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Maria Gaetana Agnesi
Maria Gaetana Agnesi was born in Milan, Italy on May 16, 1718, she was the oldest of the 21 children that her father had with his three wives. Since she was a young girl she hand always been into math. When Maria's mother died she gave up on public life but she did not give up on mathmatics. she worked at mathmatics everyday.Agnesi wrote the equation of this curve in the form y = a*sqrt becuase she considerd the x-axis to be vertical and the y-axis and said it was horixontal. -
Sophie German
Sophies intrest in mathmatics began when she was 13 years old. She spent alot of her time in her fathers library studieing mthmatics. So she began to teacgh herself mathmatics. 12 years after Sopie went to collage (a collage were women could not get into) She wrote to the mathmatical Legendre about what would be her most important work in number theroy. German provided that if X,Y and Z are integers and if x^5 + y^5 = z^5 then niether x,y and z must be disvisable by 5. -
Mary Lucy Cartwright
Mary Cartwright was born on December 17, 1900 in Aynho Northamptonshire, England. In 1923 she graduated from the University of Oxford.having attained a First in mathematics in only the second year that women were allowed to take Final degrees at Oxford.After teaching mathematics in the schools for four years, she returned to Oxford in 1928 for her D.Phil in mathematics under the supervision of G. H. Hardy and E. C. she Titchmarsh, receiving the degree in 1930. -
Sun-Yung Alice Chang
Sun-Yung Alice Chang was born on March 24, 1948 in Cian, China. In 1970 she recieved he Phd and B-S at California Berkly University.She was an assistant professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo then became Hedrick Assistant Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.She moved to the University of Maryland, College Park, where she was an assistant professor. till this day she is still liveing and becoming even greater at mathmatics.
