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Sofia Kovalevskaya
They determined finally and irrevocably the direction I was to follow in my later scientific work: all my work has been done precisely in the spirit of Weierstrass" (Rappaport 566). 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 (Rappaport 566). -
Virginia 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
Her husband at this time was teaching at the Armout Institute of Chicago. After a year of classes at Chicago, Anna Pell received her Ph.D. 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 -
Pauline Sperry
Paulne Sperry was one of the few women who made a book to teach people about math. This book was called Short Course In Spherical Trigonometry. An in this book it talks about coordinae palne and many many more other facts about other math tops. -
Mildred Leonora Sanderson
Exponents are all less than pn, and then require that δ shall be identically zero in the field as to a1,...,ar. We thus see clearly just how the difference in the definitions of formal and modular invariants affects the actual computations. Dickson has given a very simple and elegant theory of modular invariants. No theory has been developed for formal invariants. However, there exists between the two subjects an interesting and important relation, which I shall develop in what follows. I take -
Hilda Geiringer
Despite the considerable teaching demands of a small college Geiringer continued her mathematics research in the mathematical basis of Mendelian genetics the foundations of probability theory, and plasticity. She published a series of articles in the Annals of Mathematical Statistics about the probability theory of linkage in Mendelian heredity. She also worked to complete her husband's unpublished manuscripts after his death in 1953, particularly his textbook Mathematical Theory of Probability. -
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 wroute a book for students to learn about everything in math including real numbers. The book was called Mathematics for Liberal Arts Students. -
Raman Parimala
Parimala works in algebra. Her research uses tools from number theory, algebraic geometry, and topology. She is a fellow of all three Indian academies of science. She was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zürich in 1994. Her research has been recognized with the Bhatnagar Prize in 1987, an honorary doctorate from the University of Lausanne in 1999, and the Srinivasa Ramanujan Birth Centenary Award in 2003. -
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
