Ada Lovelace
Mathematician who wrote code for computers before they even existed, making her the first computer programmer
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Maria Gaetana Agnesi
Maria Agnesi was an Italian mathematician who is noted for her work in differential calculus. She discussed the cubic curve now known as the ‘witch of Agnesi’.
Nkechi Agwu
Nkechi Agwu is an expert on mathematical education and is particularly interested in ethnomathematics.
Grace Alele-Williams
Grace Alele-Williams was the first Nigerian to be awarded a doctorate. She became a professor of mathematical education, then the first female Nigerian Vice-Chancellor of the University of Benin.
Hertha Ayrton
Hertha Ayrton was an engineer and mathematician. She was awarded the Royal Society’s Hughes Medal, and is well known as a suffragette.
Laura Bassi
Laura Bassi was an Italian physicist and one of the earliest women to gain a position in an Italian university.
Hypatia
Hypatia of Alexandria (370-416), a mathematician and philosopher, one of the most eminent women teachers of antiquity, and one of the ablest of the later Greeks who preached the pagan philosophy.
Grace Hopper
At a very young age Grace Murray Hopper showed an interest in engineering. As a child, she would often take apart household goods and put them back together. Little did her family know, her curiosity would eventually gain her recognition from the highest office in the land.
Emmy Noether
Amalie Emmy Noether was a German mathematician who made many significant contributions to abstract algebra, despite facing anti-Semitism and being unable to get fair wages.
Dr Maryam Mirzakhani
Maryam Mirzakhani was an Iranian mathematician and Stanford University professor of mathematics. Her research areas included Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory, and symplectic geometry. In 2005, as a result of her research, she was acknowledged in Popular Science’s fourth annual “Brilliant 10” as one of the top 10 young minds who have pushed their fields in innovative directions.
On 13 August 2014, Mirzakhani received the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics, for her work in “the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces”. She was the first woman and the first Iranian to be honored with the award.