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Maria Gaetana Agnesi
Maria Gaetana Agnesi was born in Milan on May 16, 1718, to a rich, wealthy and well-formed family. She was the oldest of the 21 children that her father had with three wives. She was recognized as a child that was talented at something very early, spoke French by the age of five, and had mastered Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and other modern languages by the age of nine. Maria GaeTana Agnesi mastered mathematics and then she taught about the Pythagorean Triple. -
Charlotte Barnum
Charlotte Cynthia Barnum was born in Phillipston, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of the Reverand Samuel Weed Barnum and Charlotte Betts Barnum. Her 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 many teaching positions at Bett's Academy (Stamford, Connecticut) Hillhouse School, and Smith College, she mastered mathematics and started to teach System Of Equations. -
Clara Latimer Bacon
Clara Latimer Bacon was born in Hillsgrove, McDonough County, (Illinois) of apioneer and new england family. She was graduated from Hedding College, Abingdon, (Illinois) in 1886. After a year of teaching she entered Wellesley College. In 1890 she received her teaching degree from Wellesley College, then taught secondary school in Kentucky for one year and illinios for five years.Clara Latimer Bacon she mastered mathematics, then taught about the Coordinate Plane. -
Grace Marie Bareis
Grace Marie Bareis was Born in Canal Winchester, Ohio. She got Bachelor of Arts degree (first honors) from Heidelberg College, Tifton, Ohio in 1897. She was a graduate student at Bryn Mawr College from 1897 to 1899 and graduated work at Columbia University. From 1902 until 1906 she taught mathematics and science at Miss Roney's School in Philadelphia, PA. In December, 1915, she mastered mathematics, then taught about box-and-whisker-plot. -
Florence Eliza Allen
Florence Allen was born on October 4, 1876 in Horicon, Wisconsin. She received her undergraduate and master degrees at the University of Wisconsin in 1900 and 1901. In 1907, she became the second woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the fourth Ph.D. overall from that department. She mastered in mathematics, taught about histograms, and scatter plots. -
Annie Dale Biddle Andrews
Annie Dale Biddle was born in Hanford, California, the youngest child of Samuel E. Biddle and A. A. Biddle. She got her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California in 1908, and in 1911 she became the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley. She mastered mathematics then taught scientific notation. -
Nina Karlovna Bari
Nina Karlovna Bari was a woman whose contribution to mathematics was great. She lived in a period when mathematics started to become more and more popular in Russia. She gained the respect from all mathematicians of her time not only because of her work but also because of her excellent personality. So then she taught about slope and functions. -
Mabel Schmeiser Barnes
Mabel Schmeiser was born in Wapello, Iowa. She always enjoyed mathematics, beginning with her education in a one-room country school in Iowa. She entered Cornell College, however, with the intention of majoring in Latin. Taking calculus changed her mind and she graduated from Cornell in 1926 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics. She got her Master of Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1928, then taught about the mid point formulas. -
Ruth Aaronson Bari
Ruth Bari earned a Master's degree at John Hopkins in 1943 but because of work and family responsibilities, did not complete her Doctor of Philosophy's until 1966. Her dissertation was on "Absolute reducibility of maps of at most 19 regions" [Abstract]. She taught at George Washington University until her retirement in 1988. Her work in graph theory has been recognized as a master, especially in the area of chromatic polynomials, then she taught about equations and statistics. -
Hertha Marks Ayrton
Phoebe Sarah Marks was born in Portsea, England in 1854. She changed her first name to Hertha when she was a teenager. After passing the Cambridge University Examination for Women with honors in English and mathematics, she attended Girton College at Cambridge University, the first residential college for women in England. Charlotte Scott then taught about line of best fit.
