Vera Pless
Vera Pless was an American mathematician who specialized in combinatorics and coding theory.
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Vivienne Malone-Mayes
Vivienne Malone-Mayes was an American mathematician and educationalist.
Winifred Edgerton Merrill
Winifred Edgerton was the first woman to receive a degree from Columbia University and the first American woman to receive a PhD in mathematics.
Mary W Gray
Mary Gray is an American mathematician, statistician, and lawyer. She has written on mathematics, education, computer science, statistics and academic freedom.
Mary Taylor Slow
Mary Taylor Slow was a British mathematician and physicist who worked on the theory of radio waves and the application of differential equations to physics.
Mildred Sanderson
Mildred Sanderson was L E Dickson’s first female Ph.D. student and was described by him as “my most gifted pupil.” Tragically, she died in the year following the award of her doctorate.
Lorna Swain
Lorna Mary Swain was a British mathematician who was one of few early female lecturers at the University of Cambridge.
Dr Mina Rees
Mina Spiegel Rees was an American mathematician and a pioneer in the history of computing. She had a major impact on the academic and research culture of the United States.
Margaret Barr Moir
Margaret Barr Moir was a Scottish mathematical physicist who became a lecturer in mathematics at the University of Western Australia in Perth. She may be the first woman appointed as a university lecturer in mathematics in Australia. She lost her job after the University had to make substantial cut-backs following the Great Depression.
Mollie Orshansky
Mollie Orshansky was an American economist and statistician who developed the Orshansky Poverty Thresholds, used for measuring household incomes.