Category Archives: Math

Christine Hamill was an English mathematician who specialised in group theory and finite geometry.

Doris Schattschneider is an American mathematician who became professor of mathematics at the Moravian College. She was the first female editor of Mathematics Magazine and won many awards for her excellence in expository writing.

Dorothy Foster studied at Bedford College and was awarded a Ph.D. by the University of London in 1960. Except for a few years as an Assistant Lecturer in Mathematics at Royal Holloway College, London, she spent her whole career at the University of St Andrews. She was an expert on geometric number theory.

Dusa McDuff is an English mathematician who works on symplectic geometry.

Edna Ernestine Kramer Lassar was an American mathematician and author of mathematics books.

Eleanor Pairman graduated from Edinburgh. She went to London where she worked with Karl Pearson and then went to the USA where she gained a doctorate from Radcliffe College.

Elizabeth Scott was an American mathematician who worked in statistics.

Elizabeth Fennema is an American mathematician who worked on mathematical education. She was received many honours such as the first Annual Award for Outstanding Contribution to Research on Women and Education from the American Educational Research Association, and the Dora Helen Skypek Award from the Association for Women and Mathematics Education.