Lorna Swain
Lorna Mary Swain was a British mathematician who was one of few early female lecturers at the University of Cambridge.
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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.
Margaret Rayner
Margaret Rayner was a British mathematician who did important work on isoperimetric inequalities, mathematical education, and the history of mathematics. She became vice principal of St Hilda’s College, Oxford and president of the Mathematical Association.
Nora Calderwood
Nora Calderwood graduated from Edinburgh University and went on to a lectureship at Birmingham University. A prize in algebra at Birmingham is named after her.
Marguerite Lehr
Marguerite Lehr was an outstanding lecturer and, as one of the first to present a course of mathematics on television in 1952-53, she was in great demand both as a lecturer and as a consultant for presenting mathematics on film or TV.
Mary Fasenmyer
Mary Celine Fasenmyer was an American mathematician known for her work on hypergeometric functions and linear algebra.
Marjorie Senechal
Marjorie Senechal is an American mathematician who worked on tessellations and quasicrystals. She won the Mathematical Association of America’s Carl B Allendoerfer Award for excellence in expository writing in Mathematics Magazine for her article, Which Tetrahedra Fill Space? Her book American Silk 1830-1930 won the Millia Davenport Publication Award of the Costume Society of America.
Marion Gray
Marion Gray was a Scottish mathematician who went to Bryn Mawr College in the USA. The Gray graph is named after her.