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Maria Gaetana Agnesi
Analytical Institutions gave a clear summary of the state of knowledge in mathematical analysis. The first section of Analytical Institutions deals with the analysis of finite quantities. It also deals with elementary problems of maxima, minima, tangents, and inflection points. The second section discusses the analysis of infinitely small quantities. The third section is about integral calculus and gives a general discussion of the state of the knowledge. The last section deals with the inverse -
Hertha Marks
From 1881 to 1883, Marks worked as a private mathematics tutor, as well as tutoring other subjects. In 1884 she invented a draftsman's device that could be used for dividing up a line into equal parts as well as for enlarging and reducing figures. She was also active in devising and solving mathematical problems, many of which were published in the Mathematical Questions and Their Solutions from the "Educational Times". Tattersall and McMurran write that "Her many solutions indicate without a do -
Anna Julia Haywood
Anna Haywood was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1858, the daughter of a slave woman and her white master. She attended the St. Augustine's Normal School and Collegiate Institute starting at the age of 10 where she became interested in math and science. Upon completion of her studies she remained as an instructor. In 1877 she married George Cooper, a candidate for the ministry at St. Augustine -
Susan R. Benedict
Suzan Benedict was born in Norwalk, Ohio in 1873, the daughter of David and Harriet (Dever) Benedict. She received her B.A. degree in 1895 from Smith College with a major in chemistry and a minor in mathematics, -
Maya Angelou
As a teenager, Dr. Angelou’s love for the arts won her a scholarship to study dance and drama at San Francisco’s Labor School. At 14, she dropped out to become San Francisco’s first African-American female cable car conductor. She later finished high school, giving birth to her son, Guy, a few weeks after graduation. As a young single mother, she supported her son by working as a waitress and cook, however her passion for music, dance, performance, and poetry would soon take center stage. In 19 -
Linda Keen
Received her Ph.D. in 1964 from the Courant Institute at New York University with a thesis on "Canonical Polygons.
In her Noether Lecture, Keen focused on the interplay between the analytic and geometric aspects of classifying Riemann surfaces. She originally tackled this problem in her thesis and subsequent early work. In the early 1960s, Bers and Ahlfors showed that the space of conformal structures on a given Riemarm surface can be modeled on a Banach space with a real analytic structure. -
Dr. Karen Uhlenbeck
Karen Uhlenbeck graduated from University of Michigan in 1964. She received her Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 1968 with a thesis on "The Calculus of Variations and Global Analysis.
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Sijue Wu
The Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics is awarded to Sijue Wu for her work on a long-standing problem in the water wave equation, in particular for the results in her papers (1) "Well-posedness in Sovolev spaces of the full water wave problem in 2-D", Invent. Math. 130 (1997), 39-72; -
Alice Turner Schafer
Alice Elizabeth Turner was born in Richmond, Virginia. After receiving a full scholarship to study at the University of Richmond, she earned her B.A. degree in mathematics in 1936. Her years at Richmond were not easy for women students were not permitted in the campus library and she was the only female mathematics major. Nevertheless, she was an excellent student and won the department's James D. Crump Prize in mathematics in her junior year. After teaching high school for three years to earn m -
LoLo Jones
orn in 1982, Lolo Jones excelled at her sport at Des Moines' Theodore Roosevelt High School, earning the title of Gatorade Midwest Athlete of the Year. At Louisiana State University, Jones continued to thrive, winning several NCAA championships in indoor and outdoor hurdles. She went on to win USA and World championships (indoor track and field) in 2008. -
Sue Bird
was born in suburban Long Island on October 16, 1980. Her mother, Nancy, was a high school nurse, and her father, Herschel, a cardiologist. She has one sister, Jennifer. Everyone called Sue “Peanut” when she was a kid. She was always happy and energetic—unless she lost at a game, even something as mundane as Candyland. Then her mood would turn dark, and she would become unapproachable. -
Amelia Earhart
Her legend continues when she entered a flight with Frederick J. Noonan from Miami, Florida to co-navigate the first round-the-world flight. The two flew to the journey's starting point, New Guinea, but after they took flight on July 1, 1937, they never arrived at their destination, Howland Island in the Pacific. She was never to be seen again. Some theorize, based on the accounts of Army veterans, that they were captured, imprisoned and possibly killed by the Japanese on the island of Saipan. -
Nancy Kopell
Nancy Jane Kopell was born in New York City on November 8, 1942. She received her B.S. in mathematics from Cornell University and her Ph.D. in 1967 from the University of California, Berkeley, with a dissertation on "Commuting diffeomorphisms" under the direction of Stephen Smale. Kopell held a C.L.E. Moore Instructorship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1967 to 1969, then joined the faculty at Northeastern University. In 1978 she was promoted to full professor at Northeastern. -
Jean Taylor
Jean Taylor was born in San Mateo, California, one of three children of a lawyer and a high school gym teacher. She had never been east of the Rocky Mountains when she left California to attend Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. She received her A.B. in chemistry from Mount Holyoke in 1966, graduating first in her class.
