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Hypatia
She was one of the first documented women in mathematics.
She was murderd, no one knows who did it thow. -
Mar 8, 1183
Christine Ladd-Franklin
She accomplished her goal be getting into to Vassar Female College.
Then she went to John Hopkins University.
She wrote the book “On the Algebra of Logic”. -
Maria Gaetana Agnesi
She made this equation yx2=a2(a-y) or y = a3/(x2 + a2). -
Mary Fairfax Somerville
She was born in a very poor family so she could barely read.
Her main contribution to algebra centered on the solving of Diaphantine equations
Her main contribution to algebra centered on the solving of Diaphantine equations -
Charlotte Angas Scott
She graduated from the University of London.
She wanted to be a research mathematician and decided to work at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania.
She was one of the first to prove theorems abstractly. -
Helen Merrill
Merrill wrote two algebra textbooks titled, A First Course in Higher Algebra and Selected Topics in Higher Algebra.
In her time women were thought of as competent.
In 1882, she began attending Wellesley College majoring in mathematics. -
Olga Taussky-Todd
One was AWM's Noether Lecture in 1981.
She was Juish so she had to leave her home for the Germans.
She studied at the University of London.
She also wrote three chapters in the hand book of physics. -
Kate Fenchel
She was born in Berlin Germany.
She went to the University of Berlin.
She worked with a mathmatics perfesser for ten years. -
Emmy Noether
In 1933 she became a teacher in America.
You can study her branch of abstract algebra by her.
She received her Ph.D. in mathematics and graduated summa cum laude.
