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Hypatia
A portion of her work involved Diophantine Algebra witch invloved equations. She was invited to teach math and philosophy at the University of Alexandria. She was murdered in 415 AD on her way to the university by a mob of religious fanatics. -
Maria Gaetana Agnesi
She studied equations. She invented the equation y = a*sqrt(a*x-x*x)/x , Maria was also elected to the Bologna Academy of Sciences The university sent her a diploma and her name was added to the faculty. Maria was a very religious woman. She devoted the rest of her life to the poor and homeless sick people, especially women -
Sophie Germain
Sopie was born in Paris. She studied geometry to escape boredom during the French Revolution when she was confined to her family's home, and went on to do important work in mathematics, Sophie began teaching herself mathematics using the books in her father's library. -
Mary Fairfax Somerville
Mary taught her own selft how to read. By the time she was 13 she had taught her self Latin. She started having a intrest in algebra when she started reading fashin magazines. Her main contribution to algebra was equations. She publised her work and won a silver medal. -
Christine Ladd-Franklin
Christine studied "Equations In Math". She had all her requirements for a Ph. D., the university would not grant her a degree because she was a woman. John Hopkins University finally offered her one at the age of 78. -
Charlotte Angas Scott
Charlotte was a algebra teacher. She required her students that have Algebra through quadratic equations and geometric progressions and plane geometry. She also required her students to take solid geometry and trigonometry. She was very active in the American Mathematical Society and the American Journal of Mathematics & Her research focused about algebraic curves of degrees higher than two, connecting algebra to geometry. -
Helen Merrill
Yale awarded Helen a Ph.D. in 1903. Women mathematicians were expected to resign from their college teaching posts upon marriage, so she stayed single. She wrote two algebra books, one dealing with equations. -
Emmy Noether
Emma received her Ph.D., in math, and graduated summa cum laude. She became a master algebraist who transferred the study such as structures polynomials and hypercomplex numbers into powerful, abstract algebraic theories. In 1933 she became a teacher in America -
Kate Fenchel
As a child she taught herself to read and write. She later studied mathematics at the University of Berlin (1924-1928). She studied algebra. -
Olga Tausky-Todd
When Olga was workin in the National Bureau of Standards, she wrote three chapters in the Handbook of Physics. she went to University of Vienna and got her doctoral degree in 1930. Her major work was in equations. -
Julia Bowman Robinson
She was considered a slow child, but she had a stubbornness that she attributed to her success in math. When she was younger she became ill with scarlet fever.In high school she took geometry, algebra, advanced algebra, trigonometry, and solid geometry
