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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 was a priestess at the Temple of Apollo at Delphi; the priestesses were mentors and tutors to many ancient Greek philosophers.
Themistoclea was Pythagoras’ teacher, teaching him moral doctrines, according to Diogenes Laërtius’s 3rd-century biography of Pythagoras in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers.
Porphyry (233–305 CE) calls her Aristoclea (Aristokleia), although he is presumed to be talking about the same person. He states “(Pythagoras) taught much else, which he claimed to have learned from Aristoclea at Delphi.”