Math Archives - Page 13 of 24

Gloria Hewitt Conyers

Gloria Hewitt is an American mathematician who undertook research in algebra. She became the first African American woman to chair a university mathematics department in the United States.

Laila Soueif is an Egyptian mathematician who became a professor of mathematics at Cairo University. She is an activist for human rights and has been involved in many demonstrations including calling for academic freedom at Cairo University.

Lyudmila Keldysh

Lyudmila Keldysh was a Russian mathematician known for her work in set theory and geometric topology.

Marina Ratner

Marina Ratner was a Russian mathematician who worked in Israel and America. She worked in ergodic theory.

Marjorie Lee Browne

Marjorie Lee Browne was an American mathematical educator. She was one of the first African-American women to receive a Ph.D.

Abigail Thompson

Abigail Thompson is an American mathematician who studies combinatorial methods in 3-dimensional topology.

Muriel Kennett Wales

In 1941 Muriel Wales was awarded a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Toronto. She worked at the Montreal Laboratory of the National Research Council of Canada but from 1950 worked as a claims agent for her step-father’s shipping company.

Alice Lee

Alice Lee was awarded a D.Sc. in 1899, and had an outstanding career as a statistician working in both Bedford College and University College in London. Her work was important in disproving the belief that skull size was related to intelligence, the argument that was being used at that time to “prove” women were intellectually inferior to men.

Olga Oleinik

Olga Oleinik was a Ukrainian mathematician who worked on the theory of partial differential equations.

Alice Bache Gould

Alice Bache Gould was an American mathematician, philanthropist and historian, who spent much of her time in South America and Spain.