Lenore Blum
Lenore Blum is an American mathematician who has made important advances in computer science.
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Euphemia Lofton Haynes
Euphemia Lofton Haynes was an American mathematician and educator, and the first African-American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics.
Evelyn Boyd Granville
Evelyn Boyd Granville was only the second African-American woman to receive a PhD in mathematics from an American University. She worked in computing.
Christine Hamill
Christine Hamill was an English mathematician who specialised in group theory and finite geometry.
Doris Schattschneider
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
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.
Dorothy Lewis Bernstein
Dorothy Bernstein was awarded a Ph.D. in 1939 and had an excellent career overcoming prejudice against her as a woman and as a Jew. She became the first woman president of the Mathematical Association of America.
Dusa McDuff
Dusa McDuff is an English mathematician who works on symplectic geometry.
Edna Kramer
Edna Ernestine Kramer Lassar was an American mathematician and author of mathematics books.
Eleanor Pairman
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.