Female Mathematicians

Welcome to the Touro female mathematicians topic guide! The purpose of this libGuide is to highlight the contributions of women around the world to the history of mathematics. This guide offers a variety of useful resources, including books and YouTube videos

Math Formulas (Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay)

The following is a list of the Library of Congress Call Number Browsing Guide ranges for mathematics materials, which can help you locate physical books on the shelves.

QA1 → 43 - General

QH47 → 59 - Tables

QH71 → 90 - Instruments & Machines

QA101 → 45 - Elementary Mathematics. Arithmetic

QA150 → 272.5 - Algebra

QA273 → 280 - Probabilities. Mathematical Statistics

QA299.6 → 433 - Analysis

QA440 → 699 - Geometry. Trigonometry. Topology

QA801 → 939 - Analytic Mechanics

Another rich source of information is Touro’s databases. The following databases

BASE [Open Access]
Resources included journals, institutional repositories, and digital collections

EBSCO multi-search 
Gives you access to journals, magazines, and peer-reviewed articles covering a wide range of academic subjects.

JSTOR 
An online digital collection of academic journals, ebooks, and primary sources. 

OAIster [Open Access]
Has digital resources from open archive collections

ProQuest One Academic 
Access to journals, ebooks, dissertations, news, video and primary sources.

Biographies or information on individual female mathematicians from antiquity to the twentieth century

1. Hypatia (370 – 415 AD)

2. Theano of Crotone (6th-century BC)

1. Marie Crous (fl. 1641) 

2. Elena Cornaro Piscopia (1646 – 1684)

1. Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718 – 1799)

2. Maria Angela Ardinghelli (1730 –1825) 

3. Celia Grillo Borromeo (1684 – 1777) 

4. María Andresa Casamayor (1720 – 1780)

5. Émilie du Châtelet (1706 - 1749)

6. Mary Edwards (c. 1750–1815)

• Women in Early British and Irish Astronomy: Stars and Satellites

7.Caroline Herschel (1750 – 1848)

8. Faustina Pignatelli (d. 1785)

1. Sophie Germain (1776-1831)

2. Sofya Kovalevskaya (1850 – 1891)

3. Ada Lovelace (1815 – 1852)

• The San Diego Supercomputer Center presents Women in Science
• School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St Andrews, Scotland

4. Mary Somerville (1780 – 1872)

1. Noriko H. Arai (1961 – Present)

2. Marjorie Lee Browne (1914 – 1979) 

3. Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright (1900 – 1998)

4. Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (1858 – 1964)

5. Katherine Johnson (1918-2020)

6. Maryam Mirzakhani (1977-2017)

7. Cathleen Synge Morawetz (1923–2017)

8. Emmy Noether (1882 – 1935)

9. Julia Bowman Robinson (1919-1985)

10. Valerie Thomas (1943-Present)

11. Dorothy Vaughan (1910-2008)

12. Gladys West (1930 - )

To find additional information online, try the following websites:

1. African women with a doctorate in mathematics 1

2. Biographies of Women Mathematicians

3. The Davis historical archive: Mathematical Women in the British Isles, 1878-1940

4. Great Women of Mathematics

5. History of Black Women in Mathematics

6. History of Scientific Women

7. Prizes, Awards, and Honors for Women Mathematicians

8. Publications: Biographies and Histories of Women Mathematical Scientists

9. Women in Mathematics (Canadian Women in Mathematics)

YouTube is another great source of information. Here are some useful videos: