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Maria Gaetana Agnesi
Maria Gaetana Agnesi invented functions and equations she was born in May 16,1718 and died on January 9,1799. One of her equations that she came up with was yx2=a2(a-y) or y = a3/(x2 + a2). -
Christine Ladd-Franklin
Christine Ladd-Franklin was born in 1847.Christine was determined to go to Vassar Female College.She completed her dissertation titled, On The Algebra Of Logic.Her dissertation and subsequent of her work represented the first work in logic by an American women.She later died in 1930. -
Kate Fenchel
Kate Fenchel taught herself to read and write.She studied mathematics at Berlin University in 1924 and graduated in 1928.She got a job teaching math at a high school in 1931.She then moved to Denmark and became a mathmatics professor's secretary and researched algebra. She published her first paper in 1937 and in 1965 she published two more papers on algebra. -
Julia Bowman Robinson
Julia Bowman Robinson was born in 1919. She was considered as a slow child.When she was younger she was ill with a scarlet fever and her parents had to hire a tutor for grades 6th,7th,and 8th.She took high school geometry,algebra,advanced algebra,trigonometry,and solid geometry she was the first female to enter into them high school courses.Her Ph.D looked at how integers could be related to rational numbers. -
Emmy Noether
Emmy Noether was born in 1882 and died in 1935. She became a algebraist and discover polynomials and hypercomplex. -
Charlotte Angas Scott
Charlotte Angas Scott connected algebra to geometry.She was born in 1858 and died in 1931. -
Mary Fairfax Somerville
Mary Fairfax Somerville and her family was poor.She taught her ownself to read and write.By the time Mary was 13 she had taught herseld Latin.She had obtained herself to algebra.Her main contribution to algebra was on Diaphantine equations. -
Helen Merrill
Helen Merrill attended Wellesley College majoring in mathmatics.Helen got her Ph.D in 1903.Merril wrote two algebra textbook titled,A First Course in Higher Algebra and Selected topics in Higher Algebra. -
Olga Tausky-Todd
Olga Tausky-Todd went to University of Vienna and received her doctoral degree in 1930.While working in the National Bureau of Standards she work three chapters in the Handbook of Physics. -
Hypatia
Hypatia was a professor of mathmatics at the University of Alexandria.Sudents came from all over Europe, Asia, and Africa to hear her lecture on the Arithmetica of Diophantus.A portion of her work involved Diophantine Algebra, which dealt with first degree and quadratic equations she also also wrote On The Conics of Apollonius and she made commentaries on Ptolemy’s Almagest.
