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
- ↑ Margaret Anne Marie Murray (2001). Women Becoming Mathematicians: Creating a Professional Identity in Post-World War II America. MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-63246-2.
External links
- Chronological Index of Women Mathematicians
- Alphabetical Index of Women Mathematicians
- List of Noether Lecture subjects
- MacTutor index of female mathematicians
This is the list of female mathematicians from the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive index of female mathematicians. Please edit or improve their Wikipedia pages by referencing the provided biographies. This list is current as of March 2015.
- Nina Bari (biography)
- Jean Bartik (biography)
- Laura Bassi (biography)
- Agnes Baxter (biography)
- Gertrude Blanch (biography)
- Lenore Blum (biography)
- Valentina Borok (biography)
- Margaret Boyle (biography)
- Margaret Browne (biography)
- Sophie Bryant (biography)
- Nora Calderwood (biography)
- Doris Cannell (biography)
- Mary Cartwright (biography)
- Emma Castelnuovo (biography)
- Sun-Yung Alice Chang (biography)
- Émilie du Chatelet (biography)
- Grace Chisholm Young (biography)
- Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (biography)
- Fan Chung (biography)
- Joan Clarke (biography)
- Agnes Clerke (biography)
- Gertrude Cox (biography)
- Ingrid Daubechies (biography)
- Florence David (biography)
- Winifred Deans (biography)
- Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin (biography)
- Sheila Edmonds (biography)
- Tatiana Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa (biography)
- Vera Faddeeva (biography)
- Etta Falconer (biography)
- Mary Fasenmyer (biography)
- Phillippa Fawcett (biography)
- Jacqueline Ferrand (biography)
- Irmgard Flügge-Lotz (biography)
- Herta Freitag (biography)
- Hilda von Mises Geiringer (biography)
- Ruth Gentry (biography)
- Sophie Germain (biography)
- Alice Gould (biography)
- Evelyn Granville (biography)
- Marion Gray (biography)
- Mary Wheat Gray (biography)
- Lois Griffiths (biography)
- Christine Hamill (biography)
- Amélie Harlay (biography)
- Lene Hau (biography)
- Louise Szmir Hay (biography)
- Ellen Hayes (biography)
- Olive Hazlett (biography)
- Caroline Herschel (biography)
- Grace Hopper (biography)
- Hilda Hudson (biography)
- Hypatia of Alexandria (biography)
- Sof'ja Janovskaja (biography)
- Svetlana Jitomirskaya (biography)
- Carol Karp (biography)
- Linda Goldway Keen (biography)
- Lyudmila Keldysh (biography)
- Pelageia Kochina (biography)
- Elisabetha Koopman (biography)
- Sofia Kovalevskaya (biography)
- Edna Kramer (biography)
- Cecilia Krieger (biography)
- Krystyna Kuperberg (biography)
- Christine Ladd-Franklin (biography)
- Olga Ladyzhenskaya (biography)
- Anneli Lax (biography)
- Emma Lehmer (biography)
- Nicol-Reine Lepaute (biography)
- Paulette Libermann (biography)
- Augusta Ada Lovelace (biography)
- Edith Luchins (biography)
- Sheila Scott Macintyre (biography)
- Gladys Mackenzie (biography)
- Chrystal MacMillan (biography)
- Isabel Maddison (biography)
- Vivienne Malone-Mayes (biography)
- Dusa McDuff (biography)
- Winifred Merrill (biography)
- Margaret Millington (biography)
- Cathleen Morawetz (biography)
- Ruth Moufang (biography)
- Pia Nalli (biography)
- Evelyn Roden Nelson (biography)
- Hanna Neumann (biography)
- Mary Newson (biography)
- Phyllis Nicolson (biography)
- Florence Nightingale (biography)
- Emmy Noether (biography)
- Frieda Nugel (biography)
- Annie Numbers (biography)
- Olga Oleinik (biography)
- Gloria Olive (biography)
- Kathleen Ollerenshaw (biography)
- Mollie Orshansky (biography)
- Eleanor Pairman (biography)
- Bernadette Perrin-Riou (biography)
- Rózsa Péter (biography)
- Flora Philip (biography)
- Vera Pless (biography)
- Cheryl Praeger (biography)
- Helena Rasiowa (biography)
- Marina Ratner (biography)
- Mina Rees (biography)
- Julia Robinson (biography)
- Mary Ellen Rudin (biography)
- Winifred Sargent (biography)
- Alice T Schafer (biography)
- Agnes Scott (biography)
- Charlotte Scott (biography)
- Elizabeth Scott (biography)
- Mary Simpson (biography)
- Karen Smith (biography)
- Mary Somerville (biography)
- Pauline Sperry (biography)
- Bhama Srinivasan (biography)
- Catherine Steele (biography)
- Elizabeth Stephansen (biography)
- Alicia Boole Stott (biography)
- Lorna Swain (biography)
- Olga Taussky-Todd (biography)
- Mary Taylor (biography)
- Abigail Thompson (biography)
- Karen Uhlenbeck (biography)
- Argelia Velez-Rodriguez (biography)
- Mary Warner (biography)
- Eléna Wexler-Kreindler (biography)
- Anna J Pell Wheeler (biography)
- Dorothy Wrinch (biography)
- Sijue Wu (biography)
- Lai-Sang Young (biography)