Cheryl Praeger
Cheryl Praeger is an Australian mathematician who has applied the ideas of symmetry to a wide variety of mathematical problems.
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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.
Hilda von Mises Geiringer
Hilda Geiringer was an Austrian-born mathematician who worked in Statistics and Mechanics.
Sijue Wu
Sijue Wu was born and brought up in China but went to the United States to study for her doctorate. She became Robert W and Lynne H Browne Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan. Her research involves the mathematics of water waves.
Helena Rasiowa
Helena Rasiowa was an Austrian-born Polish mathematician who worked in algebraic logic and the mathematical foundations of computer science.
Olga Ladyzhenskaya
Olga Ladyzhenskaya was a Russian mathematician who worked on partial differential equations and finite-difference methods.
Sof’ja Janovskaja
Sof’ja Aleksandrovna Janovskaja was a Belarus-born mathematician who worked on the philosophy of mathematics and logic.
Sophie Germain
Sophie Germain made a major contributions to number theory (in particular, the theory of primes), acoustics and elasticity.
Joséphine Guidy-Wandja
Joséphine Guidy-Wandja was the first African woman with a Doctorat 3ème cycle in mathematics (Paris VI), the first African woman with a Ph.D. in mathematics (Abidjan) and the first African woman to become a professor of mathematics in a university (Abidjan).