Womens history

Amazing Women History

By rustie1998
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    Women history

  • Maria Gaetana Agnesi

    Maria Gaetana Agnesi
    1 She.spoke French by the age of five; and had mastered Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and several modern languages by the age of nine. In her teens, Maria mastered mathematics.
    2. By the age of twenty, she began working on her most important work, Analytical Institutions, dealing with differential and integral calculus.
    3.Agnesi wrote the equation of this curve in the form y = a*sqrt(a*x-x*x)/x because she figured that the x-axis to be the vertical axis and the y-axis to be the horizontal axis.

  • Sophie Germain

    Sophie Germain
    1. In the year of her birth, the American Revolution began.
    2. Sophie began teaching herself mathematics. Her parents felt that her interest was inappropriate for a female and did all that they could to discourage her.
    3. She wrote to the mathematician Legendre about what would be her most important work in number theory

  • Ada Lovelace

    Ada Lovelace
    1. She attempted to put mathematics and technology into an appropriate human context.
    2. When inspired Ada could be very focused and a mathematical taskmaster.
    3. She died at the age of 36, like her father.

  • Florence Nighingale

    Florence Nighingale
    1. She invented polar-area charts
    2. She is most remembered as a pioneer of nursing
    3. Nightingale and her sister learned Italian, Latin, Greek, history, and mathematics.

  • Grace Marie Bareis

    Grace Marie Bareis
    1.In 1909 became the first person to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics from The Ohio State University
    2. She became an assistant professer at Ohio State
    3. In 1948 Bareis gave $2000 to The Ohio State University

  • Gertrude Mary Cox

    Gertrude Mary Cox
    1. She was a leader in the promotion of modern statistical methods.
    2. She received the first M.S. degree in statistics from Iowa State University in 1931
    3. In 1949 Cox became the first female elected into the International Statistical Institute, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1975

  • Nina Karlovna Bari

    Nina Karlovna Bari
    1. She joined a group called "Luzitanians" and their goal was to investigate the mathematical field of function theory. 2.She became a student at the Institute to do research on trigonometric series, while at the same time she continued to teach at Research Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics at Moscow University.
    2. She was the first women presented her conclusions on trigonometric series to the Moscow Mathematical Society.

  • Gracs Murray Hopper

    Gracs Murray Hopper
    1. In 1936 she published a paper in the American Mathematical Monthly on Pythagorean number theory.
    2. She married Vincent Foster Hopper, an English instructor at New York School of Commerce.
    3. When th World War II, Hopper made a big decision, by deciding to serve her country by joining the Navy

  • Lesley Sibner

    Lesley Sibner
    1, Received her Ph.D. in 1964 from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences with a thesis about "Some Boundary Problems for Equations of Abruptly Changing Type
    2. As a fine arts student at City College in New York City, she took a required calculus course,and immediately changed her major to mathematics.
    3. Karen Uhlenbeck has had a huge impact on her. Karen Uhlenbeck work with nonlinear variational problems.

  • Nancy Margaret Reid

    Nancy Margaret Reid
    1. She received her B.Math degree from the University of Waterloo in 1974 with a major in statistics.
    2. In 1992 Reid became the first woman to receive the Presidents' Award of the Committee of Statistical Societies
    3. In 2008 Reid received the Emanuel and Carol Parzen Prize for Statistical Innovation from the Department of Statistics at Texas A&M University.