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Women who Contributed to Math

By Brandyn
  • Sophie Germain

    Sophie Germain
    She was born on April 1, 1776. She died on June 27, 1831. She contributed to system of equations. Se also did alot of work with exponents.
  • Ada Lovelace

    Ada Lovelace
    Born on September 10, 1815. Died on November 27, 1852. She did work with scientific notation.
  • Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya

    Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya
    She was born on 15 Jan 1850 in Moscow, Russia. She died on 10 Feb 1891 in Stockholm, Sweden. She made many contributions to differential equations.
  • Amalie Emmy Noether

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

    Dorothy Maud Wrinch
    Born on September 12, 1894. Died on February 11, 1976. She wrote an Article on probability in Philosophical Magazine. It was called "On Some Aspects of the Theory of Probability."
  • Dame Kathleen Timpson Ollerenshaw

    Dame Kathleen Timpson Ollerenshaw
    Born October 1, 1912. She is a British mathematician and politician who was Lord Mayor of Manchester from 1975 to 1976 and an advisor on educational matters to Margaret Thatcher's government in the 1980s. She published a book that solved a long-standing and difficult problem about most-perfect pandiagonal magic squares. Which I think means square root.
  • Julia Bowman Robinson

    Julia Bowman Robinson
    She was bor on December 8, 1919. Died on July 30, 1985. She worked with polynomials and hilberts tenth problem.
  • Shakuntala Devi

    Shakuntala Devi
    She is considered an Indian Calculating Progidy. She works with cube roots. In 1977 In Dallas she competed with a computer to see who give the cube root of 188138517 faster, she won. She was bornon November 4, 1929.
  • Lenore Blum

    Lenore Blum
    Born on december 18, 1942. She is a distinguished professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon. She works with real numbers.
  • Irene Hueter

    Irene Hueter
    Born on April 23, 1965. Irene Hueter was one of the first women to earn a Ph.D. in the statistics department at the University of Bern in Switzerland. She did work with probability.