Math Archives - Infinite Women

Alison Dillon

Alison Dillon was an excellent mathematician and an outstanding secondary school teacher with a unique teaching style.

Amy Rayson was a graduate of Girton College, University of Cambridge but spent most of her career teaching mathematics in private schools in New York. She was one of the first seven women to join the New York Mathematical Society in 1891.

Graciela Salicrup

Graciela Salicrup trained as an architect and then worked as an archaeologist. She became a mathematics undergraduate at the age of 29 and went on to the become a leading topologist.

Dr Vera Spinadel

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.

Zofia Szmydt

Zofia Szmydt was a Polish mathematician who became the first woman to win the prestigious Stefan Banach Prize from the Polish Mathematical Society in 1956.

Ene-Margit Tiit

Ene-Margit Tiit is an Estonian mathematician who was the first president of the Estonian Statistical Society.

Claire Voisin

Award-winning French mathematician who has proved many remarkable results in algebraic geometry, particularly in finding counterexamples to conjectures.

Jane Wadsworth

Statistician who applied her skills to data coming from a wide range of topics relating to medical research. She devoted the latter part of her life to combatting the AIDS epidemic by constructing and carrying out surveys to establish the pattern of HIV infection in Britain.

Dr Agnes Wells

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.

Sarah Woodhead

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.