List of female mathematicians

This is a list of notable female mathematicians. Many have made significant contributions to mathematics.

Many of the best known mathematicians are male, although more women have entered mathematics since World War II. Women make up a significant collection of notable figures in mathematics and neighboring branches of science such as physics. A number of prizes instituted by the AMS and other mathematical societies are aimed at improving the situation and recognition of distinguished female mathematicians.

The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive maintains an active index of female mathematicians, included at the end of the article.

A

• Tatyana Afanasyeva (1876–1964)
• Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718–1799)
• Grace Alele-Williams (1932– )
• Annie Dale Biddle Andrews (1885–1940)
• Stephanie B. Alexander
• Florence Eliza Allen (1876–1960)
• Nalini Anantharaman (born 1976)
• Annie Dale Biddle Andrews (1885-1940)
• Grace Andrews (mathematician) (1869–1951)
• Maria Angela Ardinghelli (1730–1825)
• Tamara Awerbuch-Friedlander
• Hertha Marks Ayrton (1854–1923)

B

• Nina Bari (1901–1961)
• Ruth Aaronson Bari (1917–2005)
• Charlotte Barnum (1860–1934)
• Lida Barrett (1927– )^[1]
• Jean Bartik (1924–2011)
• Grace Bates (1914–1996)
• Agnes Sime Baxter (1870–1917)
• Alexandra Bellow (1935– )
• Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (1914–1988)
• Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak (1938–2009)
• Joan Birman (1927– )
• Gertrude Blanch (1897–1996)
• Lenore Blum (1942– )
• Alicia Boole Stott (1860–1940)
• Mary Everest Boole (1832–1916)
• Valentina Borok (1931–2004)
• Marjorie Lee Browne (1914–1979)
• Kathrin Bringmann (1977– )
• Sophie Bryant (1850–1922)
• Margaret K. Butler (1924-2013)

C

• Mary Cartwright (1900–1998)
• Sun-Yung Alice Chang (1948– )
• Émilie du Châtelet (1706–1749)
• Grace Chisholm Young (1868-1944)
• Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923- )
• Fan Chung (1949– )
• Joan Clarke (1917–1996)
• Agnes Clerke (1842–1907)
• Gertrude Cox (1900–1978)
• Marie Crous (dates of birth and death unknown, 17th century)
• Marianna Csörnyei (1975– )
• Marie Curie (1867–1934)
• Maria Chudnovsky (1977– )

D

• Ingrid Daubechies (1954– )
• Florence Nightingale David (1909–1993)
• Irit Dinur
• Agnes Meyer Driscoll (1889–1971)
• Shakuntala Devi (1939–2013)

E

• Tatyana Ehrenfest (1905–1984)
• Karin Erdmann (1948– )

F

• Etta Falconer (1933–2002)
• Mary Fasenmyer (1906–1996)
• Phillippa Fawcett (1868-1948)
• Jacqueline Ferrand (1918–2014)
• Sarah Flannery (1982– )
• Irmgard Flügge-Lotz (1903-1974)
• Irene Fonseca (1956– )
• Herta Freitag (1908-2000)

G

• Hilda von Mises Geiringer (1893-1973)
• Sophie Germain (1776–1831)
• Shafi Goldwasser (1958– )
• Evelyn Boyd Granville (1924- )
• Marion Cameron Gray (1902–1979)
• Mary W. Gray (1939- )

H

• Christine Hamill (1923–1956)
• Margaret Hamilton (1938- )
• Frances Hardcastle (1866–1941)
• Lene Hau (1959- )
• Louise Hay (1935–1989)
• Ellen Hayes (1851–1930)
• Euphemia Haynes (1890–1980)
• Olive Hazlett (1890–1974)
• Grete Hermann (1901–1984)
• Caroline Herschel (1750–1848)
• Grace Hopper (1906–1992)
• Susan Howson (1973– )
• Hilda Phoebe Hudson (1881–1965)
• Hypatia of Alexandria (died 415)

J

• Nalini Joshi
• Sofya Yanovskaya (1896–1966)
• Svetlana Jitomirskaya

K

• Carol Karp (1926–1972)
• Linda Keen (1940– )
• Barbara Keyfitz (1944– )
• Frances Kirwan (1959– )
• Pelageia Kochina (1899–1999)
• Nancy Kopell (1942– )
• Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850–1891)
• Edna Kramer (1902-1984)
• Cecilia Krieger (1894–1974)
• Krystyna Kuperberg (1944– )

L

• Izabella Laba
• Christine Ladd-Franklin
• Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya (1922–2004)
• Ruth Lawrence
• Anneli Lax
• Emma Lehmer
• Judith Q. Longyear (1938–1995)
• Ada Lovelace (1815–1852)
• Edith Luchins

M

• Sheila Scott Macintyre
• Chrystal MacMillan
• Jessie MacWilliams (1917–1990)
• Isabel Maddison
• Vivienne Malone-Mayes
• Dusa McDuff (1945– )
• Winifred Edgerton Merrill (1862–1951)
• Maryam Mirzakhani (1977– ) (Fields Medalist 2014)
• Susan Montgomery (1943– )
• Cathleen Synge Morawetz (1923– )
• Ruth Moufang (1905–1977)
• Fotini Markopoulou-Kalamara (1971– )

N

• Evelyn Nelson (1943–1987)
• Hanna Neumann (1914–1971)
• Mary Newson
• Phyllis Nicolson
• Florence Nightingale (1820–1910)
• Emmy Noether (1882–1935)

O

• Olga Arsenievna Oleinik (1925–2001)
• Kathleen Ollerenshaw (1912– )
• Mollie Orshansky (1915–2006)

P

• Raman Parimala (1948– )
• Irena Peeva
• Bernadette Perrin-Riou (1955– )
• Rózsa Péter (1905–1977)
• Flora Philip
• Elena Cornaro Piscopia (1646–1684)
• Vera Pless (1931– )
• Marie Anne Victoire Pigeon (1724-1767)
• Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina (1899–1999)
• Cheryl Praeger (1948– )

R

• Helena Rasiowa
• Marina Ratner (1938– )
• Mary Rees (1953– )
• Mina Rees (1902–1997)
• Idun Reiten (1942– )
• Julia Robinson (1919–1985)
• Mary Ellen Rudin (1924– )

S

• Alice T. Schafer (1915–2009)
• Agnes Scott
• Charlotte Scott (1858–1931)
• Elizabeth Scott
• Caroline Series (1951– )
• Ajit Iqbal Singh
• Karen Smith (1965– )
• Nina Snaith (1974– )
• Mary Somerville (1780–1872)
• Pauline Sperry
• Bhama Srinivasan (1935– )
• Irene Stegun (1919–2008)
• Elizabeth Stephansen
• Esther Szekeres (1910–2005)
• Vera T. Sós (1930– )
• Shakuntala Devi (1939–2013)
• Alicia Boole Stott

T

• Éva Tardos (1957– )
• Olga Taussky-Todd (1906–1995)
• Mary Taylor (1898-1984)
• Chuu-Lian Terng (1949- )
• Audrey Terras (1942– )
• Theano (6th century BC)
• Abigail Thompson (1958- )
• Ulrike Tillmann (1962– )
• Françoise Tisseur
• Reidun Twarock

U

• Karen Uhlenbeck (1942– )

V

• Marie-France Vignéras (1946– )
• Claire Voisin (1962– )

W

• Mary Warner
• Katrin Wehrheim (1974– )
• Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler (1883–1966)
• Mary Wheeler (1931– )
• Anna Wienhard (1977–)
• Melanie Wood (1981– )
• Margaret H. Wright (1944– )
• Dorothy Maud Wrinch (1894–1976)

Y

• Sofya Yanovskaya (1896–1966)
• Grace Chisholm Young (1868–1944)

See also

• Association for Women in Mathematics
• List of female scientists
• Noether Lecturer
• Women in computing
• Women in science

References

External links

• Chronological Index of Women Mathematicians
• Alphabetical Index of Women Mathematicians
• List of Noether Lecture subjects
• MacTutor index of female mathematicians