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Ancient Greek Egyptian mathematician Hypatia was the subject of many literary interpretations in the 19th and 20th centuries. Here, she is portrayed by Marie Spartali in an 1867 photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron. Ruth Haas, American mathematician known for mentorship of other women mathematicians; Violet B. Haas (1926–1986), American ...
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]
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 ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:21st-century mathematicians. It includes 21st-century mathematicians that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
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Known in Ghana as the Maths Queen, Dr Angela Tabiri is the first African to win The Big Internet Math Off competition - quite an achievement for someone who had not initially planned to study ...
Women mathematicians by century (5 C, 1 P) Women mathematicians by nationality (37 C, 1 P) > Fellows of the Association for Women in Mathematics (104 P) B.
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]