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2012: The Working Committee for Women in Mathematics, Chinese Mathematical Society (WCWM-CMS) was founded; it is a national non-profit academic organization in which female mathematicians who are engaged in research, teaching, and applications of mathematics can share their scientific research through academic exchanges both in China and abroad ...
1981: Doris Schattschneider became the first female editor of Mathematics Magazine, a refereed bimonthly publication of the Mathematical Association of America. [24] [25] 1983: Julia Robinson became the first female president of the American Mathematical Society, [19] and the first female mathematician to be awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. [6]
Elza Furtado Gomide (1925–2013), Brazilian mathematician, first female doctorate in mathematics at University of São Paulo; Cohl Furey, Canadian mathematical physicist; Fumiko Futamura, Japanese-American mathematician, expert on graphical perspective
It includes mathematicians that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. ... The Female "Computers" of WWII;
Mary L. Cartwright (1900–1998), British mathematician [6] Amanda Chessell, British computer scientist; Ingrid Daubechies (born 1954), Belgian mathematician (Wavelets – first woman to receive the National Academy of Sciences Award in Mathematics) Tatjana Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa (1876–1964), Russian/Dutch mathematician
Noether grew up in the Bavarian city of Erlangen, depicted here in a 1916 postcard.. Emmy Noether was born on 23 March 1882. She was the first of four children of mathematician Max Noether and Ida Amalia Kaufmann, both from Jewish merchant families. [13]
Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD's is a book on women in mathematics.It was written by Judy Green and Jeanne LaDuke, based on a long study beginning in 1978, [1] and was published in 2009 by the American Mathematical Society and London Mathematical Society as volume 34 in their joint History of Mathematics series.
Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850–1891), Russian mathematician (partial differential equations, rotating solids, Abelian functions) [1]: 162 Augusta Ada Byron Lovelace (1815–1851), British mathematician [1]: 180 Emilie Martin (1869–1936), American mathematician; Florence Nightingale (1820–1910), British statistician and nurse