Cecily Tanner Young
Cecily Tanner published excellent papers on Riemann-Stieltjes integrals, then she became interested in the history of mathematics.
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Émilie du Châtelet
Émilie du Châtelet was a French noblewoman who became important to mathematics as the translator of Newton’s Principia.
Talitha Washington
Talitha Washington is an American mathematician who, in 2001, became the first African American to graduate with a doctorate in mathematics from the University of Connecticut. She became co-leader of the National Science Foundation’s ‘Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions’ programme and won the 2019 Black Engineer of the Year STEM Innovator Award.
Pandrosion
Pandrosion was a mathematician who flourished in the first half of the 4th century.
Karen Uhlenbeck
Karen Uhlenbeck is an American mathematician who is a leading expert on partial differential equations.
Kate Okikiolu
Katherine Okikiolu was awarded a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers for both her mathematical research and her development of mathematics curricula for inner-city school children.
Kathleen Ollerenshaw
Kathleen Ollerenshaw was an English mathematician and educationalist who overcame deafness and went on to become an important political advisor. She was elected Lord Mayor of Manchester.
Jean Jennings Bartik
Jean Bartik was an American mathematician famous as one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer.
Margaret Ashworth
Margaret Millington was an English-born mathematician. She made important contributions to modular forms, but died very young.
Lai-Sang Young
Lai-Sang Young is a Hong Kong born American mathematican known for her work on ergodic properties of dynamical systems.