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Elizabeth Ruth Bennett
Elizabeth Bennett was the first woman to recieve a PhD in mathematics from the University of Illinois. Two writings from her were, Factoring in a Domain of Rationality and Periodic Decimal Fractions. The Elizabeth Bennett scholarship in mathematics that was established by her and was to provide scholarships for junior and senior math majors. -
Claribel Kendall
Claribel Kendall taught at the University of Colorado from 1913 to 1957. She graduated from the University of Chicago and earned her PhD. Kendall was a character member of Mathimatical Association of America. She was truly a women of great intellegence. -
Edna Ernestine Kramer- Lassar
Edna Ernestine was named after her uncle, Edward. He longed to be a engineer and had a gift for math but he dies to early to achieve his goal. So Edna wanted to carry out his desire to excel in mathematics. So later she became a mathematician in his honor. In 1922, Edna Kramer recieved a BA degree from Hunter Collage with her major in mathematics. -
Emma Trotskora Lehmer
Lehmer earned a BA at Berkeley University in California. In 1930 she received her masters degree. Her thesis was on "A Numerical Function Applied Cyclotomy." Cyclotomy is the theory of dividing the circle into equal parts. The results from this work were published in the bulletin of American Mathematical Society. She wrote approximately 60 papers in the area of number theory. -
Carol Karp
In 1958, Karp did her doctoral paper and summited it to the university of California that was entitled "Languages with Expressions of Infinite Length." In Geometry, a line has infinate lenth, it goes in both directions with no end. She helped in the growth of the mathimatical logic group in the mathmatics department in Maryland. She also supervised four PhD students in logic. -
Mary F. Wheeler
Wheeler went to a school in Texas for pharmacy but took a course in mathematics just for fun and ended up graduating with a double major. Since 1995, she has worked in the Department of Engineering of Mathematics at the University of Texas in Austin. Wheeler likes to gain knowledge and enjoys seeing it applied. She has worked on such engineering projects with the Corps of Army Engineers on environmental impact in places such as the following Chesapeake Bay, Delaware Bay, and the Florida Bay. -
Margaret Wright
In 1976, Margaret Wright recieved her Phd in Computor Science from Stanford University. Wright is a well-known mathematician in optimization, linear algebra, numerical and Scientific Computing and Scientific and Engineering Applications. She has written two books on mathmatical optimization with two others. Mathmatical optimization is the selection of a best element from some set of available alteratives. -
Louise Hay
In 1980 Louise Hay was appointed as Head of Department of Mathematics at Cornell University. Which later became the Department of Mathematics, Statitics and Computer Science.
Ms. Hay at that time was the only female head of a major research-oriented university Mathematics department in the United States. -
Nancy Margaret Reid
Reid is currently the University professor of statistics at the University of Toronto where she has taught since 1986. Two of her works have been very influential. One of these works was a 1987 paper with Sir David Cox. This paper was on orthogonal parameters and approximate conditional influence. Orthogonal is the relation at two lines of right rights to one another. -
Karen E. Smith
Smith always thought mathematics was a joy and always wanted to be a "joyful" mathematician. She graduated from Princeton University with a major of Mathematics in 1987 to teach high school math in the New Jersey public school system. Later, she decided to go to graduate school at the University of Michigan. Her thesis was in Communitive Algebra. Communitive Algebra is the theory that studies communative rings and there ideals.
