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Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia
Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia was born into a noble Venetian family on June 5, 1646 in Venice, Italy. Her father, Giovanni Baptista Cornaro, was the Procurator of San Marco and a highly esteemed Venetian. Elena's mother, Zanetta Giovanna Boni, was not a member of the privileged upper class prior to her marriage. Also, she studied mathematics like we do in Algebra 1 today. -
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Women History
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Maria Gaetana Agnesi
Agnesi was exposed to mathematics from a very early age. By the age of 20 she had started work on her most important contribution to mathematics, the book Analytical Institutions, which focused on differential and integral calculus. Originally intended as a textbook for her brothers, this work was eventually published in 1748 to wide acclaim, and was later translated into English. Early sections contained elementary problems on maxima, minima, tangents, and inflection points. -
Mary Somerville
Her main contribution to algebra centered on the solving of Diaphantine equations. She published her work and won a silver medal.She was from a very poor family. She could barely read. She obtained her interest of Algebra while reading a fashion magazine. The magazine contained algebraic symbols in a mathematical interest. -
Ada Lovelace
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace was born in London, England. Augusta Ada Byron and now commonly known as Ada Lovelace, was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. Her notes on the engine include what is recognized as the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine. Also, she contributes computers like we do in Algebra 1 today. -
Florence Nightingale
Nightingale is most remembered for her work as a nurse in reforming hospital sanitation methods, yet she was also a pioneer in the applications of statistical analysis and methods of data presentation in medicine. She was an innovator in the collection, tabulation, interpretation, and graphical display of descriptive statistics. -
Grace M. Bareis
She was born on December 19 1875Canal Winchester, Ohio. From 1902 until 1906 she taught mathematics and science at Miss Roney's School in Philadelphia, PA. She then became a graduate student at The Ohio State University, and in 1909 became the first person (male or female) to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics from The Ohio State University. -
Amalie Emmy Noether
She became a master algebraist who transferred the study of structures such as rings of polynomials and hypercomplex numbers into powerful, abstract algebraic theories. These structures are called Neotherian rings in her honor. She started auditing classes at the University of Erlangen and later the University of Gottengen. In 1933 she became a teacher in America, due to Hitler’s rule (she was Jewish). -
Nina Karlovna Bari
Bari was born on November 19, 1901 in Moscow, Russia. She was a woman who developed great mathematical abilities and skills while she was in high school. After high school she attended Moscow State University, and she was its first woman student. At Moscow State, she became a member of several mathematical groups. In 1918 she joined a group called "Luzitania." It was a group of students who followed Nikolai Nikolaevich Luzin's mathematical ideas. Luzin was a professor at Moscow State University. -
Grace Murray Hopper
She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar in 1928 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics and earned her Master's degree at Yale University in 1930. She was born December 9,1906. -
Lesley Sibner
Leslie Sibner (born 1934) is a mathematician and professor of mathematics at Polytechnic Institute of New York University. She earned her Bachelors at City College CUNY in Mathematics. She completed her doctorate at Courant Institute NYU in 1964 under the joint supervision of Lipman Bers and Cathleen Morawetz. Her thesis concerned partial differential equations of mixed-type.
