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Maria Gaetana Agnesi
Agnesi did math when she was very young. She liked for everyone to learn so she gave textbooks to her brothers. She came up with the cubic curve. -
Sophie Germain
Germain taught herself mathematics by using books from her father's library. In the book Women in Mathematics, Lynn Osen says that Germain "spent the years of the Reign of Terror studying differential calculus" while confined to her home. During a lifetime of research in mathematics, she made important contributions to the areas of number theory and mathematical physics, including being one of the first mathematicians, male or female, -
Florence Nightingale
Nightingale is most remembered for her work as a nurse. She invented graphical display of descriptive statistics. In 1858 she became the first woman to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society -
Mary Everest Boole
She taught kids math. She invented string geometry to help with shapes. She was rich as a kid with her family. -
Augusta Ada Byron King
Augusta was born with a family in london. She was intersted in doing something that helped with math, so she invented the calculator. Today she is remembered as the first female computer programmer. -
Winifred Edgerton
First American woman to recieve a PhD in mathematics. she was Born in Wisconsin, she received her PhD from Columbia. After she did what she needed she was turned down for the first time. -
Amalie Emmy Noether
She was German, Jewish, and American. A mathematician Called by Albert Einstein "the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher educationSince the begining of women.She worked at the Mathematical Institute of Erlangen, thats when she worked with Albert Einstein. She has work on many different theory's , now she has her own. -
lesley sibner
Lesley Sibner8 Feb 1890Sibner was an actress , she took a required calculus course at New York University, She 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. -
Grace Murray Hopper
She was the first lady of computers. she had allot to do with the first computer to help with math. she supposedly came up with the computer slang word bug. She was in the navy -
Gloria Hewitt
she was the third African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics. She wanted to do math at a very early age, she worked for two weeks before she solved her first math problem. She became a teacher
