List of female mathematicians

Sophie Germain

The list of mathematicians also includes theoretical computer scientists and theoretical physicists with a clear mathematical orientation. Among others, the winners of the Noether Lecture and the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics and other mathematics prizes were accepted . The focus should be on mathematics and the listed ones for mathematical achievements should be known, documented for example by awards, editorships, lectures at congresses, well-known sentences or algorithms. People with math degrees who have made a name for themselves in other areas (such as Danica McKellar as an actress) are not listed. But mathematicians who played a historical pioneering role are also listed. Women astronomers (a common field of activity for women mathematicians in the 18th century, for example Caroline Herschel and the women astronomers in the vicinity of Jérôme Lalande such as Nicole-Reine Lepaute ) and theoretical women physicists are generally not listed (see list of women physicists , list of women astronomers ). Mathematical historians are listed separately.

Antiquity

Pandrosion , taught in Alexandria in the first half of the 4th century, before Hypatia. Disparagingly criticized by Pappos and probably out of rivalry, has long been ignored in the history of mathematics or declared a man in the handwritten source despite the clearly female writing form.

Hypatia (* around 355; † 415/416), mathematician, philosopher and astronomer, was the daughter of the mathematician Theon of Alexandria . She taught in Alexandria. Nothing has survived of their works (commentaries on Diophantus, Apollonius and Ptolemy in the mathematical field). As a prominent figure in Alexandria who was still pagan, she was murdered by a Christian mob. Her story has become the subject of novels, one of which by Charles Kingsley was particularly influential on her image in the 19th century, and films.

18th century

Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718–1799), Italy, professor in Bologna (where, however, she did not give lectures) and author of an early analysis textbook (1748) which was widely used at the time.
Émilie du Châtelet (1706–1749), French salon lady and wealthy noblewoman, who translated and commented on Isaac Newton's main work Principia into French and worked with Voltaire, with whom she was close friends.
Anna Barbara Reinhart (1730-1796). Swiss mathematician in Winterthur, who corresponded with many important scholars of the time.

Ada Lovelace

Wang Zhenyi (1768–1797), Chinese astronomer, mathematician and poet

19th century

Florence Eliza Allen (1876–1960), American mathematician, university professor and suffragette. In 1907 she was the second woman to receive her PhD in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin .
Hertha Marks Ayrton (1854–1923), Great Britain, taught mathematics, but is best known as an electrical engineer and was the first woman to give a lecture to the Royal Society (1905).
Beulah Armstrong (1895–1965), American mathematician and university professor.
Wealthy Babcock (1895–1990), American mathematician and university professor. She was a professor at the University of Kansas.
Grace Marie Bareis (1875–1962), American mathematician and university professor. She became the first woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics from Ohio State University in 1909.
Charlotte Barnum (1860–1934), an American mathematician. She became the first woman to earn a PhD in mathematics from Yale University in 1895 .
Dorothea Beale (1831–1906), mathematician, university teacher and educational reformer
Suzan Rose Benedict (1873–1942), American mathematician and university professor. She became the first woman to receive her PhD in mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1914 .
Elizabeth Ruth Bennett (1880–1972), American mathematician and university professor. She was the first woman to receive her PhD in mathematics from the University of Illinois in 1910 .
Annie Dale Biddle Andrews (1885–1940), American mathematician and university professor. She was the first woman to receive her PhD in mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1911.
Rachel Blodgett Adams (1894–1982), American mathematician and university professor. She was among the first women to graduate from Radcliffe College in mathematics in 1921.
Helen Brewster Owens (1881–1968), American mathematician, university teacher, and suffragette.
Josephine Elizabeth Burns Glasgow (1887–1969), American mathematician and university professor. She was the second woman to receive a PhD in mathematics from the University of Illinois.
Sally Elizabeth Carlson (1896–2000), American mathematician and university professor. She became the first woman to graduate from the University of Minnesota in mathematics in 1924.
Teresa Cohen (1892–1992), American mathematician and university professor. She was among the first women in the United States to earn a PhD in mathematics.
Susan Jane Cunningham (1842–1921), American mathematician and university professor. She received her first honorary doctorate in science from Swarthmore College in 1888.
Flora Dobler Sutton (1890–1976), American mathematician specializing in statistics .
Fay Farnum (1888–1977), American mathematician and university professor; was a founding member of the Mathematical Association of America .
Philippa Fawcett (1868-1948), British mathematician, was the first woman to achieve the highest score in the Tripos exams in Cambridge, which corresponded to a senior Wrangler (but she was officially not admitted as a woman). Taught at the universities of London and Cambridge and then was a teacher.
Ruth Gentry (1862-1917), an American mathematician and university professor. She was the first woman to graduate from Bryn Mawr College and the first Indiana-born woman to earn a PhD in mathematics in 1896. She was among the first Indiana-born women to earn a PhD in a scientific discipline.
Sophie Germain (1776–1831), number theory (Fermat problem) and elasticity theory (shell theory), corresponded with Carl Friedrich Gauß (initially under a male pseudonym), at whose request she was to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Göttingen in 1831, but died beforehand.
Marie Gernet (1865–1924), first German woman to receive a doctorate in mathematics (1894, with Rigorosum). She was a teacher at the first German girls' high school.
Mary Gervase (1888–1926), American mathematician. She became the first woman to graduate from the Catholic University of America in mathematics in 1917 .
Mary Graustein (1884–1972), American mathematician and university professor.
Beatrice Hagen (1899–1987), American mathematician and university professor.
Frances Hardcastle (1866-1941), worked in the field of algebraic geometry to the theory of the then so-called point groups that than today divisors are known
Euphemia Haynes (1890-1980), American mathematician and university professor, was the first African-American woman to receive a doctorate in mathematics from the Catholic University of America in 1943 .
Ruby Hightower (1880–1959), American mathematician and university professor; In 1927, the first female Shorter College graduate to receive a PhD.
Anna Mayme Howe (1883–1976), American mathematician and university professor
Sofja Wassiljewna Kowalewskaja (also Kovalevskaya or von Kowalevsky ; 1850–1891), Russian mathematician, student of Karl Weierstrass in Berlin. Became a professor in Stockholm in 1883 (through Gösta Mittag-Leffler ) and thus the first female mathematics professor in the true sense of the word. Doctorate in 1874 (University of Göttingen, mediated by Weierstrass from Ernst Schering ) as the first woman in mathematics ( in absentia , without an oral examination). Work: Theory of partial differential equations , shape of Saturn's rings and classes of Abelian integrals
Christine Ladd-Franklin (1847–1930), American mathematical logician and experimental psychologist (color vision), who is considered the first woman in the USA to meet the formal requirements for a doctorate in mathematics (1883) and was only prevented from doing so by her gender.
Elizabeth Langdon Williams (1879–1981), American mathematician, physicist and astronomer. She graduated from MIT in physics in 1903 as one of the first women to graduate . Their mathematical calculations led to predictions about the location of the planet Pluto, discovered in 1930 .
Clara Latimer Bacon (1866–1948), American mathematician and university professor. She was the first woman to receive a PhD in mathematics from Johns Hopkins University.
Marguerite Lehr (1898–1987), American mathematician and university professor. Conducted a hugely successful series of television math courses in Philadelphia in 1954, entitled University of the Air.
Elizabeth LeStourgeon (1880–1971), American mathematician and university professor. She was a professor at the University of Kentucky from 1920 to 1946 .
Marie Litzinger (1899–1952), American mathematician and university professor; researched number theory, homogeneous polynomials and modular arithmetic.
Klara Löbenstein (1883–1968), German mathematician. who was among the first women to do a doctorate in Germany.
Mayme Logsdon (1881–1967), American mathematician and university professor. She was the first woman and until 1982 the only woman to get a job in the math department of the University of Chicago.
Ada Lovelace (1815-1852), British aristocrat, daughter of Byron and employee of the computer pioneer Charles Babbage , for whose mechanical computer she designed programs. The Ada programming language was named after her.
Marie Cecilia Mangold , (1872–1934), American mathematician and university professor.
Emilie Martin (1897–1936), American mathematician and university professor. Professor of Mathematics at Mount Holyoke College .
Margaret Evelyn Mauch (1869–1936), American mathematician and university professor.
Helen Abbot Merrill (1864–1949), American mathematician and university professor.
Winifred Edgerton Merrill (1862–1951), first woman in the United States to receive a doctorate in mathematics (Columbia University 1886). She was married to geologist Frederick Merrill and later founded a school.
Ida Martha Metcalf (1857–1952), American mathematician. She was the first woman to graduate from Cornell University in 1893 and the second American to earn a PhD in mathematics.
Anna Mullikin (1893–1975), American mathematician; known from the Janiszewski-Mullikin theorem.
Florence Nightingale (1820–1910), Great Britain, also studied statistics as a pioneer in nursing and health care.
Eleanor Pairman (1896–1973), American mathematician and university professor of Scottish origin. She was the third woman to earn a PhD in mathematics from Radcliffe College, Massachusetts.
Leona May Peirce (1863–1954), American mathematician.
Charlotte Elvira Pengra (1875–1916), American mathematician. She was the first woman to graduate from the University of Wisconsin in 1901 and the 6th American to earn a PhD in mathematics.
Flora Philip (1865-1943), Scottish mathematician, one of the first eight women who graduated from the University of Edinburgh obtained
Josephine Roe (1858–1946), American mathematician and university professor. She was the first woman to receive her PhD in mathematics from Syracuse University in 1910.
Euphemia R. Worthington (1881-1969), American mathematician and university professor, received her doctorate in 1908 from Yale University.
Ida May Schottenfels (1869–1942), American mathematician and university professor.
Charlotte Angas Scott (1858-1931), British mathematician who received her doctorate from Arthur Cayley in 1885 and taught in the USA at Bryn Mawr College. Founding member of the American Mathematical Society and its Vice President (1905). Algebraic and Analytical Geometry.
Mary Emily Sinclair (1878–1955), an American mathematician and university professor. She was the first woman to graduate from the University of Chicago in 1908 and the 7th American to earn a doctorate in mathematics.
Clara Eliza Smith (1865–1943), American mathematician and university professor.
Mary Somerville (1780–1872), British, who later lived mostly in Italy. She translated parts of Pierre Simon de Laplace's celestial mechanics into English and wrote popular science books.
Elizabeth Stephensen (1872–1961), Norwegian mathematician, was the first Norwegian to receive a doctorate.
Alicia Boole Stott (1860–1940), daughter of George Boole , dealt with polyhedra in higher dimensions, where she worked with Pieter Schoute and HSM Coxeter . Honorary doctorate in Groningen (1914).
Anna Helen Tappan , (1888–1971), American mathematician and university professor.
Roxana Vivian (1871–1961), American mathematician and university professor. She became the first woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1893.
Charlotte Wedell (1862 1953), a Danish mathematician; one of four mathematicians who took part in the first international mathematicians' congress, which took place in Zurich in 1897.
Marion Ballantyne White (1871–1958), American mathematician and university professor.
Emma Whiton McDonald (1886–1948), American mathematician and university professor.
Mary Winston Newson (1869–1959), American mathematician and university professor. She was the first American woman to receive a PhD in mathematics from a European university. She produced the first English translation of David Hilbert's lecture in 1900, which presented the first ten of his famous problems, which were published in the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society.
Louise Adelaide Wolf (1898–1962), American mathematician and university professor.
Grace Chisholm Young (1868–1944), British mathematician, did her doctorate in Göttingen in 1895 under Felix Klein. This made her the first woman to receive a doctorate in mathematics with a regular doctoral examination. Wrote several books with her husband, William Henry Young , also for teenagers. Geometry and set theory.

Émilie Du Châtelet

20th and 21st centuries

A.

Tatjana van Aardenne-Ehrenfest (1905–1984), did her doctorate in Leiden in 1931, daughter of Paul Ehrenfest and Tatjana Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa (both known as physicists), introduced De Bruijn episodes with Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn in 1951 and is for two others Results known.

Ilka Agricola (* 1973), professor in Marburg, global analysis, differential geometry with applications in mathematical physics

Dorit Aharonov (* 1970), Israeli computer scientist and physicist specializing in quantum informatics

Susanne Albers (* 1965), computer scientist, professor at the Technical University of Munich, algorithm theory, Leibniz Prize winner

Grace Alele-Williams (* 1932), Nigerian mathematician and university professor. She is the first Nigerian to graduate and was the first female vice chancellor of an African university

Maria Ales (* 1899) studied in Palermo, where she was assistant to Michele De Franchis , completed her habilitation and taught in Palermo. Algebraic Geometry.

Yvette Amice (1936–1993), French number theorist (especially p-adic numbers, about which she wrote a book), did her doctorate with Charles Pisot , professor in Poitiers, Bordeaux and the University of Paris VII (of which she was vice-president). She headed the mathematics faculty at the Ecole Normale Superieure de Jeunes Filles in Sevres.

Nalini Anantharaman (* 1976), University of Paris-South, mathematical physics. Henri Poincaré Prize 2012, Salem Prize .

Carolina Araújo (* 1976), Brazilian mathematician at IMPA in Rio de Janeiro, algebraic geometry.

Goulnara Arzhantseva (also Arjantseva ; * 1973), University of Geneva / Neuchâtel / Vienna, analytical group theory

Michèle Artigue (* 1946), French mathematics teacher, University of Paris VII

Natascha Artin Brunswick (1909–2003), worked on the mathematics faculty at New York University , head of the technical department Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics at the Courant Institute of Mathematics , honorary member of the American Mathematical Society

Winifred Asprey (1917–2007), American mathematician and computer scientist, one of only 200 women who received a doctorate from an American university in the 1940s

Michèle Audin (* 1954), professor in Strasbourg, symplectic geometry, history of mathematics

B.

Ellen Baake (* 1961), biologist, did her doctorate in 1989 in Bonn in theoretical biology, since 2004 professor for theoretical bioinformatics at Bielefeld University. Population genetics, mathematical immunobiology, coordinator of the DFG priority program Probabilistic Structures in Evolution. Married to the mathematician Michael Baake.
Dorothea Bahns (* 1976), professor at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Mathematical physics.
Hajer Bahouri (* 1958), Tunisian mathematician, partial differential equations, professor in Tunis and then research director of the CNRS at the University of Paris-East
Viviane Baladi (* 1963), Switzerland / France, PhD 1989 in Geneva, Research Director CNRS, Ecole Normale Superieure, Dynamische Systeme, Mathematische Physik, Invited Speaker ICM 2014
Catherine Bandle (* 1943), mathematician and university professor; In 1974, she was the first woman to complete her habilitation in mathematics and one of the first women to do so at ETH Zurich .
Nina Karlowna Bari (1901–1961), professor at Lomonossow University . Lusin student, real analysis, harmonic analysis. In 1935, she became the first woman in Russia to complete her habilitation.
Mabel Barnes (1905–1993), American mathematician and university professor.
Jean Bartik (1924–2011), one of the six original programmers of ENIAC Computer
Helga Baum (* 1954), professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Global analysis, differential geometry.
Eva Bayer-Fluckiger (* 1951), Switzerland. Professor at EPFL in Lausanne. Square shapes, algebra, lattice.
Pilar Bayer Isant (* 1946), Spain, professor in Barcelona, number theory, arithmetic algebraic geometry.
Marjorie Beaty (1906–2002), American mathematician and university professor; was with Louise Rosenbaum one of the first two women to receive a PhD in mathematics from the University of Colorado before 1960.
Miriam Becker Mazur (1909–2000), American mathematician and university professor.
Roya Beheshti (Roya Beheshti Zavareh) (* 1977), Iranian. PhD in 2003 with Aise Johan de Jong at MIT. Prof. Washington University, Algebraic Geometry.
Alexandra Bellow (also Alexandra Ionescu Tulcea; * 1935), Romania / USA. Professor at Northwestern University. Ergodic theory, probability theory, measure theory. Temporarily married to Saul Bellow and to Alberto Calderon .
Georgia Benkart (* 1949), Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, received her doctorate in 1974 at Yale with Nathan Jacobson , Theory of Lie groups, quantum groups, representation theory and combinatorics, Noether Lecture 2014, Polya Lecturer at the MAA
Marsha Berger (* 1953), Professor at New York University and the Courant Institute, numerical hydrodynamics with applications in aerospace
Nicole Berline (* 1944), professor at the Ecole Polytechnique. Index theory of elliptic operators.
Christine Bernardi (1955–2018), Professor at the University of Paris VI. Numerics of partial differential equations especially in hydrodynamics.
Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (1914–1988), American mathematician and university professor; the first female president of the Mathematical Association of America
Andrea Bertozzi (* 1965), professor at Duke University and UCLA, partial differential equations, applied mathematics, for example thin films, biological aggregations, patterns of urban crime
Christine Bessenrodt (* 1958), algebra, professor in Hanover
Christina Birkenhake (* 1961), did her doctorate and taught in Erlangen, Algebraic Geometry, co-author of two monographs with Herbert Lange in the basic teaching series by Springer.
Joan Birman (* 1927), professor at Columbia University. Knot theory. Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize.
Mary Catherine Bishop Weiss (1930–1966), American mathematician and university professor, studied Hardy spaces in higher dimensions
Gertrude Blanch (1897–1996), American mathematician, received her doctorate in New York in 1936, numerical mathematics, significantly involved in the Mathematical Tables Project of the 1940s.
Lenore Blum (* 1942), professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Mathematical logic, complexity theory (collaboration with Stephen Smale ). Married to the computer scientist Manuel Blum .
Sigrid Böge (* 1935), professor in Heidelberg, orthogonal groups.
Valentina Mikhailovna Borok (1931-2004), professor in Kharkiv . Partial differential equations.
Élisabeth Bouscaren (* 1956), Prof. Paris-Süd University, graduated from Paris VI University in 1979, application of mathematical logic (model theory) in algebraic geometry, Invited Speaker ICM 2002 (Groups Interpretable in Theory of Fields)
Mireille Bousquet-Mélou (* 1967), Research Director of the CNRS in Bordeaux, counting combinatorics, lecture ICM 2006
Hel Braun (1914–1986), professor in Hamburg. Student of Carl Ludwig Siegel . Number theory, quadratic forms, modular forms, Jordan algebras.
Kathrin Bringmann (* 1977), professor at the University of Cologne. Modular forms and number theory (mock theta functions according to Ramanujan).
Annalisa Buffa (* 1973), did her doctorate with Franco Brezzi in Milan, numerical analysis, director at IMATI (Istituto di Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie Informatiche) in Pavia, Bartolozzi Prize , Invited Speaker ICM 2014, Collatz Prize
Ida Busbridge (1908–1988), British mathematician and university professor who taught at Oxford University from 1935 to 1970. She was the first woman to be awarded an Oxford scholarship in mathematics.

Sofja Kovalevskaya

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Anneli Cahn Lax (1922–1999), American mathematician, received her doctorate in 1955 with the dissertation Cauchy's Problem for a Partial Differential Equation with Real Multiple Characteristics , was awarded the George Pólya Award in 1977

Marion Cameron Gray (1902–1979), Scottish-American mathematician. She discovered an unusual semi-symmetric cubic graph with 54 vertices, which is the smallest possible cubic semisymmetric graph. This graph is commonly known as the Gray graph

Lucia Caporaso , Italian mathematician, received her PhD from Harvard in 1993 with Joseph Daniel Harris , professor at Roma Tre University, algebraic geometry, Bartolozzi Prize

Inna Capdeboscq , professor at the University of Warwick, did her PhD in 2001 with Ronald Solomon , Algebra, Finite Simple Groups (involved in the GLS project of simplifying classification).

Ana Caraiani , Romanian-American mathematician, number theory, teaches at Imperial College in London, EMS Prize 2020/21

Mary Cartwright (1900-1998). Professor at Girton College, Cambridge. A pupil of Godfrey Harold Hardy in Oxford. Function theory, differential equations. Some of the works with John Edensor Littlewood are precursors to chaos theory. President of the London Mathematical Society, the first female mathematician to be a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Pierrette Cassou-Noguès (* 1945), professor in Bordeaux, number theory and arithmetic geometry (p-adic zeta functions), algebraic geometry.

Emma Castelnuovo (1913–2014), daughter of Guido Castelnuovo and niece of Federigo Enriques , mathematics teacher in Rome, contributions to mathematics education

Zoia Ceaușescu (1949–2006), Romanian mathematician, working area was functional analysis

Sun-Yung Alice Chang (* 1948). China / USA. Professor at Berkeley and Princeton. Analysis, including partial differential equations with applications in differential geometry. Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize. Member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Alessandra Celletti (* 1962), Italian mathematician, contributed to the KAM theory in collaboration with Luigi Chierchia , among others

Ruth Charney (* 1950), geometric group theory, topology, professor at Ohio State University and Brandeis University.

Zoé Chatzidakis , French logician, research director of the CNRS in Paris, model theory of algebra, lecture ICM 2014 in Seoul

Jennifer Tour Chayes (* 1956), Microsoft Research, did her PhD at Princeton with Elliott Lieb in theoretical physics, was a professor at UCLA, Application of Phase Transitions in Discrete Mathematics and Theory of Large Dynamic Random Networks

Chen Li (* 1973), works on partial differential equations , mathematical physics and biomathematics

Eugenia Cheng , did her PhD with Martin Hyland in Cambridge in 1992, category theory, Marie Curie Fellow in Nice and Dickson Lecturer in Chicago, Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield ; Appearances on BBC and Youtube (Mathsters)

Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (née Bruhat ; * 1923). France. Professor in Paris. Partial differential equations, general relativity, mathematical physics. Dannie Heineman Prize. With Gustave Choquet married.

Maria Chudnovsky (* 1977). Israel. Professor at Columbia University. Student of Paul Seymour . Graph theory (proved with others the strong conjecture for perfect graphs), combinatorial optimization.

Fan Chung (also Fan Chung Graham ; * 1949), China / USA. Was long at Bell Labs and is a professor at the University of California, San Diego. Graph theory. By Ronald Graham married.

Julia Chuzhoy , Israel, received her PhD in 2004 at the Technion with Joseph Naor , computer scientist (combinatorial optimization, approximation algorithms and their complexity), graph theory, Prof. Toyota Technological Institute in Chicago, Invited Speaker ICM 2014

Joan Clarke (1917–1996), British cryptanalyst, contributed significantly to the breakdown of the German rotor key machine Enigma

Anne Cobbe (1920–1971), English mathematician and university professor

Judita Cofman (1936–2001), Serbian-German mathematician and university professor. She was the first mathematician to graduate from Novi Sad University. She was known for her research in finite geometry and for her books for young mathematicians.

Caterina Consani , Italian mathematician, professor at Johns Hopkins University . Graduated from Spencer Bloch in Chicago and Genoa and studied non-commutative geometry (collaborating with Alain Connes ) and number theory.

Elizabeth Frances Cope (born Thorndike ; 1902–1982). PhD with George David Birkhoff . Taught at Vassar College, among others. Differential equations.

Gertrude Mary Cox (1900-1988). Professor of Statistics at North Carolina State University. Design of experiments.

Radhia Cousot (1947–2014), Tunisian-French, taught at Ecole Polytechnique, computer scientist, abstract interpretation with Patrick Cousot and error checking software for time-critical embedded systems such as Airbus.

Marianna Csörnyei (* 1975), Hungarian mathematician, doctorate in 1999 at Eötvös University Budapest, professor at University College London and from 2011 at the University of Chicago. Whitehead Prize (2002), Wolfson Research Merit Award from the Royal Society, Leverhulme Prize. Real analysis, geometric measurement theory, geometric functional analysis. Invited Speaker at the ICM 2010 in Hyderabad.

D.

Geraldine Claudette Darden (* 1936), American mathematician and university professor. She was the fourteenth African American woman to receive a doctorate.

Panagiota Daskalopoulos , Partial Differential Equations (student of Carlos Kenig ) and Differential Geometry, Professor at Columbia University, lecture at the ICM 2014

Ingrid Daubechies (* 1954). Belgium / USA. Professor at Princeton University . Introduction of the wavelets . Member of the National Academy of Sciences. Leroy P. Steele Prize, Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize and numerous other honors.

Mary Deconge (* 1933), American mathematician, university professor and former nun in the Holy Order of the Sisters of Saint Francis.

Laura DeMarco (* 1974), professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Northwestern University, did her doctorate in 2002 with Curtis McMullen and, like him, deals with complex dynamics and their application in arithmetic geometry. Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize 2017.

Cécile DeWitt-Morette (1922–2017), French theoretical and mathematical physicist, founder of the Les Houches courses in theoretical physics.

Alicia Dickenstein (* 1955), studied in Buenos Aires and is professor there, Algebraic Geometry and its Application, Vice President of the International Mathematical Union from 2015

Caren Diefenderfer (1952–2017), American mathematician and professor known for her efforts to promote arithmetic.

Irit Dinur . Israeli computer scientist, professor at the Weizmann Institute. She succeeded in a new, simpler proof of the PCP theorem .

Yael Dowker (née Naim ; (1919–2016)), Professor at Imperial College London, married Clifford Hugh Dowker . Doctorate in 1948 at Radford College with Witold Hurewicz .

Agnes Meyer Driscoll (1889–1971), American cryptanalyst, was inducted into the NSA Hall of Honor in 2000 as the second woman

Cornelia Druţu ( Drutu ) (* 1967), Romanian mathematician, did her doctorate in Paris with Pierre Pansu , lecturer in Oxford, geometric group theory. Whitehead Prize .

Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin (1905-1972), professor at Poitiers and Paris, hydrodynamics, algebra, with Paul Dubreil married

Cynthia Dwork (* 1958), computer scientist, daughter of Bernard Dwork , Microsoft Research and professor at Harvard University, does fundamental work on cryptography

E.

Annie Easley (1933–2011), African American computer scientist, mathematician and rocket scientist, lead member of the Centaur upper stage rocket development team, first African American computer scientist to work for NASA
Madeline Early (1912–2001), American mathematician and university professor.
Tatjana Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa (born Afanassjewa ; 1876–1964). Russia / Netherlands. Math teacher. Statistical mechanics, among others with her husband Paul Ehrenfest .
Tanja Eisner (* 1980), German mathematician, functional analysis, ergodic theory, professor in Leipzig
Nicole El Karoui (born Schwartz ; * 1944), studied financial mathematics at the Ecole Normale Superieure de Jeunes Filles, professor at the Ecole Polytechnique and the University of Paris VI. Knight of the Legion of Honor. Invited Speaker ICM 2002 (Measuring and hedging financial risk in dynamical world)
Marion Epstein (1915–2014), American mathematician, Vice President of the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, New Jersey.
Karin Erdmann (* 1948), German mathematician, lecturer in Oxford. Representation theory, homological algebra.
Annaerschler (* 1977), Russian mathematician, geometric group theory and random walks, received her doctorate in 2001 in Saint Petersburg, research director of the CNRS in Paris, Elie Cartan Prize 2015
Hélène Esnault (* 1953), France, Germany. Professor at the Free University of Berlin . Algebraic Geometry. She received the Doisteau-Blutet Prize of the Academy of Sciences in Paris, the Leibniz Prize (with Eckart Viehweg ) and the Cantor Medal.
Maria J. Esteban (* 1956), Spanish mathematician, PhD 1981 with Haïm Brezis and 1987 with Pierre-Louis Lions in Paris, Research Director of the CNRS, 1996 to 2004 President of CEREMADE (a research institute for applied mathematics at the University of Paris-Dauphiné and of the CNRS), 2009 to 2012 President of the SMAI (French Ges. für Angewandte Math.), in the Abel Committee, PDE, numerical analysis, mathematical physics

Ingrid Daubechies

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Vera Faddejewa (1906-1983). Steklov Institute Leningrad. Numerical linear algebra. With Dmitri Konstantinovich Faddejew married and Ludwig Faddejew .

Barbara Fantechi (* 1966), Italian, professor at SISSA in Trieste, did her doctorate with Fabrizio Catanese in Pisa in 1988, algebraic geometry, stacks

Heike Faßbender (* 1963), German mathematician and university professor; As the first president from 2017 to 2019 she headed the Society for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM).

Joan Feigenbaum (* 1958), American computer scientist, mathematician and university professor, Grace Murray Hopper Professor of Computer Science and Associate Professor of Law at Yale University.

Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein (1912–2006), American cryptologist. Significantly involved in the deciphering of Purple during World War II and in the VENONA project after the war . From 1947 taught mathematics at George Mason University .

Elizabeth Fennema (* 1928), mathematics educator , University of Wisconsin-Madison, known for gender-specific studies in mathematics classes in the 1970s and for the book Children's Mathematics (Method of Cognitively Guided Instruction , CGI).

Jacqueline Ferrand (1918–2014), later Lelong-Ferrand (after she married Pierre Lelong ), professor in Paris, function theory, differential geometry, one of the first women to study at the Ecole Normale Superieure (Rue d'Ulm).

Ilse Fischer (* 1975), University of Vienna, combinatorics

Véronique Fischer (* 1975), Professor in Bath, harmonic analysis on Lie groups, Ferran-Sunyer-i-Balaguer Prize

Sarah Flannery (* 1982), Ireland. As a student she made headlines for the invention (and solution) of a new cryptographic method ( Cayley-Purser algorithm ).

Irmgard Flügge-Lotz (née Lotz ; 1903–1974). Professor at Stanford. Aerodynamics, control engineering (autopilot).

Amanda Folsom (* 1979 in Boston), PhD 2006 with William Duke at UCLA, number theory, modular forms, collaboration with Ken Ono on the congruences of the partition function, assistant professor at Yale

Stephanie Forrest (* 1958), computer scientist, professor at the University of New Mexico, genetic algorithms, mathematical modeling of the immune system and innovative applications of ideas from immunology to computer security and software repair

Herta Freitag (1908–2000), Austrian emigrant, taught Fibonacci numbers at Hollins College in Virginia

Jessica Fridrich (* 1964), Czech mathematician, developed a common speed cubing process and methods in digital image analysis and visual cryptography.

Susan Friedlander (* 1946), obtained her doctorate in Princeton in 1972, was a professor at the University of Illinois and then at the University of Southern California , where she has been director of the Center for Applied Mathematical Sciences since 2008. Editor of the AMS bulletin. Specifically deals with the Euler and Navier-Stokes equations of hydrodynamics.

Elizebeth Friedman (1892–1980), cryptanalyst who worked closely with her husband, the famous cryptanalyst William Friedman .

Charlotte Froese Fischer (* 1929), American mathematician, known for numerical calculations of atomic structures (multi-configuration Hartree-Fock methods, MCHF).

Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter (* 1959). Statistics professor in Linz.

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Lisl Gaal (* 1924 in Vienna as Ilse Novak), did her doctorate in 1948 at Radcliffe College with Lynn Loomis , mathematical logic, married to Steven Gaal , author of Classical Galois Theory . 1951/52 Institute for Advanced Study, later University of Minnesota.

Sulochana Gadgil (* 1944) is an Indian mathematician, meteorologist and oceanographer; Honorary Professor at the Center for Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India.

Cleota Gage Fry (1910–2001), American mathematician, physicist and university professor.

Isabelle Gallagher (* 1973), French mathematician, Prof. Paris VII University (Denis Diderot) and Center Mathématiques de Jussieu, partial differential equations, especially non-linear evolution equations, Navier-Stokes equation, Schrödinger equation, harmonic analysis (Heisenberg group), Prix Paul Doistau-Émile Bleeds 2008

Irene M. Gamba (* 1957), Argentine-American mathematician, Prof. University of Texas at Austin. Numerical and Applied Analysis.

Ursula Gather (* 1953), professor for mathematical statistics in Dortmund.

Sara van de Geer (* 1958), Dutch mathematical statistician, professor in Leiden and at the ETH Zurich, lecture ICM 2010, high-dimensional statistics.

Hilda Geiringer (1893–1973). Germany / USA. Statistics, plasticity theory. Was temporarily married to Richard von Mises . She was the first woman in Germany to do her habilitation in applied mathematics (a professorship was broken because she was Jewish).

Maria-Pia Geppert (1907-1997). Professor of Biostatistics in Frankfurt and Tübingen.

Nadeschda Nikolajewna Gernet (1877–1933), professor in Leningrad

Margot Gerritsen , Dutch, diploma 1990 Delft, doctorate 1997 Stanford, professor at Stanford and director of the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering there, numerical solution of Navier-Stokes equations

Anna C. Gilbert , PhD under Ingrid Daubechies in Princeton in 1997, ATT Labs, from 2004 University of Michigan, where she is Professor, Computer Science (Networks, Algorithms, Signal Processing, Big Data), Analysis, Probability Theory, Invited Speaker ICM 2014

Heide Gluesing-Luerssen (* 1961), German mathematician and university professor; Professor at the University of Kentucky specializing in algebraic coding theory.

Adele Goldberg (* 1945), computer scientist, known for developing small talk at Xerox-Parc

Adele Goldstine (1920–1964). Computer scientist. Collaborated with her husband, Herman H. Goldstine, on early computer projects .

Shafrira Goldwasser (* 1958). Israel. Professor at the Weizmann Institute. Various innovative methods of cryptography and algorithmic number theory. Co-inventor of the zero-knowledge evidence.

Carolyn Gordon (born 1950). Professor at Dartmouth College. Differential geometry. Gave examples of simple isospectral manifolds with colleagues in 1992 and thus solved a famous problem by Mark Kac ( Can one hear the shape of a drum? ) Negatively.

Mary W. Gray (* 1938), American mathematician and university professor. Profesoorin at the American University.

Sheila A. Greibach (* 1939). Computer science professor at UCLA.

I. Grekowa (1907–2002), professor of applied mathematics at the Moscow University of Transportation and a writer. Grekowa is her stage name, actually Jelena Sergejewna Wentzel, geb. Dolginzewa.

Edna Grossman (* 20th century), American cryptologist and mathematician, worked on the Data Encryption Standard (DES)

Barbara J. Grosz (* 1948), Professor at Harvard, Artificial Intelligence in Natural Language Processing (modeling of discourses, human-machine interfaces) and multi-agent systems (modeling of cooperation, for example in health care)

Laura Guggenbühl (1901–1985), American mathematician and university professor; known for her work in triangular geometry and the history of mathematics

Alice Guionnet (* 1969). Research director of the CNRS at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Lyon. Spin glasses, random matrices, probability theory. She received the Loève Prize and the Oberwolfach Prize.

Emmy Noether

Geneviève Guitel (1895-1982), French mathematician, the pair of terms resulted in long and short scale , identifying the two most widely used worldwide number naming systems in decimal one

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Mary Barbara Haberzetle (1912–1983), American mathematician and university professor
Dörte Haftendorn (* 1948), did her doctorate on "Additive idempotent half rings with factor condition", an area of pure algebra
Olga Hahn-Neurath (1882–1937), graduated mathematician, member of the Vienna Circle , sister of Hans Hahn .
Monique Hakim , did her doctorate with Alexander Grothendieck in Paris in 1972. Her dissertation Topos annelés et schémas relatifs appeared in the series Results of Mathematics and their Border Areas in Springer Verlag in 1972. Later she turned to complex analysis in several variables, among other things. Professor at the University of Paris-South.
Ursula Hamenstädt (* 1961), since 1990 professor in Bonn, differential geometry. Student of Wilhelm Klingenberg . Was at Caltech and Berkeley. 2012 Advanced Grant from the European Research Council for the investigation of the geometry of module rooms and mapping class groups.
Christine Hamill (1923–1956), English mathematician and professor at the University of Ibadan. She specialized in group theory and finite geometry.
Margaret Hamilton (* 1936), American computer scientist and mathematician, the developments Hamilton and her team at MIT prevented in 1969 the abortion of the Apollo 11 moon landing; received the Augusta Ada Lovelace Award
Dorothee Haroske (* 1968), Professor of Analysis in Jena and Rostock, Functional Analysis.
Vi Hart , American math musician , 2018 JPBM Communications Award

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Maria-Viktoria Hasse (1921–2014), professor in Rostock, where she received her doctorate in 1949, and from 1964 at the TU Dresden. Integral equations, algebra (she wrote a book on category theory).
Jenny Harrison (born 1949), professor at Berkeley. Geometric Analysis.
Linda B. Hayden (* 1949), American mathematician, computer scientist and university professor; Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Elizabeth City State University.
Katherine Heinrich (* 1954), Australian-Canadian mathematician and university professor, the first female president of the Canadian Mathematical Society.
Olive Hazlett (1890–1974), professor at the University of Illinois, Algebra, did her PhD with Leonard Dickson .
Marguerite Hedberg (1907–2002), American mathematician and university professor.
Lisa Hefendehl-Hebeker (* 1948), German mathematician and university professor. She was a professor of mathematics with a focus on didactics at the University of Duisburg-Essen .
Anne Henke (* 1970), Lecturer in Oxford, Fellow Pembroke College, representation theory, studied in Heidelberg and did her doctorate with Karin Erdmann in Oxford.
Rebecca Herb (* 1948), professor at the University of Maryland. Representation theory of reductive Lie groups and p-adic groups.
Grete Hermann (1901–1984) did her doctorate with the dissertation 'The question of the finite number of steps in the theory of polynomial ideals' from the mathematician Emmy Noether
Norma G. Hernandez (* 1934), Latin American mathematician and university professor. She is one of the first US-born Latinas to graduate in mathematics.
Hu Hesheng (* 1928), China. Professor at Fudang University. Differential geometry, for example gauge theories.
Ursula Hill-Samelson (1935–2013), computer scientist, did her doctorate with Friedrich L. Bauer in Munich, developed early ALGOL compilers in Germany, married to Klaus Samelson .
Nancy Hingston , received her PhD in 1981 with Raoul Bott at Harvard, Differential Geometry and Connections to Physics, was at the IAS, Prof. Technical College New Jersey, Invited Speaker ICM 2014.
Elizabeth Hirschfelder (1902–2002), American mathematician and university professor, professor at the University of Wisconsin
Marlis Hochbruck (* 1964), Professor in Karlsruhe, Industrial Mathematics and Numerical Mathematics, Vice President of the DFG since 2014
Maria Hoffmann-Ostenhof (* 1947). Mathematical physicist at the University of Vienna.
Lulu Hofmann Bechtolsheim (1902–1989), American mathematician and university professor.
Olga Holtz (* 1973). Russian mathematician. Professor at the TU Berlin and in Berkeley. EMS price. Combinatorics, linear algebra, computer science, numerical analysis.
Grace Hopper (1906-1992). Computer pioneer (early programming languages, compilers). She worked in the computer industry and made it to Flotilla Admiral in the US Navy Reserve.
Susan Howson (* 1973), student of John Coates in Cambridge, number theory of elliptic curves. First woman to win the Adams Prize .
Celia Hoyles (* 1946), British mathematician. She is Professor of Mathematics Education at the UCL Institute of Education.
Shu Ting Hsia (1903–1980), Chinese-American mathematician
Verena Huber-Dyson (1923–2016), mathematical logic, professor in Calgary, temporarily married to Freeman Dyson and mother of Esther Dyson .
Annette Huber-Klawitter (* 1967), professor in Freiburg. Arithmetic geometry. EMS Prize, Leibniz Prize.
Rhonda Hughes (* 1947), American mathematician and university professor; Helen Herrmann Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Bryn Mawr College
Aline Huke Frink (1904–2000), American mathematician and university professor

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Ilse Ipsen (* 1950), German-American mathematician and university professor. She is a professor of mathematics at North Carolina State University and her research areas include numerical linear algebra, randomized algorithms, numerical analysis, matrix theory

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Trachette Jackson (* 1972), American mathematician and university professor; Professor of Mathematics and Co-Director of the Mathematical Biology Research Group at the University of Michigan.
Lisa Jeffrey (* 1965), Canadian, professor at the University of Toronto, did her doctorate in 1992 with Michael Atiyah in Oxford, symplectic geometry and mathematical quantum field theory, where she proved Edward Witten's conjectures
Svetlana Jitomirskaya (* 1966), Soviet-American mathematician, daughter of Valentina Borok . Professor at the University of California, Irvine. For example, non-perturbative localization in mathematical physics. Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize.
Eleanor Jones (* 1929), American mathematician and university professor; was among the first African American women to graduate in mathematics and has taught as a professor at Norfolk State University for more than 30 years .
Katherine Johnson (1918-2020), American mathematician of African American descent, contributions to the calculation of flight paths for the Mercury program and the first manned flight to the moon as part of the Apollo 11 mission, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the end of 2015 excellent
Nalini Joshi , Australian mathematician at the University of Sydney, integrable systems, partial differential equations

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Margarete Kahn ( Grete Kahn , 1880–1942), doctoral student with David Hilbert ( A general method for investigating the shapes of algebraic curves , 1909), later taught in Berlin, released by the National Socialists, deported to Piaski in 1942 and murdered
Suzan Kahramaner (1913–2006), first Turkish mathematics professor. Taught in Istanbul and dealt with function theory (habilitation with Rolf Nevanlinna ).
Gabriele Kaiser (* 1952), German math teacher and university professor
Gudrun Kalmbach (* 1937), did her doctorate with Hans Grauert , professor in Ulm, topology, lattice theory, quantum structures, mathematics education
Carol Karp (1926–1972), American mathematical logician. Student of Leon Henkin and professor at the University of Maryland. A logic prize is named after her.
Fanny Kassel , French mathematician, geometry of discrete subsets of Lie groups, IHES.
Svetlana Katok (* 1947), Russian-American mathematician. Professor at Pennsylvania State University (like her husband Anatole Katok ). Dynamic systems with applications to modular forms and number theory.
Bruria Kaufman (1918-2010), mathematical physicist. Professor in Haifa and at the Weizmann Institute. In the 1950s she worked for Einstein, known for working on the Ising model following Lars Onsager's exact solution.
Linda Keen (born 1940). American. Professor at the City University of New York (CUNY). Higher-dimensional hyperbolic geometry, Riemann surfaces and Teichmüller spaces.
Lyudmila Vsevolodovna Keldysch (1904–1976), professor at the Steklov Institute, descriptive set theory, geometric topology. With Pyotr Novikov married and mother of Sergei Petrovich Novikov .
Ruth Kellerhals (* 1957), differential geometry, hyperbolic geometry. Got her doctorate in Basel in 1988 and was at the Max Planck Institute as assistant to Friedrich Hirzebruch . Professor at the University of Friborg.

Linda Keen

Julia Kempe (* 1973), mathematician, physicist, computer scientist and university professor

Ina Kersten (* 1946), professor in Göttingen. Pupil of Ernst Witt . Algebra, square shapes. As the first woman president of the German Mathematicians Association .

Radha Kessar , did her PhD in 1995 with Ronald Solomon at Ohio State University, Professor at City University of London, Group and Representation Theory , Berwick Prize 2009

Barbara Keyfitz (* 1944), professor at Ohio State University . Nonlinear partial differential equations. Noether Lecturer 2012.

Olga Kharlampovich (* 1958), Russian-Canadian mathematician, did her doctorate in 1984 under Lev Shevrin at the Urals State University. Professor at McGill University and from 2011 at the City University of New York. Algorithmic group theory in which she solved some long open decision problems.

Frances Kirwan (born 1959), British. Professor at Oxford. Algebraic Geometry, Symplectic Geometry. Whitehead Prize and Fellow of the Royal Society.

Maria Klawe , (* 1951), American computer scientist, mathematician and university lecturer. She became the first woman to head Harvey Mudd College in California in 2006.

Julia Knight , mathematical logician, professor at the University of Notre Dame, Gödel lecturer.

Helga Königsdorf (1938–2014), until 1990 professor at the Academy of Sciences in East Berlin. Writer too.

Daphne Koller (* 1968), Israeli computer scientist, professor at Stanford, artificial intelligence, probabilistic graphic models and Bayesian networks as well as online learning.

Claudia Klüppelberg (* 1953), professor for mathematical statistics at the Technical University of Munich. Financial mathematics, risk analysis, extreme value theory, actuarial mathematics.

Nancy Kopell (* 1942), professor at Boston University. Dynamic systems in biology.

Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach (* 1941), French mathematician, the so-called Kosmann uplift in differential geometry is named after her

Bryna Kra (* 1966), did her PhD in 1995 in Stanford with Yitzhak Katznelson , professor at Northwestern University, Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, winner of the Levi L. Conant Prize . Daughter of Irwin Kra .

Cecilia Krieger (1894–1974), Professor at the University of Toronto, Topology

Vera Nikolaevna Kublanowskaja (1920–2012), Steklov Institute Leningrad. Independent introduction of the QR algorithm .

Daniela Kühn (* 1973), Prof. Birmingham, did her doctorate in 2001 in Hamburg with Reinhard Diestel (the dissertation won the Richard Rado Prize). Extremal combinatorics, graph theory. European Prize in Combinatorics 2003, Invited Speaker ICM 2014, Whitehead Prize 2014

Krystyna Kuperberg (* 1944), Polish-American professor at Auburn University. Topology of dynamic systems.

Galina Wassiljewna Kusmina (* 1929), geometric function theory, Steklow Institute, Saint Petersburg. 1984 involved in the clarification of the proof of the Bieberbach conjecture by de Branges.

Gitta Kutyniok (* 1972), harmonic analysis, compressed sensing, professor at the TU Berlin.

Olga Ladyschenskaya

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Izabella Laba (* 1966), Polish-Canadian mathematician, did her doctorate in 1994 in Toronto with IM Sigal , professor at the University of British Columbia , harmonic analysis, geometric dimension theory, additive combinatorics, mathematical physics, partial differential equations.
Alice Jeanne LaDuke (* 1938), American mathematician and child actress who appeared in the film (The Green Promise), Faculty member in the Mathematical Sciences Department at DePaul University
Olga Alexandrovna Ladyschenskaja (1922–2004), director at the Steklov Institute in Leningrad. Internationally known expert for partial differential equations, especially in hydrodynamics.
Susan Landau (* 1954), computer scientist at Sun Microsystems, is also an expert on data security issues known to broader circles in the USA. Algorithm theory.
Joan Langdon (* 1951), American mathematician and university professor.
Monique Laurent (* 1960), France, did her doctorate in 1986 at the University of Paris VII with Michel Deza, CWI in Amsterdam, Prof. in Tilburg, networks, optimization, combinatorics, Invited Speaker ICM 2014
Kristin Lauter (* 1969), American mathematician and cryptographer, Microsoft Research
Ruth Lawrence (* 1971), after early mathematical development, professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Algebraic and combinatorial structures in mathematical physics.
Anneli Lax (née Cahn ; 1922–1999), fled Berlin as a Jew, did her doctorate in 1955 with Richard Courant in New York, professor at New York University, George Polya Award. With Peter Lax married. Partial differential equations.
Gilah Leder (* 1941), Dutch-Australian mathematics teacher, taught at La Trobe University and Monash University, researched why girls are often disadvantaged in mathematics classes.
Marjorie Lee Browne (1914–1979), American mathematician and university professor. She was one of the first two African American women to earn a PhD in mathematics.
Emma Lehmer (1906-2007). Originally from Russia, she later worked closely with her husband Derrick Henry Lehmer in Berkeley on algorithmic number theory. As was the case with Mary Ellen Rudin and Olga Taussky-Todd , the rules that existed at the time to prevent nepotism in the USA prevented a couple from being able to hold professorships in the same department at a university.
Tan Lei (1963–2016), Sino-French mathematician, professor in Angers. Important work on the Mandelbrot and Julia set.
Annie Leuch-Reineck (1880–1978), Swiss mathematician and women's rights activist, did her doctorate on "The relationship between spherical functions and Bessel functions"
Anne Leucht , German mathematician and university professor; Professor at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
Winnie Li (Wen-Ching Winnie Li, * 1948), Taiwanese mathematician, Prof. Pennsylvania State University, automorphic forms, number theory, graph spectra, coding theory, did her doctorate in 1974 with Andrew Ogg , taught at Harvard and Chicago, 2015 Noether Prize winner
Paulette Libermann (1919–2007), French mathematician, professor in Paris. Symplectic geometry and differential geometry.
Barbara Liskov (* 1939), computer scientist, professor at MIT, Turing Award .
Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu (* 1974), Algebraic and Symplectic Geometry, Prof. at Columbia University , Morningside Medal
Klara Löbenstein (1883–), PhD student under David Hilbert ( on the proposition that a flat, algebraic curve of the 6th order with 11 mutually exclusive ovals does not exist , 1910), emigrated to Buenos Aires in 1941
Clara Löh (* 1981), professor in Regensburg, algebraic topology
Edith H. Luchins (1921–2002), from 1962 professor of mathematics at Rensselaer Polytech, married to the Gestalt psychologist Abraham S. Luchins and also works as a Gestalt psychologist.
Monika Ludwig (* 1966), professor at the Vienna University of Technology. Convex geometry, geometric analysis.
Élisabeth Lutz (1914-2008), French mathematician, published as a student of André Weil in Strasbourg in 1937 the theorem of Lutz and Nagell on the effective calculation of the torsion points of elliptical curves over the rational numbers. Later professor in Grenoble.
Nancy Lynch (* 1948), US computer scientist at MIT, expert on distributed systems and distributed computing.

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F. Jessie MacWilliams (1917-1990). British woman who worked at Bell Laboratories and had a leading role in coding theory.

Penelope Maddy (* 1950), professor at the University of California, Irvine . Influential work in the philosophy of mathematics.

Roswitha März (* 1940), numerical mathematics, studied in Leningrad and did her doctorate in Chemnitz, professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin, where she was dean of the mathematics faculty and head of the numerical mathematics department

Dorothy Maharam (1917–2014), Professor at the University of Rochester. Measure theory, general topology. With Arthur Harold Stone married.

Eugenia Malinnikova (* 1974), Russian mathematician, did her doctorate in Saint Petersburg, teaches in Trondheim, harmonic analysis, potential theory, clay research award

Maryanthe Malliaris , professor at the University of Chicago, set theory, model theory, received her PhD in Berkeley in 2009, lecturer at the ICM 2018, a. a. Working with Saharon Shelah, with whom she received the Hausdorff Medal in 2017.

Matilde Marcolli (* 1969), Italian. Originally a physicist, she worked for a long time at the Max Planck Institute in Bonn and is a professor at Caltech. Leader in non-commutative geometry, where she worked with its founder Alain Connes and applied it to both physics and number theory.

Hannah Markwig (* 1980), algebraic geometry, especially tropical geometry with implementation in computer algebra, did her doctorate in 2006 at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern under Andreas Gathmann , professor in Göttingen, then in Saarbrücken, Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis 2010

Mireille Martin-Deschamps , University of Versailles, Algebraic Geometry, Number Theory, 1998 to 2001 President of the Société Mathématique de France and 2011 Vice-President of the European Mathematical Society.

Katalin Marton (1941–2019), Information Theory, Alfred Renyi Institute Budapest, was the first woman to receive the Claude E. Shannon Award

Verdiana Masanja (* 1954), Tanzanian mathematician, physicist and university professor who specializes in fluid dynamics. She is the first Tanzanian woman to do a PhD in mathematics.

Kaisa Matomäki (* 1985), Analytical Number Theory, lecturer in Turku , SASTRA Ramanujan Prize 2016

Dorothy McCoy (1903-2001), American mathematician and university professor. She became the first woman to graduate from the University of Iowa in mathematics in 1929.

Joanna Isabel Mayer (1904–1991), American mathematician and university professor, was the first doctoral student in mathematics at Marquette University.

Dusa McDuff (* 1945). British, Professor at Stony Brook. Symplectic topology. Member of the Royal Society and the National Academy of Sciences. Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize. Married to John Willard Milnor .

Catherine Meadows American mathematician and cryptologist, is known for her development of tools for formal verification and automated detection of errors in cryptographic protocols

Marlyn Meltzer (née Wescoff ; 1922–2008), American, was one of the first group of ENIAC programmers.

Ruth I. Michler (1967–2000), American-born mathematician of German descent who lived and did research in the USA. She worked mainly in the field of cyclic homology and singularity theory. The Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize is awarded in her honor.

Margaret Millington (1944–1973), did her PhD in 1968 with AOL Atkin in Oxford, modular forms. Died early of a brain tumor.

Rosa Maria Miró Roig (* 1960), Spanish mathematician, algebraic geometry, algebra, professor in Barcelona, Ferran-Sunyer-i-Balaguer Prize

Josephine Mitchell (1912–2000), American mathematician and university professor

Maryam Mirzakhani (1977-2017). Iran / USA. Professor at Stanford. Symplectic geometry, hyperbolic geometry, Teichmüller theory, ergodic theory. Curtis McMullen's student . First woman to receive the Fields Medal .

Susan Montgomery (* 1943), professor at the University of Southern California , Hopf algebras and their representation. Noether Lecturer 2011.

Cathleen Synge Morawetz (1923–2017), Canada / USA, daughter of John Lighton Synge , professor at the Courant Institute. Partial differential equations. Numerous awards including the National Medal of Science and the Leroy P. Steele Prize. Was president of the American Mathematical Society and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Sophie Morel (* 1979) studied at the Ecole Normale Superieure and received her doctorate in 2005 with Gérard Laumon . Clay Research Fellow. Professor at Harvard. Algebraic Geometry, Langland Program. EMS Prize 2012.

Ruth Moufang (1905–1977), professor at the University of Frankfurt. First permanent German mathematics professor. Algebra, geometry, combinatorics, for example Moufang level .

Magdalena Mouján (1926–2005), Argentine mathematician, computer scientist and science fiction author.

Édith Mourier (1940-2014), French mathematician, Mourier's theorem (theorem of probability ), formulates a sufficient condition for the existence of the strong law of large numbers for certain sequences of random elements in a separable Banach space over the field of real numbers

Edith Alice Müller (1918–1995), did her doctorate in 1943 under Andreas Speiser in Zurich on the ornaments of the Alhambra and then turned to astronomy (professor in Geneva)

Christine Müller (* 1959), German mathematician (statistics), a. a. efficient experimentation in industrial production, robust estimates for reconstruction and identification of edges in noisy images

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Emmy Murphy , American mathematician, symplectic topology, professor at Northwestern University, New Horizons in Mathematics Prize

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Martha Näbauer (1914–1997), professor for mathematical geodesy at the Technical University of Munich.
Pia Maria Nalli (1886–1964), Italian mathematician, Laureate at the University of Palermo in 1910 with Giuseppe Bagnera , professor in Cagliari and Catania, analysis
Gabriele Nebe (* 1967), professor at RWTH Aachen University. Coding theory, grids, modular forms, integer representations of finite groups.
Evelyn Nelson (1943–1987), Professor McMaster University, Algebra, after her and Cecilia Krieger, the Krieger Nelson Prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society is named
Claudia Neuhauser , German mathematician, mathematical biology, professor at the University of Minnesota.
Hanna Neumann (1914–1971), German-Australian mathematician. Emigrated to Australia with her Jewish husband Bernhard Neumann via Great Britain. Like Bernhard Neumann, he dealt with group theory. Professor at the Australian National University in Canberra.
Mara Neusel , (1964–2014), a German-American mathematician and university professor. She was the fourth woman to do her habilitation in mathematics at the University of Göttingen.
Phyllis Nicolson (1917–1968), British mathematician who last did research in Leeds. Crank-Nicolson method for solving the heat conduction equation.
Barbara Niethammer (* 1967), did her PhD in 1996 in Bonn with Hans Wilhelm Alt , Professor of Applied Mathematics at Oxford University, previously Humboldt University Berlin. Whitehead Prize 2011, von Mises Prize 2003. Nonlinear partial differential equations, multiscale problems, scaling laws and free boundary value problems, kinetic equations, kinetics, phase transitions, coagulation and fragmentation processes, mathematics in materials science
Wiesława Nizioł , Polish mathematician, arithmetic algebraic geometry, did her PhD with Gerd Faltings, professor at the University of Utah. Lecture at the ICM 2006.
Emmy Noether (1882–1935), daughter of Max Noether , professor in Göttingen and after being forced to emigrate to Bryn Mawr due to her Jewish descent. She played a central role in the development of modern algebra in the 1920s and is also known in physics for discovering the relationship between principles of symmetry and conservation laws. She is considered the most important mathematician to date, and various prizes for women in mathematics are named after her. She is the first woman in Germany to obtain a habilitation in mathematics (1919) after an earlier submission was rejected in 1915 despite Hilbert's protest (“The university is not a bathing establishment”). She was also the first associate professor (1922) in mathematics in Germany.
Frieda Nugel (1884–1966), German mathematician, was one of the first women from Germany to do a doctorate in mathematics. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of her dissertation in 1912, she received the award "Golden Doctorate".

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Hee Oh (* 1969), Korean mathematician, professor at Yale, received her doctorate in 1997 from Gregory Margulis at Yale . Lie groups and discrete subgroups, ergodic theory, geometric group theory, Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize 2015
Kathleen Adebola Okikiolu , (* 1965), British-American mathematician and university professor. One of her research areas is geometric analysis and working with elliptic differential operators.
Olga Oleinik also Olejnik (1925–2001), professor at Lomonosov University . Partial differential equations, topology of algebraic varieties, mathematical physics.
Kathleen Ollerenshaw (1912–2014), British mathematician, former Mayor of Manchester. Work on combinatorics and entertainment mathematics.
Cathy O'Neil , American number theorist (PhD with Barry Mazur 1999). She was an assistant professor at Barnard College before working in the financial industry for four years. Member of Occupy Wall Street, critic of big data and the finance industry ( Weapons of Math Destruction 2016).
Hinke Osinga (* 1969), Dutch, dynamic systems, professor in Auckland in New Zealand

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Erika Pannwitz (1904–1975), German mathematician. Doctorate with Heinz Hopf . Geometric topology (knot theory). Employee at Zentralblatt für Mathematik in East Berlin.
Raman Parimala (* 1948), Indian mathematician. Algebraic groups, quadratic forms, Galois cohomology. Solved some long-standing guesswork. Was a long professor at the Tata Institute in Bombay and is now at Emory University.
Natasa Pavlovic , did her PhD in 2002 with Susan Friedlander and Nets Katz at the University of Illinois, Equations of hydrodynamics (Euler, Navier-Stokes) with harmonic analysis, Professor at the University of Texas at Austin
Sylvie Paycha (* 1960), French mathematician, studied in Paris, where she also received her doctorate in 1990 (and at the University of Bochum in 1988 with Sergio Albeverio ), was Noether professor in Göttingen, professor in Potsdam, mathematical physics (renormalization, string theory, anomalies, etc. ), Pseudo differential operators, infinite dimensional geometry
Sandrine Péché , received her PhD from EPFL Lausanne in 2002 with Gérard Ben Arous . Prof. Paris VII University, Random Matrices and Applications a. a. in Finanzmath., Graphenth., Percolation, Informationsth., Invited Speaker ICM 2014
Rose Peltesohn (1913–1998), did her doctorate in 1936 with Issai Schur in Berlin and then emigrated to Tel Aviv as a Jew. In 1939 she solved Lothar Heffter's problem of differences in combinatorics.
Elena Perelman , Russian mathematician and artist in Canada, younger sister of the mathematician Grigory Yakovlevich Perelman
Bernadette Perrin-Riou (* 1955), University of Paris. Number theory, arithmetic geometry. Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize.
Stefanie Petermichl (* 1971), professor of German origin at the Université de Toulouse. Analysis. PhD in 2000 with Alexander Volberg . Received the Salem Prize in 2006 .
Rózsa Péter (1905–1977), Hungarian. Professor at the University of Budapest. Essential contributions to the theory of recursive functions.
Linda Petzold (* 1954), USA, Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Numerics of differential-algebraic systems with application in systems biology.
Margherita Beloch Piazzolla (1879–1976), daughter of Karl Julius Beloch , taught geometry at the University of Ferrara. Specialist in photogrammetry.
Sophie Piccard (1924–1990), professor in Neuchâtel, geometry, group theory, first full professor at a university in western Switzerland.
Ragni Piene (* 1947), Algebraic Geometry, professor in Oslo, long chair of the Abel Committee
Gabriella Pinzari (* 1966), after graduating in 1996 from La Sapienza in Rome, high school teacher in Rome for a long time, in 2009 doctorate with Luigi Chierchia at Roma Tre, KAM theory, problem of small denominators, celestial mechanics, Hamiltonian systems, has been researching at the University of Naples, Invited Speaker ICM 2014
Jill Pipher (* 1955), Prof. Brown University, PhD 1985 at UCLA with John B. Garnett , harmonic analysis, public key cryptosystems ( NTRUEncrypt ). Invited Speaker ICM 2014
Vera Pless (1931-2020). Worked as a mathematician for the US Air Force and later was a professor at the University of Chicago. Error correcting codes.
Gerlind Plonka-Hoch (* 1966). Professor at the Georg-August University in Göttingen. Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz Prize 1997. Inverse problems, data analysis.
Pelageja Jakowlewna Polubarinowa-Kotschina (also Kochina ; 1899–1999), was at the Steklow Institute in Moscow, in Novosibirsk and at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow (Institute for Mechanics). Applied problems of hydrodynamics. Wrote a biography of Sofja Kovalevskaya.
Cheryl Praeger (* 1948), Australian mathematician. Professor at the University of Western Australia . Group theory and combinatorics. Is a member of the Australian Academy of Sciences and was President of the Australian Mathematicians Association.
Susanne Prediger (* 1971), German mathematician and university professor. She has been a professor at the Institute for Development and Research in Mathematics Classes at the Technical University of Dortmund since 2006.
Emma Previato , Prof. Boston University, 1983 with David Mumford doing her PhD on the application of algebraic geometry in mathematical physics

Irene Price (1902–1999), American mathematician, researched for fifteen years as a professor at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh; then worked as a statistician for the United States Air Force for a dozen and forty years as a real estate agent

Sibylla Prieß-Crampe (* 1934, also Prieß, Crampe), Prof. LMU Munich, arranged structures in geometry, algebra, topology

Marie-Francoise Roy

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Virginia Ragsdale (1870–1945), American mathematician, teacher at the North Carolina College of Woman. Studied in Bryn Mawr and with Hilbert in Göttingen. Her dissertation (1906) was an important contribution to Hilbert's 16th problem (real algebraic geometry, Ragsdale conjectures).

Sujatha Ramdorai , Indian mathematician known for contributions to Iwasawa theory in algebraic number theory, did her PhD with Raman Parimala (1992), professor at the Tata Institute in Mumbai and the University of British Columbia, ICTP Ramanujan Prize

Helena Rasiowa (1917–1994), Polish mathematician, studied algebraic logic and the fundamentals of mathematics, the Rasiowa-Sikorski lemma is associated with her name

Marina Ratner (1938-2017). Russian-American mathematician, professor at Berkeley. Ergodic theory. Received the Ostrowski Prize . Member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Cora Ratto de Sadosky (1912–1981) was an Argentine mathematician, human rights activist and associate professor

Geneviève Raugel (1951–2019), professor in Paris, partial differential equations, equations of hydrodynamics

Michèle Raynaud (* 1938). Like her husband Michel Raynaud, she belonged to Alexander Grothendieck's circle in the 1960s , from whom she received her doctorate in Paris in 1972. Algebraic Geometry.

Margaret Eva Rayner (1929–2019), English mathematician and university professor. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1990.

Helene Reschovsky (1907–1994), student of Menger in Vienna. Emigrated to the USA, Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut. Geometry, topology.

Mary Rees (* 1953), professor in Liverpool, daughter of David Rees , complex dynamics. Invited Speaker at the ICM in Kyoto 1990.

Mina Rees (1902-1997). Student of Leonard Dickson . Was long head of mathematics at the Office of Naval Research. Member of the National Academy of Sciences. Algebra, numerics of partial differential equations.

Nancy Reid (* 1952), Professor in Toronto, mathematical statistics, first Krieger Nelson Prize.

Idun riding (* 1942), Norwegian mathematician, University of Trondheim, algebra (foreigner riding theory).

Ida Rhodes (1900–1986), Ukrainian-American mathematician and computer pioneer, was one of the first to study foreign language translation using computers

Christine Riedtmann (* 1952), professor at the University of Bern, did her doctorate in 1978 with Pierre Gabriel at the University of Zurich . Algebra. 2011/12 President of the Swiss Mathematical Society

Julia Robinson (1919–1985), American mathematical logician, student of Alfred Tarski and later professor at Berkeley. Important work in the area of Hilbert's tenth conjecture, recursion theory and decidability issues. Was the first female president of the American Mathematical Society. Member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Alvany Rocha (formerly Rocha-Caridi), Argentine mathematician, Lie groups and algebras, City University of New York (Baruch College)

Sibyl M. Rock (1909–1981), American mathematician and computer scientist. She was a pioneer in the development of methods for data analysis when using mass spectrometers to analyze hydrocarbon mixtures. Developed the predecessor of the Datatron with the computer pioneer Clifford Berry .
Judith Roitman (* 1945), professor at the University of Kansas, topology, set theory, Boolean algebra, mathematics education. She also publishes poetry and teaches Zen Buddhism.
Louise Rosenbaum (1908–1980), American mathematician and university professor; was in 1939 with Marjorie Beaty among the first two women who received a PhD in mathematics at the University of Colorado before 1960.
Nina Arkadjewna Rosenson (1909–1942), Jewish mathematician of the Leningrad School murdered by the National Socialists in the Caucasus. Differential geometry.
Alice Roth (1905–1977) received her doctorate (as the second woman in mathematics at all) in 1938 under George Pólya at the ETH Zurich, approximation in complexes. Received the silver medal from the ETH. High school teacher at the Humboldtianum in Bern, only turned back to research after her retirement in 1971.
Linda Rothschild (* 1945). Professor at the University of California at San Diego. Lie groups, analysis of several complex variables.
Christiane Rousseau (* 1954), French-Canadian mathematician, did her doctorate in Montreal in 1977 and is there professor, differential equations, dynamic systems, bifurcations, topos theory, also GUTs , mathem. Biology, was President of Canada. mathem. Ges., From 2014 in the executive committee of the IMU
Marie-Françoise Roy (* 1950). Professor at the University of Rennes I. Real algebraic geometry.
Mary Ellen Rudin (1924–2013), Professor at the University of Wisconsin. Known for constructing various counterexamples in topology. Married to the analyst Walter Rudin .
Iris Runge (1888–1966), industrial mathematician and physicist. Daughter of Carl Runge . Worked at Osram and Telefunken. Later professor in Berlin.
Mary Beth Ruskai (* 1944), PhD in 1969 from the University of Wisconsin, Prof. at the University of Massachusetts and Tufts University, quantum information theory, mathematical physics

Julia Robinson

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Cora Sadosky (1940-2010) was an Argentine mathematician and university professor. She was a professor of mathematics at Howard University

Laure Saint-Raymond (* 1975). Professor at the École normal supérieure . Nonlinear partial differential equations such as Boltzmann's equation and various hydrodynamic equations. EMS Prize and Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize.

Reiko Sakamoto (* 1939), Japanese mathematician, hyperbolic partial differential equations, professor at Nara's Women University. Iyanaga Prize .

Judith D. Sally (* 1937). Professor at Northwestern University. Commutative algebra.

Jean E. Sammet (1928–2017), American computer scientist and mathematician, a. a. responsible for the design and development of FORmula MAnipulation Compiler (FORMAC), which is an extension for Fortran and was the first practically used programming language for the symbolic manipulation of mathematical expressions and formulas

Marta Sanz-Solé (* 1952), professor in Barcelona, stochastic differential equations, one of the organizers of the ICM 2006 in Madrid and 2011 to 2014 president of the European Mathematical Society.

Lisa Sauermann (* 1992), Assistant Professor at Stanford University, with four gold medals the most successful participant in the International Mathematical Olympiads, Combinatorics and Graph Theory.

Jane Cronin Scanlon (1922-2018). American. Professor at Rutgers University. Applications of differential equations in biology, for example nerve conduction.

Alice T. Schafer (1915–2009), Professor at Wellesley College, founding member of the Association for Women in Mathematics.

Tatiana Olegovna Shaposhnikova (* 1946), did her doctorate in 1973 with Solomon Michlin in Leningrad, from 1991 Linköping University. 2004 to 2008 professor at Ohio State University. Partial differential equations, function analysis. Wrote a Hadamard biography with Masja (Mazya).

Doris Schattschneider (* 1939). Professor at Moravian College ( Bethlehem, Pennsylvania ). Tiling, geometry. Wrote books about MC Escher's art. Was vice president of the MAA.

Leila Schneps (* December 22, 1961), USA / France, researches for the CNRS at the Institut Mathematiques de Jussieu, Paris. Grothendieck's theory of children's drawings , inverse Galois theory. Founding member of the Grothendieck Circle. Writes detective novels as Catherine Shaw.

Anita Schöbel (* 1969), professor at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, optimization.

Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb (* 1979), Austrian mathematician, studied in Salzburg and Cambridge (PhD 2009), reader in Cambridge and Fellow of Jesus College, director of the Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information (CCIMI) and the Cambridge Image Analysis Group , 2016 Whitehead Prize

Marija Shcherbyna (Shcherbina) (* 1958), Institute for Low Temperature Physics Kharkiv, Ukrainian mathematical physicist, university results for random matrices with Leonid Pastur, among others

Marie-Hélène Schwartz (1913–2013), French mathematician, daughter of Paul Lévy and married to Laurent Schwartz , taught complex analysis and differential geometry in Lille

Elizabeth Scott (1917–1988), American statistician, employee of Jerzy Neyman in Berkeley. Applications of statistics in astronomy, meteorology, medicine, among others.

Marjorie Senechal (* 1939). Professor at Smith College. Geometry, quasicrystals, tilings.

Sylvia Serfaty . Received his doctorate in 1999 under Fabrice Béthuel . Was at the Courant Institute and is a professor in Paris. EMS price. Analytical treatment of the Ginzburg-Landau model . Henri Poincaré Prize 2012.

Vera Serganova , graduated from Leningrad State University in 1988, went to the USA in 1990, professor at Berkeley. Guest speaker at the ICM in Berlin 1998 and plenary speaker at the ICM 2014. Representation theory of Lie-Super-Algebras

Caroline Series (* 1951). Professor at the University of Warwick. Dynamic systems, hyperbolic geometry, Klein groups. Whitehead Prize. Co-author with David Mumford and David Wright of Indra's Pearls .

Ingeborg Seynsche (1905–1994) received his doctorate in 1930 in Göttingen with Richard Courant with the dissertation: On the theory of almost periodic number sequences . Wife of Friedrich Hund .

Diana Shelstad (born 1947). Australia / USA. Student of Robert Langlands and professor at Rutgers University. Langlands program .

Soraya Sherif (* 1934), Egyptian mathematician and university professor. She was appointed as the youngest professor for pure mathematics at the Ain Shams University in Cairo . She discovered new solutions for the Tauber theorems.

Sally Shlaer (1938–1998), American software developer, object-oriented software engineering

Lesley Sibner (1934–2013), professor at Brooklyn Polytech. Partial differential equations, especially in gauge theories.

Ana Cannas da Silva (* 1968), professor in Lisbon. Symplectic geometry, geometric topology, geometric analysis.

Alice Silverberg , did her doctorate in Princeton in 1984 with Gorō Shimura , Prof. University of California, Irvine, number theory, cryptology

Rodica Simion (1955-2000). Romania / USA. Professor at George Washington University. Combinatorics.

Hoàng Xuân Sính (* 1933), Vietnamese mathematician, doctoral student of Alexander Grothendieck (1975) and university professor and university founder in Hanoi. Pioneer of higher category theory.

Lucy Joan Slater (1922–2008), specialist in hypergeometric functions (of which she has written books), computer pioneer at Cambridge and programmer

Karen Smith (born 1965). Professor at the University of Michigan. Student of Melvin Hochster . Algebraic Geometry, Commutative Algebra. Was married to Juha Heinonen . Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize.

Agata Smoktunowicz (* 1973). Polish woman. Professor in Edinburgh. EMS price. Solved some long open conjectures in algebra.

Nina Snaith (* 1974), Professor ( Reader ) in Bristol. Random matrices with applications in number theory, L-functions and zeta functions.

Vera T. Sós (* 1930). Hungarian. Professor at the Alfred Renyi Institute. Graph theory, combinatorics, number theory. Worked a lot with Paul Erdős . Wife of Pál Turán .

Mary Speer (1906–1966), American mathematician and university professor.

Birgit Speh (* 1949), Professor at Cornell University, depictions of Lie groups.

Frances Spence (1922–2012), American, was part of the first group of ENIAC women programmers.

Pauline Sperry (1885–1967), American mathematician, worked on the areas of analytical geometry and differential geometry

Dolores Spikes (1936–2015), American mathematician, received her doctorate with a thesis on the theory of commutative rings .

Vera W. de Spinadel (1929–2017), Argentinian professor at the University of Buenos Aires, who dealt with mathematics and design and generalized the classic golden ratio .

Bhama Srinivasan (* 1935). India / USA. Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Representation theory of groups.

Anna Stafford , (1905–2004), American mathematician and university professor.

Zvezdelina Stankova (* 1969), Bulgarian mathematician and university professor. She is a professor of mathematics at Mills College in Oakland, California, founder of the Berkeley Math Circle, and an expert on combinatorial enumeration of permutations with forbidden patterns.

Nancy Stanton (born 1948). Professor at the University of Notre Dame. Analysis in several complex variables.

Dorothea Starke (Werner-Starke) (1902–1943), mathematician, natural scientist, astronomer

Angelika Steger (* 1962), discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science, professor at ETH Zurich

Irene Stegun (1919-2008). Edited the well-known handbook of mathematical functions with Milton Abramowitz at the National Bureau of Standards ( Abramowitz-Stegun ).

Olga Taussky-Todd

Ileana Streinu . Romanian-American mathematician. Professor at Smith College in Massachusetts. PhD in Mathematics in Bucharest and in Computer Science from Rutgers University in 1994. Deals with discrete geometry. New proof of Carpenter's Rule Problem (first by Robert Connelly et al.).

Catharina Stroppel (* 1971), professor in Bonn. Algebra, representation theory of groups and algebras with applications in topology and mathematical physics, higher category theory.

Bella Abramovna Subbotovskaya (1937–1982), mathematician, founded an underground Jewish university in Moscow. Likely killed in a KGB attack.

Esther Szekeres (née Klein ; 1910–2005), Hungarian-born Australian mathematician, married to George Szekeres . From her comes the conjecture that was proven by George Szekeres as the happy ending theorem .

Wanda Szmielew (1918-1976). Polish mathematician. Student of Alfred Tarski. Professor in Warsaw.

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Rosalind Tanner (1900–1992), British mathematician and mathematician. Daughter of Grace Chisholm Young and William Henry Young , taught at Imperial College, pioneer of interval arithmetic (published as Rosalind Cecily Young before marriage in 1953)
Éva Tardos (* 1957). Hungarian computer scientist. Professor at Cornell University. Fulkerson Prize .
Olga Taussky-Todd (1906–1995), born in Austria, later, like her husband John Todd, a professor at Caltech . Number theory, later numerical linear algebra.
Jean Taylor (* 1944). Professor at Rutgers University and the Courant Institute. Was married to Frederick Almgren and, like him, dealt with problems of geometric variation.
Mina Teicher (* 1950). Professor and Head of the Emmy Noether Institute at Bar Ilan University in Israel. Algebraic Geometry, Applied Mathematics.
Ruth Teitelbaum (1924–1986), American, belonged to the first group of ENIAC programmers.
Chuu-Lian Terng (* 1949). Taiwan / USA. Professor at the University of California, Irvine. Graduated from Richard Palais in 1976 , with whom she is married. Partial differential equations, differential geometry.
Audrey Terras (born 1942). Professor at the University of California, San Diego . For example harmonic analysis on symmetric spaces, spectrum of operators on finite groups and graphs and zeta function of graphs
Abigail Thompson (* 1958). Professor at the University of California, Davis . Geometric topology in three dimensions, knot theory. Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize.
Ulrike Tillmann (* 1962), German-British mathematician, professor at Oxford, algebraic topology with application to the determination of the cohomology of modular spaces of Riemann surfaces. Whitehead Prize and a member of the Royal Society.
Galina Nikolajewna Tjurina (1938-1970). Algebraic geometry (K 3 surfaces, singularity theory). Igor Schafarevich's student . Died on a canoe trip in the Urals. Sister of Andrei Tyurin .
Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann (* 1945), did her doctorate in Warsaw, professor at the University of Alberta , Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, theory of the Banach spaces
Anna-Karin Tornberg (* 1971), Professor at the Technical University of Stockholm, numerical hydrodynamics and numerical analysis
Tatiana Toro (* 1964), Colombian mathematician, analysis, professor at the University of Washington .
Věra Trnková (1934–2018), Czech mathematician and university professor, who was known for her work in topology and category theory.
Annita Tuller (1910–1994), American mathematician and university professor
Bird Margaret Turner (1877–1962), American mathematician, student of Charlotte Angas Scott, full professor at West Virginia University

Karen Uhlenbeck

Regina Iossifowna Tyschkewitsch (1929–2019), professor in Minsk

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Karen Uhlenbeck (* 1942), professor in Chicago and Austin. Nonlinear partial differential equations in the Yang-Mills theory, among others. She received the Leroy P. Steele Prize and the National Medal of Science and was the first woman to receive the Abel Prize .
Corinna Ulcigrai (* 1980), Italian mathematician at the University of Bristol. Ergodic Theory and Dynamic Systems. PhD 2007 at Sinai in Princeton. EMS Prize 2012.
Nina Nikolajewna Uralzewa (* 1934). She was a professor at the Leningrad State University. Student of Olga Ladyschenskaya. Partial differential equations.

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Dorothy Vaughan (1910–2008), American mathematician, known for her contributions to space technology at the time of the “ space race” , specialized in the FORTRAN programming language

Michèle Vergne (* 1943). France. She was a professor at MIT and is the research director of the CNRS . Index theory of elliptical operators, representation theory of Lie groups.

Maryna Viazovska (* 1984), Ukrainian mathematician, did her doctorate in 2013 with Don Zagier in Bonn. In 2016 she achieved a scientific breakthrough by proving that the E8 lattice in eight dimensions and the Leech lattice in 24 dimensions deliver the closest packing of spheres in these dimensions.

Eva Viehmann (* 1980), Prof. at the Technical University of Munich since 2012, arithmetic algebraic geometry, Kaven Prize 2012

Marie-France Vignéras (* 1946). Professor in Paris. Number theory, algebraic geometry, Langlands program.

Karen Vogtmann (* 1949). Professor at Cornell University. Geometric group theory (concept of outer space ), low-dimensional topology, group cohomology.

Claire Voisin (* 1962). Professor at the University of Paris VI. Solved some important problems in algebraic geometry. Member of the Academie des Sciences, EMS Prize, Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize and numerous other prizes.

Claire Voisin

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Michelle Wachs , University of Florida, Algebraic Combinatorics, received her PhD in 1977 from the University of California, San Diego, with Adriano Garsia, Garsia-Wachs-Algorithm.
Marion Walter (* 1928), German mathematician and university professor, named after her sentence by Marion Walter
Simone Warzel (* 1973), Mathematical Physics, Professor at the Technical University of Munich, speaker at the ICM 2018
Johanna Weber (1910–2014), German-British mathematician, helped develop the aerodynamics of the Concorde aircraft .
Katrin Wehrheim (* 1974), German mathematician and university professor, professor of mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley; symplectic topology , calibration theory , research on pseudoholomorphic quilts.
Katrin Wendland (* 1970), was a professor in Augsburg and is currently professor in Freiburg im Breisgau. Geometric problems from the field of string theory .
Annette Werner (* 1966), professor in Frankfurt am Main. Algebraic geometry, representation theory (theory of buildings).
Gladys West (* 1930 or 1931), American mathematician, satellite geodesy
Eléna Wexler-Kreindler (1931–1992), née Kreindler, Romanian mathematician. She studied in Sverdlovsk and received her doctorate in 1969 under Grigore Moisil in Bucharest. Went to France with her husband in 1972, where she became a professor at Paris VI University. Algebra, functional analysis.
Anna Pell Wheeler (1883–1966), Professor at Bryn Mawr, Theory of Integral Equations and Function Analysis, long-time co-editor of the Annals of Mathematics.
Mary F. Wheeler (* 1938), professor at the University of Texas at Austin, numerics of partial differential equations with applications in the oil industry and environmental technology
Sylvia Wiegand (* 1945), granddaughter of Grace Chisholm-Young, professor at the University of Nebraska, commutative algebra, temporarily president of the Association for Women in Mathematics.
Anna Wienhard (* 1977), professor in Heidelberg, differential geometry, speaker at the ICM 2018
Amie Wilkinson (* 1968), professor at Northwestern University. Ergodic theory. Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize 2011.
Ruth J. Williams (* 1955), Australian-American mathematician, Prof. University of California, Davis, Stochastics, John von Neumann Theory Prize .
Christine Williams Ayoub (* 1922), American mathematician and university professor; Professor Emerita at Pennsylvania State University.
Barbara Wohlmuth (* 1967), Professor at the Technical University of Munich, Leibniz Prize 2012, Numerical Mathematics
Hopkins, Margarete C. (Wolf) (1911–1998), American mathematician and university professor. Professor at St. Joseph's College New York.
Ruth Goulding Wood (1875–1939), American mathematician and university professor who researched in the field of non-Euclidean geometry .
Melanie Wood (* 1981 in Indianapolis). Currently Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin. Number Theory, Algebraic Geometry, first woman on the US Mathematics Olympiad team.
María Wonenburger (1927–2014), Spain / Canada / USA. Professor in Canada, at the University of Buffalo and most recently at the University of Indiana. Lie groups and Lie algebras.
Margaret H. Wright (* 1944), at Bell Laboratories and Professor at the Courant Institute in New York City, President of SIAM , Optimization, Scientific Computing, Numerical Linear Algebra. Member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Dorothy Wrinch (1894–1976), British mathematician, studied at Cambridge and was assistant to Bertrand Russell and later professor (lecturer) at Oxford. Later turned to mathematical biology and taught at various colleges in the United States.
Sijue Wu (* 1964), Chinese-US-American, professor at the University of Michigan. Nonlinear partial differential equations of hydrodynamics. Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize.

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Ann Yasuhara (1932–2014), computer scientist (theory of recursive functions), professor at Rutgers University, as a Quaker also environmental, peace and social activist
Lai-Sang Young (* 1952), Chinese-American mathematician, professor at the Courant Institute, nonlinear chaotic dynamic systems. Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize.
Rosalind Cecily Young, see Rosalind Tanner

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Sara Zahedi (* 1981), Iranian-Swedish mathematician, works on numerical analysis of partial differential equations (PDE)
Thaleia Zariphopoulou (* 1962), Greek mathematician, professor at the University of Texas at Austin, financial mathematics, lecture ICM 2014
Sarah Zerbes , reader at University College London, did her PhD in 2005 in Cambridge with John Coates, Algebraic Number Theory, 2015 Whitehead Prize , ERC Consolidation Grant, introduced Loeffler to a new Euler system with application to the Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture.
Chenchang Zhu , professor at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Poisson geometry.
Tamar Ziegler , professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, before that at the Technion, number theory, ergodic theory, did her doctorate in 2003 under Hillel Fürstenberg . Also worked with Terence Tao . Erdős Prize 2011, Invited Speaker ICM 2014.
Etta Zuber Falconer (1933–2002), American mathematician and university professor.

Math historians

Kirsti Andersen (* 1941), Danish, professor in Aarhus. History of Early Analysis and Perspective. With Henk Bos married.

June Barrow-Green (* 1953), Open University. In particular about Henri Poincaré , the central personality of mathematics, celestial mechanics and later theoretical physics in France and beyond in Europe at the end of the 19th century.

Isabella Grigorjewna Baschmakowa (1921–2005), professor at Lomonossow University, student of the Russian nestor of the history of mathematics Adolf Juschkewitsch . In particular to Diophantus of Alexandria .

Christa Binder (* 1947), Austrian mathematics historian at the Vienna University of Technology, student of Edmund Hlawka , especially Austrian history of mathematics

Karine Chemla (* 1957), French sinologist and mathematician, University of Paris and various Chinese universities, conducts research at the CNRS. Critical Edition of the Nine Books of Arithmetic Technique .

Serafina Cuomo (* 1966), Italian historian of science, history of mathematics and technology in antiquity (Greece / Rome), reader at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Amy Dahan-Dalmédico , EHESS in Paris (Center Alexander Koyré), for example applied mathematics in France in the 18th and 19th centuries (circle around the Ecole Polytechnique) and, more recently, in particular the sociology of science on climate change

Auguste Dick (1910–1993), a Viennese teacher, studied among other things in the seminar of Hans Hahn , the biographer of Emmy Noether

Yvonne Dold-Samplonius (1937–2014), Netherlands, Heidelberg University. Islamic Mathematics of the Middle Ages . With Albrecht Dold married.

Carolyn Eisele (1902–2000), professor at Hunter College in New York, specialist in Charles S. Peirce .

Thyra Eibe (1866–1955), Danish mathematician and teacher. First Danish woman to graduate in mathematics.

Catherine Goldstein (* 1958), University of Paris. History of number theory. She is also a number theorist herself.

Judith Grabiner (* 1938), professor at Pitzer College in California, student of I. Bernard Cohen at Harvard, history of analysis (including Cauchy, Lagrange). She won both the Allendoerfer Award and the Lester Randolph Ford Award several times.

Annick Horiuchi , French expert on Japanese mathematics ( Wasan ), professor at the University of Paris VII.

Sofja Alexandrowna Janowskaja (1896–1966), Soviet representative of the Marxist direction of mathematical historiography, history of mathematical logic, 1933 co-founder of the mathematical history seminar at Lomonossow University

Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen , University of Roskilde and Copenhagen, also mathematics education, history of non-linear programming

Uta Merzbach (1933–2017), former curator at the Smithsonian Institution, new edition of the history of mathematics by Carl B. Boyer

Lam Lay Yong (* 1936), maths historian from Singapore. Ancient Chinese Math.

Karen Parshall (* 1955), professor at the University of Virginia. History of mathematics in the United States, which grew from humble beginnings in the 19th century to become the leading nation in mathematics. Biographer of James Joseph Sylvester .

Jeanne Peiffer (* 1948) Luxembourg mathematics historian, EHESS in Paris (Center Alexander Koyré) and University of Luxembourg, z. B. Perspective in the early modern period (Albrecht Dürer) and mathematical communication (magazines, letters), co-editor of Johann I Bernoulli's correspondence

Kim Plofker (* 1964), Dibner Institute, leading western specialist in Indian mathematics.

Christine Proust , French mathematician, research director of the CNRS and at the Labor Sphere of the University of Paris VII, Babylonian mathematics

Karin Reich (* 1941), successor to Christoph J. Scriba at what has long been the most important West German chair for the history of mathematics in Hamburg. From the Munich School of Science Historians, where she did her doctorate under Helmuth Gericke . History of the vector and tensor concept and differential geometry. Gauss's biographer.

Constance Reid (1918–2010), sister of Julia Robinson and best known for the biographies of David Hilbert , Richard Courant and other mathematicians. Much was recorded orally as mathematical folklore from Göttingen, the world's leading mathematical center at the time of the Hilbert and Courant School until it was destroyed by the National Socialists.

Eleanor Robson (* 1969), Assyriologist and professor at Oxford, a leading specialist in mathematics in Mesopotamia

Lao Genevra Simons (1870–1949), professor at Hunter College in New York, teaching mathematics in the USA in the 18th and 19th centuries

Denise Schmandt-Besserat (* 1933), France / USA, archaeologist, professor at the University of Texas at Austin, early numerals ( tokens ) in the Middle East and earliest development of computer technology in Mesopotamia.

Jacqueline Stedall (1950–2014), Oxford University, British mathematics in the 17th century, history of algebra

Eva GR Taylor (1879–1966), England's first female geography professor at the University of London, who had a leading role in questions of the acceptance of women as scientists in England. Development of mathematics in the early modern period of Great Britain across the breadth of applied sciences (such as surveyors, instrument makers, and navigators) which were then included

Renate Tobies (* 1947), University of Jena, from the Leipzig School of Hans Wußing , dealt particularly with Felix Klein , a central figure in mathematics in Germany from the 1870s to the early 20th century

Annette Warner (born Imhausen ; * 1970), Germany. Professor in Frankfurt. Egyptian mathematics (she is also an Egyptologist).

Others

While Sophie Germain still had to use a male pseudonym (Monsieur Leblanc) or preferred it in order to gain recognition at the beginning of the 19th century (she later revealed herself to Carl Friedrich Gauß), Noga Alon used the pseudonym A for some of his publications from the 1980s . Nilli (with a child's photo of his daughter of the same name in The Book of Evidence ).

literature

Renate Tobies (Ed.): “Despite all male culture”. Women in math and science. With a foreword by Knut Radbruch . Campus, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 1997, ISBN 3-593-35749-6 .
Charlene Morrow, Teri Perl (Eds.): Notable Women in Mathematics: A Biographical Dictionary . Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn. 1998, ISBN 0-313-29131-4 (English).

Web links

Female mathematicians - Biographies. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive . University of St Andrews (English, biographies of women mathematicians, but there are also women physicists listed).; accessed on August 7, 2020
Larry Riddle: Biographies of Women Mathematicians. Agnes Scott College (English, list with around 200 entries, as of April 19, 2020).; accessed on August 7, 2020
Christine Bessenrodt : Habilitations (and B-PhDs) in mathematics, didactics of mathematics and history of mathematics for women in Germany since 1919. Retrieved August 7, 2020 (List by Christine Bessenrodt with more than 200 entries, as of July 27, 2020).
Committee for Women in Mathematics, IMU
Marie A. Vitulli: Biographies. In: Women in Math Project. University of Oregon (English, list with almost 2000 biographies of female mathematicians).; accessed on August 7, 2020

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Women in Mathematics. German Mathematicians Association (DMV), archived from the original on May 29, 2014 ; accessed on August 7, 2020 .
^ Susan E. Kelly, Sarah A. Rozner: Winifred Edgerton Merrill: "She Opened the Door" . In: Notices of the American Mathematical Society . tape 59 , no. 4 , April 2012, ISSN 0002-9920 , p. 504-512 , doi : 10.1090 / noti818 (English).
↑ Sofja Kowalewskaja received her doctorate in 1874 in Göttingen in absentia only by submitting theses, cf. Larry Riddle: Grace Chisholm Young. Agnes Scott College, March 13, 2017, accessed August 7, 2020 (English, biography).
↑ Vi Hart and Matt Parker to Receive 2018 JPBM Communications Awards. American Mathematical Society , December 8, 2017, accessed August 9, 2020 .
^ JJ O'Connor, EF Robertson: Margaret Hilary Ashworth Millington. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive . University of St Andrews , February 2010, accessed August 9, 2020 .
↑ Emmy Noether was an extraordinary, non-civil servant professor
^ JJ O'Connor, EF Robertson: Eléna Wexler-Kreindler. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive . University of St Andrews , July 2007, accessed August 9, 2020 .

[DMV-1] Women in Mathematics. German Mathematicians Association (DMV), archived from the original on May 29, 2014 ; accessed on August 7, 2020 .

[2] Susan E. Kelly, Sarah A. Rozner: Winifred Edgerton Merrill: "She Opened the Door" . In: Notices of the American Mathematical Society . tape 59 , no. 4 , April 2012, ISSN 0002-9920 , p. 504-512 , doi : 10.1090 / noti818 (English).

[3] Sofja Kowalewskaja received her doctorate in 1874 in Göttingen in absentia only by submitting theses, cf. Larry Riddle: Grace Chisholm Young. Agnes Scott College, March 13, 2017, accessed August 7, 2020 (English, biography).

[4] Vi Hart and Matt Parker to Receive 2018 JPBM Communications Awards. American Mathematical Society , December 8, 2017, accessed August 9, 2020 .

[5] JJ O'Connor, EF Robertson: Margaret Hilary Ashworth Millington. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive . University of St Andrews , February 2010, accessed August 9, 2020 .

[6] Emmy Noether was an extraordinary, non-civil servant professor

[7] JJ O'Connor, EF Robertson: Eléna Wexler-Kreindler. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive . University of St Andrews , July 2007, accessed August 9, 2020 .