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Maria Gaetana Agnesi
She led a quite simple life and she gave up mathematics very early. At first her life may seem to be boring however the circumstances in which she was raised, her accomplishments to mathematics are glorious. -
Charlotte Barnum
Charlotte Cynthia Barnum was born in Phillipston, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of the Reverand Samuel Weed Barnum and Charlotte Betts Barnum. Her education was by private study and her preparation for college was at the Hillhouse School in New Haven. She graduated from Vassar College in 1881,she mastered mathematics and started to teach astronemy. -
Clara Latimer Bacon
Clara Latimer Bacon was born in Hillsgrove, McDonough County, (Illinois) of apioneer and new england family. She was graduated from Hedding College, Abingdon, (Illinois) in 1886. After a year of teaching she entered Wellesley College. In 1890 she received her teaching degree from Wellesley College, then taught secondary school in Kentucky for one year and illinios for five years. -
Grace Marie Bareis
She was a graduate student at Bryn Mawr College from 1897 to 1899 and also did graduate work at Columbia University. -
Florence Eliza Allen
In 1907 she became the second woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Wisconsin
2) Her thesis was entitled "The cycle involutions of third order determined by nets of curves of 0, 1, and 2. -
Annie Dale Biddle Andrews
Annie Dale Biddle was born in Hanford, California, the youngest child of Samuel E. Biddle and A. A. Biddle. She got her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California in 1908, and in 1911 she became the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley. Her dissertation, written under the joint supervision of Derrick Lehmer and Mellen Haskell, was on "Constructive theory of the unicursal plane quartic by synthetic methods" [Abstract]. -
Nina Karlovna Bari
1)Nina was a woman whocontribution to mathematics was great. She lived in a period when mathematics started to become and more popular in Russia. She gained the respect from all mathematicians. -
Mabel Schmeiser Barnes
Mabel Schmeiser was born in Wapello, Iowa. She always enjoyed mathematics, beginning with her education in a one-room country school in Iowa. She entered Cornell College, however, with the intention of majoring in Latin. Taking calculus changed her mind and she graduated from Cornell in 1926 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics. She got her Master of Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1928, and her Doctor of Philosophy. from the Ohio State University in 1931. -
Ruth Aaronson Bari
Ruth Bari earned a Master's degree at John Hopkins in 1943 but because of work and family she did not complete her Ph.D. until 1966. -
Hertha Marks Ayrton
Phoebe Sarah Marks was born in Portsea, England in 1854. She changed her first name to Hertha when she was a teenager. After passing the Cambridge University Examination for Women with honors in English and mathematics, she attended Girton College at Cambridge University, the first residential college for women in England. Charlotte Scott also attended Girton at this time, and she and Marks helped form a mathematics club to "find problems for the club to solve and 'discuss any mathematical quest
