Ruth Gentry
Ruth Gentry was a pioneering American woman mathematician. She worked mainly in geometry.
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Sheila Edmonds
Sheila Edmonds was an English mathematician who worked infinite series and went on to become Vice-Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge.
Sheila Macintyre
Sheila Scott Macintyre taught at the University of Aberdeen and worked in analysis.
Vera Pless
Vera Pless was an American mathematician who specialized in combinatorics and coding theory.
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 Newson
Mary Newson was an American mathematician. She became the first female American to receive a PhD in mathematics from a European university.
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.