Alice Turner Schafer
Alice Schafer was an American mathematician who was one of the founding members of the Association for Women in Mathematics.
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Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler
Anna Johnson Wheeler was an American mathematician. She is best known for early work on linear algebra in infinite dimensions, which has later become a part of functional analysis.
Anna Henriques
Anna Stafford Henriques was an American mathematician who became one of the first two women to undertake research at the Institute for Advanced Study. She worked at several universities concentrating on teaching.
Christine Ladd-Franklin
Christine Ladd-Franklin was an American psychologist, logician and mathematician who was one of the earliest women to work in American universities.
Elizaveta Litvinova Ivashkina
Elizaveta Litvinova was the second woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics. A competent mathematician, she was denied the possibility to teach and research at high levels in Russia. She was a friend of Sofia Kovalevskaya and wrote a biography of her and of other mathematicians. She also wrote around 70 articles on teaching mathematics.
Emma Castelnuovo
Emma Castelnuovo was an Italian mathematician known for her contributions to mathematics education.
Ruth Moufang
Ruth Moufang studied projective planes, introducing Moufang planes and non-associative systems called Moufang loops.
Agnes Scott
Agnes Scott graduated from Edinburgh University in 1917. She went on to teach at Raffles’ Girls School in Singapore.
Alicia Boole Stott
Alicia Boole Stott was a daughter of George Boole who made some discoveries in four-dimensional geometry.
Annie Scott Dill Maunder
Annie Scott Dill Maunder was a Northern Irish astronomer and mathematician who studied the mathematical tripos at Cambridge then worked at the Royal Observatory Greenwich. She was the first to find evidence of the movement of sunspot emergence from the poles toward the equator over the sun’s 11-year cycle.