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Hypathia
A famous philosopher, Taught at the Platonist school of Alexandria, Made huge contributions to working with numbers -
Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise du Châtelet
Emilie was a mathematician, author, and physicist who hailed from France. Chatelet was a gifted child with a natural penchant for linguistics. Translated Newton's Principia Mathematica. -
Sophie Germain
Sophie Germain often credited as the most profoundly intellectual woman france ever produced, Worked on and brought about new ways to work on the Fermat's Last Theorem. Hid under the identity of Monsieur Antoine-August Le Blanc during most of her years of study. these can be counted as a contributions to either System of equations or Pythageon theorem -
Maria Gaetana Agnesi
Best know for the curve know as the "Witch of Agnesi", written as y = a*sqrt(a*x-x*x)/x. was elected to the Bologna Academy of Sciences. By the age of twenty, she began working on her most important work, Analytical Institutions, these can be a contribution to system of equations. -
Ada lovelace
Know as the Founder of scientific computing.Ada called herself "an Analyst & Metaphysician." lifelong friend of Charles Babbage who she hepled with some of his experiments and prodjects. -
Florence Nightingale
developed systems of collecting, analysing, interpreting and displaying data, was a mathematician as well as a nurse, Because she presented her statistics so clearly and persuasively, civil servants could understand them and were more easily convinced by her arguments for improved healthcare and sanitation -
Amalie Emmy Noether
A german scientist best know for her contributions to abrstract algebra. Einstein found insperation from her work and stated she is the most important women in the history of mathematics. -
Olga Taussky-todd
Worked with Algebraic number theory at a young age. Worked for the ministry of aircraft production after ww II. she felt a powerful call to mathematics early in life -
Sofia Kovalevskaya
First russian woman known to make major contributions to math, made contributions were in the fields of analysis and differential equations -
Julia Hall Bowman Robinson
known for her work regarding Hilbert’s tenth problem, taught as a professor at Berkley, the first female mathematician to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences
