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Pauline Sperry (1885–1967), mathematician, musician, and astronomer, unconstitutionally fired from UC Berkeley for refusing to sign a loyalty oath; Dolores Richard Spikes (1936–2015), African-American mathematician, first female university chancellor and first female president of a university system in the US
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 ...
Maryam Mirzakhani (Persian: مریم میرزاخانی, pronounced [mæɾˈjæm miːɾzɑːxɑːˈniː]; 12 May 1977 – 14 July 2017) was an Iranian [5] [4] mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. [6] [7] Her research topics included Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory, and symplectic geometry ...
Beyond the Limit: The Dream of Sofya Kovalevskaya (2002), ISBN 0765302330 LCCN 2002-24363, a biographical novel by mathematician and educator Joan Spicci, published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, is an historically accurate portrayal of her early married years and quest for an education. It is based in part on 88 of Kovalevskaya's letters ...
This is a List of Lists of mathematicians and covers notable mathematicians by nationality, ethnicity, religion, profession and other characteristics. Alphabetical lists are also available (see table to the right).
Pages in category "Women mathematicians" The following 124 pages are in this category, out of 124 total. ... Top Secret Rosies: The Female "Computers" of WWII;
1975: Julia Robinson became the first female mathematician elected to the National Academy of Sciences. [19] 1976-1977: Marjorie Rice, an amateur mathematician, discovered four new types of tessellating pentagons in 1976 and 1977. [20] [21] 1979: Dorothy Lewis Bernstein became the first female president of the Mathematical Association of ...
French women mathematicians by century (2 C) This page was last edited on 10 November 2023, at 11:29 (UTC). Text ...