Mileva Marić

Mileva Marić’s career as a brilliant mathematician ended before it ever truly began. The only woman in her class at Zürich Polytechnic and the second woman to finish a full program of study at the Department of Mathematics and Physics in the 1890s, her studies were interrupted when she became pregnant in 1901 by a classmate – Albert Einstein. She would work, uncredited, with Einstein for years.

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Olive Hazlett

Olive Clio Hazlett was an American mathematician who worked in algebra. Between 1914 and 1930 she published fourteen papers that were presented at meetings of the American Mathematical Society. She did outstanding work for the Cryptanalysis Committee during World War II.

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Sheila Edmonds

Sheila Edmonds was an English mathematician who worked infinite series and went on to become Vice-Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge.

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