Germaine de Staël
French novelist, salon host and philosopher
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Wanda Szmielew
Wanda Szmielew was a Polish mathematical logician who first proved the decidability of the first-order theory of abelian groups.
Sophie Germain
Sophie Germain made a major contributions to number theory (in particular, the theory of primes), acoustics and elasticity.
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’.
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.
Themistoclea
Themistoclea was a priestess at the Temple of Apollo at Delphi and Pythagoras’s teacher.