Female Mathematicians

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)

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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)

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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 - )