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Svetlana Jitomirskaya is a Ukranian-born American mathematician who is known for her work on dynamical systems and mathematical physics.

Cypra Cecilia Krieger Dunaj was the first woman to earn a PhD in mathematics from a Canadian university and only the third person to be awarded a mathematics doctorate in Canada. She is best known for her English translation of Sierpinski’s Introduction to General Topology (1934) and General Topology (1952)

Eléna Wexler-Kreindler was a Romanian mathematician who worked in modern algebra. She spent most of her career in France.

Paulette Libermann was a French mathematician who survived the terrors of World War II and made important contributions to differential geometry.

Olga Taussky-Todd was an Austrian-born mathematician who worked on algebraic number theory and matrix theory.

Vera Sós is a Hungarian mathematician who specialises in number theory and combinatorics. She worked at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics and has won many prizes including the Tibor Szele Medal (1974) and the Széchenyi Prize (1997).

Rózsa Péter was a Hungarian mathematician and logician. She became a founder of recursive function theory.

Louise Szmir Hay was a French-born American mathematician who worked on recursively enumerable sets and computational complexity theory.

Hilda Geiringer was an Austrian-born mathematician who worked in Statistics and Mechanics.