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Sofia kovalevskaya
At the end of her four years she had produced three papers in the hopes of being awarded a degree. The first of these, "On the Theory of Partial Differential Equations," was even published in Crelle's journal, a tremendous honor for an unknown mathematician -
Virgina Ragsdale
More precisely, Ragsdale suggested looking at algebraic curves corresponding to polynomials of even degree, 2k. In this case, the curves are all topological circles (or ovals). Some ovals are nested inside each other; others are not. An oval is even if it is contained an an even number of other ovals of the curve, otherwise the oval is called odd. -
Anna johnson pell wheeler
in 1909 with the thesis on biorthogonal systems of functions that she had originally written (independently of Hilbert) during her time at Göttingen. Her interest in "linear algebra of infinitely many variables" was part of the emerging area of functional analysis. The thesis was published in two parts in the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, -
Hilda Geiringe Von Mises
She al worked to complete her husband's unpublished manuscripts after his death in 1953, particularly his textbook Mathematical Theory of Probability and Statistics. Siegmund-Schultze calls her one of the finest applied mathematicians of this century -
Agnes Baxter
Agnes Baxter was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She was a student at Dalhousie University from 1887 to 1892. In 1891 she received her BA with first class honours in Mathematics, the first woman to receive this distinction at Dalhousie, and was the winner of the Sir William Young Gold Medal. In 1892, she received an MA in Mathematics, also from Dalhousie.From Dalhousie, Agnes Baxter went to Cornell University where she did graduate work in mathematics, won a fellowship, and was awarded -
Julia Bowman Robinson
The tutor's claim that the square root of two could not be calculated to a point where the decimal would repeat itself fascinated her. When she re-entered school in ninth grade, she had a profound interest in mathematics. Even when all the other girls had dropped out of the math classes by their junior year, Bowman continued on, and she was the only woman in her physics classes (Kelley 595). While she succeeded in her school work, she had a hard time gaining self- confidence and overcoming her -
Gloria Olive
Gloria Olive wrote a book for students who are learning about math including real numbers the book was called mathmatics for the liberal arts -
Charlotte Barnum
Charlotte Cynthia Barnum was born in Phillipston, Massachusetts, the daughter of the Reverand Samuel Weed Barnum and Charlotte Betts Barnum. Her early education was by private study and her preparation for college was at the Hillhouse School in New Haven. She graduated from Vassar College in 1881. After various teaching positions at Bett's Academy in Stamford, Connecticut, Hillhouse School, and Smith College, where she taught astronomy, Barnum returned to study mathematics, astronomy and physics -
Irene Hueter
Dr. Hueter attributes her first encounter with probability to an exceptional and gifted high school teacher, whose class on probability and statistics thrilled and intrigued her. She recalls, "It was in a talk I gave in his class that, for the first time in my life, I got a sense of how exciting and how much fun doing research in math could be." There had been no doubt about her talent in mathematics since her early age, yet this wonderful and critical experience made her pursue further studies -
lulu hofmann Bechtolsheim
Lulu Hofmann Bechtolsheim was one of only 110 U.S. women to have earned the Ph.D. in mathematics before 1930 and she was one of the 228 women profiled in Judy Green's and Jeanne LaDuke's 2009 history, Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD's. Born May 27 (=33, as she was fond of pointing out), 1902, in New York City to German parents, Lulu Hofmann grew up in Frankfurt, Germany, with her older sister Emy, also born in New York, and her younger sister Ilse, born in Frankfurt.
