Women's History Timeline

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    Hypatia

    -Contributed to Real Numbers
    -Professer at University of Alexandria
    -She belonged to the school of Greek
  • Sophie Germain

    Sophie Germain
    -Contributed to System of Equations
    -She was born in Paris, France
    -A girl's school was named after her
  • Mary Fairfax Somerville

    Mary Fairfax Somerville
    -Contributed to solving Diaphantine equations
    -She was from a poor family
    -She could barely read
  • Christine Ladd-Franklin

    Christine Ladd-Franklin
    -Contributed to algebra in logic
    -Attended John Hopkins University (despite the men-only policy)
    -Also attended Vassar Female College
  • Charlotte Agnes Scott

    Charlotte Agnes Scott
    -Contributed to quadratic equations
    -She attended the University of London
    -She was one of the first to prove theorems abstractly
  • Emmy Noether

    Emmy Noether
    -Contributed to polynomials
    -The year of 1993 she became a teacher in America because she was a Jew, Hitler's rule.
    -She recieved her Ph.D., in mathematics
  • Nina Karlovna Bari

    Nina Karlovna Bari
    -Contributed to primitive functions
    -Attended Agnes Scott College
    -She was born is Moscow, Russia
  • Kate Fenchel

    -Contributed to writing books about algebrea
    -When she was a child she taught herself to read and write
    -She lost her job as a teacher when Hitler came to power because she was a Jew.
  • Olga Tausky-Todd

    Olga Tausky-Todd
    -Contributed to algebraic number theories
    -Went to University of Vienna
    -Her matrix theory fell into three catagories: Analytic, Algebraic, and Arithmetical
  • Julia Bowman Robinson

    Julia Bowman Robinson
    -Contributed to diophanntine equations
    -She was considered a slow child
    -Got her Ph.D in 1948