Johanna Weber
Johanna Weber was a mathematician who began her career in Germany but continued after World War II in England. She worked on aerodynamics and played a large part in designing the wings of Concorde and of the Airbus.
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Marion Walter
Marion Ilse Walter was born in Berlin and escaped the Nazis on the Kindertransport to England. She emigrated to the United States in 1948 and after earning her doctorate, founded the Mathematics Department at Simmons College. She published over 40 journal articles, several children’s books, and the popular book The Art of Problem Posing.
Krystyna Kuperberg
Krystyna Kuperberg is a Polish mathematician who works in America. She is known for her work in dynamical systems, geometry and topology.
Eléna Wexler-Kreindler
Eléna Wexler-Kreindler was a Romanian mathematician who worked in modern algebra. She spent most of her career in France.
Judita Cofman
Judita Cofman was the first person to be awarded a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Novi Sad. She worked on finite geometry and mathematical education. The second half of her career was as a school teacher in London.
Henda Swart
Henda Swart was the first person to be awarded a doctorate in mathematics from Stellenbosch University. She worked on the geometry of projective planes and graph theory. She became professor of mathematics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and served as editor-in-chief of the journal Utilitas Mathematica.
María Andresa Casamayor
María Andresa Casamayor was the first Spanish woman to publish a science book. In March 1738, when only 17 years old, she published the arithmetic text Tyrocinio arithmético designed to facilitate the learning of basic arithmetic: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Fan Chung
Fan Chung is a Taiwanese-born American mathematician who works mainly in graph theory.
Fatma Moalla
Fatma Moalla is a Tunisian mathematician who has undertaken research on Finsler spaces. In 1961 she became the first Tunisian to have been awarded the Agrégation in Mathematics in France and, in 1965, the first Tunisian woman to be awarded a doctorate in mathematics in France.
Marguerite Straus Frank
Marguerite Straus Frank is famed both for her remarkable new discoveries of simple Lie algebras, and her solution to the problem of maximising a concave quadratic function, now known as the Frank-Wolfe algorithm.