Women

Womens History Month

  • Maria Gaetana Agnesi

    Maria Gaetana Agnesi
    By the age of 20 she had started work on her most important contribution to mathematics.She Came up with curve a common example found in many calculus texts. The Canadian composer Elma Miller has even written a work called The Witch of Agnesi , expired by her.
  • Florence Nightingale

    Florence Nightingale
    She is mostly remembered for the applications of statistical analysis and methods of data presentation in medicine. She developed the polar-area diagram, a precursor of the pie chart, to dramatize mortality rates due to unsanitary hospital conditions during the Crimean War.In 1858 she became the first woman to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society,
  • Sohpie Germain

    Sohpie Germain
    Sohpie was the first scientific to visualize two-dimensional harmonic motion. She studied mathematics on her own , she studied day and night.Napoleon was giving an extraordinary prize for the best math explanation of the phenomenon, it was a contest. After her third time entering she won with her scientific Theory.
  • Sofia Kovalevskaya

    Sofia Kovalevskaya
    Kovalevskaya was an influential mathematician in the Ninetheeth century. She was introduced at the age of 11 by studying her father's old calculus notes that were papered on the nursery wall as a substitute for regular wallpaper. She went on to become the first woman to be granted a Ph.D. in mathematics when she was awarded her doctorate from Gottingen University in 1874.
  • Augusta Ada Byron King

    Augusta Ada Byron King
    Augusta was born with a family in london. She was intersted in doing something that helped with math, so she invented the calculator. Today she is remembered as the first female computer programmer.
  • Amalie Emmy Noether

    Amalie Emmy Noether
    She was German, Jewish, and American. A mathematician Called by Albert Einstein "the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher educationSince the begining of women.She worked at the Mathematical Institute of Erlangen, thats when she worked with Albert Einstein. She has work on many different theory's , now she has her own.
  • Lesley Sibner

    Lesley Sibner
    Sibner was an actress , she took a required calculus course at New York University, She loved the subject, and immediately changed her major to mathematics. She received her Ph.D. in 1964 from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and today is a noted researcher and professor of mathematics at Brooklyn Polytechnic University.
  • Marjorie Lee Browne

    Marjorie Lee Browne
    Marjorie Lived in Mimphis Tennisse, She earned her Ph.D. in mathematics in 1949 from the University of Michigan. She was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. In this field. She mastered in scientifics notations.
  • Gloria Hewitt

    Gloria Hewitt
    Gloria Hewitt became only the third African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics. mathematics educator, And also a reader and Table Leader for the grading of the AP Calculus Exam for 12 years, and a member of the AP Calculus Test Development Committee and a professor of mathematics .