Math Archives - Page 17 of 24

Hanna Neumann

Hanna Neumann worked in group theory. Her thesis examined free products with amalgamation. Later she worked on varieties of groups and her book Varieties of Groups (1967) is a classic.

Gertrude Blanch

Gertrude Blanch was a Polish born American mathematician who did pioneering work in numerical analysis and computation.

Hildegard Rothe-Ille was a German mathematician advised by Issai Schur. She married the mathematician Erich Rothe in 1928 and after her marriage reviewed around 170 papers before having to flee from the Nazi regime in 1937.

Pilar Ribeiro

Pilar Ribeiro was a co-founder of the journal Gazeta de Matemática and co-founder of the Portuguese Mathematical Society, serving as its First Secretary. Along with her husband, the mathematician Hugo Ribeira, she spent 30 years in exile because of her opposition to the authoritarian Estado Novo regime in Portugal.

Elena Moldovan Popoviciu

Elena Popoviciu was a Romanian mathematician who worked in functional analysis.

Wanda Szmielew

Wanda Szmielew was a Polish mathematical logician who first proved the decidability of the first-order theory of abelian groups.

Krystyna Kuperberg

Krystyna Kuperberg is a Polish mathematician who works in America. She is known for her work in dynamical systems, geometry and topology.

‘Mamphono Khaketla

‘Mamphono Khaketla is a Lesotho mathematician who became a lecturer in mathematics at the National Teacher Training College. She has served in the Lesotho government, holding positions such as Minister of Education and Training.

Bhama Srinivasan

Bhama Srinivasan is an Indian-born mathematician who has worked in England and America and is known for her work in the representation theory of finite groups.

Vera Turán Sós

Vera Sós is a Hungarian mathematician who specialises in number theory and combinatorics. She worked at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics and has won many prizes including the Tibor Szele Medal (1974) and the Széchenyi Prize (1997).