Ruth Moufang
Ruth Moufang studied projective planes, introducing Moufang planes and non-associative systems called Moufang loops.
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Eléna Wexler-Kreindler
Eléna Wexler-Kreindler was a Romanian mathematician who worked in modern algebra. She spent most of her career in France.
Judita Cofman
Judita Cofman was the first person to be awarded a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Novi Sad. She worked on finite geometry and mathematical education. The second half of her career was as a school teacher in London.
Henda Swart
Henda Swart was the first person to be awarded a doctorate in mathematics from Stellenbosch University. She worked on the geometry of projective planes and graph theory. She became professor of mathematics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and served as editor-in-chief of the journal Utilitas Mathematica.
María Andresa Casamayor
María Andresa Casamayor was the first Spanish woman to publish a science book. In March 1738, when only 17 years old, she published the arithmetic text Tyrocinio arithmético designed to facilitate the learning of basic arithmetic: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Fan Chung
Fan Chung is a Taiwanese-born American mathematician who works mainly in graph theory.
Fatma Moalla
Fatma Moalla is a Tunisian mathematician who has undertaken research on Finsler spaces. In 1961 she became the first Tunisian to have been awarded the Agrégation in Mathematics in France and, in 1965, the first Tunisian woman to be awarded a doctorate in mathematics in France.
Marguerite Straus Frank
Marguerite Straus Frank is famed both for her remarkable new discoveries of simple Lie algebras, and her solution to the problem of maximising a concave quadratic function, now known as the Frank-Wolfe algorithm.
Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin
Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin was a French mathematician who worked in fluid mechanics and abstract algebra. She was the second woman in France to obtain a doctorate in pure mathematics.
Paulette Libermann
Paulette Libermann was a French mathematician who survived the terrors of World War II and made important contributions to differential geometry.