Alexandra Bellow
In her early career, she collaborated with her first husband, Cassius Ionescu-Tulcea, on lifting theory and martingales; she also did extensive work in the area of ergodic theory.
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Fátima de Madrid
Astronomer and writer
Wáng Zhènyì
Qing dynasty scientist Wang Zhenyi accomplished much in her short life, excelling particularly in astronomy, mathematics and poetry.
Dr Mildred Barnard
Australian statistician
Betty Allan
CSIRO’s first statistician.
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.
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.
Pauline Sperry
Pauline Sperry was an American mathematician who worked in projective differential geometry.
Phyllis Nicolson
Phyllis Nicolson was an English mathematician best known for her work in numerical analysis.
Ruth Gentry
Ruth Gentry was a pioneering American woman mathematician. She worked mainly in geometry.