Female Mathematicians

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: