Women In Math

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    Hypatia

    Hypatia
    She studied math and astronomy.
    She wrote a commentary on the 13th volume of the famous Greek mathematics text-book, 'Artihmetica'.
    As head of the Platonist school at Alexandria, she also taught philosophy and astronomy.

  • Maria Gaetana Agnesi

    Maria Gaetana Agnesi
    She's an Italian mathematician and philosopher.
    She is credited with writing the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus.
    She was an honorary member of the faculty at the University of Bologna.

  • Mary Fairfax Sommerville

    Mary Fairfax Sommerville
    Her first book “Mechanisms of the Heavens’.
    She also wrote monographs on mathematical subjects.
    she was one of the first women elected to membership of the Royal Astronomical Society.

  • Sonya Kovalevskaya

    Sonya Kovalevskaya
    She attended lectures at the University of Heidelberg in Germany and studied privately with German mathematician Weierstrass in Berlin.
    three outstanding research papers, including one of partial differential equations.
    n 1883 she became the first woman lecturer at the newly established University of Stockholm

  • Charlotte Angas Scott

    Charlotte Angas Scott
    She finished her doctorate in 1855 from the University of London.
    She taught her students Algebra, quadratic equations and geometric progressions.
    She was one of the first to prove theorems abstractly

  • Winifred Edgerton Merrill

    Winifred Edgerton Merrill
    the first American woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics.
    She earned her B.A. degree from Wellesley College in 1883.
    She attended Columbia University in New York after a short stay at Harvard.

  • Helen Abbot Merrill

    Helen Abbot Merrill
    Yale awarded her a Ph.D. in 1903.
    She wrote two algebra textbooks, A First Course in Higher Algebra and Selected Topics in Higher Algebra.
    In 1882, she began attending Wellesley College studing mathmatics.

  • Emmy Noether

    Emmy Noether
    In 1933 she became a teacher in America, due to Hitler’s rule.
    Though initially prepared to be a schoolteacher of foreign languages .
    She became a master algebraist who transferred the study of structures such as rings of polynomials.

  • Olga Taussky-Todd

    Olga Taussky-Todd
    Her work was in algebraic number theory.
    Her theory fell into three categories: Analytic, Algebraic, and Arithmetical.
    She wrote three chapters in the Handbook of Physics.

  • Julia Bowman Robinson

    Julia Bowman Robinson
    In high school she took geometry, algebra, trigonometry.
    Her thesis looked at how integers could be related to rational numbers.
    best known for her work on decision problems and Hilbert's Tenth Problem.