She became the first African-American hired into a technical position at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, as a ‘computer’. JPL sent her on a programming training course at IBM and she learnt speed coding and was promoted to ‘mathematician’.
Irish Dominican sister, educator and mathematician
Catherine Mary Prime was Australia’s first female actuary, becoming a fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia (IAA) in 1971.
1600s Italian scholar, one of the first women to receive an academic degree from a university and the first to receive a Doctor of Philosophy
Jennifer Roma Seberry is Professor and former Head, Department of Computer Science at the University of Wollongong.
During World War II she worked at the Rolls-Royce factory, mathematically modelling the stress in aircraft engines, while undertaking an engineering from the University of London at night.
Fanny Cohen was a first class scholar in geology and mathematics at the University of Sydney and went on to study at the University of Cambridge. She returned to Sydney and in 1929 became headmistress of Fort Street Girls’ High School.
American mathematics educator and advocate
American mathematician and computer scientist
Australian mathematician and professor