Math Archives - Page 26 of 29

Argelia Velez-Rodriguez

Argelia Velez-Rodriguez is a Cuban-American mathematician and educator. She was the first Black woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics in Cuba.

Dorothy Maud Wrinch

Dorothy Maud Wrinch was an Argentinian-English-American mathematician and biochemist famous for her use of mathematical techniques to deduce protein structure.

Cora Sadosky was born in Argentina and became Professor of Mathematics at Howard University in the United States. She wrote over fifty papers in harmonic analysis and operator theory. She promoted women in mathematics as well encouraging greater participation of African-Americans in mathematics.

Verdiana Masanja

Verdiana Masanja is the first Tanzanian woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics. She became a professor at the University of Dar es Salaam. She works to increase women’s participation in science, mathematics and technology education in Africa.

Katherine Johnson

Katherine Johnson was an African-American mathematician who made contributions to NASA’s space program. She was featured in the book and film Hidden Figures.

Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat

Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat is a French mathematician and physicist who made important contributions to the general theory of relativity. She was the first woman to be elected to the French Academy of Sciences.

Nicole-Reine Lepaute

Nicole-Reine Lepaute was a French noblewoman who helped Lalande with astronomical calculations.

Cecily Tanner Young

Cecily Tanner published excellent papers on Riemann-Stieltjes integrals, then she became interested in the history of mathematics.

Émilie du Châtelet

Émilie du Châtelet was a French noblewoman who became important to mathematics as the translator of Newton’s Principia.

Talitha Washington

Talitha Washington is an American mathematician who, in 2001, became the first African American to graduate with a doctorate in mathematics from the University of Connecticut. She became co-leader of the National Science Foundation’s ‘Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions’ programme and won the 2019 Black Engineer of the Year STEM Innovator Award.