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Sophie Germain
he made contributions to the areas of number theory and mathematical physics, and she was one of the first mathematicians, and to provide a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem for a large class of exponents. -
Mary Fairfax Somerville
She obtained her interest of Algebra while reading a fashion magazine. The magazine contained algebraic symbols in a mathematical interest.She began her mathematical studies by reading Euclid’s Elements of Geometry and later she studied Newton’s Principia.
Her main contribution to algebra centered on the solving of Diaphantine equations. She published her work and won a silver medal. -
Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya
Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya was the first major Russian female mathematician. Sofia was also responsible for important original contributions to analysis, differential equations and mechanics. she was first woman appointed to a full professorship in Northern Europe. -
Charlotte Angas Scott
She required her students to have had Algebra through quadratic equations and geometric progressions and plane geometry. She also required her students to take solid geometry and trigonometry
She was very active in the American Mathematical Society and the American Journal of Mathematics.
Her research focused about algebraic curves of degrees higher than two, connecting algebra to geometry.
She was one of the first to prove theorems abstractly -
Christine Ladd-Franklin
A portion of her work involved Diophantine Algebra, which dealt with first degree and quadratic equations
She was invited to teach mathematics and philosophy at the University of Alexandria.
Young students came from all over Europe, Asia, and Africa to hear her lecture on the Arithmetica of Diophantus -
Emmy Noether
She became a master algebraist who transferred the study of structures such as rings of polynomials and hypercomplex numbers into powerful, abstract algebraic theories. These structures are called Neotherian rings in her honor. -
Isabel Maddison
Her thesis was on "Singular solutions of differential equations of the first order in two variables and the geometric properties of certain invariants and covariants of their complete primitives."During her graduate studies she became the first student to win the Mary E. Garrett Fellowship from Bryn Mawr for study abroad, which she used to study at the University of Gottingen in 1894-1895. -
Julia Bowman Robinson
Her Ph.D. thesis looked at how integers could be related to rational numbers. She received her Ph.D. in 1948.
She started focusing her work on David Hilbert’s 10th problem, which dealt with Diophantine equations, which she explained her progress in this area in a paper titled “Existential Definability in Arithmetic.”
She hypothesized that there were Diophanntine equations that increased faster than polynomials, but slower than exponents. Her hypothesis was later proved correct. -
Lesley Sibner
Sibner was an aspiring actress as a young woman. Later, as a fine arts student at City College in New York City, she took a required calculus course, loved the subject, and immediately changed her major to mathematics. She received her Ph.D. in 1964 from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and today is a noted researcher and professor of mathematics at Brooklyn Polytechnic University. -
Charlotte Angas Scott
She was mathematician Raised in a supportive family that encouraged her education, Charlotte Angas Scott became the first head of the math department at Bryn Mawr College. Her work to standardize testing for college entrance resulted in the formation of the College Entrance Examination Board.
