathematician and author of mathematics books

Cecilia Krieger (1894–1974), third person and first woman to earn a Canadian mathematics PhD, translator of Sierpiński

Anna Zofia Krygowska (1904–1988), Polish mathematician known for her work in mathematics education

Vera Kublanovskaya (1920–2012), Russian inventor of the QR algorithm for computing eigenvalues and eigenvectors

Daniela Kühn, German–English combinatorialist, expert on infinite graphs, winner of the Whitehead Prize

Krystyna Kuperberg (1944– ), Polish–American topologist who found a smooth counterexample to the Seifert conjecture

Rachel Kuske, American–Canadian expert on stochastic and nonlinear dynamics, asymptotic methods, and industrial mathematics

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Izabella Łaba (1966– ), Polish–Canadian specialist in harmonic analysis, geometric measure theory, and additive combinatorics

Carole Lacampagne, American mathematician known for her work in mathematics education and gender equality

Christine Ladd-Franklin (1847–1930), American psychologist, logician, and mathematician

Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922–2004), Soviet mathematician, proved convergence of a finite difference method for Navier–Stokes

Susan Landau (1954– ), American mathematician and computer scientist, known for internet security and denesting radicals

Glenda Lappan (1939– ), developed Connected Mathematics curriculum, led National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Irena Lasiecka, Polish–American expert in control theory of partial differential equations

Renu C. Laskar, Indian–American graph theorist, specialist in domination numbers and circular arc graphs

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

Lê Thị Thanh Nhàn (1970– ), Vietnamese mathematician, vice rector for Science at Thái Nguyên University, won Kovalevskaya Prize

Alice Lee (1858–1939), one of the first women to graduate from London University

Emma Lehmer (1906–2007), Russian–American mathematician known for work on reciprocity laws in algebraic number theory

Marguerite Lehr (1898–1987), pioneer in the use of television to teach mathematics

Joan Leitzel (1936–), American mathematics educator and university administrator

Suzanne Lenhart, American researcher in partial differential equations, president of AWM

Marta Lewicka, Polish expert in nonlinear elasticity

Florence Lewis (1877–?), American mathematician and astronomer

Winnie Li, Chinese–American researcher in number theory, coding theory, automorphic forms, and spectral graph theory

Paulette Libermann (1919–2007), French specialist in differential geometry

Lillian Rosanoff Lieber (1886–1986), American mathematics professor and author of popular books on science and mathematics

Elizaveta Litvinova (1845–c. 1919), Russian mathematician and biographer, defied czar's order forbidding women to study abroad

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

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

Edith Hirsch Luchins (1921–2002), Polish–American mathematician, experimented on psychology of mathematical problem solving

Monika Ludwig (1966– ), Austrian researcher in convex geometry, member of Austrian Academy of Sciences

Élisabeth Lutz (1914–2008), French student of Weil, showed how to compute torsion subgroups of elliptic curves

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Sheila Scott Macintyre (1910–1960), Scottish researcher on the Whittaker constant, co-author of German–English mathematics dictionary

Chrystal Macmillan (1872–1937), Scottish Liberal politician, barrister, feminist and pacifist, first female honours graduate in mathematics from University of Edinburgh

Jessie MacWilliams (1917–1990), English researcher on error-correcting codes

Ada Maddison (1869–1950), British mathematician known for her work on differential equations

Penelope Maddy (1950– ), American philosopher of mathematics

Dorothy Maharam (1917–2014), American mathematician who made important contributions to measure theory

Carolyn A. Maher, American expert in mathematics education

Carolyn Mahoney (1946– ), African-American combinatorialist, president of Lincoln University of Missouri

Vivienne Malone-Mayes (1932–1995), fifth African-American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics, researcher in functional analysis

Matilde Marcolli (1969– ), Italian mathematical physicist

Fotini Markopoulou-Kalamara (1971– ), Greek theoretical physicist interested in foundational mathematics and quantum mechanics

Emilie Martin (1869–1936), American group theorist

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

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

Siddiqua Mazhar, Pakestani mathematics student

Shirley McBay (1935– ), first African-American doctorate at the University of Georgia

Dusa McDuff FRS (1945– ), English researcher on symplectic geometry, winner of Satter Prize, first female Hardy Lecturer

Danica McKellar (1975– ), American actor, author, mathematician, and education advocate

Joyce McLaughlin, American researcher in inverse problems

Florence Marie Mears (1896–1995), American specialist in summation methods

Helen Abbot Merrill (1864–1949), American mathematician, educator and textbook author

Jill P. Mesirov, American mathematician, computer scientist, and computational biologist, president of AWM

Winifred Edgerton Merrill (1862–1951), first woman with a degree from Columbia University and first American female doctorate in mathematics

Ida Martha Metcalf (1857–1952), second American female doctorate in mathematics

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

Maryam Mirzakhani (1977– ), 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

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

Joan Moschovakis, American intuitionistic logician

Cathleen Synge Morawetz (1923– ), Canadian–American researcher on the partial differential equations governing fluid flow

Ruth Moufang (1905–1977), German researcher on non-associative algebraic structures, namesake of Moufang loops

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

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Anna Nagurney, Ukrainian–American mathematician, economist, educator and author in operations management

Andrea R. Nahmod, American expert in nonlinear Fourier analysis, harmonic analysis, and partial differential equations

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

Caryn Navy (1953– ), blind American researcher in set-theoretic topology and Braille technology

Gabriele Nebe, German researcher on sphere packings, lattices, and codes

Evelyn Nelson (1943–1987), Canadian researcher in universal algebra with applications to theoretical computer science

Claudia Neuhauser, German–American mathematical biologist whose research concerns spatial ecology

Hanna Neumann (1914–1971), German-born mathematician who worked on group theory

Mara Neusel (1964–2014), German–American invariant theorist and advocate for women in mathematics

Mary Frances Winston Newson (1869–1959), first female American to receive a PhD in mathematics from a European university

Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin (1983–), Irish celebrity and mathematics lecturer

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

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"

Margarita Nolasco Santiago, Mathematics textbook author, member of Puerto Rico Senate

Isabella Novik, Israeli–American expert on algebraic and geometric combinatorics

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Hee Oh (1969– ), Korean–American dynamical systems theorist, expert on equidistribution in fractal structures

Kathleen Adebola Okikiolu (1965– ), British–American researcher on differential operators, developed curricula for inner-city children

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

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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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

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

Rose Peltesohn (1913–1998), German–Israeli researcher in additive combinatorics

Bernadette Perrin-Riou (1955– ), French number theorist, winner of the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize

Rózsa Péter (1905–1977), recursion theorist, first woman elected to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

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

Flora Philip (1865–1943), first female member of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society

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

Marie Anne Victoire Pigeon (1724–1767), French mathematician, writer, and teacher

Faustina Pignatelli (d. 1785), princess of Colubrano, second woman elected to the Academy of Sciences of Bologna

Jill Pipher (1955– ), researcher in 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

Emma Previato, researcher in algebraic geometry and partial differential equations

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

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Ami Radunskaya, American mathematician, president of AWM

Virginia Ragsdale (1870–1945), American specialist in algebraic curves, formulated the Ragsdale conjecture

Susan Miller Rambo (1883–1977), second woman awarded a PhD from the University of Michigan, delegate to 1928 ICM

Sujatha Ramdorai, Indian–Canadian algebraic number theorist, expert on Iwasawa theory

Helena Rasiowa (1917–1994), Polish researcher in the foundations of mathematics and algebraic logic

Marina Ratner (1938– ), Russian–American ergodic theorist, member of National Academy of Sciences

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

Karin Reich (1941– ), German historian of mathematics and biographer of mathematicians

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– ), American amateur mathematician who discovered new pentagon tilings

Julia Robinson (1919–1985), American researcher on diophantine equations, contributed to solution of Hilbert's Tenth Problem

Alvany Rocha, American specialist in Lie groups, computed characters of the Virasoro algebra

Alice Rogers, English expert on supermanifolds

Judith Roitman (1945– ), American specialist in set theory, topology, Boolean algebra, and mathematics education

Frances A. Rosamond, Australian researcher in parameterized complexity, advocate for women in computer science and mathematics

Mary G. Ross (1908–2008), first Native American female engineer, studied mathematics for aeronautics and celestial mechanics

Alice Roth (1905–1977), Swiss mathematician who made significant contributions to approximation theory

Linda Preiss Rothschild (1945– ), president of AWM, vice-president of AMS, co-editor-in-chief of Mathematical Research Letters

Christel Rotthaus, German–American researcher in commutative algebra

Christiane Rousseau (1954– ), French–Canadian mathematician, president of the Canadian Mathematical Society

Marie-Françoise Roy (1950– ), French expert in real algebraic geometry, co-founder of two organizations for women in mathematics

Mary Ellen Rudin (1924– ), constructed many counterexamples in topology

Iris Runge (1888–1966), German applied mathematician, translator and biographer

Mary Beth Ruskai (1944– ), proved subadditivity of quantum entropy, bounded the electrons in an atom, advocate for women in mathematics

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Cora Sadosky (1940–2010), Argentinian–American analyst, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics

Laure Saint-Raymond (1975– ), French specialist in partial differential equations, member of the French Academy of Sciences

Judith D. Sally (1937– ), American researcher in 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

Jane Cronin Scanlon (1922– ), American researcher in partial differential equations and mathematical biology

Alice T. Schafer (1915–2009), American differential geometer, founding member of the Association for Women in Mathematics

Mary Schaps, Israeli mathematician and academic administrator, researcher in deformation theory, group theory, and representation theory

Doris Schattschneider (1939– ), American mathematician known for writing about tessellations and the art of M. C. Escher

Tamar Schlick, American applied mathematician who develops and applies tools for biomolecule modeling and simulation

Leila Schneps (1961– ), American–French analytic number theorist and arithmetic geometer, archivist of Grothendieck's works

Maria E. Schonbek, Argentine–American researcher in fluid dynamics and associated partial differential equations

Marie-Hélène Schwartz (1913–2013), French mathematician known for her work on characteristic numbers of spaces with singularities

Charlotte Scott (1858–1931), British mathematician who promoted mathematical education of American women

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

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

Nataša Šešum, expert in geometric flows

Mamokgethi Setati (1966– ), first black female South African to earn a PhD in mathematics education

Tatyana Shaposhnikova, Russian–Swedish researcher on multipliers in function spaces, partial differential operators, and history of mathematics

Mei-Chi Shaw (1955– ), Taiwanese–American researcher on partial differential equations

Diana Shelstad (1947– ), Australian–American mathematician, formulated the fundamental lemma of the Langlands Program

Brooke Shipley, American expert in homotopy theory and homological algebra

Lesley Sibner (1934–2013), American differential geometer and Hodge theorist, produced a constructive proof of the Riemann–Roch theorem

Mary Silber, American expert in bifurcation theory and pattern formation

Alice Silverberg, American number theorist and cryptographer

Rodica Simion (1955–2000), Romanian–American pioneer in the study of permutation patterns

Hourya Sinaceur, Moroccan expert in the theory and history of mathematics

Nathalie Sinclair, Canadian researcher in mathematics education

Ajit Iqbal Singh (1943–), Indian researcher in functional analysis and harmonic analysis

Lucy Joan Slater (1922–2008), British expert on hypergeometric functions and the Rogers–Ramanujan identities

Marian Small, Canadian proponent of constructivist mathematical instruction

Karen Smith (1965– ), American specialist in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry, MAA Hedrick Lecturer, AWM-AMS Noether Lecturer

Agata Smoktunowicz (1973– ), Polish–Scottish researcher in abstract algebra, constructed noncommutative nil rings

Nina Snaith (1974– ), British researcher in random matrix theory, quantum chaos, and zeta functions

Priyanshi Somani (1998– ), Indian mental calculator

Mary Somerville (1780–1872), Scottish science writer and polymath, one of two first female members of the Royal Astronomical Society

Christina Sormani, American researcher on Riemannian geometry, metric geometry, and Ricci curvature

Vera T. Sós (1930– ), Hungarian number theorist and combinatorialist

Diane Souvaine, American computational geometer, advocate for women and minorities in mathematics and gender neutrality in teaching

Ayşe Soysal (1948– ), Turkish mathematician, president of Boğaziçi University

Birgit Speh, American expert in Lie groups, namesake of Speh representations

Domina Eberle Spencer (1920– ), researcher on electrodynamics and field theory, founded fringe science organization Natural Philosophy Alliance

Pauline Sperry (1885–1967), mathematician, musician, and astronomer, unconstitutionally fired from UC Berkeley for refusing to sign a loyalty oath

Dolores Richard Spikes (1936–2015), African-American mathematician, first female university chancellor and first female president of a university system in the US

Bhama Srinivasan (1935– ), representation theorist, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics

Gigliola Staffilani, Italian–American researcher on harmonic analysis and partial differential equations

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

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

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

Bella Subbotovskaya (1938–1982), Soviet founder of the Jewish People's University

Indulata Sukla (1944– ), Indian researcher on Fourier series, author of textbook on number theory and cryptography

Catherine Sulem, Algerian-born Canadian mathematician and violinist, expert on singularities in wave propagation

Marcia P. Sward (1939–2008), executive director of the Mathematical Association of America

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 (1954– ), Latvian–American mathematician, crochets objects to illustrate hyperbolic space

Rosalind Tanner (1900–1992), English mathematician and a historian of mathematics

Éva Tardos (1957– ), Hungarian–American researcher in combinatorial optimization algorithms

Olga Taussky-Todd (1906–1995), Austrian and later Czech–American advocate of matrix theory

Jean Taylor (1944– ), American mathematician known for her work on soap bubbles and crystals

Montserrat Teixidor i Bigas, Spanish–American expert on moduli of vector bundles on curves

Keti Tenenblat, (1944– ), Turkish-Brazilian differential geometer

M. B. W. Tent, American mathematics educator, mathematical biographer

Chuu-Lian Terng (1949– ), Taiwanese–American differential geometer

Audrey Terras (1942– ), American number theorist specializing in quantum chaos and zeta functions

Ngamta Thamwattana, Thai–Australian expert in granular materials and nanotechnology

Theano (6th century BC), one or possibly two different Pythagorean philosophers

Rekha R. Thomas, American mathematician and operations researcher

Abigail Thompson (1958– ), American low-dimensional topologist, educational reformer

Ulrike Tillmann FRS (1962– ), German–English algebraic topologist

Sheila Christina Tinney (1918–2010), Irish mathematical physicist, first Irishwoman with a mathematical doctorate

Françoise Tisseur, French–English numerical analyst

Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann FRSC, Polish–Canadian geometric functional analyst

Antoinette Tordesillas, Australian applied mathematician

Reidun Twarock, German-born mathematical biologist

Regina Tyshkevich, Belarussian graph theorist, co-invented split graphs

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Olabisi Ugbebor, 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

Dorothy Vaughan (1910–2008), African-American mathematician at NASA

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, first Irish-born woman to get a PhD in pure mathematics in Ireland

Maryna Viazovska (1984– ), Ukrainian mathematician, solved the sphere packing problems in dimensions 8 and 24

Marie-France Vignéras (1946– ), French mathematician who proved that one cannot hear the shape of a hyperbolic drum

Roxana Vivian (1871–1961), first female mathematics doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania

Karen Vogtmann (1949– ), American geometric group theorist, namesake of Culler–Vogtmann outer space

Claire Voisin (1962– ), French expert on Hodge structures and mirror symmetry, member of French Academy of Sciences

Elisabeth Vreede (1879–1943), Dutch mathematician, astronomer and Anthroposophist

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Michelle L. Wachs, American specialist in algebraic combinatorics

Grace Wahba (1934– ), American pioneer in methods for smoothing noisy data, member of National Academy of Sciences

Judy L. Walker, American algebraic coding theorist

Lynne H. Walling, British number theorist

Marion Walter (1928– ), German-born mathematician who wrote about using mirrors to explore symmetry

Mary Wynne Warner (1932–1998), British pioneer in fuzzy topology

Johanna Weber (1910–2014), German–British mathematician and aerodynamicist, contributed to supersonic aircraft design

Katrin Wehrheim (1974– ), American symplectic topologist and gauge theorist

Guofang Wei (1965– ), Chinese–American differential geometer, found new positively-curved manifolds

Katrin Wendland, German mathematical physicist, expert on singularities in quantum field theories

Elisabeth M. Werner, researcher on convex geometry, functional analysis, and probability theory

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

Sylvia Wiegand (1945– ), American algebraist, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics

Anna Wienhard (1977– ), German differential geometer

Amie Wilkinson (1968– ), American researcher in ergodic theory and smooth dynamical systems

Elizabeth Williams (1895–1986), British mathematician and educationist

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

Helen Wilson (mathematician) (1973–), British expert on non-Newtonian fluids, president of British Society of Rheology

Maria Wonenburger (1927–2014), Galician–American group theorist, first Spanish Fulbright scholar in mathematics

Carol S. Wood (1945– ), American expert in model-theoretic algebra, president of AWM

Melanie Wood (1981– ), first female American to compete in the International Mathematical Olympiad

Sarah Woodhead (d. 1912), first woman to pass the Tripos

Mary Lee Woods (1924– ), British mathematician and computer programmer

Margaret H. Wright (1944– ), American researcher in optimization, linear algebra, and scientific computing

Dorothy Maud Wrinch (1894–1976), Argentine–English mathematician and biochemical theorist, expert in protein structure

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

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Sofya Yanovskaya (1896–1966), restored mathematical logic research in Soviet Union, edited mathematical works of Karl Marx

Florence Yeldham (1877–1945), British school teacher and historian of arithmetic

Lai-Sang Young (1952– ) Hong Kong born dynamical systems theorist

Sufiah Yusof (1984– ), British Pakistani mathematics prodigy, feminist blogger

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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

Tamar Ziegler, Israeli researcher in ergodic theory and arithmetic combinatorics, won Erdős Prize