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Hypatia. Hypatia[a] (born c. 350–370 - March 415 AD) [1][4] was a Neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who lived in Alexandria, Egypt, then part of the Eastern Roman Empire. She was a prominent thinker in Alexandria where she taught philosophy and astronomy. [5] Although preceded by Pandrosion, another Alexandrian female ...
Margaret Baron (1915–1996), British mathematics educator and historian of mathematics. Lida Barrett (1927–2021), second female president of the MAA. June Barrow-Green (born 1953), British historian of mathematics. Jean Bartik (1924–2011), one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer.
Valeria, the name of the women of the Valeria gens. Valeria, first priestess of Fortuna Muliebris in 488 BC [1]; Aemilia Tertia (с. 230 – 163 or 162 BC), wife of Scipio Africanus and mother of Cornelia (see below), noted for the unusual freedom given her by her husband, her enjoyment of luxuries, and her influence as role model for elite Roman women after the Second Punic War.
1858: Florence Nightingale became the first female member of the Royal Statistical Society. [10] 1873: Sarah Woodhead of Britain became the first woman to take the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos Exam, which she passed. [11] 1874: Russian mathematician Sofya Kovalevskaya became the first woman to earn a doctorate (in the modern sense) in mathematics.
The educated and well-traveled Vibia Sabina (c. 136 AD) was a grand-niece of the emperor Trajan and became the wife of his successor Hadrian. [1] Freeborn women in ancient Rome were citizens (cives), [2] but could not vote or hold political office. [3] Because of their limited public role, women are named less frequently than men by Roman ...
Lists by nationality, ethnicity or religion. List of American mathematicians. List of African-American mathematicians. List of Bengali mathematicians. List of Brazilian mathematicians. List of Chinese mathematicians. List of German mathematicians. List of Greek mathematicians. Timeline of ancient Greek mathematicians.
C. Fioralba Cakoni. Lucy Campbell (mathematician) Eleonora Catsigeras. Beatrice Mabel Cave-Browne-Cave. Indira Chatterji. Alina Chertock. Maria Chudnovsky. Monique Chyba.
Archimedes of Syracuse[a] (/ ˌɑːrkɪˈmiːdiːz / AR-kim-EE-deez; [2] c. 287 – c. 212 BC) was an Ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor from the ancient city of Syracuse in Sicily. [3] Although few details of his life are known, he is regarded as one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity.