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Dona Strauss (born 1934), British mathematician, founder of pointless topology and European Women in Mathematics; Anne Penfold Street (1932–2016), Australian combinatorialist, third woman mathematics professor in Australia; Ileana Streinu, Romanian-American computational geometer, expert on kinematics and structural rigidity
Hannah M. Fry HonFREng FIMA FIET (born 21 February 1984) is a British mathematician, author and broadcaster. As of 2025 she is the Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge [3] and president of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA). [4]
Also: United Kingdom: People: By occupation: Mathematicians / Women scientists: Women mathematicians This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:British mathematicians . It includes mathematicians that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
21st-century British women mathematicians (49 P) This page was last edited on 10 November 2023, at 10:02 (UTC). Text ...
Eugenia Loh-Gene Cheng is a British mathematician, educator and concert pianist. Her mathematical interests include higher category theory, and as a pianist she specialises in lieder and art song. [5] She is also known for explaining mathematics to non-mathematicians to combat math phobia, often using analogies with food and baking. [6]
Ruth Elke Lawrence-Neimark (Hebrew: רות אלקה לורנס-נאימרק, born 2 August 1971) is a British–Israeli mathematician and a professor of mathematics at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a researcher in knot theory and algebraic topology.
British women mathematicians by century (4 C) F. French women mathematicians by century (2 C) This page was last edited on 10 November 2023, at 11:29 (UTC). Text is ...
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 ...