10 woman in math history

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    Hypatia

    Hypatia
    She was born about 370 in Alexandria, Egypt
    She died on March 415 in Alexandria, Egypt. She contributed to real numbers. She was a Professor of Alexandria.
  • Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Chatelet

    Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Chatelet
    She was a author and mathematician. she had published a book named Institutions de Physique in 1740. She also was the translator of Newton's Principia Mathematica in 1749.
  • Sophie Germain

    Sophie Germain
    Sophie never had a teacher to teach her math she used her father's old math books. She made contributions to the areas of number theory and mathematical physics, and she was one of the first mathematicians, and to provide a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem for a large class of exponents.
  • Florence Nightingale

    Florence Nightingale
    She was a pioneer in the applications of statistical analysis and methods of data presentation in medicine. She invented polar-area diagram, and the pie chart. She is remebered as a nurse though.
  • Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya

    Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya
    She was born on January 15th, 1850 and died on February 10th, 1891.She was the first Russian female mathematician, who is widely known for her significant contribution to differential equations, analysis, and mechanics.
  • Sonya Kovalevskaya

    Sonya Kovalevskaya
    Sonya Kovalevskaya was born in Russia on January 15, 1850 and died in Stockholm on February 10, 1891.Four years of work resulted in three outstanding research papers, including one of partial differential equations.She also wrote plays, poems, novels and an autobiography.
  • Charlotte Scott

    Charlotte Scott
    She wanted her stundents to learn through equations. Also She learned about geometry, and trigonmetry. Also she was the eight in mathmematics.
  • Amalie Emmy Noether

    Amalie Emmy Noether
    She was born on March 23, 1882. She died on April 14, 1935.She worked with the Invariant Theory which had to do with polynomials.
  • Nina Karlovna Bari

    Nina Karlovna Bari
    She was born on November 19, 1901 and died on July 15, 1961. In 1952, Bari published a remarkable article on primitive functions and trigonometric series converging almost everywhere. "A primitive of a function f(x), defined on an interval [a,b], is any continuous function F(x) for which F(x)=f(x) almost everywhere on [a,b]."
  • Agnes Baxter

    18 Mar 1870 Anges Baxter went Cornell University where she did graduate work in mathematics. Her primary courses of study were mathematics and mathematical physics. She enrolled in enrolled at Dalhousie University in 1887.The slope-intercept form is y=mx+b