-
Maria Gaetana Agnesi
Maria Gaetana Agnesi is best known from the curve called the "Witch of Agnesi" Agnesi wrote the equation of this curve in the form y = a*sqrt(a*x-x*x)/x because she considered the x-axis to be the vertical axis and the y-axis to be the horizontal axis. Reference frames today use x horizontal and y vertical, so the modern form of the curve is given by the Cartesian equation yx2=a2(a-y) or y = a3/(x2 + a2). -
Elizabeth Ruth Bennett
Elizabeth Bennett was the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Illinois, and the second Ph.D. overall from that department. She was born in 1880 in Shawnee, PA., and received her A.B. degree in 1903 from Ohio University in Athens, OH. She held a scholarship in mathematics at Illinois for 1907-1908, and a fellowship from 1908-1910. -
Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright
Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright DBE FRS[1] (17 December 1900 – 3 April 1998) was a British mathematician in slopes -
Lida Barrett
Lida K. Barrett is a mathematician and mathematics educator. Born in Houston, Texas, she holds a baccalaureate from Rice University (1946), a masters from the University of Texas (1949), and a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania (1954)--all in mathematics. Her dissertation at the University of Pennsylvania was on "Regular Curves and Regular Points of Finite Order," written under the supervision of John Kline. -
Joan S. Birman
Joan Sylvia Lyttle Birman was born in New York City. She attended an all-girls' high school, then went on to Swarthmore College. She transferred to Barnard College of Columbia University, where she received her B.A. in 1948, and then earned an M.S. in physics from Columbia in 1950. That same year she married Joesph Birman, a theoretical physicist. After working for various companies that designed electronic equipment for aircraft and raising three children, Birman returned to school to pursue gr -
Mary Everest Boole
She was widowed in 1864, at the age of 32, and returned to England where she was offered a post as a librarian at Queen's College, London. She also tutored privately in mathematics and developed a philosophy of teaching that involved the use of natural materials and physical activities to encourage an imaginative conception of the subject. Her interest extended beyond mathematics to Darwinian theory, -
Susan Mary Rees
is a British mathematician and a Professor of Mathematics at Liverpool University since 2002, specialising in research in complex dynamical systems. -
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace
born Augusta Ada Byron and now commonly known as the function expert. -
Sarah Flannery
at sixteen years old, the winner of the 1999 Esat Young Scientist Exhibition for development of the Cayley–Purser algorithm, based on work she had done with researchers at Baltimore Technologies during a brief internship there. The project, entitled "Cryptography - A new algorithm versus the RSA", also won her the EU Young Scientist of the Year Award for 1999. -
Melanie Matchett Wood
is an American mathematician who became the first female American to make the U.S. International Mathematical Olympiad Team
