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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.
British women mathematicians (3 C, 83 P) A. British applied mathematicians (1 C, 12 P) B. British bioinformaticians (31 P) C. British cryptographers (3 C, 57 P) F.
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 ...
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.
21st-century British women mathematicians (49 P) This page was last edited on 10 November 2023, at 10:02 (UTC). Text ...
Dusa McDuff FRS CorrFRSE (born 18 October 1945) is an English mathematician who works on symplectic geometry. She was the first recipient of the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics, [4] was a Noether Lecturer, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society. She is currently the Helen Lyttle Kimmel '42 Professor of Mathematics at Barnard College. [5]