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Maria Agnesi
Italian mathematician Maria Agnesi published the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus. -
Sophie Germain
French mathematician Sophie Germain’s theorem, Germain’s Theorem, a major step towards proving Fermat’s last theorem, was published. -
Sofia Kovalevskaya
Russian mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaya became the first woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics, which she earned from the University of Göttingen in Germany. -
Winifred Edgerton Merrill
Winifred Edgerton Merrill became the first American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics, which she earned from Columbia University. -
Sofia Kovalevskaya
Sofia Kovalevskaya was appointed as the first female professor in Northern Europe, at the University of Stockholm. -
Emmy Noether
German mathematician Emmy Noether published Noether's theorem, stating that any differentiable symmetry of the action of a physical system has a corresponding conservation law. -
Anna Pell-Wheeler
American mathematician Anna Pell-Wheeler became the first woman to lecture at the American Mathematical Society Colloquium. -
Euphemia Haynes
Euphemia Haynes became the first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics, which she earned from Catholic University. -
Gertrude Mary Cox
American mathematician Gertrude Mary Cox became the first woman elected into the International Statistical Institute. -
Association for Women in Mathematics
The Association for Women in Mathematics was founded, with goal of encouraging women and girls to study and to have active careers in the mathematical sciences and to promote equal opportunity for women in the mathematical sciences. -
Julia Robinson
American mathematician Julia Robinson became the first female mathematician elected to the National Academy of Sciences. -
Dorothy Lewis Bernstein
American mathematician Dorothy Lewis Bernstein became the first female president of the Mathematical Association of America. -
Julia Robinson
Julia Robinson became the first female president of the American Mathematical Society. -
Leah Edelstein-Keshet
Israeli-Canadian mathematician Leah Edelstein-Keshet became the first female president of the Society for Mathematical Biology. -
Alison Miller
American Alison Miller became the first ever female gold medal winner on the U.S. International Math Olympiad Team. -
Daina Taimina
Latvian mathematician Daina Taimina became the first woman to win the Euler Book Prize, which is awarded to the author of an outstanding book about mathematics, for Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes. -
Chinese Mathematical Society
The Working Committee for Women in Mathematics, Chinese Mathematical Society was founded; it is a national non-profit academic organization in which female mathematicians share their research. -
Claire Voisin
French mathematician Claire Voisin received the CNRS Gold medal, the highest scientific research award in France.
