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Elena Cornaro Piscopia
She was a mathematician, philosopher, theologian. She was known as first woman to earn a doctoral degree. Elena Piscopia was the first to apply in theology. -
Maria Agnesi
Maria Agnesi was a mathematician , philosopher , philanthropist . Her dad was a mathematician .She was taught in convents ,and to receive instruction in religion, household management and dressmaking.In that year , 1738, Maria Agnesi assembled almost 200 of the speeches she had presented to her father's gatherings . -
Sophie Germain
Sophie Germain was a mathematician. number theorist, and mathematical physicist. After Sophie dicovered geometry,she taught herself mathematicas and also Latin and Greek so she could read the classical mathematics texts. She was the first women invited to attend sessions at the Institut de France. -
Mary Somerville
Mary was known as one of the first two women admitted to the Royal Astronomical Society. At age 15 Mary noticed some algebraic formulas used as decoration in a fashion magazine, and on her own began to study algebra to make sense of them. She began solving math problems posed by a mathematics journal, and in 1811 won a medal for a solution she submitted. -
Ada Lovelace
She was known as creating the concept of an operating system or software. She was a mathematician, computer pioneer. She was known as Augusta Ada Byron. -
Sofia Kovalevskaya
Sofia Kovalevskaya was a novelist, mathematician. Sofia Kovalevskaya obtained permission of the mathematics professors to allow her to study at the University of Heidelberg. She was known as the first women on the editorial staff of a mathematical journal. -
Hertha Marks Ayton
Hertha Marks Ayton was passing the Cambridge University Examaination for Women with honors in English and Mathematics she attened Girton College at Cambridge University , the first residential college for women in England . Cambridge didn't aloud women to get dergees yet so she was a math tutor but she also tutoring in other subjects . She was also active in devising and solving mathematical problems , many of which were published in the "Educational Times". -
Charlotte Angas Scott
Charlotte Angas Scott was known as the first head of the mathematics department at Bryn Mawr College. She was a educator and mathematician. She was a member of the council that transformed the New York Mathematical Society into the American Mathematical Society in 1895. -
Alicia Stott
Alicia Stott was a mathematician.She became interested in four-dimensional hypercubes, or tesseracts. Alicia continued building models of wood to represent four-dimensional convex solids, which she named polytopes, and published an article on three-dimensional sections of hypersolids in 1900. -
Emmy Noether
She first studied studied arithmetic and languages but she changed her mind and studied mathematics. In 1915, Emmy Noether's mentors, Felix Klein and David Hilbert, invited her to join them at the Mathematical Institute in Göttingen. Emmy Noether's work in the 1920s on ring theory and ideals was foundational in abstract algebra.
