‘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.
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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).
Rózsa Péter
Rózsa Péter was a Hungarian mathematician and logician. She became a founder of recursive function theory.
Yewande Olubummo
Yewande Olubummo is a Nigerian mathematician who works in the United States. In 2006-2010 she was chair of the mathematics department at Spelman College. She publishes papers on functional analysis and dynamical systems. With National Science Foundation support she led a programme to encourage minority undergraduates in mathematics to go on to graduate study.
Louise Hay
Louise Szmir Hay was a French-born American mathematician who worked on recursively enumerable sets and computational complexity theory.
Anneli Cahn Lax
Anneli Lax was a Polish-born American mathematician who was important for her contributions to mathematical education and mathematical publishing.
Elizabeth Stephansen
Elizabeth Stephansen was a Norwegian mathematician and educator who was the first Norwegian woman to be awarded a doctoral degree in science.
Annie MacKinnon Fitch
Annie MacKinnon was the third woman to be awarded a Ph.D. in mathematics from an American university. She was a postdoctoral student at Göttingen with Felix Klein, then a Professor of Mathematics at Wells College, New York. She gave up her career when she married Edward Fitch.
Pia Nalli
Pia Nalli was an Italian mathematician known for her work on algebraic geometry, functional analysis and tensor analysis.