Category Archives: Math

Carolyn Eisele was a mathematician who spent her whole career teaching at Hunter College. She is famed for her work on Charles Sanders Peirce, particularly in seeing the importance of mathematics in his work on philosophy and logic.

Catherine Steele graduated from the University of St Andrews. She went on to a doctorate in Chemistry and studied at the University of Illinois and at Harvard. She taught for some time at a Horticultural College in Kent before returning to the USA.

Sheila Power was an Irish mathematician and theoretical physicist.

Siobhán Vernon was the first Irish-born woman to get a PhD in pure mathematics in Ireland.

Valentina Borok was a Ukranian mathematician who worked in partial differential equations.

Vera Kublanovskaya was a Russian mathematician who developed computational methods for solving spectral problems of algebra.

Vera Nikolaevna Faddeeva was a Russian mathematician who worked in the field of numerical linear algebra.

Anne Cobbe was an English mathematician who worked in algebra.