Hilda von Mises Geiringer
Hilda Geiringer was an Austrian-born mathematician who worked in Statistics and Mechanics.
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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).
Marie-Hélène Schwartz Lévy
Marie-Hélène Schwartz was the daughter of Paul Lévy and the wife of Laurent Schwartz. She lived through very difficult times but went on to have an outstanding career at the University of Lille. She worked on functions of a complex variable, Ahlfors theory, the Poincaré-Hopf theorem, and finally characteristic classes of singular varieties.
Olabisi Ugbebor
Olabisi Ugbebor is the first female professor of mathematics in Nigeria. She has written many papers on Brownian motion and on economics, and is a co-author of books such as Further Mathematics, Analytical Geometry and Mechanics, and Fundamentals of Abstract Algebra.
Argelia Velez-Rodriguez
Argelia Velez-Rodriguez is a Cuban-American mathematician and educator. She was the first Black woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics in Cuba.