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Émilie du Châtelet
She was women of many inettectual interests,, Émilie was a mathematician, author, and physicist . She wrote the Age of Enlightenment. -
Maria Gaetana Agnesi
She is credited with writing the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus and was an honorary member of the faculty at the University of Bologna.
She devoted the last four decades of her life to studying theology (especially patristics) and to serving the poor. -
Caroline Herschel
She was a German-British astronomer and the sister of astronomer Sir William Herschel with whom she worked throughout both of their careers. Her most significant contribution to astronomy was the discovery of several comets and in particular the periodic comet. -
Ada Lovelace
She was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. -
Mary Everest Boole
She became most interested in teaching math and science to children. She Used "string geometry" to help depict shapes. Yes, she was a bit odd in her "other" beliefs, but aren't we all? -
Sofia Kovalevskaya
She developed a theorem that is a basis for proving Fermat's Last Theorem. Certain prime numbers are called "Sophie Germain Primes. -
Amalie Emmy Noether
She considered by Einstein to be most important woman in history of mathematics, Emmy (as she generally went by) was an early twentieth century German mathematician with a passion for such areas as theoretical physics and abstract algebra, and she was an accomplished university professor and a prolific writer of mathematical papers. -
Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright
She was an accomplished British mathematician, Cartwright led a long and distinguished career that focused on function theory. In her lifetime, Mary published in excess of 100 papers and was the first female mathematician to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of England. -
Julia Hall Bowman Robinson
She was an American mathematician who was born in St. Louis, Robinson is known for her work regarding Hilbert’s tenth problem and the field of decision problems. -
Shafi Goldwasser
She is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, and a professor of mathematical sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.