Olga Taussky-Todd
Olga Taussky-Todd was an Austrian-born mathematician who worked on algebraic number theory and matrix theory.
Category Archives: Math
Continue reading
Amélie Harlay
Amélie Harlay was a French astronomer who published navigational tables and catalogues of stars.
Bernadette Perrin-Riou
Bernadette Perrin-Riou is a French mathematician who has made important contributions to number theory. She was awarded the 1999 Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize from the American Mathematical Society.
Jacqueline Ferrand
Jacqueline Ferrand was a French mathematician who worked on conformal representation theory, potential theory and Riemannian manifolds.
Soraya Sherif
Soraya Sherif is an Egyptian mathematician who was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham, England, for her thesis on Tauberian theorems. She taught at the University College for Girls, Ain Shams University, Cairo and has published many papers on Tauberian theorems.
Gamal Ismail
Gamal Ismail is an Egyptian mathematician who became Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University College of Women for Art, Science and Education at Ain Shams University in Cairo in 1995.
Marie Françoise Ouedraogo
Marie Françoise Ouedraogo became the first female doctorate from Burkina Faso. She is President of the African Women Mathematicians Association, and a member of IMU Women in Mathematics Advisory Group.
Cheryl Praeger
Cheryl Praeger is an Australian mathematician who has applied the ideas of symmetry to a wide variety of mathematical problems.
Herta Freitag
Herta Freitag was an Austrian-American mathematician known for her work on the Fibonacci numbers.
Ingrid Daubechies
Ingrid Daubechies is a Belgium mathematician and physicist who has done important work on wavelets in image compression. She is on the Board of Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education, an organisation which helps women get advanced degrees in mathematics.