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Hypatia
Was one of the first female mathematicians in history. Her father was also a very well known mathematician, Theon. because of this Hypatia was able to work with her father on the information on classical mathematical work, by translating them while including them also.She also created commentaries of her own, while also teaching students from her own home. -
Émilie du Châtelet
Her family had a high social status, from this Émilie was able to receive a degree of education far greater than the majority of French women at the time. Émilie translated Newton’s well-known 'Principia Mathematica'.Émilie was a mathematician but also an author, and physicist. -
Maria Gaetana Agnesi
Maria wrote the first book about integral and differential calculus (this was the introdution to it). She also wrote a treaty,which was greatly admired, but could not be published. She determined the equation of a type curve, which came to be known as the 'Witch of Agnesi'. -
Sophie Germain
Sophie started her desire for math after she read about the death of Archimedes. Since she was a female though she was unable to study at the Ecole Polytechnique, Her work was terriable by her lake of formal trainning and she was unable to have the same resources as the male mathematicians of the time. Even through all of this she was still the first woman to win a prize from the French Academy of Science, for her work on elasticity and the proof she provided for Fermat's Last Theorem. -
Ada Lovelace
Ada's mother was the one who incouraged her to practice mathematics. When she became an adualt was when she work with the inventor and mathmatician Charles Babbage, who asked her to translate an Italian mathmatician's memoir that analyzed his Anaytical Engine. Ada went beyond simply translating and made her own notes on the matchine, while also including a method of calculating a sequence of Bernoulli numbers (the world first computer program). -
Sofia Kovalevskaya
Sofia married a young paleontologist, Vladimir Kovalevsky, and they moved to Germany.Where there she was able to take classes at a university.She eventually received a doctorate, after writing treatises on partial differential equations, Abelian integrals and Saturn’s rings.Sofia bacame the lecturer in mathematics at the University of Stockholm and later became the first woman in that era of Europe to receive a full professorship.1888, she won the Prix Bordin from the French Academy of Sciences. -
Kate Chopin
Kate Chiopin is known for her work of writing, "The Awakening". She also wrote short stories for both childred and adults. Her main form of writing was realistic fiction. When Kate died she was widely recognized as one of the leading writers of her time. -
Harriet Tubman
Harriet was born as a slave, and when she grew over she devoted her life to help end slavery. Tubman later became an Underground Railroad Conductor, starting around 1849-1950. In her time as a Conductor she hekp free humdreds of slaves. -
Mary Cassatt
Ary was an American painter and printmaker. Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women, while emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children. Her main form in the arts was in paintings. -
Grace Andrews
Andrews obtained her undergraduate degree from Wellesley College in 1890. She received an Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1901. She, along with Charlotte Angas Scott, was one of only two women listed in the first edition of American Men of Science, which appeared in 1906.She worked as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics for Barnard College from 1900 to 1902. -
Janet Joplin
Janis was known for her gut-wrenching voice, she was an influential figure in the 'hippie happy' 1960's. She wa the lead vocalist of "Big Brother and the Holding Company", and later embarked on a solo career.Janis started off singing folk and blues influenced songs. Janis Joplin died of overdoes to heroin. Yet her abulm "Pearl" was released in 1971 and was the highest-selling album in her career. -
Mary Cartwright
Mary Cartwright devoted her career to mathematics and on the 'funtion theory'. She was the first female mathematician to be elected as a "Fellow of the Royal Society of England". She also recieved the awards "De Morgan Medal of the London Mathematical Society" and the "Sylvester Medal of the Royal Society". -
Anita Roberts
She was a molecular biologist who made pioneering observations of a protein, TGF-|3. This protien is imprtant to help heal wounds and bones fractures. Anita is one of the most-cited scientists in the world. She also earned her doctorate in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1968. -
Alice Turner Schafer
At the time women students were not permitted in the campus library and, she was the only female mathematics major, which made it hard for her. She then tought high school for three years to earn money for graduate school. Her thesis, in the area of projective differential geometry, was on "Two singularities of space curves" it was then published in 'The Duke Mathematical Journal'. -
Amalie Emmy Noether
In 1935, Albert Einstein wrote to the New York Times,for the recently deceased Emmy as “the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher
education of women began.”She grew up in Germany and had her mathematics education delayed because of rules against women going to universities.After she received her PhD, for a dissertation on a branch of abstract algebra.She moved to the U.S and made many mathematical foundations of Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
