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This is a list of women who have made noteworthy contributions to or achievements in mathematics.[1] [2] [3] These include mathematical research, mathematics education,[1] : xii the history and philosophy of mathematics, public outreach, and mathematics contests.

A [edit]

Maria Gaetana Agnesi wrote one of the first calculus textbooks in 1748. She was offered a professorship by the Bologna Academy of Sciences, making her the first female mathematics professor since antiquity, but it is unknown whether she accepted.[4]

  • Karen Aardal (born 1961), Norwegian and Dutch applied mathematician, theoretical computer scientist, and operations researcher
  • Hanan Mohamed Abdelrahman, Egyptian and Norwegian mathematics educator
  • Izabela Abramowicz (1889–1973), Polish mathematician and mathematics educator
  • Louise Doris Adams (1889–1965), British mathematics reformer, president of the Mathematical Association
  • Rachel Blodgett Adams (1894–1982), American mathematician, one of the earliest mathematics doctorates from Radcliffe College
  • Tatyana Afanasyeva (1876–1964), Russian-Dutch researcher in statistical mechanics, randomness, and geometry education
  • Amandine Aftalion (born 1973), French applied mathematician, studies superfluids and the mathematics of footracing
  • Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718–1799), Italian mathematician and philosopher, possibly the first female mathematics professor
  • Ilka Agricola (born 1973), German expert on differential geometry and its applications in mathematical physics
  • Nkechi Agwu (born 1962), African American ethnomathematician
  • Dorit Aharonov (born 1970), Israeli specialist in quantum computing
  • Beatrice Aitchison (1908–1997), American topologist who became a transportation economist in the US civil service
  • Noreen Sher Akbar, Pakistani fluid dynamicist
  • Asuman Aksoy, Turkish-American functional analyst
  • Meike Akveld, Swiss knot theorist and mathematics educator
  • Mara Alagic, Serbian mathematics educator, editor-in-chief of Journal of Mathematics and the Arts
  • Lara Alcock, British mathematics educator and author
  • Helen Popova Alderson (1924–1972), Russian and British mathematician and translator, wrote on quasigroups and reciprocity laws
  • Grace Alele-Williams (born 1932), first woman to lead a Nigerian university
  • Aldona Aleškevičienė-Statulevičienė (1936–2017), Lithuanian probability theorist
  • Stephanie B. Alexander, American differential geometer
  • Florence Eliza Allen (1876–1960), second female and fourth overall mathematics PhD from the University of Wisconsin
  • Linda J. S. Allen, American mathematician and mathematical biologist
  • Elizabeth S. Allman (born 1965), American mathematical biologist
  • Ann S. Almgren, American applied mathematician who works on computational simulations of supernovae and white dwarfs
  • Melania Alvarez, Mexican-Canadian mathematics educator, organizer of summer mathematics camps for indigenous students
  • Yvette Amice (1936–1993), French expert on p-adic analysis who became president of the French mathematical society
  • Divsha Amirà (1899–1966), Israeli geometer and mathematics educator
  • T. A. Sarasvati Amma (1918–2000), Historian of ancient Indian mathematics
  • Astrid an Huef, New Zealand expert on functional analysis, president of New Zealand Mathematical Society
  • Nalini Anantharaman (born 1976), French mathematical physicist, winner of the Henri Poincaré Prize
  • Beverly Anderson (born 1943), American mathematician, director of minority programs for Mathematical Sciences Education Board
  • Kirsti Andersen (born 1941), Danish historian of mathematics
  • Cabiria Andreian Cazacu (1928–2018), Romanian complex analyst
  • Hajnal Andréka (born 1947), Hungarian researcher in algebraic logic
  • Annie Dale Biddle Andrews (1885–1940), algebraic geometer, first female PhD from the University of California, Berkeley
  • Grace Andrews (mathematician) (1869–1951), one of only two women listed in the first edition of American Men of Science
  • Kathleen Antonelli (1921–2006), Irish-American programmer of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer
  • Noriko H. Arai (born 1962), Japanese mathematical logician and artificial intelligence researcher
  • Crista Arangala, American numerical analyst, textbook author, and international educator
  • Carolina Araujo, Brazilian algebraic geometer
  • Maria Angela Ardinghelli (1730–1825), Italian translator of Stephen Hales, mathematician, physicist and noble
  • Esther Arkin, Israeli-American researcher in operations research and computational geometry
  • Sandra Arlinghaus, founder of the Institute of Mathematical Geography
  • Marie-Claude Arnaud, French expert in dynamical systems
  • Elayne Arrington, American aerospace engineer, expert on Soviet aircraft
  • Michèle Artigue (born 1946), French expert in mathematics education
  • Natascha Artin Brunswick (1909–2003), German-American mathematician, photographer, and journal editor
  • Shiri Artstein (born 1978), Israeli mathematician specializing in convex geometry and asymptotic geometric analysis
  • Marcia Ascher (1935–2013), American ethnomathematician
  • Winifred Asprey (1917–2007), helped establish the first computer science lab at Vassar
  • Michèle Audin (born 1954), French researcher in symplectic geometry
  • Tamara Awerbuch-Friedlander, American biomathematician and public health scientist
  • Hertha Ayrton (1854–1923), English engineer, mathematician, physicist, and inventor, winner of the Hughes Medal

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  • Ellen Baake (born 1961), German mathematical biologist
  • Wealthy Babcock (1895–1990), American mathematician, namesake of Kansas University mathematics library
  • Christine Bachoc (born 1964), French expert on coding theory and kissing numbers
  • Clara Latimer Bacon (1866–1948), first woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics from Johns Hopkins University
  • Jenny Baglivo (born 1948), American mathematician, statistician, and book author
  • Hajer Bahouri (born 1958), Franco-Tunisian mathematician interested in partial differential equations
  • Ann E. Bailie (born 1935), American mathematician and space scientist, discovered that the earth is pear-shaped
  • Frances Ellen Baker (1902–1995), American mathematician and number theorist
  • Kitty Baker (1912–2014), American mathematics educator, artist and weaver, and author
  • Rose Baker, British physicist, mathematician, and statistician
  • Ruth Baker, British mathematical biologist interested in pattern formation and morphogenesis
  • Viviane Baladi (born 1963), Swiss-French expert on dynamical systems
  • Jennifer Balakrishnan, American number theorist who solved the "cursed curve"
  • Deborah Loewenberg Ball, American mathematics education researcher
  • Catherine Bandle (born 1943), Swiss expert on differential equations and isoperimetric inequalities
  • Selenne Bañuelos (born 1985), Mexican-American mathematician and mathematical biologist
  • Hélène Barcelo (born 1954), mathematician from Québec, editor-in-chief of Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A
  • Grace Marie Bareis (1875–1962), American group theorist, first mathematics Ph.D. at Ohio State, and founding member of the MAA
  • Nina Bari (1901–1961), Soviet mathematician known for her work on trigonometric series
  • Ruth Aaronson Bari (1917–2005), American mathematician known for her work in graph theory and homomorphisms
  • Mildred Barnard (1908–2000), Australian biometrician, mathematician and statistician
  • Janet Barnett, American mathematician known for integrating the history of mathematics into her teaching
  • Ida Barney (1886–1982), American mathematics professor and astronomer
  • Charlotte Barnum (1860–1934), mathematician and social activist, first female mathematics PhD from Yale
  • Margaret Baron (1915–1996), British mathematics educator and historian of mathematics
  • Lida Barrett (1927–2021), second female president of the MAA
  • June Barrow-Green (born 1953), British historian of mathematics
  • Jean Bartik (1924–2011), one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer
  • Estelle Basor (born 1947), American mathematician interested in operator theory and the theory of random matrices
  • Marjorie Batchelor, American mathematician known for Batchelor's theorem on supermanifolds
  • Grace Bates (1914–1996), one of few women in the United States to be granted a PhD in mathematics in the 1940s
  • Lynn Batten (born 1948), Canadian immigrant to Australia, researcher in finite geometries and cryptography
  • Helga Baum (born 1954), German differential geometer
  • Patricia E. Bauman, studies the mathematics of liquid crystals and superconductors
  • Karin Baur, Swiss combinatorial representation theorist
  • Agnes Sime Baxter (1870–1917), second Canadian and fourth North American woman to earn a mathematics PhD
  • Margaret Bayer, American mathematician working in polyhedral combinatorics
  • Pilar Bayer (born 1946), Spanish number theorist
  • Eva Bayer-Fluckiger (born 1951), Hungarian-Swiss mathematician, proved Serre's conjecture on Galois cohomology of classical groups
  • Jillian Beardwood (1934–2019), British mathematician, contributed to the traveling salesperson problem
  • Karine Beauchard (born 1978), French control theorist
  • Miriam Becker (1909–2000), American mathematician whose career became a test case for unionization and academic tenure
  • Astrid Beckmann (born 1957), German mathematician, mathematics educator, physicist, and academic administrator
  • May Beenken (1901–1988), American mathematician
  • Janet Beery, American mathematician and historian of mathematics
  • Mary Beisiegel, American mathematics educator
  • Marion Beiter (1907–1982), American mathematician, expert on cyclotomic polynomials
  • Hélène Bellosta (1946–2011), French historian of mathematics in medieval Islam
  • Alexandra Bellow (born 1935), Romanian researcher in ergodic theory, probability and analysis
  • Margherita Piazzola Beloch (1879–1976), Italian researcher in algebraic geometry, algebraic topology and photogrammetry
  • Suzan Rose Benedict (1873–1942), first woman to earn a PhD from the University of Michigan
  • Georgia Benkart (born 1949), American expert on Lie algebras
  • Alona Ben-Tal, Israeli and New Zealand applied mathematician, models human and bird breathing
  • Deborah J. Bennett (born 1950), American mathematics educator and popular mathematics book author
  • Sylvie Benzoni (born 1967), French expert in fluid dynamics and partial differential equations, director of the Institut Henri Poincaré
  • Bonnie Berger, American mathematician and computer scientist, researcher in computational molecular biology
  • Marsha Berger (born 1953), American researcher in numerical analysis, computational fluid dynamics, and parallel computing
  • Julie Bergner, American expert on algebraic topology, homotopy theory, and higher category theory
  • Nicole Berline (born 1944), French researcher on index theory of elliptic differential operators
  • Natalia Berloff, professor of applied mathematics at the University of Cambridge
  • Leah Berman (born 1976), American discrete geometer
  • Christine Bernardi (1955–2018), French expert on numerical analysis of partial differential equations
  • Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (1914–1988), applied mathematician, first female president of the MAA
  • Inga Berre (born 1978), Norwegian applied mathematician, models porous media and geothermal systems
  • Valérie Berthé (born 1968), French researcher in symbolic dynamics, combinatorics on words, and discrete geometry
  • Andrea Bertozzi (born 1965), American researcher in partial differential equations, studies mathematics of urban crime
  • Nadine Bezuk, American mathematics educator, president and executive director of Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators
  • Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak (1938–2009), professor of combinatorics and head of mathematics at the University of Mumbai
  • Ushadevi Bhosle (born 1949), Indian expert on vector bundles
  • Francesca Biagini (born 1973), Italian-German probability theorist and financial mathematician
  • Ginestra Bianconi, Italian network scientist
  • Lydia Bieri (born 1972), Swiss-American expert on general relativity, gravity waves, and the history of cosmology
  • Anna Maria Bigatti, Italian algebraist, developer of CoCoA
  • Miggy Biller, British mathematician and mathematics educator
  • Sara Billey (born 1968), American algebraic combinatorialist
  • Katalin Bimbó (born 1963), Canadian mathematical logician and proof theorist
  • Christina Birkenhake (born 1961), German algebraic geometer
  • Joan Birman (born 1927), American braid and knot theorist
  • Gertrude Blanch (1897–1996), American numerical analyst
  • Roswitha Blind, German convex geometer and politician
  • Karen M. Bliss, American applied mathematician specializing in biomedical applications and materials science
  • Lenore Blum (born 1942), distinguished professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University
  • Jo Boaler (born 1964), British-American promoter of mathematics education reform and equitable mathematics classrooms
  • Mary L. Boas (1917–2010), author of Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences
  • Christine Böckmann (born 1955), German numerical analyst, expert in atmospheric lidar
  • Graciela Boente, Argentine mathematical statistician known for her research in robust statistics
  • Neda Bokan (born 1947), Serbian differential geometer
  • Natashia Boland (born 1967), Australian mathematician and operations researcher
  • Sylvie Boldo, French expert in formal verification of numerical computation
  • Aline Bonami, French mathematical analyst, president of the Société mathématique de France
  • Petra Bonfert-Taylor, German-American complex analyst and engineering educator
  • Alicia Boole Stott (1860–1940), Irish-English four-dimensional geometer
  • Mary Everest Boole (1832–1916), self-taught author of didactic works on mathematics
  • Kathleen Booth (born 1922), English mathematician and pioneer of assembly language computer programming
  • Liliana Borcea, Romanian-American applied mathematician, expert on wave propagation
  • Valentina Borok (1931–2004), Soviet Ukrainian mathematician who studied partial differential equations
  • Celia Grillo Borromeo (1684–1777), Genovese mathematician and scientist, discovered Clélie curve
  • Fernanda Botelho (born 1957), Portuguese-American functional analyst
  • Mary Michel Boulus (1926–2012), American Catholic nun, mathematics teacher, and college president
  • Anne Bourlioux, Canadian expert in turbulent combustion and world record holder in indoor rowing
  • Élisabeth Bouscaren (born 1956), French mathematician who studies the connections between algebraic geometry and model theory
  • Mireille Bousquet-Mélou (born 1967), French combinatorialist
  • Anne Boutet de Monvel (born 1948), French applied mathematician and mathematical physicist
  • Sylvia Bozeman (born 1947), African-American mathematician and academic administrator
  • Lis Brack-Bernsen (born 1946), Danish and Swiss mathematician, historian of science, and historian of mathematics
  • Mary Bradburn (1923–2000), British mathematics educator, president of the Mathematical Association
  • Elizabeth Bradley (born 1961), American expert in nonlinear dynamical systems, competed in 1988 Olympics
  • Lillian K. Bradley (born 1921), first African-American woman to earn a doctorate in any subject at the University of Texas
  • Dorothy Brady (1903–1977), American mathematician and economist
  • Priscilla Braislin (1838–1888), first professor of mathematics at Vassar College
  • Bodil Branner (born 1943), founder of European Women in Mathematics, chair of the Danish Mathematical Society
  • Hel Braun (1914–1986), German number theorist
  • Elena Braverman, Russian, Israeli, and Canadian researcher in delay differential equations and difference equations
  • Loretta Braxton (1934–2019), American mathematician
  • Marilyn Breen (born 1944), American geometer
  • Tara E. Brendle, American low-dimensional topologist and combinatorial group theorist
  • Susanne Brenner, expert in the numerical solution of differential equations
  • Sonja Brentjes (born 1951), German historian of Islamic mathematics and cartography
  • Diane Briars (born 1951), American mathematics educator, advocate for education reform, president of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
  • Kathrin Bringmann (born 1977), German number theorist, expert on mock theta functions, winner of SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
  • Ruth Britto, American mathematical physicist
  • Jill Britton (1944–2016), Canadian mathematics educator, author of educational books on mathematics
  • Bárbara M. Brizuela, American researcher on mathematics education in early childhood and elementary school
  • Anne Broadbent, Canadian researcher on quantum computing, quantum cryptography, and quantum information
  • Tamara Broderick, American mathematician and computer scientist who works in machine learning and Bayesian inference
  • Lia Bronsard (born 1963), Canadian expert on interface dynamics, president of Canadian Mathematical Society
  • Margaret Brown, British mathematics educator
  • Susan Brown (1937–2017), English fluid mechanics researcher, possibly second female mathematics professor in UK
  • Marjorie Lee Browne (1914–1979), one of the first African-American women to receive a doctorate in mathematics
  • Laurence Broze (born 1960), Belgian applied mathematician, statistician, and economist, president of l'association femmes et mathématiques
  • Karen Brucks (1957–2017), American mathematician, expert on one-dimensional dynamical systems
  • Maria Bruna (born 1984), Spanish applied mathematician known for stochastic modelling of multiscale phenomena
  • Sophie Bryant (1850–1922), Anglo-Irish mathematician, educator, feminist and activist
  • Ranee Brylinski (born 1957), American mathematician known for her research in representation theory and quantum logic gates
  • Evelyn Buckwar, German-Austrian expert on stochastic differential equations
  • Alina Bucur, American analytic number theorist and arithmetic statistician
  • Lilya Budaghyan, Armenian-Norwegian cryptographer
  • Annalisa Buffa (born 1973), Italian specialist in numerical analysis for partial differential equations
  • Marta Bunge, Argentine-Canadian category theorist
  • Angelika Bunse-Gerstner (born 1951), German expert on numerical linear algebra
  • Regina S. Burachik, Argentine-Australian researcher in convex analysis, functional analysis and non-smooth analysis
  • Marilyn Burns (born 1941), American mathematics educator and author of children's books on mathematics
  • Ellen Burrell (1850–1938), American mathematician
  • Gail F. Burrill, American mathematics educator, president of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
  • Leone Burton (1936–2007), British researcher in ethnomathematics, founded book series on women in mathematics
  • Edith Bush (1882–1977), American mathematician, first female engineering professor at Tufts University
  • Ida Busbridge (1908–1988), studied integral equations and radiative transfer, first female mathematics fellow at Oxford
  • Marjorie V. Butcher (1925–2016), American actuarial mathematician, first woman mathematics instructor at Michigan, first woman professor at Trinity College Connecticut
  • Lynne Butler (born 1955), American combinatorialist and mathematical statistician
  • Margaret K. Butler (1924–2013), computer programmer, director of the National Energy Software Center at Argonne
  • Helen Byrne, British applied mathematician and mathematical biologist

C [edit]

  • Angelina Cabras (1898–1993), Italian mathematician, physicist, and theoretical mechanics professor
  • Fioralba Cakoni, Albanian expert on inverse scattering theory
  • Maria-Carme Calderer, Spanish-American researcher in applied mathematics
  • Nora Calderwood (1896–1985), Scottish mathematician, namesake of Birmingham University's Calderwood Prize
  • Daniela Calvetti, Italian-American mathematician whose work connects Bayesian statistics with numerical analysis
  • Erika Tatiana Camacho (born 1974), Mexican-American mathematical biologist
  • Lucy Campbell, geophysical fluid dynamics researcher from Barbados, Jamaica, Ghana, and Canada
  • Jessie Forbes Cameron (1883–1968), British mathematician, first woman to complete her PhD in mathematics at the University of Marburg
  • Naiomi Cameron, American combinatorist, vice president of National Association of Mathematicians
  • Patricia Campbell, American mathematics educator
  • María Antònia Canals (born 1930), Spanish mathematics educator and recreational mathematician
  • Sunčica Čanić, Croatian-American expert in modeling the cardiovascular system and devices for treating it
  • Ana Cannas da Silva (born 1968), Portuguese mathematician specializing in symplectic geometry and geometric topology
  • Barbara Canright (1920–1997), American human computer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  • Yaiza Canzani, Spanish and Uruguayan mathematical analysis, known for work in spectral geometry and microlocal analysis
  • Mireille Capitaine, French researcher on random matrices and free probability theory
  • Lucia Caporaso, Italian algebraic geometer
  • Marian Palmer Capps (1901–2001), American mathematician and leader of prominent African-American women's societies
  • Ana Caraiani, Romanian-American IMO medalist, Putnam fellow, expert in algebraic number theory and the Langlands program
  • Olivia Caramello (born 1984), Italian topos theorist
  • Alessandra Carbone, Italian mathematician and computer scientist, studies protein interactions in muscular dystrophy
  • Sally Elizabeth Carlson (1896–2000), first woman to obtain a doctorate in mathematics at the University of Minnesota
  • Anna Cartan (1878–1923), French mathematician, teacher and textbook author, student of Marie Curie
  • Coralia Cartis, Romanian expert on compressed sensing, numerical analysis, and regularization methods in optimization
  • Mary Cartwright (1900–1998), British mathematician, one of the first to analyze a dynamical system with chaos
  • María Andrea Casamayor (1700–1780), only 18th-century Spanish scientist whose work is still extant
  • Bettye Anne Case, American mathematician and historian of mathematics
  • Emma Castelnuovo (1913–2014), Italian mathematics educator and textbook author
  • Beatrice Mabel Cave-Browne-Cave (1874–1947), English pioneer in the mathematics of aeronautics
  • Frances Cave-Browne-Cave (1876–1965), English mathematician and computer, taught at Girton College, Cambridge
  • Anny Cazenave (born 1944), French space geodesist, pioneer in satellite altimetry
  • Zoia Ceaușescu (1949–2006), Romanian functional analyst, daughter of Communist leader
  • Elena Celledoni (born 1967), Italian-Norwegian expert on numerical analysis, Lie groups, and structure-preserving algorithms
  • Sue Chandler, author of English secondary-school mathematics textbooks
  • Melody Chan, American expert in combinatorial commutative algebra, graph theory, and tropical geometry
  • Sun-Yung Alice Chang (born 1948), Chinese-American mathematical analyst, member of National Academy of Sciences
  • Josephine Chanler (1906–1992), American mathematician
  • Mei-Chu Chang, Taiwanese-American expert in algebraic geometry and combinatorial number theory
  • Vyjayanthi Chari (born 1958), Indian-American expert in quantum algebra
  • Ruth Charney (born 1950), American expert on geometric group theory and Artin groups, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)
  • Marie Charpentier (1903–1994), first woman to earn a doctorate in pure mathematics in France and second to obtain a faculty position there
  • Émilie du Châtelet (1706–1749), French translator and commentator of Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica
  • Zoé Chatzidakis, French researcher in model theory and differential algebra
  • Jennifer Tour Chayes (born 1956), expert on phase transitions in networks, founder of the theory group at Microsoft Research
  • Karine Chemla (born 1958), French historian of Chinese mathematics
  • Jacqueline Chen, American applied mathematician and mechanical engineer, applies massively parallel computing to simulate combustion
  • Xiaojun Chen, Chinese applied mathematician, expert on nonconvex optimization
  • Margaret Cheney (born 1955), American expert on inverse problems
  • Leslie Cheng, American harmonic analyst
  • Maggie Cheng, Chinese-American applied mathematician, computer scientist, and network scientist
  • Miranda Cheng (born 1979), Taiwanese-Dutch mathematician and theoretical physicist, formulated umbral moonshine
  • Eugenia Cheng, English category theorist and pianist, uses analogies with food and baking to teach mathematics to non-mathematicians
  • Amanda Chetwynd, British combinatorist and spatial statistician
  • Elaine Chew, Singaporean-American expert in the mathematics and visualization of concepts in music theory
  • Tanya Christiansen, American expert on scattering theory and partial differential equations
  • Graciela Chichilnisky (born 1944), Argentine-American mathematical economist and authority on climate change
  • Phyllis Chinn (born 1941), American graph theorist and historian of mathematics
  • Grace Chisholm Young (1868–1944), English mathematician, first woman to receive a German doctorate
  • YoungJu Choie (born 1959), Korean number theorist
  • Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (born 1923), French mathematician and physicist, first woman elected to the French Academy
  • Maria Chudnovsky (born 1977), Israeli-American graph theorist, MacArthur Fellow
  • Fan Chung (born 1949), Taiwanese-American researcher in random graphs
  • Julia Chuzhoy, Israeli expert in approximation algorithms and graph minor theory
  • Monique Chyba, applied control theory to autonomous underwater vehicles
  • Agata Ciabattoni, Italian non-classical mathematical logician
  • Maria Cibrario (1905–1992), Italian specialist in partial differential equations
  • Marta Civil, American mathematics educator
  • Mónica Clapp, Mexican researcher in nonlinear partial differential equations and algebraic topology
  • Joan Clarke (1917–1996), English code-breaker at Bletchley Park, numismatist
  • Jeanne N. Clelland (born 1970), American expert on differential geometry and its applications to differential equations
  • Mary Clem (1905–1979), American mathematician and human computer, invented zero check error detection
  • Harriet Redfield Cobb (1866–1958), American mathematician
  • Anne Cobbe (1920–1971), British algebraist
  • Sally Cockburn (born 1960), Canadian-American mathematician
  • Judita Cofman (1936–2001), Yugoslav-German finite geometer and mathematics educator, first mathematics doctorate from Novi Sad
  • Doris Cohen, American mathematician, first female author in the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
  • Elaine Cohen, American pioneer in the use of splines for geometric modeling
  • Marion Cohen (born 1943), American poet and mathematician, teaches the relationship between art and mathematics
  • Miriam Cohen (born 1941), Israeli researcher in Hopf algebras, quantum groups and non-commutative rings
  • Amy Cohen-Corwin, American expert in the Korteweg–de Vries equation and cubic Schrödinger equation
  • Alina Carmen Cojocaru, Romanian number theorist
  • Nancy Cole (1902–1991), American mathematician, made pioneering contributions to Morse theory
  • Caroline Colijn, Canadian mathematical epidemiologist
  • Susan Jane Colley (born 1959), first female editor-in-chief of the American Mathematical Monthly
  • Agnes Bell Collier (1860–1930), British mathematician
  • Karen L. Collins, American graph theorist and combinatorist
  • Coralie Colmez, French writer on legal mathematics
  • Maria Colombo (born 1989), Italian mathematical analyst
  • Caterina Consani (born 1963), Italian mathematician specializing in arithmetic geometry
  • Pamela Cook, American expert in fluid dynamics, president of SIAM
  • Frances Cope (1902–1983), American researcher on differential equations, namesake of the Thorndike nomogram
  • Minerva Cordero, Puerto Rican expert on finite geometry
  • Lesley Cormack (born 1957), Canadian historian of mathematics and historian of geography
  • Sylvie Corteel, French combinatorialist, editor-in-chief of Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A
  • Véronique Cortier, French mathematician and computer scientist, uses mathematical logic to verify cryptographic protocols
  • Carla Cotwright-Williams (born 1973), African-American data scientist for the US government
  • Collette Coullard, American matroid theorist and operations researcher
  • Judith Covington, American mathematics educator
  • Lenore Cowen, American discrete mathematician, computer scientist, and computational biologist
  • Elizabeth Buchanan Cowley (1874–1945), American mathematician, advocated high school teaching of solid geometry
  • Annalisa Crannell, American expert on water waves and geometric perspective
  • Alissa Crans, American mathematician specializing in higher-dimensional algebra
  • Marie Crous, 17th-century mathematician who introduced the decimal system to France
  • Ana Bela Cruzeiro (born 1957), Portuguese and Swiss stochastic analyst
  • Marianna Csörnyei (born 1975), Hungarian researcher in real analysis, geometric measure theory, and functional analysis
  • Helen F. Cullen (1919–2007), American topologist
  • Jane Cullum (born 1938), American applied mathematician known for her work in numerical algorithms and control theory
  • Louise Duffield Cummings (1870–1947), Canadian-American expert on Steiner triple systems
  • Susan Jane Cunningham (1842–1921), founded the mathematics and astronomy departments at Swarthmore College
  • Serafina Cuomo (born 1966), Italian historian of ancient mathematics
  • Antonella Cupillari (born 1955), Italian-American mathematics educator, historian of mathematics, and biographer of Agnesi
  • Ruth F. Curtain (born 1941), Australian-Dutch expert in infinite-dimensional linear systems
  • Carina Curto (born 1978), American mathematical neuroscientist
  • Eleanor P. Cushing (1856–1925), American mathematician
  • Elizabeth Cuthill (1923–2011), American applied mathematician and Navy researcher known for sparse matrix ordering
  • Annie Cuyt (born 1956), Belgian expert on approximation

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  • Sophie Dabo-Niang, Senegalese-French mathematician and statistician
  • Amy Dahan, French mathematician, historian of mathematics, and historian of the politics of climate change
  • Karma Dajani, Lebanese-Dutch mathematician, applies ergodic theory to number theory
  • Anne-Laure Dalibard, French mathematician, expert on fluid dynamics in oceanography
  • Ewa Damek (born 1958), Polish mathematical analyst, namesake of Damek–Ricci spaces
  • Pallavi Dani, Indian-American geometric group theorist
  • Donatella Danielli (born 1966), Italian-American specialist in partial differential equations
  • Sofia Danova (1879–1946), Bulgarian teacher and philanthropist, first Bulgarian woman to graduate in mathematics
  • Christine Darden (born 1942), American aeronautical engineer who researches sonic booms
  • Geraldine Claudette Darden (born 1936), one of the first African-American women to earn a PhD in mathematics
  • Panagiota Daskalopoulos, Greek-American differential geometer
  • Ingrid Daubechies (born 1954), Belgian physicist and mathematician, known for wavelets
  • Chantal David (born 1964), Canadian analytic number theorist and arithmetic statistician
  • Giuliana Davidoff, American number theorist and expert on expander graphs
  • Penny J. Davies, Scottish expert on wave scattering, president of Edinburgh Mathematical Society
  • Christine De Mol (born 1954), Belgian applied mathematician and mathematical physicist
  • Ineke De Moortel, Belgian mathematician who studies the sun's corona; president of Edinburgh Mathematical Society
  • Valeria de Paiva, Brazilian researcher in categorical logic
  • Lisette de Pillis, American researcher on the mathematics of cancer growth
  • Kaye A. de Ruiz, American mathematics educator
  • Daniela De Silva, Italian mathematician known for her expertise in partial differential equations
  • Gerda de Vries, Canadian mathematician who studies dynamical systems and mathematical physiology
  • Winifred Margaret Deans (1901–1990), British translator of German mathematics and physics texts into English
  • Mary Deconge (born 1933), one of the first African-American women to earn a PhD in mathematics
  • Maria Deijfen (born 1975), Swedish graph theorist and probability theorist
  • Huguette Delavault (1924–2003), French mathematical physicist, activist for women in mathematics
  • Ermelinda DeLaViña, Hispanic American graph theorist
  • Laura DeMarco, American researcher in dynamical systems and complex analysis
  • Beryl May Dent (1900–1977), British mathematical physicist, researcher in molecular forces and computer-aided design
  • Marjorie Devaney (1931–2007), mathematician, electrical engineer, and pioneering computer programmer
  • Shakuntala Devi (1939–2013), Indian child prodigy, writer, and mental calculator
  • Cécile DeWitt-Morette (1922–2017), French founder of l'École de physique des Houches
  • Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini (born 1946), Italian expert on type theory, lambda calculus, and programming language semantics
  • Eleonora Di Nezza, Italian Kahler geometer
  • Giulia Di Nunno (born 1973), Italian expert in stochastic analysis and financial mathematics, promoter of mathematics in Africa
  • Sandra Di Rocco (born 1967), Italian-Swedish algebraic geometer
  • Carrie Diaz Eaton, American mathematical biologist
  • Auguste Dick (1910–1993), Austrian historian of mathematics and biographer of Emmy Noether
  • Alicia Dickenstein (born 1955), Argentine algebraic geometer, vice-president of the International Mathematical Union
  • Caren Diefenderfer (1952–2017), American mathematician, president of National Numeracy Network
  • Ada Dietz (1882–1950), American weaver who used algebraic expressions to design textiles
  • Ulla Dinger (born 1955), Swedish mathematical analyst, first female doctorate in mathematics at University of Gothenburg
  • Irit Dinur, Israeli researcher in probabilistically checkable proofs and hardness of approximation
  • Susanne Ditlevsen, Danish mathematical biologist and biostatistician
  • Mary P. Dolciani (1923–1985), developed modern method for teaching high school algebra in the United States
  • Yvonne Dold-Samplonius (1937–2014), Dutch historian of Islamic mathematics
  • Suzanne Dorée, American group theorist and mathematics educator
  • Itala D'Ottaviano (born 1944), Brazilian logician
  • Yael Dowker (1919–2016), Israeli researcher in measure theory and ergodic theory
  • Agnes Meyer Driscoll (1889–1971), American cryptanalyst during both World War I and World War II
  • Cornelia Druțu Romanian mathematician, won Whitehead Prize for research in geometric group theory
  • Malgorzata Dubiel, Polish and Canadian mathematics educator
  • Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin (1905–1972), first woman full professor of mathematics in France, expert in fluid mechanics and abstract algebra
  • Moon Duchin, American expert in geometric topology, geometric group theory, and Teichmüller theory
  • Marie Duflo (1940–2019), French probability theorist, activist for foreigners in France
  • Vida Dujmović (born 1972), Yugoslav-Canadian graph theorist
  • Ioana Dumitriu (born 1976), Romanian-American numerical analyst
  • Julena Steinheider Duncombe (1911–2003), American mathematics teacher and astronomer
  • Elizabeth B. Dussan V. (born 1946), American expert on the behavior of fluids
  • Nira Dyn, Israeli expert on subdivision surfaces

E [edit]

  • Annie Easley (1933–2011), African-American computer scientist, mathematician, and rocket scientist
  • Sheila May Edmonds (1916–2002), British mathematician, Vice-Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge
  • Josephine D. Edwards (1942–1985), Australian mathematician, founded Australian Mathematics Competition
  • Mary Edwards (c. 1750–1815), human computer for the British Nautical Almanac
  • Constance van Eeden (born 1927), Dutch nonparameteric statistician who contributed to the development of statistics in Canada
  • Hettie Belle Ege (1861–1942), American mathematician, acting president of Mills College
  • Tatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest (1905–1984), Dutch researcher in combinatorics and graph theory
  • Andrée Ehresmann (born 1935), French category theorist
  • Gertrude Ehrlich (born 1923), Austrian-American algebraist and number theorist
  • Thyra Eibe (1866–1955), first woman to earn a mathematics degree from the University of Copenhagen, translator of Euclid
  • Carolyn Eisele (1902–2000), American mathematician, historian of mathematics, expert on Charles Sanders Peirce
  • Nathalie Eisenbaum, French probability theorist
  • Kirsten Eisenträger, German-American researcher in computational number theory
  • Tanja Eisner (born 1980), Ukrainian-German expert on operator theory
  • Nicole El Karoui (born 1944), Tunisian-French pioneer in mathematical finance
  • Amèle El Mahdi (born 1956), Algerian mathematics professor and writer
  • Nerida Ellerton (born 1942), Australian mathematics educator and historian of mathematics education
  • Joanne Elliott (born 1925), American mathematician specializing in potential theory
  • Jo Ellis-Monaghan, American mathematician interested in graph polynomials and topological graph theory
  • Maria Emelianenko, Russian-American expert on centroidal Voronoi tessellation
  • Gisela Engeln-Müllges (born 1940), escapee from East Germany, expert in numerical algorithms, and abstract artist
  • Susanna S. Epp (born 1943), American researcher in discrete mathematics and mathematical logic
  • Karin Erdmann (born 1948), German researcher in modular representation theory and homological algebra
  • Anna Erschler (born 1977), Russian-French expert on random walks on groups
  • Hélène Esnault (born 1953), French algebraic geometer, winner of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
  • Maria J. Esteban (born 1956), Basque-French applied mathematician, president of International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
  • Alison Etheridge FRS (born 1964), English researcher in theoretical population genetics and mathematical ecology
  • Christina Eubanks-Turner, American mathematics educator, graph theorist, and commutative algebraist

F [edit]

  • Vera Faddeeva (1906–1983), Russian expert on numerical linear algebra
  • Fariba Fahroo, Persian-American expert in pseudospectral optimal control, winner of AIAA Mechanics and Control of Flight Award
  • Barbara Trader Faires (born 1943), American mathematician and textbook author, secretary of MAA
  • Etta Zuber Falconer (1933–2002), one of the first African-American women to receive a PhD in mathematics
  • Ruma Falk (1932–2020), Israeli psychologist and philosopher of mathematics specializing in human understanding of probability
  • María Falk de Losada, American-born Colombian mathematician, co-founded Colombian Mathematical Olympiad, rector of Antonio Nariño University
  • Martha Isabel Fandiño Pinilla (born 1956), Colombian and Italian mathematics educator
  • Barbara Fantechi (born 1966), Italian algebraic geometer
  • Marie Farge (born 1953), French mathematician and physicist known for her research on wavelets and turbulence in fluid mechanics
  • Mary Celine Fasenmyer (1906–1996), Catholic nun whose research on hypergeometric functions prefigured WZ theory
  • Heike Fassbender, German expert in numerical linear algebra, first woman to lead a German mathematical society
  • Lisa Fauci (born 1960), American applied mathematician who applies computational fluid dynamics to biological processes
  • Patricia Fauring, Argentine mathematician, coach of the Argentine mathematical olympiad team
  • Odile Favaron (born 1938), French graph theorist
  • Philippa Fawcett (1868–1948), English educationalist, first woman to obtain the top score in the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos
  • Anita Burdman Feferman (1927–2015), American historian of mathematics and mathematical biographer
  • Nina Fefferman, American mathematical biologist
  • Joan Feigenbaum (born 1958), theoretical computer scientist, co-inventor of trust management
  • Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein (1912–2006), helped decipher Japanese Purple cryptography, worked on Venona counter-intelligence
  • Käte Fenchel (1905–1983), Jewish German researcher on non-abelian groups
  • Zhilan Feng (born 1959), Chinese-American applied mathematician, mathematical biologist, and epidemiologist
  • Elizabeth Fennema (born 1928), researched attitudes of young women towards mathematics and their classroom interactions
  • Anuška Ferligoj (born 1947), Slovenian mathematical sociologist and researcher in network analysis
  • Elena Fernández (born 1956), Spanish operations researcher, president of Association of European Operational Research Societies
  • Marisa Fernández, Spanish differential geometer
  • Jacqueline Ferrand (1918–2014), French researcher on conformal representation theory, potential theory, and Riemannian manifolds
  • Antonia Ferrín Moreiras (1914–2009), Spanish mathematician and first Galician woman astronomer
  • Joan Ferrini-Mundy (born 1954), American researcher in mathematics education
  • Judith V. Field (born 1943), British historian of mathematics and art
  • Anna Fino, Italian differential geometer
  • Farideh Firoozbakht (1962–2019), Iranian number theorist
  • Ilse Fischer (born 1975), Austrian combinatorialist
  • Irene Fischer (1907–2009), Austrian-American geodesist for Mercury and Apollo spaceflights, member of National Academy of Engineering
  • Vera Fischer, Austrian set theorist and mathematical logician
  • Naomi Fisher, American mathematics educator, worked to bring together research mathematicians and educators
  • Mary Flahive (born 1948), American mathematician, author of books on difference equations and diophantine approximation
  • Sarah Flannery (born 1982), winner of the EU Young Scientist of the Year Award for her teenage research on cryptography
  • Erica Flapan (born 1956), American researcher in low-dimensional topology and knot theory
  • Jennifer Flegg, Australian applied mathematician
  • Irmgard Flügge-Lotz (1903–1974), German aerodynamics researcher, first female engineering professor at Stanford
  • Natasha Flyer (born 1969), American earth scientist and applied mathematician, expert on radial basis functions
  • Anne Bosworth Focke (1868–1907), first mathematics professor at what is now University of Rhode Island; student of David Hilbert
  • Amanda Folsom (born 1979), American number theorist
  • Irene Fonseca (born 1956), Portuguese-American director of the Center for Nonlinear Analysis at Carnegie Mellon University
  • Phyllis Fox (born 1923), American mathematician and computer scientist, collaborator on the first LISP interpreter
  • Marguerite Frank (born 1927), French-American pioneer in convex optimization theory and mathematical programming
  • Hélène Frankowska, Polish-French control theorist and set-valued analyst
  • Ailana Fraser, Canadian researcher on geometric analysis and the theory of minimal surfaces
  • Elena Freda (1890–1978), Italian mathematician, applied mathematical analysis to electromagnetics and biology
  • Haya Freedman (1923–2005), Israeli-British mathematician who studied the Tamari lattice and ring theory
  • Herta Freitag (1908–2000), Austrian-American expert on Fibonacci numbers
  • Susan Friedlander (born 1946), English-American researcher in fluid dynamics, first female editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of the AMS
  • Joyce Friedman (1928–2018), American mathematician, operations researcher, computer scientist, and computational linguist
  • Aline Huke Frink (1904–2000), American mathematician and professor
  • Charlotte Froese Fischer (born 1929), Canadian-American expert on atomic-structure calculations who predicted negative calcium ions
  • Hannah Fry (born 1984), English complex systems theorist and public speaker
  • Shirley M. Frye, American mathematics educator, president of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
  • Elza Furtado Gomide (1925–2013), Brazilian mathematician, first female doctorate in mathematics at University of São Paulo

G [edit]

  • Lisl Gaal (born 1924), Austrian-born American set theorist and Galois theorist
  • Isabelle Gallagher (born 1973), French researcher in partial differential equations
  • Irene M. Gamba (born 1957), Argentine-American applied mathematician
  • Svetlana Gannushkina (born 1942), Russian mathematician and human rights activist
  • Nina Gantert, Swiss and German probability theorist
  • Kseniya Garaschuk (born 1982), Soviet-born Canadian mathematics educator, editor of Crux Mathematicorum
  • Pascale Garaud, French-American applied mathematician interested in fluid dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, and their applications to astrophysics
  • Annie Marie Watkins Garraway (born 1940), American mathematician who worked in telecommunications and electronic data transmission
  • Mary Cleophas Garvin (1899–1990), American mathematician
  • Geneviève Gauthier (born 1967), Canadian financial mathematician, statistician, and decision scientist
  • Mai Gehrke (born 1964), Danish lattice theorist and mathematical logician
  • Hilda Geiringer (1893–1973), Austrian researcher on Fourier series, statistics, probability, and plasticity, refugee from Nazi Germany
  • Anne Gelb, American mathematician interested in numerical analysis, partial differential equations, and Fourier analysis of images
  • Sue Geller, American mathematician with interdisciplinary interests in algebraic K-theory, bioinformatics, and biostatistics
  • Hélyette Geman, French researcher in mathematical finance
  • Ruth Gentry (1862–1917), American geometer
  • Sommer Gentry, American mathematician, applies dance notation to haptic interaction and operations research to organ transplants
  • Maria-Pia Geppert (1907–1997), German mathematician and biostatistician who founded the Biometrical Journal
  • Sophie Germain (1776–1831), French number theorist, physicist, and philosopher, correspondent of Gauss
  • Marie Gernet (1865–1924), first German woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics
  • Nadeschda Gernet (1877–1943), Russian mathematician, student of David Hilbert, worked in the calculus of variations
  • Judith Gersting (born 1940), American mathematician, computer scientist, and textbook author
  • Ellen Gethner, American graph theorist
  • Danuta Gierulanka (1909–1995), Polish mathematics educator and philosopher of mathematics
  • Irène Gijbels, Belgian mathematical statistician and expert in nonparametric statistics
  • Olga Gil Medrano (born 1956), Spanish geometric analyst, first female president of the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society
  • Anna C. Gilbert (born 1972), American expert in streaming algorithms and matching pursuit
  • Jane Piore Gilman (born 1945), topologist and group theorist, distinguished professor of mathematics at Rutgers University
  • Gloria Ford Gilmer, American ethnomathematician
  • Joella Gipson (1929–2012), American music educator and mathematics educator, first African-American student at Mt. St. Mary's College
  • Vivette Girault (born 1943), French expert on numerical analysis, finite element methods, and computational fluid dynamics
  • Josephine Burns Glasgow (1887–1969), American group theorist, active in American Association of University Women
  • Muriel Glauert (1892–1949), British mathematician and aerodynamicist
  • Sarah Glaz (born 1947), Romanian-Israeli-American commutative algebraist and mathematical poet
  • Heide Gluesing-Luerssen (born 1961), German mathematician specializing in algebraic coding theory
  • Julia Gog, English mathematical biologist, uses mathematics to study the spread of infectious diseases
  • Linda Gojak, American mathematics educator, president of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
  • Nüzhet Gökdoğan (1910–2003), Turkish astronomer and mathematician, founder of Turkish Mathematical Society
  • Bonnie Gold (born 1948), American mathematician, mathematical logician, philosopher of mathematics, and mathematics educator
  • Lisa Goldberg, American mathematical finance scholar and statistician
  • Rebecca Goldin, American expert in symplectic geometry
  • Christina Goldschmidt, British probability theorist
  • Catherine Goldstein (born 1958), French number theorist and historian of mathematics
  • Gisèle Ruiz Goldstein (born 1958), American expert in partial differential equations, operator theory, and mathematical finance
  • Susan Goldstine, American mathematician active in mathematics and fiber arts
  • Shafi Goldwasser (born 1958), American-born Israeli theoretical cryptographer
  • Concha Gómez, Italian and Cuban-American mathematician and advocate for diversity in STEM
  • Sherry Gong, second American gold medal winner at International Mathematical Olympiad
  • Enriqueta González Baz (1915–2002), first woman to earn a mathematics degree in Mexico, founder of the Mexican Mathematical Society
  • Maria Gordina (born 1968), Russian-American mathematical analyst
  • Carolyn S. Gordon (born 1950), isospectral geometer who proved that you can't hear the shape of a drum
  • Julia Gordon, Canadian representation theorist, winner of Michler and Krieger–Nelson prizes
  • Pamela Gorkin, American complex analyst and textbook author
  • Sigal Gottlieb, American expert in numerical simulation of the partial differential equations used in aerodynamics
  • Aline Gouget (born 1977), French cryptographer
  • Mary de Lellis Gough (1892–1983), American mathematician
  • Alice Bache Gould (1858–1953), American mathematician and historian
  • Gene Grabeel (1920–2015), American mathematician and cryptanalyst who founded the Venona project
  • Judith Grabiner (born 1938), American historian of 18th- and 19th-century mathematics
  • Eva-Maria Graefe, German-English mathematical physicist, expert in ultracold atoms and Non-Hermitian quantum mechanics
  • Christine Graffigne (born 1959), French expert on Markov random fields for image analysis
  • Evelyn Boyd Granville (born 1924), one of the first African-American women to receive a PhD in mathematics
  • Antonella Grassi, mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry and string theory
  • Mary Graustein (1884–1972), American mathematician, first mathematical doctorate from Radcliffe College
  • Marion Cameron Gray (1902–1979), Scottish telephone engineer, discoverer of the Gray graph
  • Mary W. Gray (born 1939), author on mathematics, mathematics education, economic equity, discrimination law, and academic freedom
  • Judy Green (born 1943), logician and historian of women in mathematics
  • Anne Greenbaum (born 1951), American expert in theoretical and numerical linear algebra
  • Catherine Greenhill, Australian graph theorist
  • Sarah J. Greenwald, American mathematician, studies connections between mathematics and society
  • Cindy Greenwood (born 1937), Canadian statistician, winner of Krieger-Nelson Prize
  • Ruth Gregory, British mathematical physicist specializing in general relativity and cosmology
  • Margaret Greig (1922–1999), English applied mathematician, developed theory for worsted spinning
  • Harriet Griffin (1903–1991), American mathematician, author of a textbook on number theory
  • Lois Wilfred Griffiths (1899–1981), American expert on polygonal numbers
  • Laura Grigori, French applied mathematician, known for communication-avoiding algorithms for numerical linear algebra
  • Ellina Grigorieva, Russian expert on mathematical problem solving
  • Elisenda Grigsby, American low-dimensional topologist
  • Clara Grima (born 1971), Spanish computational geometer, co-discoverer of scutoids, mathematics popularizer
  • Margaret Grimshaw (1905–1990), English mathematician at Cambridge and author on Hilbert spaces
  • Birgit Grodal (1943–2004), Danish mathematical economist, studied atomless economies
  • Ione Grogan (1891–1961), American schoolteacher, mathematics professor, and literary club leader
  • Edna Grossman, German-born American designer of the Data Encryption Standard and of the slide attack in cryptography
  • Marcia Groszek, American mathematician whose research concerns mathematical logic, set theory, forcing, and recursion theory
  • Gerd Grubb (born 1939), Danish expert on pseudodifferential operators
  • Helen G. Grundman, American number theorist
  • Weiqing Gu, Chinese-American researcher on differential geometry and the mathematics of cancer growth
  • Rebeca Guber (born 1926), Argentine mathematician, founder of Argentine Calculation Society
  • Christine Guenther, American expert on the Ricci flow
  • Laura Guggenbühl (1901–1985), American mathematician known for her work in triangle geometry and the history of mathematics
  • Colette Guillopé, French researcher in partial differential equations and fluid dynamics, former president of femmes et mathématiques
  • Joséphine Guidy Wandja (born 1945), Ivorian mathematician
  • Alice Guionnet (born 1969), French probability theorist
  • Geneviève Guitel (1895–1982), French mathematician who studied natural-language numbering systems
  • Kanta Gupta (1938–2016), Indian-Canadian researcher on abstract algebra and group theory
  • Neena Gupta, Indian mathematician who solved the Zariski cancellation problem
  • Rona Gurkewitz, American mathematician and computer scientist known for her work on modular origami
  • Margaret Gurney (1908–2002), American mathematician, survey statistician, and pioneering computer programmer
  • Rochelle Gutierrez, American education theorist who studies the impacts of race, class and language on mathematics education
  • Simone Gutt (born 1956), Belgian differential geometer

H [edit]

  • Ruth Haas, American mathematician known for mentorship of other women mathematicians
  • Olga Hadžić (1946–1995), Serbian expert on fixed-point theorems
  • Dörte Haftendorn (born 1948), German mathematician, mathematics educator, and textbook author
  • Kari Hag (born 1941), Norwegian expert on quasiconformal mappings
  • Marjorie Hahn (born 1948), American probability theorist and tennis player
  • Deborah Tepper Haimo (1921–2007), Ukrainian-Palestinian-American classical analyst, third female president of the Mathematical Association of America
  • Susie W. Håkansson (born 1940), mathematics educator, director of the California Mathematics Project
  • Ursula Hamenstädt (born 1961), German differential geometry
  • Christine Hamill (1923–1956), English mathematician specializing in group theory and finite geometry
  • Mary-Elizabeth Hamstrom (1927–2009), American topologist
  • Xiaoying Han, Chinese mathematician who studies random dynamical systems and stochastic differential equations
  • Gila Hanna (born 1934), Canadian mathematics educator and philosopher of mathematics
  • Anita Hansbo (born 1960), Swedish mathematician, rector of Jönköping University
  • Megumi Harada, Canadian expert on equivariant symplectic and algebraic geometry
  • Alison Harcourt (born 1929), Australian mathematician and statistician known for branch and bound algorithms and quantification of poverty in Australia
  • Frances Hardcastle (1866–1941), group theorist, one of the founders of the American Mathematical Society
  • Kathryn E. Hare (born 1959), Canadian expert in harmonic analysis
  • Valentina Harizanov, Serbian-American researcher in computability and model theory
  • Dorothee Haroske (born 1968), German expert on function spaces
  • Heather Harrington (born 1984), applied mathematician and algebraic systems biologist
  • Pamela E. Harris, Mexican combinatorist and mathematics blogger
  • Jenny Harrison, American expert on generalized functions and minimal surfaces
  • Frances Harshbarger (1902–1987), one of the first female American mathematicians to receive a doctorate
  • Sarah B. Hart, British group theorist
  • Shelly Harvey, American researcher in knot theory, low-dimensional topology, and group theory
  • Maria Hasse (1921–2014), German graph theorist, set theorist, and category theorist, first female professor in science at TU Dresden
  • Rhonda Hatcher, American number theorist, winner of Haimo teaching award
  • Deanna Haunsperger, American mathematician, former president of the Mathematical Association of America
  • Jane M. Hawkins, American researcher in dynamic systems, complex dynamics, cellular automata, and Julia sets
  • Louise Hay (1935–1989), founding member of the Association for Women in Mathematics
  • Linda B. Hayden (born 1949), African-American mathematics educator and mathematical geoscientist known for mentorship of women and minorities
  • Ellen Hayes (1851–1930), American mathematician, astronomer, and political radical
  • Margaret Hayman (1923–1994), British mathematics educator, co-founder of British Mathematical Olympiad
  • Euphemia Lofton Haynes (1890–1980), first African-American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics
  • Sarah D. Allen Oren Haynes (1836–1907), first female state librarian of Indiana and first female faculty member at Purdue University
  • Teresa W. Haynes (born 1953), American expert on domination in graphs
  • Emilie Virginia Haynsworth (1916–1985), American linear algebraist known for Schur complements and Haynsworth inertia additivity formula
  • Olive Hazlett (1890–1974), American algebraist at the University of Illinois
  • Sandra Mitchell Hedetniemi (born 1949), American researcher in graph theory and graph algorithms
  • Maria Heep-Altiner (born 1959), German mathematician and actuary
  • Jane Heffernan, Canadian mathematician who studies mathematical models for the spread of infectious disease
  • Katherine Heinrich (born 1954), Canadian combinatorialist, first female president of Canadian Mathematical Society
  • Christine Heitsch, American expert on the mathematics of RNA structure
  • Diane Henderson, American applied mathematician and experimental fluid dynamics researcher
  • Nadia Heninger (born 1982), American cryptographer, computer security expert, and computational number theorist
  • Cora Barbara Hennel (1888–1947), American mathematician, first woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics at the Indiana University
  • Dagmar R. Henney (born 1931), German-American expert on additive set-values and Banach spaces
  • Inge Henningsen (born 1941), statistician, writer and feminist
  • Allison Henrich (born 1980), American knot theorist
  • Shandelle Henson (born 1964), American mathematician and mathematical biologist, expert on population dynamics
  • Rebecca A. Herb (born 1948), American researcher in abstract algebra and Lie groups
  • Raphaèle Herbin, French expert on the finite volume method
  • Grete Hermann (1901–1984), German mathematician and philosopher also noted for her work in physics and education
  • Susan Hermiller, American group theorist
  • Norma Hernández (born 1934), American mathematics educator, studied factors affecting Mexican-American mathematics students
  • Constance Anne Herschel (1855–1939), British lecturer in natural sciences and mathematics
  • Patricia Hersh (born 1973), American expert on algebraic and topological combinatorics
  • Bobby Hersom (born 1929), British mathematician and computer scientist
  • Kathryn Hess (born 1967), American mathematician who uses algebraic topology to understand structures in neurology and materials science
  • Silvia Heubach, German-American mathematician specializing in enumerative combinatorics, combinatorial game theory, and bioinformatics
  • Gloria Conyers Hewitt (born 1935), early African-American female mathematics PhD, MAA governor
  • Laurie Heyer, American mathematician specializing in genomics and bioinformatics
  • Patricia Hiddleston (1933–2017), Scottish and Rhodesian mathematician
  • Aparna Higgins, Indian-American graph theorist known for encouraging undergraduate research
  • Raegan Higgins, American mathematician, co-director of the EDGE program for Women
  • Nancy Hingston, American differential geometer
  • Wei Ho, American arithmetic geometer
  • Hoàng Xuân Sính (born 1933), first female Vietnamese mathematician, student of Grothendieck, founder of Thang Long University
  • Catherine Hobbs (born 1968), British singularity theorist, applies geometry to robotics
  • Dorit S. Hochbaum (born 1949), American expert on approximation algorithms for facility location, covering and packing, and scheduling
  • Marlis Hochbruck (born 1964), German expert on matrix exponentials and their applications to differential equations
  • Maria Hoffmann-Ostenhof (born 1947), Austrian expert on the Schrödinger equation
  • Leslie Hogben, American mathematician specializing in graph theory and linear algebra, known for graduate mentorship
  • Nina Holden, Norwegian probability theorist
  • Judy A. Holdener (born 1965), American number theorist who simplified the proof of Touchard's theorem on perfect numbers
  • Barbara R. Holland (born 1976), New Zealand born Australian phylogeneticist
  • Lotte Hollands (born 1981), Dutch mathematical physicist
  • Tara S. Holm, American algebraic geometer and symplectic geometer
  • Olga Holtz (born 1973), Russian numerical analyst, winner of the European Mathematical Society Prize
  • Betty W. Holz (1919–2005), American mathematician and defense analyst
  • Dorothy McFadden Hoover (1918–2000), American human computer involved in the design of swept-wing aircraft
  • Grace Hopper (1906–1992), American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral
  • Eleanor Mollie Horadam (1921–2002), English-Australian mathematician, studied generalized integers, mother of Kathy
  • Kathy Horadam (born 1951), Australian mathematician, studies Hadamard matrices, daughter of Eleanor Mollie
  • Annick Horiuchi, French historian of Japanese mathematics
  • Anette Hosoi, American mechanical engineer, biophysicist, and mathematician, studies fluid dynamics, robotics, and bio-inspired design
  • Victoria Howle, American expert in numerical linear algebra, founded AWM essay contest
  • Susan Howson (born 1973), British mathematician known for work on algebraic number theory and arithmetic geometry
  • Rebecca Hoyle, British applied mathematician, expert on pattern formation
  • Celia Hoyles (born 1946), British mathematician, president of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
  • Christine Hrenya, American computational fluid dynamicist, expert in fluidization and multiphase flow
  • Pao-sheng Hsu, Mathematics educator, founder of AWM Teacher Partnership Program
  • Hu Hesheng (born 1928), differential geometer, president of Shanghai Mathematical Society, member of Chinese Academy of Science
  • Verena Huber-Dyson (1923–2016), Swiss-American group theorist and logician, expert on undecidability in group theory
  • Annette Huber-Klawitter (born 1967), German algebraic geometer, expert in the Bloch–Kato conjectures
  • Vera Huckel, American human computer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
  • Anne Lester Hudson, American expert in topological semigroups, mathematics educator, and mathematics competition coach
  • Hilda Phoebe Hudson (1881–1965), English researcher on Cremona transformations in algebraic geometry
  • Sabine Van Huffel (born 1958), Belgian applied mathematician, expert on total least squares and applications to medical diagnostics
  • Rhonda Hughes (born 1947), American wavelet researcher, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics
  • Deborah Hughes Hallett, mathematics education reformer
  • Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann (born 1946), German-American representation theorist and ring theorist
  • Mabel Gweneth Humphreys (1911–2006), Canadian-American number theorist and namesake of the M. Gweneth Humphreys Award
  • Eugénie Hunsicker, American mathematician who works at the intersection of analysis, geometry and topology
  • Fern Hunt (born 1948), American mathematician known for her work in applied mathematics and mathematical biology
  • Bobbie Hunter, New Zealand educational theorist and mathematics educator
  • Louise Stokes Hunter (died 1988), American mathematics educator, first African-American woman with a degree from the University of Virginia
  • Joan Hutchinson (born 1945), American graph theorist who extended the planar separator theorem to graphs of higher genus
  • Marie Hušková (born 1942), Czech mathematician who worked in theoretical statistics and change-point problems
  • Hypatia (died 415), head of the Neoplatonic school at Alexandria, murdered by a Christian mob

I [edit]

  • Milagros D. Ibe (born 1931), Filipino mathematics educator, vice chancellor of the University of the Philippines Diliman
  • Mihaela Ignatova, Bulgarian mathematical analyst
  • Annette Imhausen (born 1970), German historian of ancient Egyptian mathematics
  • Tasha Inniss, first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, director of education for INFORMS
  • Eleny Ionel, Romanian-American symplectic geometer
  • Alessandra Iozzi (born 1959), Italian-American-Swiss geometric group theorist
  • Ilse Ipsen, German-American expert in numerical linear algebra
  • Valerie Isham (born 1947), British applied probabilist, president of Royal Statistical Society
  • Shihoko Ishii (born 1950), Japanese mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry
  • Vanaja Iyengar ( –2001), founding vice chancellor of Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam, a women's university in Andhra Pradesh, India

J [edit]

Australian mathematician Nalini Joshi

  • Trachette Jackson (born 1972), researcher in mathematical oncology, second African-American woman to become a Sloan Fellow in mathematics
  • Jessie Marie Jacobs (1890–1954), fired from mathematics instructorship for having a child, aided husband Hermann Muller's Nobel-winning genetic research
  • Alex James, British and New Zealand applied mathematician, mathematical biologist, and epidemiologist
  • Cathérine Jami (born 1961), French historian of Chinese mathematics
  • Jeannette Janssen, Dutch and Canadian graph theorist
  • Monique Jeanblanc (born 1947), French financial mathematician
  • Lisa Jeffrey FRSC, Canadian expert in symplectic geometry and quantum field theory
  • Erica Jen, American applied mathematician, studies mathematical analysis of chaotic and complex behavior
  • Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins, Canadian philosopher of mathematics
  • Jacqueline Jensen-Vallin, American low-dimensional topologist, editor of MAA FOCUS
  • Svetlana Jitomirskaya (born 1966), Ukrainian mathematician working on dynamical systems and mathematical physics
  • Naomi Jochnowitz, American algebraic number theorist known for her mentorship of women in mathematics
  • Aimee Johnson, American expert on dynamical systems
  • Katherine Johnson (1918–2020), calculated the trajectory for Project Mercury and the 1969 Apollo 11 flight to the Moon
  • Marion Lee Johnson, African-American mathematician, helped calculate trajectories for the Apollo 11 moon landing
  • Antonia J. Jones (1943–2010), British mathematician and computer scientist
  • Eleanor Jones (born 1929), one of the first African American women to receive a PhD in mathematics
  • Shelly M. Jones, American mathematics educator
  • Nataša Jonoska (born 1961), Macedonian-American expert in DNA computing
  • Artishia Wilkerson Jordan (1901–1974), African-American mathematics educator and clubwoman
  • Nalini Joshi, researcher in differential equations, Australian Laureate Fellow, Hardy Lecturer, president of Australian Mathematical Society
  • Josephine Jue, Chinese-American mathematician, compiler, and programmer, first Asian-American woman at NASA

K [edit]

  • Margarethe Kahn (1880–c. 1942), one of the first female German doctorates, contributed to Hilbert's sixteenth problem
  • Suzan Kahramaner (1913–2006), one of the first female mathematicians in Turkish academia
  • Gabriele Kaiser, German mathematics educator
  • Efstratia Kalfagianni, Greek knot theorist
  • Eva Kallin, American researcher in geometric axiom systems, functional algebra, and polynomial convexity
  • Gudrun Kalmbach (born 1937), German quantum logician
  • Barbara Kaltenbacher, Austrian applied analyst, president of Austrian Mathematical Society
  • Hermine Agavni Kalustyan (1914–1989), Armenian-Turkish mathematician and politician
  • Shoshana Kamin (born 1930), Soviet-Israeli mathematical physicist, wrote about parabolic partial differential equations
  • Chiu-Yen Kao (born 1974), Taiwanese-American expert in image processing and mathematical biology
  • Gizem Karaali, Turkish representation theorist, founding editor of Journal of Humanistic Mathematics
  • Mary Cordia Karl (1893–1984), American geometer
  • Carol Karp (1926–1972), American researcher on infinitary logic, viola player
  • Yael Karshon (born 1964), Israeli-Canadian expert on symplectic geometry
  • Elaine Kasimatis, American discrete geometer and mathematics educator
  • Haya Kaspi (born 1948), Israeli probability theorist
  • Fanny Kassel (born 1984), French expert on Lie groups
  • Svetlana Katok (born 1947), Russian-American founder of Electronic Research Announcements of the AMS
  • Yoshie Katsurada (1911–1980), Japanese differential geometer, first Japanese woman with a doctorate or professorship in mathematics
  • Bruria Kaufman (1918–2010), Israeli theoretical physicist who collaborated with Einstein on general relativity
  • Kathleen Kavanagh, American mathematician, applies simulation-based engineering to water quality and sustainability
  • Elham Kazemi (born 1970), Iranian-American mathematics educator
  • Rinat Kedem (born 1965), American mathematician and mathematical physicist
  • Linda Keen (born 1940), American mathematician and computer scientist, president of AWM
  • Lyudmila Keldysh (1904–1976), Russian set theorist and geometric topologist
  • Ruth Kellerhals (born 1957), Swiss expert on hyperbolic geometry, geometric group theory and polylogarithm identities
  • Julia Kempe, French, German, and Israeli researcher in quantum computing
  • Claribel Kendall (1889–1965), one of the founders of the Rocky Mountain Section of the MAA
  • Juliette Kennedy, mathematical logician in Finland
  • Patricia Clark Kenschaft (born 1940), American mathematician, prolific book author, and activist for equity and diversity
  • Autumn Kent, American mathematician specializing in topology and geometry, promoter of transgender rights
  • Leah Keshet, Israeli-Canadian mathematical biologist, first female president of the Society for Mathematical Biology
  • Radha Kessar, Indian mathematician known for her research in the representation theory of finite groups
  • Barbara Keyfitz (born 1944), Canadian-American researcher on nonlinear partial differential equations, president of AWM and ICIAM
  • 'Mamphono Khaketla (born 1960), Lesotho mathematician, senator, and finance minister
  • Olga Kharlampovich (born 1958), Russian-Canadian group theorist who solved the Tarski conjecture on first-order theories of free groups
  • Carolyn Kieran, Canadian mathematics educator
  • Anna Kiesenhofer (born 1991), Austrian cyclist and mathematical physicist
  • Misha Kilmer, American applied mathematician known for research in numerical linear algebra and scientific computing
  • Ju-Lee Kim (born 1969), Korean-American expert on the representation theory of p-adic groups
  • Chawne Kimber (born 1971), African-American mathematician and quilter, incorporates social justice into mathematics teaching
  • Amy C. King (1928–2014), American mathematics educator
  • Angie Turner King (1905–2004), American mathematics and chemistry educator
  • Karen D. King (1971–2019), African-American mathematics educator and Falconer Lecturer
  • L. Christine Kinsey, American topologist and textbook author
  • Faina Mihajlovna Kirillova (born 1931), Belarusian optimal control theorist
  • Vivien Kirk, New Zealand dynamical systems theorist, president of New Zealand Mathematical Society
  • Ellen Kirkman, American algebraist
  • Denise Kirschner, American mathematical biologist and immunologist
  • Frances Kirwan (born 1959), British specialist in algebraic and symplectic geometry
  • Jane Kister, British-American mathematical logician, editor of Mathematical Reviews
  • Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen, Danish researcher in mathematics education and the philosophy and history of mathematics
  • Kathrin Klamroth (born 1968), German expert on combinatorial optimization and facility location
  • Erica Klarreich (born 1972), American geometer and writer
  • Maria Klawe (born 1951), Canadian-American theoretical computer scientist, president of Harvey Mudd College
  • Caroline Klivans, American algebraic combinatorist, expert on chip-firing games
  • Genevieve M. Knight (born 1939), African-American mathematics educator
  • Julia F. Knight, American specialist in model theory and computability theory
  • Eleanor Krawitz Kolchin (1927–2019), American mathematician, programmer, and astronomer, calculated orbits for the Apollo program
  • Tamara G. Kolda, American applied mathematician at Sandia National Laboratories
  • Natalia Komarova, Russian-American mathematician, studies cancer, language, gun control, pop music, and other complex systems
  • Nancy Kopell (born 1942), American researcher in the dynamics of the nervous system
  • Elaine Koppelman (1937–2019), American mathematician
  • Maria Korovina (born 1962), Russian research on functional spaces and differential equations
  • Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach (born 1941), French differential geometer, namesake of the Kosmann lift
  • Ekaterina Kostina, Belarusian-German expert on nonlinear optimization
  • Sofya Kovalevskaya (1850–1891), first major Russian female mathematician, worked in analysis, differential equations and mechanics
  • Bryna Kra (born 1966), American mathematician who applies dynamical systems in number theory and combinatorics
  • Edna Kramer (1902–1984), American mathematician and author of mathematics books
  • Gunilla Kreiss (born 1958), Swedish numerical analyst
  • Cecilia Krieger (1894–1974), third person and first woman to earn a Canadian mathematics PhD, translator of Sierpiński
  • Holly Krieger, American dynamical systems theorist
  • Anna Zofia Krygowska (1904–1988), Polish mathematician known for her work in mathematics education
  • Ewa Kubicka, Polish-American graph theorist and actuarial scientist
  • Vera Kublanovskaya (1920–2012), Russian inventor of the QR algorithm for computing eigenvalues and eigenvectors
  • Daniela Kühn (born 1973), German-English combinatorialist, expert on infinite graphs, winner of the Whitehead Prize
  • Angela Kunoth (born 1963), German numerical analyst
  • Frances Kuo, Taiwanese-Australian applied mathematician, expert on quasi-Monte Carlo methods
  • Krystyna Kuperberg (born 1944), Polish-American topologist who found a smooth counterexample to the Seifert conjecture
  • Věra Kůrková (born 1948), Czech expert in neural networks and approximation theory
  • Rachel Kuske (born 1965), American-Canadian expert on stochastic and nonlinear dynamics, asymptotic methods, and industrial mathematics
  • Klavdija Kutnar (born 1980), Slovenian algebraic graph theorist and academic administrator
  • Gitta Kutyniok (born 1972), German researcher in harmonic analysis, compressed sensing, and image processing

L [edit]

  • Izabella Łaba (born 1966), Polish-Canadian specialist in harmonic analysis, geometric measure theory, and additive combinatorics
  • Carole Lacampagne, American mathematician known for her work in mathematics education and gender equality
  • Christine Ladd-Franklin (1847–1930), American psychologist, logician, and mathematician
  • Jeanne LaDuke (born 1938), American child actress, mathematical analyst, and historian of mathematics
  • Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922–2004), Soviet mathematician, proved convergence of a finite difference method for Navier–Stokes
  • V. Lakshmibai, Indian-American expert on flag varieties and Schubert varieties
  • Ailsa Land, British operations researcher known for developing branch and bound algorithms
  • Susan Landau (born 1954), American mathematician and computer scientist, known for internet security and denesting radicals
  • Mary Landers (1905–1991), American mathematician, activist for academic collective bargaining
  • Kerry Landman, Australian applied mathematician
  • Alicia Prieto Langarica, American applied mathematician
  • Tanja Lange, German number theorist and cryptographer
  • Amy Langville (born 1975), American college basketball star and expert on ranking systems
  • Loredana Lanzani (born 1965), Italian-American harmonic analyst
  • Glenda Lappan (born 1939), developed Connected Mathematics curriculum, led National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
  • Gillie Larew (1882–1977), American mathematician, first alumna of Randolph–Macon Woman's College to become full professor there
  • Jean Ann Larson, American set theorist and historian of mathematical logic
  • Elisabeth Larsson (born 1971), Swedish researcher in scientific computing
  • Irena Lasiecka (born 1948), Polish-American expert in control theory of partial differential equations
  • Renu C. Laskar (born 1932), Indian-American graph theorist, specialist in domination numbers and circular arc graphs
  • Klavdiya Latysheva (1897–1956), Soviet mathematician, contributed to differential equations, electrodynamics and probability
  • Monique Laurent (born 1960), French-Dutch expert in mathematical optimization
  • Kristin Lauter (born 1969), American researcher in elliptic curve cryptography, president of AWM
  • Emille D. Lawrence, American topological graph theorist
  • Ruth Lawrence (born 1971), child prodigy, British-Israeli researcher in knot theory and algebraic topology
  • Snezana Lawrence, Yugoslav and British historian of mathematics
  • Anneli Cahn Lax (1922–1999), American mathematician, winner of the George Pólya Award
  • Anita Layton, Hong Kong-American applied mathematician who studies mathematical models of kidney function
  • Katherine Puckett Layton, American mathematics educator and textbook author
  • Lê Thị Thanh Nhàn (born 1970), Vietnamese mathematician, vice rector for Science at Thái Nguyên University, won Kovalevskaya Prize
  • Alice Lee (1858–1939), helped discredit craniology
  • Hollylynne Lee, American mathematics and statistics educator
  • Joceline Lega, French applied mathematician interested in nonlinear dynamics
  • Anne M. Leggett, American mathematical logician, editor of AWM Newsletter
  • Emma Lehmer (1906–2007), Russian-American mathematician known for work on reciprocity laws in algebraic number theory
  • Marguerite Lehr (1898–1987), pioneer in the use of television to teach mathematics
  • Tanya Leise, American biomathematician, expert in circadian rhythms
  • Joan Leitzel (born 1936), American mathematics educator and university administrator
  • Miriam Leiva, Cuban-American mathematics educator
  • Mary Leng, British philosopher of mathematics
  • Frédérique Lenger (1921–2005), Belgian mathematics educator and leader of the New Math movement
  • Suzanne Lenhart (born 1954), American researcher in partial differential equations, president of AWM
  • Ulrike Leopold-Wildburger (born 1949), Austrian mathematical economist, applied mathematician, and operations researcher
  • Katrin Leschke (born 1968), German differential geometer, quaternionic analyst, and minimal surface theorist
  • Gail Letzter (born 1960), American quantum group representation theorist and intelligence agency executive
  • Annie Leuch-Reineck (1880–1978), Swiss mathematician and women's rights activist
  • Debbie Leung, Canadian expert in quantum communications
  • Rachel Levy (born 1968), American applied mathematician, mathematics educator, and blogger
  • Marta Lewicka (born 1972), Polish expert in nonlinear elasticity
  • Florence Lewis (1877–1964), American mathematician and astronomer
  • Jing-Rebecca Li, applied mathematician in France, studies magnetic resonance imaging and Lyapunov equations
  • Sherry Li, Chinese-American developer of sparse parallel solvers for systems of linear equations
  • Winnie Li (born 1948), Chinese-American researcher in number theory, coding theory, automorphic forms, and spectral graph theory
  • Paulette Libermann (1919–2007), French specialist in differential geometry
  • Pamela Liebeck (1930–2012), British mathematician and mathematics educator
  • Lillian Rosanoff Lieber (1886–1986), American mathematics professor and author of popular books on science and mathematics
  • Magnhild Lien, Norwegian mathematician specializing in knot theory
  • Elizaveta Litvinova (1845–c. 1919), Russian mathematician and biographer, defied czar's order forbidding women to study abroad
  • Bonnie Litwiller (1937–2012), American mathematics educator and textbook author
  • Marie Litzinger (1899–1952), American number theorist
  • Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu (born 1974), Taiwanese-American researcher in algebraic geometry and symplectic geometry
  • Klara Löbenstein (1883–1968), German researcher in algebraic geometry
  • Patti Frazer Lock (born 1953), American mathematics and statistics educator and textbook author
  • Deborah Frank Lockhart, administrator at the National Science Foundation
  • Susan Loepp (born 1967), American algebraist and cryptographer
  • Marina Logares (born 1976), Spanish geometer and LGBT+ activist
  • Mayme Logsdon (1881–1967), American algebraic geometer and mathematics educator
  • Louise Zung-nyi Loh (1900–1981), Chinese mathematician, physicist, and educator
  • Sara Lombardo, Italian mathematician, expert on rogue waves and integrable systems
  • Ling Long (mathematician), Chinese-American expert on modular forms, elliptic surfaces, and dessins d'enfants
  • Lynette Long, American psychologist, mathematics educator, and textbook author
  • Carlotta Longo (born 1895), Italian mathematical physicist and high school teacher
  • Judith Q. Longyear (1938–1995), American researcher in graph theory and combinatorics
  • Paola Loreti, Italian researcher in Fourier analysis, control theory, and non-integer bases
  • Lisa Lorentzen, Norwegian mathematician and author, specializing in continued fractions
  • Dawn Lott, African-American expert on numerical partial differential equations
  • Ada Lovelace (1815–1852), wrote the first computer program as part of her work on Babbage's Analytical Engine
  • María Teresa Lozano Imízcoz (born 1946), Spanish low-dimensional topologist
  • Sylvia Chin-Pi Lu (1928–2014), Chinese-American commutative algebraist
  • Katarzyna Lubnauer (born 1969), Polish probability theorist and politician
  • Edith Hirsch Luchins (1921–2002), Polish-American mathematician, experimented on psychology of mathematical problem solving
  • Malwina Łuczak, Polish-Australian probability theorist
  • Monika Ludwig (born 1966), Austrian researcher in convex geometry, member of Austrian Academy of Sciences
  • Alessandra Lunardi (born 1958), Italian mathematical analyst
  • Xiaoyu Luo, Chinese and British applied mathematician, applies fluid dynamics and biomechanics to soft tissues
  • Élisabeth Lutz (1914–2008), French student of Weil, showed how to compute torsion subgroups of elliptic curves
  • Julie Lutz (born 1944), American astronomer and mathematician who studies planetary nebulae and symbiotic binary stars
  • Sonja Lyttkens (1919–2014), Swedish mathematician, first Swedish woman to obtain a permanent academic position in mathematics

M [edit]

  • Odile Macchi (born 1943), French mathematician and physicist
  • Marta Macho Stadler (born 1962), Basque expert on foliations and mathematical blogger
  • Barbara MacCluer, American expert on operator theory and author on functional analysis
  • Brenda MacGibbon, Canadian mathematician, statistician, and decision scientist
  • Sheila Scott Macintyre (1910–1960), Scottish researcher on the Whittaker constant, co-author of German–English mathematics dictionary
  • Diane Maclagan (born 1974), expert on toric varieties, Hilbert schemes, and tropical geometry
  • Chrystal Macmillan (1872–1937), Scottish Liberal politician, barrister, feminist and pacifist, first female honours graduate in mathematics from University of Edinburgh
  • Jessie MacWilliams (1917–1990), English researcher on error-correcting codes
  • Kathleen Madden, American expert on dynamical systems
  • Isabel Maddison (1869–1950), British mathematician known for her work on differential equations
  • Penelope Maddy (born 1950), American philosopher of mathematics
  • Urmila Mahadev, American quantum computing researcher
  • Dorothy Maharam (1917–2014), American mathematician who made important contributions to measure theory
  • Carolyn A. Maher, American expert in mathematics education
  • Carolyn Mahoney (born 1946), African-American combinatorialist, president of Lincoln University of Missouri
  • Apala Majumdar, British expert on liquid crystals
  • Larisa Maksimova (born 1943), Russian mathematical logician
  • Agnieszka Malinowska, Polish expert on fractional calculus and the calculus of variations
  • Maryanthe Malliaris, American mathematician specializing in model theory
  • Vivienne Malone-Mayes (1932–1995), fifth African-American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics, researcher in functional analysis
  • Eugenia Malinnikova (born 1974), Russian-Norwegian expert in functional analysis and partial differential equations
  • Claudia Malvenuto (born 1965), Italian mathematician known for her work on the Hopf algebra of permutations
  • Cristina Manolache, British algebraic geometer
  • Michelle Manes, American mathematician interested in number theory, algebraic geometry, and dynamical systems
  • Kathryn Mann, geometric topologist and geometric group theorist
  • Renata Mansini (born 1968), Italian applied mathematician, uses mathematical optimization for portfolio balancing
  • Elizabeth Mansfield, Australian expert on moving frames and conservation laws
  • María Manzano (born 1950), Spanish mathematical logician
  • Elena Marchisotto (born 1945), American mathematician, mathematics educator, and historian of mathematics
  • Anna Marciniak-Czochra (born 1974), Polish applied mathematician and mathematical biologist
  • Matilde Marcolli (born 1969), Italian mathematical physicist
  • Fotini Markopoulou-Kalamara (born 1971), Greek theoretical physicist interested in foundational mathematics and quantum mechanics
  • Hannah Markwig (born 1980), German researcher in tropical geometry
  • Alison Marr (born 1980), American graph theorist and advocate of inquiry-based learning
  • Karen Marrongelle, American mathematics educator and academic administrator
  • Bethany Rose Marsh, British expert in cluster algebras and tilting theory
  • Susan H. Marshall, American number theorist
  • Maia Martcheva, Bulgarian-American mathematical biologist
  • Laura Martignon (born 1952), Colombian-Italian researcher in neuroscience and decision-making
  • Emilie Martin (1869–1936), American group theorist
  • Mireille Martin-Deschamps, French algebraic geometer, president of Société mathématique de France
  • Consuelo Martínez (born 1955), Spanish algebraist
  • María del Carmen Martínez Sancho (1901–1995), first woman in Spain to gain a PhD in Mathematics
  • Katalin Marton (1941–2019), Hungarian information and probability theorist
  • Susan Martonosi, American mathematician, applies operations research to counter-terrorism, epidemiology, and sports analytics
  • Roswitha März (born 1940), German expert on differential-algebraic equations
  • Verdiana Masanja (born 1954), first Tanzanian woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics
  • Joanna Masingila (born 1960), American mathematics educator
  • Vera Nikolaevna Maslennikova (1926–2000), Russian researcher on partial differential equations, hydrodynamics of rotating fluids, and function spaces
  • Maura Mast, Irish-American differential geometer, mathematics educator, textbook author, and academic administrator
  • Claire Mathieu (born 1965), French algorithms researcher
  • Gordana Matic, Croatian-American low-dimensional topologist, expert on contact topology
  • Kaisa Matomäki (born 1985), Finnish number theorist known for her work on multiplicative functions over short intervals
  • Gretchen Matthews (born 1973), American algebraic coding theorist
  • Galina Matvievskaya (born 1930), Soviet-Russian historian of mathematics
  • Margaret Maxfield (1926–2016), American mathematician and mathematics book author
  • Lola J. May (1923–2007), American mathematics educator and early proponent of new math
  • Svitlana Mayboroda (born 1981), Ukrainian-American expert on boundary value problems for elliptic partial differential equations
  • Ellen Maycock (born 1950), American functional analyst and mathematics educator
  • Anna Mazzucato, American expert on fluid dynamics
  • Shirley McBay (born 1935), first African-American doctorate at the University of Georgia
  • Mary McCammon (c.  1928 – 2008), first woman to complete a doctoral degree in mathematics at Imperial College London
  • Maeve McCarthy, Irish mathematician interested in inverse problems and biological modeling
  • Lynne McClure, British mathematics educator
  • Dorothy McCoy (1903–2001), American mathematician, first female doctorate in mathematics at University of Iowa
  • Janet McDonald (1905–2006), American geometer
  • Dusa McDuff FRS (born 1945), English researcher on symplectic geometry, winner of Satter Prize, first female Hardy Lecturer
  • Elizabeth McHarg (1923–1999), Scottish mathematician and translator, first female president of Edinburgh Mathematical Society
  • Lois Curfman McInnes, American researcher on numerical solution of nonlinear partial differential equations for scientific applications
  • Camille McKayle (born 1964), Afro-Jamaican-American mathematician and academic administrator
  • Danica McKellar (born 1975), American actor, author, mathematician, and education advocate
  • Joyce McLaughlin (1939–2017), American researcher in inverse problems
  • Jeanette McLeod, New Zealand combinatorialist, popularizes mathematics through crochet and origami
  • Jennifer McLoud-Mann, Cherokee mathematician who discovered the 15th and last class of convex pentagons that tile the plane
  • Florence Marie Mears (1896–1995), American specialist in summation methods
  • Catherine Meadows, American cryptographer who formally verifies cryptographic protocols
  • Elizabeth Meckes (born 1980), American probability theorist
  • Nicole Megow, German discrete mathematician and theoretical computer scientist, researcher in scheduling algorithms
  • Sylvie Méléard, French probability theorist
  • Pauline Mellon, Irish functional analyst, president of Irish Mathematical Society
  • Karin Melnick, American differential geometer
  • Teresa Melo (born 1966), Portuguese mathematician and operations researcher
  • Florence Merlevède, French probability theorist
  • Helen Abbot Merrill (1864–1949), American mathematician, educator and textbook author
  • Winifred Edgerton Merrill (1862–1951), first woman with a degree from Columbia University and first American female doctorate in mathematics
  • Uta Merzbach (1933–2017), German-American historian of mathematics, first Smithsonian curator of mathematical instruments
  • Chikako Mese, American differential geometer
  • Jill P. Mesirov, American mathematician, computer scientist, and computational biologist, president of AWM
  • Ida Martha Metcalf (1857–1952), second American female doctorate in mathematics
  • Catherine Meusburger (born 1978), German mathematical physicist interested in string theory
  • Ariane Mézard, French arithmetic geometer
  • Marie-Louise Michelsohn (born 1941), American researcher on complex geometry, spin manifolds, the Dirac operator, and algebraic cycles
  • Ruth I. Michler (1967–2000), American commutative algebraist and algebraic geometer
  • Kaisa Miettinen (born 1965), Finnish industrial optimization researcher and academic administrator
  • Alison Miller, first American female gold medalist in the International Mathematical Olympiad, three-time Elizabeth Lowell Putnam award winner
  • Laura Miller, American mathematician, applies fluid dynamics to insect flight and jellyfish propulsion
  • Mirka Miller (1949–2016), Czech-Australian graph theorist, data security expert
  • Margaret Millington (1944–1973), English expert on modular forms
  • Eva Miranda, Spanish expert on symplectic dynamics
  • Rosa M. Miró-Roig (born 1960), Spanish algebraic geometer and commutative algebraist
  • Maryam Mirzakhani (1977–2017), first female Fields medalist; researcher on the symmetry of curved surfaces
  • Yuliya Mishura, Ukrainian probability theorist and mathematical finance expert
  • Josephine M. Mitchell (1912–2000), Canadian-American mathematical analyst, victim of discriminative application of anti-nepotism rules
  • Dorina Mitrea (born 1965), Romanian-American functional analyst and mathematics educator
  • Irina Mitrea, Romanian-American researcher in partial differential equations known for outreach to women and minorities
  • Melanija Mitrovic, Serbian mathematician
  • Atsuko Miyaji (born 1965), Japanese cryptographer and number theorist
  • Reiko Miyaoka (born 1951), Japanese geometer known for her research on hypersurfaces
  • Fatma Moalla (born 1939), first Tunisian woman to earn a French doctorate in mathematics
  • Colette Moeglin (born 1953), French expert on automorphic forms
  • Joanne Moldenhauer (1928–2016), American high school mathematics teacher
  • Clemency Montelle (born 1977), New Zealand historian of Indian mathematics and astronomy
  • Susan Montgomery (born 1943), American researcher in noncommutative algebra
  • Helen Moore, American mathematician who applies control theory to combination therapy in the health industry
  • Cathleen Synge Morawetz (1923–2017), Canadian-American researcher on the partial differential equations governing fluid flow
  • Anne C. Morel, American logician, order theorist, and algebraist, first female full professor of mathematics at the University of Washington
  • Sophie Morel (born 1979), French number theorist and contributor to the Langlands program, first female tenured mathematics professor at Harvard
  • Eugenie Maria Morenus (1881–1966), American mathematician and professor
  • Susan Morey, American mathematician specializing in commutative algebra
  • Irene Moroz, British applied mathematician
  • Joy Morris (born 1970), Canadian researcher on groups and graphs
  • Kirsten Morris (born 1960), Canadian control theorist
  • Rosa M. Morris (1914–2011), Welsh applied mathematician and aerodynamicist
  • Jennifer Morse, American algebraic combinatorialist
  • Rose Morton (1925–1999), American expert in the mathematical modeling of bubbles
  • Joan Moschovakis, American intuitionistic logician
  • Ruth Moufang (1905–1977), German researcher on non-associative algebraic structures, namesake of Moufang loops
  • Magdalena Mouján (1926–2005), Argentine mathematician of Basque descent, operations researcher, computing pioneer, and science fiction author
  • Nežka Mramor–Kosta, Slovenian mathematician
  • Jennifer Mueller, American applied mathematician, expert in inverse problems and electrical impedance tomography
  • Edith Alice Müller (1918–1995), Swiss mathematician and astronomer, studied the group theory of Moorish tile designs
  • Anna Mullikin (1893–1975), American mathematician, early investigator of point set theory
  • Irene Mulvey, American mathematician, president of American Association of University Professors
  • Anca Muscholl (born 1967), Romanian-German mathematical logician and theoretical computer scientist
  • Kieka Mynhardt (born 1953), South African and Canadian expert on dominating sets in graph theory
  • Emmy Murphy, American symplectic geometer
  • Cecilia Wangechi Mwathi (1963–2011), Kenyan mathematician and union activist, first woman in Kenya to become a mathematics professor
  • Valerie Myerscough (1942–1980), British mathematician and astrophysicist
  • Vera Myller (1880–1970), Russian mathematician and student of David Hilbert, first female professor in Romania
  • Wendy Myrvold, Canadian graph theorist, combinatorist, and algorithms researcher

N [edit]

  • Anna Nagurney, Ukrainian-American mathematician, economist, educator and author in operations management
  • Hasibun Naher, Pakistani applied mathematician who studies tsunamis
  • Andrea R. Nahmod (born 1964), American expert in nonlinear Fourier analysis, harmonic analysis, and partial differential equations
  • Pia Nalli (1884–1964), Italian researcher in functional analysis and tensor calculus
  • Seema Nanda, Indian researcher in applications of mathematics to biology, engineering and finance
  • Mangala Narlikar, Indian number theorist, author of Marathi-language mathematics books for schoolchildren
  • Sonia Natale (born 1972), Argentine expert in abstract algebra
  • Caryn Navy (born 1953), blind American researcher in set-theoretic topology and Braille technology
  • Vicky Neale, British number theorist and mathematics popularizer
  • Gabriele Nebe (born 1967), German researcher on sphere packings, lattices, and codes
  • Deanna Needell, American applied mathematician, won 2016 IMA Prize in Mathematics and Applications
  • Sara Negri (born 1967), Italian-Finnish proof theorist
  • Evelyn Nelson (1943–1987), Canadian researcher in universal algebra with applications to theoretical computer science
  • Gail S. Nelson (born 1959), American mathematician, textbook author, and editor-in-chief of the MAA "Problem Books"
  • Nancy Neudauer, American matroid theorist known for her work in mathematical outreach in Africa and South America
  • Claudia Neuhauser (born 1962), German-American mathematical biologist whose research concerns spatial ecology
  • Hanna Neumann (1914–1971), German-born mathematician who worked on group theory
  • Adriana Neumann de Oliveira, Brazilian expert in interacting particle systems
  • Mara Neusel (1964–2014), German-American invariant theorist and advocate for women in mathematics
  • Monica Nevins (born 1973), Canadian algebraist
  • Virginia Newell (born 1917), American mathematics educator, author, politician, and centenarian
  • Mary Frances Winston Newson (1869–1959), first female American to receive a PhD in mathematics from a European university
  • Sylvia de Neymet (1939–2013), First mexican woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics in Mexico
  • Purity Ngina, Kenyan biomathematician
  • Giang Nguyen (born 1985), Vietnamese-Australian applied mathematician and chess master
  • Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin (born 1983), Irish celebrity and mathematics lecturer
  • Nancy K. Nichols, British applied mathematician and numerical analyst
  • Olympia Nicodemi, American mathematician and mathematics educator interested in wavelets and the history of mathematics
  • Phyllis Nicolson (1917–1968), British developer of the Crank–Nicolson method for solving partial differential equations
  • Barbara Niethammer (born 1963), German expert on the growth of particles in liquids
  • Stanisława Nikodym (1897–1988), first Polish woman to earn PhD in mathematics, known for research in continuum theory
  • Mila Nikolova (1962–2018), Bulgarian researcher in image processing, inverse problems, and compressed sensing
  • Kumiko Nishioka (born 1954), Japanese specialist on transcendental numbers and Mahler functions
  • Wiesława Nizioł, Polish researcher in arithmetic algebraic geometry
  • Emmy Noether (1882–1935), German researcher in abstract algebra and theoretical physics, named "the greatest woman mathematician of all time"[5]
  • Margarita Nolasco Santiago, Mathematics textbook author, member of Puerto Rico Senate
  • Khalida Inayat Noor, Pakistani mathematical analyst
  • Dorothée Normand-Cyrot, French control theorist
  • Isabella Novik (born 1971), Israeli-American expert on algebraic and geometric combinatorics
  • Frieda Nugel (1884–1966), one of the first German women to obtain a doctorate in mathematics
  • Helena J. Nussenzveig Lopes, Brazilian mathematician known for her research on incompressible Euler equations
  • Kaisa Nyberg (born 1948), Finnish cryptographer

O [edit]

  • Katharine Elizabeth O'Brien (1901–1986), American mathematician, musician and poet
  • Vivian O'Brien (1924–2010), American applied mathematician and physicist, expert in fluid dynamics and visual perception
  • Hilary Ockendon, British applied mathematician, expert in fluid dynamics
  • Ortrud Oellermann, South African and Canadian graph theorist
  • Frédérique Oggier, Swiss and Singaporean coding theorist
  • Hee Oh (born 1969), Korean-American dynamical systems theorist, expert on equidistribution in fractal structures
  • Eve Oja (1948–2019), Estonian functional analyst
  • Christine O'Keefe, Australian researcher in finite geometry and information security
  • Kathleen Adebola Okikiolu (born 1965), British-American researcher on differential operators, developed curricula for inner-city children
  • Dianne P. O'Leary (born 1951), American expert on scientific computing, computational linear algebra, and the history of scientific computing
  • Olga Oleinik (1925–2001), Soviet researcher on partial differential equations, elastic media, and boundary layers
  • Dorte Olesen (born 1948), first Danish mathematician to be appointed full professor
  • Gloria Olive (1923–2006), American-born New Zealand mathematician
  • Kathleen Ollerenshaw (1912–2014), British mathematician and politician, mayor of Manchester, educational advisor to Margaret Thatcher
  • Yewande Olubummo (born 1960), Nigerian-American functional analyst
  • Rebecca Walo Omana (born 1951), first female mathematics professor in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Cathy O'Neil, American arithmetic algebraic geometer and author on the social hazards of machine learning
  • Rosa Orellana, American mathematician specializing in algebraic combinatorics and representation theory
  • Ewa Orłowska (born 1935), Polish logician
  • Omayra Ortega, American mathematical epidemiologist
  • Hinke Osinga (born 1969), Dutch expert in dynamical systems, crocheted the Lorenz manifold
  • Barbara L. Osofsky (born 1937), American algebraist, first woman in 50 years to address a national AMS meeting, first female AMS journal editor
  • Mina Ossiander, American probability theorist
  • Marie Françoise Ouedraogo (born 1967), Burkinabé expert on pseudodifferential operators and superalgebras, president of African Women in Mathematics Association
  • Helen Brewster Owens (1881–1968), American suffragette, associate editor of the American Mathematical Monthly
  • Robyn Owens, Australian applied mathematician, studies computer vision including face recognition and the imaging of lactation

P [edit]

  • Ietje Paalman-de Miranda (1936–2020), Surinamese–Dutch mathematician, first female mathematics professor at University of Amsterdam
  • Harriet Padberg (1922–2014), mathematician, music therapist, and pioneer of algorithmic music composition
  • Christina Pagel, British German operations researcher, applies data analysis and mathematical modelling to health care
  • Eleanor Pairman (1896–1973), Scottish mathematician, developed methods to teach mathematics to blind students
  • Ilona Palásti (1924–1991), Hungarian researcher in discrete geometry, geometric probability, and random graphs
  • Pandrosion (4th century AD), ancient Greek mathematician predating Hypatia, developed an approximation for cube roots
  • Erika Pannwitz (1904–1975), German geometric topologist who proved that every knot has a quadrisecant
  • Anna Panorska, Polish-American expert on extreme events in stochastic processes and on the effect of weather on baseball
  • Greta Panova (born 1983), Bulgarian-American algebraic combinatorist
  • Theoni Pappas (born 1944), American mathematics teacher and author of books on popular mathematics
  • Raman Parimala (born 1948), Indian mathematician known for her contributions to algebra
  • Clare Parnell (born 1970), British astrophysicist and applied mathematician, studies the mathematics of the sun and of magnetic fields
  • Haesun Park, Korean-American researcher in numerical analysis and the data sciences
  • Karen Parshall (born 1955), American historian of mathematics
  • Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, Polish-American control theorist and mathematics educator
  • Maria Pastori (1895–1975), Italian mathematician, specialist in rational mechanics
  • Christine Paulin-Mohring (born 1962), French mathematical logician and computer scientist, developer of Coq theorem prover
  • Barbara Paulson (born 1928), American human computer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  • Nataša Pavlović, Serbian–American expert in fluid dynamics and nonlinear dispersive equations
  • Sylvie Paycha (born 1960), French mathematician working in operator theory
  • Sandrine Péché (born 1977), French expert on random matrices
  • Jean Pedersen (1934–2016), American mathematician and author, expert on mathematical paper folding
  • Irena Peeva, American researcher in commutative algebra and its applications
  • Jeanne Peiffer (born 1948), Luxembourgian historian of mathematics
  • Magda Peligrad, Romanian probability theorist known for her work on stochastic processes
  • Beatrice Pelloni (born 1962), Italian expert on partial differential equations
  • Rose Peltesohn (1913–1998), German-Israeli researcher in additive combinatorics
  • Kirsi Peltonen, Finnish mathematician whose interests include differential geometry and the connections between mathematics and art
  • Charlotte Elvira Pengra (1875–1916), Sixth American woman to receive a doctorate in mathematics
  • Cristina Pereyra (born 1964), Venezuelan mathematician, author of several books on wavelets and harmonic analysis
  • Teri Perl (born 1926), American mathematics educator, educational software designer, and author
  • Bernadette Perrin-Riou (born 1955), French number theorist, winner of the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize
  • Mary Perry Smith (1926–2015), American mathematics educator, founder of MESA program for under-privileged students
  • Hazel Perfect (died 2015), British combinatorialist, author, and translator, inventor of gammoids
  • Laura Person, American low-dimensional topologist
  • Małgorzata Peszyńska (born 1962), Polish-American applied mathematician, models geological flow in porous media
  • Rózsa Péter (1905–1977), recursion theorist, first woman elected to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • Stefanie Petermichl (born 1971), German-French mathematical analyst, first female winner of the Salem Prize
  • Louise Petrén-Overton (1880–1977), first Swedish woman with a doctorate in mathematics
  • Guergana Petrova, Bulgarian applied mathematician, uses numerical methods to solve differential equations
  • Sonja Petrović, American mathematical statistician
  • Linda Petzold (born 1954), researcher in differential algebraic equations and simulation, member of National Academy of Engineering
  • Julia Pevtsova, Russian-American representation theorist
  • Flora Philip (1865–1943), first female member of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society
  • Cynthia A. Phillips, American expert on combinatorial optimization
  • Dominique Picard (born 1953), French expert on the statistical applications of wavelets
  • Sophie Piccard (1904–1990), Russian-Swiss mathematician, first female full professor in Switzerland
  • Lisa Piccirillo, American low-dimensional topologist
  • Ragni Piene (born 1947), Norwegian algebraic geometer, member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
  • Lillian Pierce, American mathematician whose research connects number theory with harmonic analysis
  • Johanna Piesch (1898–1992), Austrian pioneer in switching algebra
  • Marie Anne Victoire Pigeon (1724–1767), French mathematician, writer, and teacher
  • Faustina Pignatelli (d. 1785), princess of Colubrano, second woman elected to the Academy of Sciences of Bologna
  • Gabriella Pinzari, Italian expert on the n-body problem
  • Jill Pipher (born 1955), researcher in harmonic analysis, Fourier analysis, differential equations, and cryptography, president of AWM
  • Laura Pisati (died 1908), Italian mathematician, first woman invited to speak at International Congress of Mathematicians
  • Elena Cornaro Piscopia (1646–1684), Italian philosopher, musician, and mathematics lecturer, first woman to earn a doctorate
  • Toniann Pitassi, American-Canadian computational complexity theorist, expert on proof complexity
  • Shirley Pledger, New Zealand mathematician and statistician known for her work on mark and recapture methods
  • Vera Pless (born 1931), American mathematician specializing in combinatorics and coding theory
  • Kim Plofker (born 1964), American historian of Indian mathematics, winner of the Brouwer Medal
  • Gerlind Plonka, German mathematician known for her work on refinable functions and curvelets
  • Eileen Poiani, American mathematician, first woman to teach mathematics at Saint Peter's University, first female president of Pi Mu Epsilon
  • Claudia Polini, Italian expert on commutative algebra
  • Harriet Pollatsek (born 1942), Lie theorist who has applied difference sets to error correcting codes and coding theory
  • Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina (1899–1999), Soviet researcher in fluid mechanics, hydrodynamics, and history of mathematics
  • Elena Moldovan Popoviciu (1924–2009), Romanian functional analyst
  • Freda Porter (born 1957), American applied mathematician, groundwater consultant, and Native American leader
  • Yvonne Pothier (born 1937), Canadian mathematics educator, Catholic nun, and activist for refugees
  • Marian Pour-El (1928–2009), American mathematical logician and computable analyst
  • Victoria Powers, American real algebraic geometer and social choice theorist
  • Maria Assunta Pozio (died 2018), Italian expert on partial differential equations
  • Cheryl Praeger (born 1948), Australian researcher in group theory, algebraic graph theory and combinatorial designs
  • Malabika Pramanik, Indian-Canadian harmonic analyst
  • Eleanor C. Pressly (1918–2003), American mathematician and sounding rocket engineer
  • Emma Previato (born 1952), researcher in algebraic geometry and partial differential equations
  • Candice Renee Price, American mathematician, advocate for greater representation of women and people of color in STEM
  • Rachel Justine Pries, American arithmetic geometer and Galois theorist
  • Hilary Priestley, British mathematician who used topological methods to study distributive lattices
  • Christine Proust (born 1953), French expert on Babylonian mathematics
  • Mileva Prvanović (1929–2016), Serbian differential geometer, first to earn a doctorate in geometry in Serbia
  • Mary Pugh, American-Canadian expert on thin films
  • Jessica Purcell, American and Australian low-dimensional topologist
  • Ulla Pursiheimo (born 1944), Finnish control theorist who became the first female mathematics professor in Finland
  • Helena Pycior (born 1947), American historian of mathematics and expert on Marie Curie and human-animal relations

Q [edit]

  • Martine Queffélec (born 1949), French expert in substitution dynamical systems and Diophantine approximation
  • Jennifer Quinn, American combinatorialist
  • Peregrina Quintela Estévez (born 1960), Spanish applied mathematician

R [edit]

Lacking any formal training, Marjorie Rice conducted a systematic study of pentagon tiling, discovering four of the fifteen known types of tiling convex pentagons.

  • Ami Radunskaya, American mathematician, specializes in dynamical systems and applications to medical problems, president of AWM
  • Virginia Ragsdale (1870–1945), American specialist in algebraic curves, formulated the Ragsdale conjecture
  • Kavita Ramanan, Indian-American probability theorist
  • Mythily Ramaswamy (born 1954), Indian functional analyst and control theorist
  • Susan Miller Rambo (1883–1977), second woman awarded a PhD from the University of Michigan, delegate to 1928 ICM
  • Sujatha Ramdorai (born 1962), Indian-Canadian algebraic number theorist, expert on Iwasawa theory
  • Saly Ruth Ramler (1894–1993), first woman to earn a mathematics doctorate from Charles University
  • Jacqui Ramagge, Australian mathematician and academic administrator, president of Australian Mathematical Society
  • Annie Raoult (born 1951), French applied mathematician, models cell membranes and other thin nanostructures
  • Helena Rasiowa (1917–1994), Polish researcher in the foundations of mathematics and algebraic logic
  • Marina Ratner (1938–2017), Russian-American ergodic theorist, member of National Academy of Sciences
  • Cora Ratto de Sadosky (1912–1981), Argentine mathematician and human rights activist
  • Geneviève Raugel (1951–2019), French numerical analyst and dynamical systems theorist
  • Ethel Raybould (1899–1987), Australian mathematician and mathematics benefactor
  • Michèle Raynaud (born 1938), French algebraic geometer
  • Margaret Rayner (1929–2019), British expert on isoperimetric inequalities, president of Mathematical Association
  • Mary Lynn Reed (born 1967), American mathematician, intelligence researcher, and short fiction writer
  • Mary Rees (born 1953), British specialist in complex dynamical systems
  • Mina Rees (1902–1997), first female President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Sarah Rees (born 1957), British group theorist
  • Karin Reich (born 1941), German historian of mathematics and biographer of mathematicians
  • Anna Barbara Reinhart (1730–1796), Swiss mathematician, wrote commentary on Newton's Principia
  • Kristina Reiss (born 1952), German mathematics educator
  • Idun Reiten (born 1942), Norwegian representation theorist, member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
  • Yuriko Renardy, Australian-American expert in fluid dynamics
  • Barbara Reys (born 1953), American mathematics educator known for her research in number sense and mental calculation
  • Karen Rhea, American calculus educator and proponent of flipped classrooms
  • Ida Rhodes (1900–1986), American pioneer in computer programming, designed the first computer used for Social Security
  • Pilar Ribeiro (1911–2011), Portuguese mathematician, founded Portuguese Mathematical Society and Gazeta de Matemática
  • Marjorie Rice (1923–2017), American amateur mathematician who discovered new pentagon tilings
  • Joan L. Richards (born 1948), American historian of mathematics
  • Mary Rickett (1861–1925), British mathematician and educator
  • Cicely Ridley (1927–2008), British-American applied mathematician, developed codes for quantum chemistry and climate models
  • Christine Riedtmann (born 1952), Swiss algebraist, president of Swiss Mathematical Society
  • Eleanor Rieffel (born 1965), American applied mathematician interested in quantum computing, computer vision, and cryptography
  • Carol Jane Anger Rieke (1908–1999), American astronomer and mathematics educator
  • Beatrice Rivière (born 1974), French expert on numerical simulation of fluid flow through porous media
  • Catherine A. Roberts (born 1965), American applied mathematician and executive director of the American Mathematical Society
  • Rachel Roberts, American low-dimensional topologist
  • Siobhan Roberts, Canadian mathematical biographer
  • Vanessa Robins, Australian computational topologist
  • Julia Robinson (1919–1985), American researcher on diophantine equations, contributed to solution of Hilbert's Tenth Problem
  • Margaret M. Robinson, American number theorist and expert on zeta functions
  • Alvany Rocha, American specialist in Lie groups, computed characters of the Virasoro algebra
  • Jana Rodriguez Hertz (born 1970), Argentine and Uruguayan mathematician
  • Rosana Rodríguez-López, Spanish expert on the application of fixed-point theorems to differential equations
  • Rubí Rodríguez, Chilean complex geometer, president of Chilean Mathematical Society
  • Sylvie Roelly (born 1960), French probability theorist
  • Alice Rogers, English expert on supermanifolds
  • Marie Rognes (born 1982), Norwegian researcher in scientific computing and numerical methods
  • Judith Roitman (born 1945), American specialist in set theory, topology, Boolean algebra, and mathematics education
  • Anna Romanowska, Polish abstract algebraist, first convenor of European Women in Mathematics
  • Dolores Romero Morales (born 1971), Spanish operations researcher
  • Colva Roney-Dougal, British computational group theorist
  • Anna Rönström (1847–1920), Swedish educator, school founder, and mathematician
  • Marian P. Roque, Filipina expert on partial differential equations, president of the Mathematical Society of the Philippines
  • Frances A. Rosamond (born 1943), Australian researcher in parameterized complexity, advocate for women in computer science and mathematics
  • Margit Rösler, German expert on harmonic analysis, special functions, and Dunkl operators
  • Mary G. Ross (1908–2008), first Native American female engineer, studied mathematics for aeronautics and celestial mechanics
  • Alida Rossander (1843–1909) and Jenny Rossander (1837–1887), Swedish mathematics teachers and women's rights activists
  • Alice Roth (1905–1977), Swiss mathematician known for her invention of Swiss cheese spaces
  • Linda Preiss Rothschild (born 1945), president of AWM, vice-president of AMS, co-editor-in-chief of Mathematical Research Letters
  • Christel Rotthaus, German-American researcher in commutative algebra
  • Svetlana Roudenko, Russian-American functional analyst
  • Christiane Rousseau (born 1954), French-Canadian mathematician, president of the Canadian Mathematical Society
  • Marie-Françoise Roy (born 1950), French expert in real algebraic geometry, co-founder of two organizations for women in mathematics
  • Julia Rozanska, Soviet topologist
  • Jean E. Rubin (1926–2002), American expert on the axiom of choice
  • Mary Ellen Rudin (1924–2013), constructed many counterexamples in topology
  • Adela Ruiz de Royo (1943–2019), first lady of Panama
  • Mari-Jo P. Ruiz, Filipina graph theorist and operations researcher
  • Iris Runge (1888–1966), German applied mathematician, translator and biographer
  • Mary Beth Ruskai (born 1944), proved subadditivity of quantum entropy, bounded the electrons in an atom, advocate for women in mathematics
  • Barbara Falkenbach Ryan, American mathematician, computer scientist, statistician and business executive

S [edit]

  • Irene Sabadini, Italian hypercomplex analyst
  • Flora Sadler (1912–2000), Scottish mathematician and astronomer
  • Cora Sadosky (1940–2010), Argentine-American analyst, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics
  • Claudia Sagastizábal, Argentine-Brazilian researcher in convex optimization and energy management
  • Ayşe Şahin, Turkish-American expert on dynamical systems
  • Laure Saint-Raymond (born 1975), French specialist in partial differential equations, member of the French Academy of Sciences
  • Reiko Sakamoto (born 1939), Japanese expert in hyperbolic boundary value problems
  • Graciela Salicrup (1935–1982), Mexican pioneer in categorical topology
  • Judith D. Sally (born 1937), American researcher in commutative algebra, Noether lecturer
  • Sema Salur, Turkish-American differential geometer
  • Jean E. Sammet (1928–2017), supervised the first scientific programming group, helped develop COBOL
  • Mildred Sanderson (1889–1914), American mathematician, established a correspondence between modular and formal invariants
  • Marta Sanz-Solé (born 1952), Catalan researcher on stochastic processes, president of the European Mathematical Society
  • Winifred Sargent (1905–1979), English researcher on integration theory and BK-spaces
  • Ruth Lyttle Satter (1923–1989), American researcher on circadian rhythms, namesake of Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics
  • Linda Gilbert Saucier (born 1948), American mathematician, prolific textbook author
  • Lisa Sauermann (born 1992), German mathematician ranked third in the International Mathematical Olympiad Hall of Fame
  • Bonita V. Saunders, American expert on mathematical visualization
  • Carla Savage, American researcher on parallel algorithms and combinatorial generation, secretary of AMS
  • Karen Saxe, American expert on functional analysis and social choice theory
  • Carol Schumacher (born 1960), Bolivian-born American mathematician, author of inquiry-based learning textbooks
  • Jane Cronin Scanlon (1922–2018), American researcher in partial differential equations and mathematical biology
  • Alice T. Schafer (1915–2009), American differential geometer, founding member of the Association for Women in Mathematics
  • Sakura Schafer-Nameki, German mathematical physicist
  • Mary Schaps (born 1948), Israeli mathematician and academic administrator, researcher in deformation theory, group theory, and representation theory
  • Doris Schattschneider (born 1939), American mathematician known for writing about tessellations and the art of M. C. Escher
  • Michelle Schatzman (1949–2010), French numerical analyst
  • Katya Scheinberg, Russian-American expert on derivative-free continuous optimization
  • Anne Schilling, American algebraic combinatorialist, representation theorist, and mathematical physicist
  • Tamar Schlick, American applied mathematician who develops and applies tools for biomolecule modeling and simulation
  • Karin Schnass (born 1980), Austrian expert on sparse dictionary learning
  • Leila Schneps (born 1961), American-French analytic number theorist and arithmetic geometer, archivist of Grothendieck's works
  • Anita Schöbel (born 1969), German operations researcher, expert on optimization for public transportation
  • Maria E. Schonbek (born 1979), Argentine-American researcher in fluid dynamics and associated partial differential equations
  • Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb (born 1979), Austrian mathematician known for her research in image analysis
  • Lynn Schreyer, American applied mathematician, models porous media
  • Mary Leontius Schulte (1901–2000), American nun, mathematics educator, and historian of mathematics
  • Jennifer Schultens (born 1965), American low-dimensional topologist and knot theorist
  • Marie-Hélène Schwartz (1913–2013), French mathematician known for her work on characteristic numbers of spaces with singularities
  • Irene Sciriha, Maltese graph theorist
  • Jeanette Scissum, American mathematician known for her work on sunspot prediction
  • Charlotte Scott (1858–1931), British mathematician who promoted mathematical education of American women
  • Jennifer Scott (born 1960), British numerical analyst
  • Jennifer Seberry (born 1944), Australian cryptographer, mathematician, and computer scientist, one of the founders of Asiacrypt
  • Rose Whelan Sedgewick (c. 1904–2000), first person to earn a PhD in mathematics from Brown University
  • Esther Seiden (1908–2014), Polish-Israeli-American mathematical statistician known for her research on design of experiments and combinatorial design
  • Annie Selden, American mathematics educator, one of the founders of the Association for Women in Mathematics
  • Svetlana Selezneva (born 1963), Russian expert on discrete functions
  • Helaine Selin (born 1946), American librarian, historian of science, and ethnomathematician
  • Muriel Seltman (1927–2019), British left-wing activist, mathematics educator, historian of mathematics, and author
  • Marjorie Senechal (born 1939), American expert on quasicrystals, author on history of science, editor-in-chief of The Mathematical Intelligencer
  • Adélia Sequeira, Portuguese applied mathematician specializing in modeling blood flow
  • Sylvia Serfaty (born 1975), French expert on superconductivity, winner of the European Mathematical Society Prize
  • Vera Serganova, Russian-American researcher on superalgebras and their representations
  • Caroline Series (born 1951), English specialist in hyperbolic geometry, Kleinian groups and dynamical systems
  • Lily Serna (born 1986), Israeli-Australian arithmetical guru of the SBS game show Letters and Numbers
  • Brigitte Servatius (born 1954), Austrian-American expert on matroids and structural rigidity
  • Nataša Šešum, expert in geometric flows
  • Mamokgethi Setati (born 1966), first black female South African to earn a PhD in mathematics education
  • Jeanette Shakalli (born 1985), promoter of mathematics in Panama
  • Betty Shannon (1922–2017), mathematician and human computer, collaborator with husband Claude Shannon
  • Zorya Shapiro (1914–2013), Soviet mathematician, educator and translator
  • Tatyana Shaposhnikova (born 1946), Russian-Swedish researcher on multipliers in function spaces, partial differential operators, and history of mathematics
  • Mei-Chi Shaw (born 1955), Taiwanese-American researcher on partial differential equations
  • Mariya Shcherbina (born 1958), Ukrainian expert on random matrices
  • Amy Shell-Gellasch, American historian of mathematics and book author
  • Diana Shelstad (born 1947), Australian-American mathematician, formulated the fundamental lemma of the Langlands Program
  • Wenxian Shen, Chinese-American dynamical systems theorist
  • Irina Shevtsova (born 1983), Russian probability theorist
  • Brooke Shipley, American expert in homotopy theory and homological algebra
  • Rebecca Shipley, British applied mathematician and healthcare engineer
  • Tatiana Shubin, Soviet-American mathematician, founder of several mathematics circles
  • Patricia D. Shure, American mathematics educator and calculus reformer
  • Lesley Sibner (1934–2013), American differential geometer and Hodge theorist, produced a constructive proof of the Riemann–Roch theorem
  • Martha Siegel, American probability theorist and mathematics educator
  • Mary Silber, American expert in bifurcation theory and pattern formation
  • Alice Silverberg (born 1958), American number theorist and cryptographer
  • Ruth Silverman (c. 1936–2011), American computational geometer, founder of Association for Women in Mathematics
  • Evelyn Silvia (1948–2006), American functional analyst and mathematics educator
  • Rodica Simion (1955–2000), Romanian-American pioneer in the study of permutation patterns
  • Valeria Simoncini (born 1966), Italian numerical analyst
  • Lao Genevra Simons (1870–1949), American mathematician and historian of mathematics
  • Hourya Benis Sinaceur (born 1940), Moroccan expert in the theory and history of mathematics
  • Mary Emily Sinclair (1878–1955), American mathematician, first woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics at the University of Chicago
  • Nathalie Sinclair (born 1970), Canadian researcher in mathematics education
  • Stephanie Singer, American mathematician and politician, author of books on symmetry
  • Sue Singer, British mathematics educator, president of Girls' Schools Association and Mathematical Association
  • Ajit Iqbal Singh (born 1943), Indian researcher in functional analysis and harmonic analysis
  • Sylvia Skan (1897–1972), British applied mathematician known for the Falkner–Skan boundary layer in fluid mechanics
  • Jessica Sklar (born 1973), American mathematician interested in abstract algebra, recreational mathematics, and the popularization of mathematics
  • Lucy Joan Slater (1922–2008), British expert on hypergeometric functions and the Rogers–Ramanujan identities
  • Angela Slavova, Bulgarian expert on waves and cellular neural networks, chair of SIAM
  • Alice Slotsky, American historian of mathematics and Assyriologist
  • Marian Small (born 1948), Canadian proponent of constructivist mathematical instruction
  • Ionica Smeets (born 1979), Dutch number theorist and science communicator
  • Sonja Smets, Belgian and Dutch mathematical logician, works on quantum logic and belief revision
  • Adelaide Smith (born 1870), American mathematician, studied and taught internationally
  • Clara Eliza Smith (1865–1943), American mathematician specializing in complex analysis
  • Daphne L. Smith, first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology
  • Karen E. Smith (born 1965), American specialist in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry, MAA Hedrick Lecturer, AWM-AMS Noether Lecturer
  • Kate Smith-Miles, Australian applied mathematician, president of Australian Mathematical Society
  • Leslie M. Smith (born 1961), American applied mathematician and engineering physicist working in turbulence
  • Martha K. Smith, American mathematics educator and non-commutative algebraist
  • Agata Smoktunowicz (born 1973), Polish-Scottish researcher in abstract algebra, constructed noncommutative nil rings
  • Nina Snaith (born 1974), British researcher in random matrix theory, quantum chaos, and zeta functions
  • Vera Šnajder (1904–1976), Bosnian mathematician, first Bosnian to publish in mathematics, first female dean in Yugoslavia
  • Priyanshi Somani (born 1998), Indian mental calculator
  • Mary Somerville (1780–1872), Scottish science writer and polymath, one of two first female members of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Christina Sormani, American researcher on Riemannian geometry, metric geometry, and Ricci curvature
  • Vera T. Sós (born 1930), Hungarian number theorist and combinatorialist
  • Chris Soteros, Canadian applied mathematician, studies biomolecules and the knot theory of random space curves
  • Marilda Sotomayor (born 1944), Brazilian mathematician, economist, and game theorist
  • Laila Soueif (born 1956), Egyptian mathematics professor and women's rights activist
  • Diane Souvaine (born 1954), American computational geometer, advocate for women and minorities in mathematics and gender neutrality in teaching
  • Hortensia Soto, Mexican-American mathematics educator
  • Ayşe Soysal (born 1948), Turkish mathematician, president of Boğaziçi University
  • Angela Spalsbury (born 1967), American functional analyst and academic administrator
  • Birgit Speh (born 1949), American expert in Lie groups, namesake of Speh representations
  • Domina Eberle Spencer (born 1920), researcher on electrodynamics and field theory, founded fringe science organization Natural Philosophy Alliance
  • M. Grazia Speranza, Italian operations researcher, president of EURO and IFORS
  • Pauline Sperry (1885–1967), mathematician, musician, and astronomer, unconstitutionally fired from UC Berkeley for refusing to sign a loyalty oath
  • Dolores Richard Spikes (1936–2015), African-American mathematician, first female university chancellor and first female president of a university system in the US
  • Nicole Spillane (born 1988), French and Irish applied mathematician
  • Vera W. de Spinadel (1929–2017), Argentine-Austrian researcher on metallic means
  • Jean Springer (1939–2007), Jamaican-Canadian specialist in abstract algebra and academic administrator
  • Jane Squire (bap. 1686 – 1743), English mathematician studied solutions to finding longitude at sea
  • Bhama Srinivasan (born 1935), representation theorist, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics
  • Hema Srinivasan (born 1959), Indian-American mathematician specializing in abstract algebra and algebraic geometry
  • Kaye Stacey (born 1948), Australian mathematics educator
  • Tanja Stadler (born 1981), German mathematician, expert in phylogenetics
  • Gigliola Staffilani (born 1966), Italian-American researcher on harmonic analysis and partial differential equations
  • Anna Stafford (1905–2004), one of the first postdoctoral researchers at the Institute for Advanced Study
  • Helene Stähelin (1891–1970), Swiss mathematician, editor of Bernoulli family letters, and pacifist
  • Gwyneth Stallard, British expert on complex dynamics and the iteration of meromorphic functions
  • Katherine E. Stange, Canadian-American number theorist
  • Zvezdelina Stankova (born 1969), Bulgarian-American expert on permutation patterns, founder of the Berkeley Math Circle
  • Nancy K. Stanton, American researcher on complex analysis, partial differential equations, and differential geometry
  • Marion Elizabeth Stark (1894—1982), one of the first female American mathematicians to receive a doctorate
  • Anastasia Stavrova, Russian expert in algebraic groups, non-associative algebra, and algebraic K-theory
  • Jackie Stedall (1950–2014), British historian of mathematics
  • Angelika Steger (born 1962), German-Swiss expert on graph theory, randomized algorithms, and approximation algorithms
  • Irene Stegun (1919–2008), American mathematician who edited a classic book of mathematical tables
  • Gabriele Steidl (born 1963), German researcher in computational harmonic analysis, convex optimization, and image processing
  • Mary Kay Stein, American mathematics educator
  • Berit Stensønes (born 1956), Norwegian mathematician specializing in complex analysis and complex dynamics
  • Elizabeth Stephansen (1872–1961), first Norwegian woman to receive a mathematics doctorate
  • Edith Stern (born 1952), child prodigy in mathematics and IBM engineer
  • Chris Stevens, American researcher on topological groups, history of mathematics, and mathematics education, associate executive director of AMS
  • Alice Christine Stickland (1906–1987), British applied mathematician, expert on radio propagation
  • Angeline Stickney (1830–1892), American suffragist, abolitionist, and mathematician, namesake of the largest crater on Phobos
  • Doris Stockton (1924–2018), American mathematician and textbook author
  • Ruth Stokes (1890–1968), American mathematician, astronomer, and cryptologer, pioneer of linear programming, and founder of Pi Mu Epsilon journal
  • Yvonne Stokes, Australian expert on fluid mechanics, mathematical biology, and industrial applications of mathematics
  • Emily Stone, American mathematician, works in fluid mechanics and dynamical systems
  • Anita Straker, British mathematics educator, president of the Mathematical Association
  • Dona Strauss (born 1934), British mathematician, founder of pointless topology and European Women in Mathematics
  • Anne Penfold Street (1932–2016), Australian combinatorialist, third woman mathematics professor in Australia
  • Ileana Streinu, Romanian-American computational geometer, expert on kinematics and structural rigidity
  • Catharina Stroppel (born 1971), German researcher on representation theory, low-dimensional topology, and category theory
  • Marilyn Strutchens (born 1962), African-American mathematics educator
  • Tatjana Stykel, Russian-German expert on numerical linear algebra, control theory, and differential-algebraic equations
  • Dorothy Geneva Styles (1922–1984), American organist, choir director, composer, poet, and mathematician
  • Bella Subbotovskaya (1938–1982), Soviet founder of the Jewish People's University
  • Indulata Sukla (born 1944), Indian researcher on Fourier series, author of textbook on number theory and cryptography
  • Agnès Sulem (born 1959), French applied mathematician, control theorist, and mathematical finance expert
  • Catherine Sulem (born 1957), Algerian-born Canadian mathematician and violinist, expert on singularities in wave propagation
  • Nike Sun, American probability theorist studying phase transitions and counting complexity
  • Rosamund Sutherland (1947–2019), British mathematics educator
  • Louise Nixon Sutton (1925–2006), first African-American woman to earn a mathematics PhD at New York University
  • Thyrsa Frazier Svager (1930–1999), African-American mathematician, donated entire salary to support African-American women in mathematics
  • Márta Svéd (–2005), Hungarian-Australian mathematician, wrote about non-Euclidean geometry
  • Marcia P. Sward (1939–2008), executive director of the Mathematical Association of America
  • Lorna Swain (1891–1936), British fluid dynamics researcher, early female lecturer at Cambridge
  • Irena Swanson, Yugoslav-born American commutative algebraist and mathematical quilter
  • Henda Swart (1939–2016), South African geometer and graph theorist, editor-in-chief of Utilitas Mathematica
  • Jennifer Switkes, American mathematics educator and volunteer prison mathematics instructor
  • Polly Sy, Filipino functional analyst
  • Ágnes Szendrei, Hungarian-American expert on universal algebra
  • Esther Szekeres (1910–2005), Hungarian-Australian mathematician posed the happy ending problem in discrete geometry
  • Wanda Szmielew (1918–1976), Polish logician who proved the decidability of the first-order theory of abelian groups
  • Zofia Szmydt (1923–2010), Polish researcher on differential equations, potential theory and distributions

T [edit]

  • Laura Taalman, American mathematician known for work on the mathematics of Sudoku and mathematical 3D printing
  • Daina Taimiņa (born 1954), Latvian-American mathematician, crochets objects to illustrate hyperbolic space
  • Christiane Tammer, German expert in set-valued optimization
  • Tan Lei (1963–2016), Chinese-French specialist in complex dynamics and functions of complex numbers
  • Betül Tanbay (born 1960), first female president of the Turkish Mathematical Society
  • Rosalind Tanner (1900–1992), English mathematician and a historian of mathematics
  • Anne Taormina, Belgian mathematical physicist interested in string theory, moonshine, and the symmetry of virus capsids
  • Gabriella Tarantello (born 1958), Italian mathematician specializing in partial differential equations, differential geometry, and gauge theory
  • Éva Tardos (born 1957), Hungarian-American researcher in combinatorial optimization algorithms
  • Olga Taussky-Todd (1906–1995), Austrian and later Czech-American advocate of matrix theory
  • Jean Taylor (born 1944), American mathematician known for her work on soap bubbles and crystals
  • Mina Teicher, Israeli algebraic geometer
  • Monique Teillaud, French computational geometer
  • Montserrat Teixidor i Bigas, Spanish-American expert on moduli of vector bundles on curves
  • Keti Tenenblat (born 1944), Turkish-Brazilian differential geometer
  • Katrin Tent (born 1963), German mathematician, expert in group theory, the symmetries of groups, algebraic model theory, and finite geometry
  • M. B. W. Tent, American mathematics educator, mathematical biographer
  • Chuu-Lian Terng (born 1949), Taiwanese-American differential geometer
  • Susanna Terracini (born 1963), Italian mathematician known for her research on chaos in Hamiltonian dynamical systems
  • Audrey Terras (born 1942), American number theorist specializing in quantum chaos and zeta functions
  • Susanne Teschl (born 1971), Austrian expert on mathematical modeling of breath analysis
  • Donna Testerman (born 1960), expert in the representation theory of algebraic groups
  • Ngamta Thamwattana, Thai-Australian expert in granular materials and nanotechnology
  • Theano (6th century BC), one or possibly two different Pythagorean philosophers
  • Diana Thomas, American mathematician who studies nutrition and body weight
  • Doreen Thomas, South African and Australian mathematician and engineer
  • Janet Thomas, founder of the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute
  • Rekha R. Thomas, American mathematician and operations researcher
  • Abigail Thompson (born 1958), American low-dimensional topologist, educational reformer
  • Frances McBroom Thompson (1942–2014), American mathematics educator and textbook author
  • Gillian Thornley (born 1940), New Zealand differential geometer, first woman president of the New Zealand Mathematical Society
  • Heidi Thornquist, American applied mathematician, expert on numerical linear algebra and circuit simulation
  • Mary Domitilla Thuener (1880–1977), American mathematician, founder of Thomas More College, Kentucky
  • Ene-Margit Tiit (born 1934), Estonian mathematician and statistician, founding president of Estonian Statistical Society
  • Mary Tiles (born 1946), writer on the philosophy and history of set theory
  • Ulrike Tillmann FRS (born 1962), German-English algebraic topologist
  • Sheila Tinney (1918–2010), Irish mathematical physicist, first Irishwoman with a mathematical doctorate
  • Maryanne Tipler, New Zealand mathematics textbook author
  • Françoise Tisseur, French-English numerical analyst
  • Jacqueline Naze Tjøtta (1935–2017), French-Norwegian researcher in kinetics, magnetohydrodynamics and theoretical acoustics
  • Renate Tobies (born 1947), German historian of mathematics
  • Gordana Todorov (born 1949), American representation theorist and noncommutative algebraist
  • Susan Tolman, American symplectic geometer
  • Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann FRSC, Polish-Canadian geometric functional analyst
  • Virginia Torczon, American applied mathematician, computer scientist, and expert in nonlinear optimization
  • Antoinette Tordesillas, Australian applied mathematician
  • Anna-Karin Tornberg, Swedish computational mathematician
  • Laura Toti Rigatelli (born 1941), Italian historian of mathematics and biographer of Galois
  • Paula Tretkoff, Australian-American researcher in number theory, noncommutative geometry, and hypergeometric functions
  • Christiane Tretter (born 1964), German expert in spectral theory and differential operators
  • Věra Trnková (1934–2018) Czech category theorist
  • Mary Esther Trueblood (1872–1939), American mathematician, studied with Felix Klein
  • Olga Tsuberbiller (1885–1975), Russian analytical geometer and textbook author
  • Virginia Tucker (1909–1985), American human computer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
  • Laurette Tuckerman (born 1956), American and French researcher in computational fluid dynamics
  • Annita Tuller (1910–1994), American geometer and textbook author
  • Reidun Twarock, German-born mathematical biologist
  • Julianna Tymoczko (born 1975), American algebraic geometer and algebraic combinatorist
  • Regina Tyshkevich (1929–2019), Belarussian graph theorist, co-invented split graphs
  • Galina Tyurina (1938–1970), Soviet algebraic geometer

U [edit]

  • Olabisi Ugbebor (born 1951), first female mathematics professor in Nigeria
  • Karen Uhlenbeck (born 1942), American mathematician, MacArthur Fellow, National Medal of Science, Leroy P. Steele Prize, Abel Prize
  • Corinna Ulcigrai (born 1980), Italian researcher on dynamical systems, won European Mathematical Society Prize and Whitehead Prize
  • Kristin Umland, American mathematics educator
  • Nina Uraltseva (born 1935), Russian mathematical physicist, specialist in nonlinear partial differential equations

V [edit]

  • Brigitte Vallée (born 1950), French mathematician and computer scientist, expert in lattice basis reduction algorithms
  • Clàudia Valls, Spanish and Portuguese mathematician specializing in dynamical systems
  • Pauline van den Driessche (born 1941), British-Canadian pioneer in combinatorial matrix theory and mathematical biology
  • Monica VanDieren, American model theorist and academic administrator
  • Michela Varagnolo, Italian-French representation theorist
  • Maria Eulália Vares, Brazilian expert in stochastic processes
  • Dorothy Vaughan (1910–2008), African-American mathematician at NASA
  • Elena Vázquez Cendón, Spanish expert in modeling waves and shallow water, and numerical solution of hyperbolic problems
  • Mariel Vázquez, Mexican mathematical biologist specializing in DNA topology
  • Eva Vedel Jensen (born 1951), Danish spatial statistician, stereologist, and stochastic geometer
  • Argelia Velez-Rodriguez (born 1936), Black Cuban-American differential geometer
  • Tatyana Velikanova (1932–2002), Soviet mathematician, computer programmer, dissident, and political prisoner
  • Michèle Vergne (born 1943), French specialist in analysis and representation theory, member of French Academy of Sciences
  • Siobhán Vernon (1932–2002), first Irish-born woman to get a PhD in pure mathematics in Ireland
  • Luminița Vese, Romanian specialist in image processing
  • Katalin Vesztergombi (born 1948), Hungarian graph theorist and discrete geometer
  • Maryna Viazovska (born 1984), Ukrainian mathematician, solved the sphere packing problems in dimensions 8 and 24
  • Eva Viehmann (born 1980), German arithmetic geometer
  • Marie-France Vignéras (born 1946), French mathematician who proved that one cannot hear the shape of a hyperbolic drum
  • Maria Cristina Villalobos, American applied mathematician recognized for her mentorship
  • Bianca Viray, American arithmetic geometer
  • Monica Vișan (born 1979), Romanian expert on the nonlinear Schrödinger equation
  • Marie A. Vitulli, American algebraic geometer, union organizer, and proponent for women in mathematics on Wikipedia
  • Roxana Vivian (1871–1961), first female mathematics doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania
  • Karen Vogtmann (born 1949), American geometric group theorist, namesake of Culler–Vogtmann outer space
  • Margit Voigt, German expert on graph coloring
  • Claire Voisin (born 1962), French expert on Hodge structures and mirror symmetry, member of French Academy of Sciences
  • Elisabeth Vreede (1879–1943), Dutch mathematician, astronomer and Anthroposophist
  • Kristina Vušković (born 1967), Serbian graph theorist

W [edit]

  • Michelle L. Wachs, American specialist in algebraic combinatorics
  • Aissa Wade (born 1967), Senegalese symplectic geometer, president of African Institute for Mathematical Sciences
  • Grace Wahba (born 1934), American pioneer in methods for smoothing noisy data, member of National Academy of Sciences
  • Nathalie Wahl (born 1976), Belgian topologist
  • Rebecca Waldecker (born 1979), German group theorist
  • Irène Waldspurger, French mathematician, expert on phase retrieval
  • Erica N. Walker, American mathematician, studies racial and gender equity in mathematics education
  • Muriel Kennett Wales (1913–2009), Irish-Canadian mathematician
  • Judy L. Walker, American algebraic coding theorist
  • Mary Shore Walker (1882–1952), American mathematician, first woman faculty member at the University of Missouri
  • Dorothy Wallace, American number theorist, mathematical biologist, and mathematics educator
  • Lynne H. Walling, British number theorist
  • Joan E. Walsh (1932–2017), British numerical analyst, founder of the Numerical Algorithms Group, possibly first female mathematics professor in UK
  • Marion Walter (1928–2021), German-born mathematician who wrote about using mirrors to explore symmetry
  • Andrea Walther (born 1970), German expert in automatic differentiation
  • Chelsea Walton (born 1983), African-American researcher in noncommutative algebra
  • Yusu Wang, Chinese computational geometer and computational topologist
  • Wang Zhenyi (1768–1797), Qing dynasty mathematician and astronomer
  • Lesley Ward, Australian harmonic and complex analyst
  • Rachel Ward, American applied mathematician who researches machine learning and signal processing
  • Virginia Warfield, American mathematics educator
  • Mary Wynne Warner (1932–1998), British pioneer in fuzzy topology
  • Simone Warzel (born 1973), German mathematical physicist, expert on the many-body problem
  • Talitha Washington (born 1974), American applied mathematician and mathematics educator
  • Sarah L. Waters, British expert in fluid mechanics and tissue engineering
  • Ann E. Watkins, American statistics educator, president of the Mathematical Association of America
  • Anne Watson, British mathematics educator
  • Charlotte Watts (born 1962), British mathematical epidemiologist
  • Johanna Weber (1910–2014), German-British mathematician and aerodynamicist, contributed to supersonic aircraft design
  • Charlotte Wedell (1862–1953), one of four women at the first International Congress of Mathematicians
  • Suzanne Weekes, American mathematician, cofounder of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Undergraduate Program
  • Katrin Wehrheim (born 1974), American symplectic topologist and gauge theorist
  • Guofang Wei (born 1965), Chinese-American differential geometer, found new positively-curved manifolds
  • Tilla Weinstein (1934–2002), American differential geometer
  • Marie Johanna Weiss (1903–1952), American mathematics researcher and textbook author
  • Katrin Wendland (born 1970), German mathematical physicist, expert on singularities in quantum field theories
  • Annette Werner (born 1966), German expert on diophantine geometry and non-Archimedean algebraic geometry
  • Elisabeth M. Werner, researcher on convex geometry, functional analysis, and probability theory
  • Eléna Wexler-Kreindler (1931–2002), Romanian-French algebraist
  • Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler (1883–1966), American researcher on infinite-dimensional linear algebra
  • Mary Wheeler (born 1931), American expert on domain decomposition methods for partial differential equations
  • Sue Whitesides, Canadian mathematician and computer scientist, expert in computational geometry and graph drawing
  • Alice S. Whittemore, American group theorist, biostatistician, and epidemiologist who studies the effects of genetics and lifestyle on cancer
  • Margaret Wiecek, Polish-American operations researcher, expert on multi-objective optimization
  • Sylvia Wiegand (born 1945), American algebraist, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics
  • Anna Wienhard (born 1977), German differential geometer
  • Lynda Wiest, American mathematics education researcher
  • Marie S. Wilcox (died 1995), American high school mathematics teacher, textbook author, and president of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
  • Trena Wilkerson, American mathematics educator, president of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
  • Amie Wilkinson (born 1968), American researcher in ergodic theory and smooth dynamical systems
  • Emily Willbanks (1930–2007), American mathematician who contributed to defense weapons applications and high performance storage
  • Karen Willcox, New Zealand applied mathematician, expert on reduced-order modeling and multi-fidelity methods
  • Elizabeth Williams (1895–1986), British mathematician and educationist
  • Emily Coddington Williams (1873–1952), American historian of mathematics, translator, novelist, playwright, and biographer
  • Kim Williams, scholar of connections between mathematics and architecture
  • Lauren Williams, American expert on cluster algebras and tropical geometry
  • Roselyn E. Williams, American mathematician, founder of National Math Alliance
  • Ruth J. Williams, American probability theorist, president of Institute of Mathematical Statistics, member of National Academy of Sciences
  • Ruth Margaret Williams (born 1945), British mathematical physicist, researches discrete gravity
  • Sheila Oates Williams (born 1939), British and Australian abstract algebraist
  • Talithia Williams, American statistician and mathematician who researches the spatiotemporal structure of data
  • Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Bulgarian-American researcher on graph algorithms and fast matrix multiplication
  • Stephanie van Willigenburg, Canadian researcher in algebraic combinatorics and quasisymmetric functions
  • Elizabeth Wilmer, American expert on Markov chain mixing times
  • Helen Wilson (mathematician) (born 1973), British expert on non-Newtonian fluids, president of British Society of Rheology
  • Ulrica Wilson, African-American mathematician specializing in noncommutative rings and the combinatorics of matrices
  • Helen Wily (1921–2009), New Zealand mathematician and statistician
  • Sarah Witherspoon, American mathematician interested in abstract algebra
  • Barbara Wohlmuth, German expert on the numerical solution of partial differential equations
  • Julia Wolf, British mathematician specialising in arithmetic combinatorics
  • Gail Wolkowicz, Canadian mathematical biologist known for her work on the competitive exclusion principle
  • Maria Wonenburger (1927–2014), Galician-American group theorist, first Spanish Fulbright scholar in mathematics
  • Carol Wood (born 1945), American expert in model-theoretic algebra, president of AWM
  • Melanie Wood (born 1981), first female American to compete in the International Mathematical Olympiad
  • Ruth Goulding Wood (1875–1935), American non-Euclidean geometer
  • Sarah Woodhead (1851–1912), first woman to pass the Cambridge University mathematical Tripos examination
  • Mary Lee Woods (1924–2017), British mathematician and computer programmer
  • Carol S. Woodward, American expert in numerical algorithms and software
  • Margaret H. Wright (born 1944), American researcher in optimization, linear algebra, and scientific computing
  • Dorothy Maud Wrinch (1894–1976), Argentine-English mathematician and biochemical theorist, expert in protein structure
  • Jang-Mei Wu, Taiwanese-American complex analyst
  • Sijue Wu (born 1964), Chinese-American expert in the mathematics of water waves
  • Emily Kathryn Wyant (1897–1942), American mathematician, founder of honor society Kappa Mu Epsilon
  • Lucy R. Wyatt, British mathematician and oceanographer, studies high frequency radar oceanography and ocean surface waves
  • Urszula Wybraniec-Skardowska (born 1940), Polish logician
  • Cynthia Wyels, American mathematician known for her mentorship of Latino students

X [edit]

  • Dianna Xu, American mathematician and computer scientist who studies computational problems on curves and surfaces

Y [edit]

  • Carolyn Yackel, American commutative algebraist and mathematical fiber artist
  • Catherine Yan, Chinese-American mathematician interested in algebraic combinatorics
  • Grace Yang, Chinese-American expert on stochastic processes in the physical sciences, asymptotic theory, and survival analysis
  • Elena Yanovskaya (born 1938), Soviet and Russian game theorist
  • Sofya Yanovskaya (1896–1966), restored mathematical logic research in Soviet Union, edited mathematical works of Karl Marx
  • Jane Ye, Chinese-Canadian researcher in variational analysis
  • Karen Yeats (born 1980), Canadian mathematician whose research connects combinatorics to quantum field theory
  • Florence Yeldham (1877–1945), British school teacher and historian of arithmetic
  • Yiqun Lisa Yin, Chinese-American cryptographer, broke the SHA-1 hash scheme and helped develop the RC6 block cipher
  • Ruriko Yoshida, Japanese-American combinatorist, statistician, phylogeneticist, and operations researcher
  • Anna Irwin Young (1873–1920), charter member of the Mathematical Association of America
  • Lai-Sang Young (born 1952), Hong Kong born dynamical systems theorist
  • Mabel Minerva Young (1872–1963), American geometer
  • Virginia R. Young, American expert on the mathematics of insurance
  • Noriko Yui, Japanese-Canadian researcher on arithmetic geometry, mathematical physics, and mirror symmetry
  • Mariette Yvinec, French computational geometer

Z [edit]

  • Sara Zahedi (born 1981), Iranian-Swedish researcher in computational fluid dynamics, former child refugee, and winner of EMS Prize
  • Martina Zähle (born 1950), German stochastic geometer and geometric measure theorist
  • Frieda Zames (1932–2005), American mathematician and disability rights activist
  • Antonella Zanna, Italian-Norwegian numerical analyst
  • Thaleia Zariphopoulou (born 1962), Greek-American expert in mathematical finance
  • Claudia Zaslavsky (1917–2006), American mathematics educator and ethnomathematician
  • Mary Lou Zeeman, British expert on dynamical systems and their application to mathematical biology
  • Sarah Zerbes (born 1978), German and British algebraic number theorist
  • Ping Zhang, graph theorist and textbook author
  • Rozetta Zhilina (1933–2003), Soviet expert in computational problems for nuclear weapons
  • Tamar Ziegler (born 1971), Israeli researcher in ergodic theory and arithmetic combinatorics, won Erdős Prize
  • Magdolna Zimányi (1934–2016), pioneer of Hungarian computing

See also [edit]

  • Association for Women in Mathematics
  • European Women in Mathematics
  • List of female scientists
  • List of women in statistics
  • Noether Lecturer
  • Timeline of women in mathematics in the United States
  • Timeline of women in mathematics worldwide
  • Women in computing
  • Women in science

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b Morrow, edited by Charlene; Perl, Teri (1998). Notable women in mathematics : a biographical dictionary . Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. pp. 98–101. ISBN978-0-313-29131-9. CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  2. ^ "Profiles of Women in Mathematics". Web Archive of The Emmy Noether Lectures. Association for Women in Mathematics. Archived from the original on 4 April 2004. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
  3. ^ Grinstein, Louise S.; Schafer, Paul J. Campbell, eds. (1987). Women of mathematics : a biobibliographic sourcebook . New York: Greenwood Press. ISBN978-0-313-24849-8.
  4. ^ "Maria Gaetana Agnesi". Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  5. ^ a b Alexandrov, Pavel S. (1981). "In Memory of Emmy Noether". In Brewer, James W; Smith, Martha K (eds.). Emmy Noether: A Tribute to Her Life and Work. New York: Marcel Dekker. pp. 99–111. ISBN0-8247-1550-0. .

External links [edit]

  • Chronological Index of Women Mathematicians
  • Alphabetical Index of Women Mathematicians
  • List of Noether Lecturers
  • Famous Female Mathematicians
  • MacTutor index of female mathematicians
  • Mathematical Women in the British Isles, 1878-1940 (Davis Archive)
  • Biographies of Women Mathematicians on the Women in Math Project
  • Green, Judy; LaDuke, Jeanne (2009). Pioneering Women in American Mathematics — The Pre-1940 PhD's. History of Mathematics. 34. American Mathematical Society, The London Mathematical Society. ISBN978-0-8218-4376-5. Biographies available in the Supplementary Material at AMS

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