Vera W de Spinadel was the first woman to be awarded a mathematics Ph.D. by the University of Buenos Aires. She was an Argentine mathematician whose main contributions were to mathematics in architecture, art, and design. She introduced the “metallic means family” which generalises the Golden Ratio.
Award-winning French mathematician who has proved many remarkable results in algebraic geometry, particularly in finding counterexamples to conjectures.
Agnes Wells was an American mathematician and astronomer who worked during the first half of the 20th century. She spent most of her career expertly guiding women students and trying to improve the status of women in American society.
Mary Gray is an American mathematician, statistician, and lawyer. She has written on mathematics, education, computer science, statistics and academic freedom.
Sarah Woodhead was one of five pioneering female students at Girton College, Cambridge, which was established to allow women to benefit from a university education, and became the first woman to pass the Tripos examinations in mathematics at Cambridge.
Vicky Neale was an exceptional university teacher and had the ability to bring many people to mathematics through her outreach work.
Stanisława Nikodym was the first Polish woman to obtain the degree of Ph.D. in mathematics. She wrote papers on analysis, some with her husband Otton Nikodym. She is also known as a painter.
Izabela Abramowicz was a Polish mathematician who was the first woman to be awarded a gold medal and a first-degree diploma in mathematics from the University of Kyiv. She was an outstanding school teacher awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta and other awards for her educational achievements.
Guacolda Antoine Lazzerini was a mathematics teacher at both school and university level in Chile. She made many contributions to the development of education in Chile during her long active life.
Sylvia de Neymet was the first Mexican woman to be awarded a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1966. She taught university courses for almost 40 years, published several excellent papers and one book.