Ladies of Mathematics

By nwills
  • Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia

    In Hypatia's Heritage, Margaret Alic states that she became a mathematics lecturer at the University of Padua in 1678. Her writings were published in 1688 in Parma, Italy after her death. Even today Elena Piscopia is widely quoted by other scholars and writers.
  • Emilie du chatelet

    Emilie du chatelet
    n a society where nobility disliked the notion of for their daughters arose one of the great mathematicians of the eighteenth century, Frenchwoman, Emilie du Châtelet.
  • Maria Getana

    Maria Gaetana Agnesi was not a typical famous mathematician. She led a quite simple life and she gave up mathematics very early. At first glance her life may seem to be boring, however, considering the circumstances in which she was raised, her accomplishments to mathematics are glorious. Enjoy!
  • juila robinson

    juila robinson
    julia Hall Bowman Robinson was an American mathematician best known for her work on decision problems and Hilbert's ...
  • Theano

    Theano was a mathematician, a physician, and an administrator—someone who kept alive an important training ground for future mathematicians.
  • karin dremann

    karin is a german mathimatica specializing in the areas of algebra known as representation theory (especially modular representation theory) and homological algebra She is notable for her work in modular representation theory which has been cited over 500 times according to the Mathematic
  • hypatia

    Most historians now recognize Hypatia not only as a mathematician and scientistHypatia lived in Alexandria when Christianity started to dominate over the other religions., but also as a philosopher
  • Sarah Flannery

    Sarah Flannery is a cryptographer and mathematician already with an international reputation.
  • hypatia of alexandria

    Hypatia was the daughter of Theon of Alexandria who was a teacher of mathematics with the Museum of Alexandria in Egypt. A center of Greek intellectual and cultural life, the Museum included many independent schools and the great library of Alexandria. Hypatia studied with her father, and with many others including Plutarch the Younger. She herself taught at the Neoplatonist school of philosophy.
  • caroline Herschel

    Caroline Lucretia Herschel was a German- British astronomer and the sister of astronomer Sir William Herschel with whom ... she was a mathimatical teacher