This is a list of women who have made noteworthy contributions to or achievements in mathematics. These include mathematical research,

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, the history and philosophy of mathematics, public outreach, and mathematics contests.

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* Karen Aardal (born 1961), Norwegian and Dutch applied mathematician, theoretical computer scientist, and operations researcher *

Hanan Mohamed Abdelrahman Hanan Mohamed Abdelrahman is an Egyptian-Norway, Norwegian mathematics education, mathematics educator, the 2017 winner of the . Life and career Hanan Mohamed Abdelrahman is originally from Egypt, where her father was an engineer and her mother wa ...

, 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 Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva (russian: link=no, Татья́на Алексе́евна Афана́сьева) (Kiev, 19 November 1876 – Leiden, 14 April 1964) (also known as Tatiana Ehrenfest-Afanaseva or spelled Afanassjewa) was a Russian/ ...

(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 Maria Gaetana Agnesi ( , , ; 16 May 1718 – 9 January 1799) was an Italian mathematician, philosopher, theologian, and humanitarian. She was the first woman to write a mathematics handbook and the first woman appointed as a mathematics profes ...

(1718–1799), Italian mathematician and philosopher, possibly the first female mathematics professor *

Ilka Agricola Ilka Agricola (born 8 August 1973 in The Hague)Curriculum vitae
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(born 1973), German expert on differential geometry and its applications in mathematical physics * Nkechi Agwu (born 1962), African American ethnomathematician *

Dorit Aharonov Dorit Aharonov ( he, דורית אהרונוב; born 1970) is an Israeli computer scientist specializing in quantum computing. Aharonov graduated from Weizmann Institute of Science with an MSc in Physics. She received her doctorate for Comp ...

(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 *

Shabnam Akhtari Shabnam Akhtari is a Canadian-Iranian mathematician specializing in number theory, and in particular in Diophantine equations, Thue equations, and the geometry of numbers. She is an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Oregon. ...

, Iranian number theorist *

Asuman Aksoy Asuman Güven Aksoy is a Turkish-American mathematician whose research concerns topics in functional analysis, metric geometry, and operator theory including Banach spaces, measures of non-compactness, fixed points, Birnbaum–Orlicz spaces, ...

, Turkish-American functional analyst *

Meike Akveld Meike Maria Elisabeth Akveld is a Swiss mathematician and textbook author, whose professional interests include knot theory, symplectic geometry, and mathematics education. She is a tenured senior scientist and lecturer in the mathematics and ...

, Swiss knot theorist and mathematics educator * Fatiha Alabau (born 1961), French expert in control of partial differential equations, president of French applied mathematics society * Mara Alagic, Serbian mathematics educator, editor-in-chief of ''Journal of Mathematics and the Arts'' *

Lara Alcock Lara Alcock is a British mathematics educator. She is a reader in mathematics education at Loughborough University, head of the Mathematics Education Centre at Loughborough, and the author of several books on mathematics. Alcock won the Selden P ...

, British mathematics educator and author *

Helen Popova Alderson Helen Popova Alderson (1924–1972) was a Russian and British mathematician and mathematics translator known for her research on quasigroups and on higher reciprocity laws. Life Alderson was born on 14 May 1924 in Baku, to a Russian family of t ...

(1924–1972), Russian and British mathematician and translator, wrote on quasigroups and reciprocity laws *

Grace Alele-Williams Grace Alele-Williams (16 December 1932 – 25 March 2022) was a Nigerian professor of mathematics education, who made history as the first Nigerian woman to receive a doctorate, and the first Nigerian female vice-chancellor at the University ...

(born 1932), first woman to lead a Nigerian university *

Aldona Aleškevičienė-Statulevičienė Aldona Džiugaitė-Aleškevičienė-Statulevičienė (1 January 1936 – 24 February 2017) was a Lithuanian mathematician who specialized in probability theory. Biography She graduated from Vilnius University as a Doctor of Physics and Mathe ...

(1936–2017), Lithuanian probability theorist * Stephanie B. Alexander, American differential geometer *

Florence Eliza Allen Florence Eliza Allen (October 4, 1876 – December 31, 1960) was an American mathematician and women's suffrage activist. In 1907 she became the second woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and the fo ...

(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 Ann S. Almgren is an American applied mathematician who works as a senior scientist and group leader of the Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her primary research interests are in comp ...

, American applied mathematician who works on computational simulations of supernovae and white dwarfs *

Melania Alvarez Melania Alvarez de Adem is a Mexican mathematics educator who works as the Education Coordinator at the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS), and Outreach Coordinator for the Department of Mathematics at the University of Britis ...

, Mexican-Canadian mathematics educator, organizer of summer mathematics camps for indigenous students *

Yvette Amice Yvette Amice (June 4, 1936 – July 4, 1993) was a French mathematician whose research concerned number theory and -adic analysis.. She was president of the Société mathématique de France. Education Amice studied mathematics at the École norm ...

(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 T. A. Sarasvati Amma (Tekkath Amayankottukurussi Kalathil Sarasvati, also spelled as T. A. Saraswathi Amma; 26 December 1918 – 15 August 2000) was a scholar born in Cherpulassery, Palakkad District, Kerala, India. She has contributed to the fi ...

(1918–2000), Historian of ancient Indian mathematics * Astrid an Huef, New Zealand expert on functional analysis, president of New Zealand Mathematical Society *

Nalini Anantharaman Nalini Anantharaman (born 26 February 1976) is a French mathematician who has won major prizes including the Henri Poincaré Prize in 2012. Life Nalini Florence Anantharaman was born in Paris in 1976 to two mathematicians. Her father and her moth ...

(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 Kirsti Andersen (born December 9, 1941, Copenhagen), published under the name Kirsti Pedersen, is a Danish historian of mathematics. She is an Associate Professor of the History of Science at Aarhus University, where she had her Candidate examin ...

(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) Grace Andrews (May 30, 1869 – July 27, 1951) was an American mathematician. She, along with Charlotte Angas Scott, was one of only two women listed in the first edition of ''American Men of Science'', which appeared in 1906. Education Andrews ...

(1869–1951), one of only two women listed in the first edition of ''American Men of Science'' * Guacolda Antoine Lazzerini (1908–2015), Chilean mathematician and mathematics educator *

Kathleen Antonelli Kathleen Rita Antonelli ( McNulty; formerly Mauchly; 12 February 1921 – 20 April 2006), known as Kay McNulty, was an Irish-born American computer programmer and one of the six original programmers of the ENIAC, one of the first general-purp ...

(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 Crista Arangala (née Crista Lynn Coles) is an American mathematician and textbook author, specializing in numerical analysis. She is a professor of mathematics and chair of the department of mathematics and statistics at Elon University, and a Ful ...

, American numerical analyst, textbook author, and international educator * Carolina Araujo, Brazilian algebraic geometer * Gabriela Araujo-Pardo, Mexican graph theorist, president of Mexican Mathematical Society *

Maria Angela Ardinghelli Maria Angela Ardinghelli (1730–1825) was an Italian translator, mathematician, physicist and noble, mostly known as the Italian translator of the works of Stephen Hales, a Newtonian physiologist. She translated two of his works; ''Haemastat ...

(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 * Fuensanta Aroca, Spanish-Mexican tropical geometer *

Marie-Claude Arnaud Marie-Claude Arnaud-Delabrière (born 24 February 1963) is a French mathematician, specializing in dynamical systems. She is University Professor of Mathematics at the University of Avignon and a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de Fra ...

, French expert in dynamical systems *

Elayne Arrington Elayne Arrington (born c. 1940) is an American mathematician and engineer. She was the first African American woman to graduate with a bachelor's degree from the School of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. After earning her Ph.D., she w ...

, American aerospace engineer, expert on Soviet aircraft *

Sharon Arroyo Sharon Filipowski Arroyo (born 1966) is an American applied mathematician and operations researcher who works for Boeing as a Boeing Technical Fellow. She works in the Applied Mathematics Group of Boeing Research and Technology on mathematical ...

, American operations researcher in aircraft manufacture *

Michèle Artigue Michèle Artigue (born 1946) is a French expert in mathematics education, a professor emeritus at Paris Diderot University and the former president of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction. Early life and education Artigue was b ...

(born 1946), French expert in mathematics education * Natascha Artin Brunswick (1909–2003), German-American mathematician, photographer, and journal editor *

Shiri Artstein Shiri Artstein-Avidan ( he, שירי ארטשטיין-אבידן, born 28 September 1978) is an Israeli mathematician who in 2015 won the Erdős Prize. She specializes in convex geometry and asymptotic geometric analysis, and is a professor of ma ...

(born 1978), Israeli mathematician specializing in convex geometry and asymptotic geometric analysis *

Marcia Ascher Marcia Alper Ascher (April 23, 1935 – August 10, 2013) was an American mathematician, and a leader and pioneer in ethnomathematics. She was a professor emerita of mathematics at Ithaca College. Life Ascher was born in New York City, the daughter ...

(1935–2013), American ethnomathematician *

Winifred Asprey Winifred "Tim" Alice Asprey (April 8, 1917 – October 19, 2007) was an American mathematician and computer scientist. She was one of only around 200 women to earn PhDs in mathematics from American universities during the 1940s, a period of w ...

(1917–2007), helped establish the first computer science lab at Vassar *

Michèle Audin Michèle Audin (Algiers, 3 January, 1954) is a French mathematician, writer, and a former professor. She has worked as a professor at the University of Geneva, the University of Paris-Saclay and most recently at the University of Strasbourg, where ...

(born 1954), French researcher in symplectic geometry * Bonnie Averbach (1933–2019), American mathematics and actuarial educator and author *

Tamara Awerbuch-Friedlander Tamara Eugenia Awerbuch-Friedlander is a biomathematician and public health scientist who worked at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) in Boston, Massachusetts. Her primary research and publications focus on biosocial interactions tha ...

, American biomathematician and public health scientist *

Hertha Ayrton Phoebe Sarah Hertha Ayrton (28 April 1854 – 26 August 1923) was a British engineer, mathematician, physicist and inventor, and suffragette. Known in adult life as Hertha Ayrton, born Phoebe Sarah Marks, she was awarded the Hughes Medal by the ...

(1854–1923), English engineer, mathematician, physicist, and inventor, winner of the Hughes Medal

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Ellen Baake Ellen Baake (born 1961) is a German mathematical biologist who works as a professor of biomathematics and theoretical bioinformatics at Bielefeld University. Her research uses probability theory and differential equations to study biological evolu ...

(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 Hajer Bahouri (born 30 March 1958, in Tunis) is a Franco-Tunisian mathematician who is interested in partial differential equations. She is Director of Research at the National Center for Scientific Research and the Laboratory of Analysis and Appl ...

(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 Ruth Elizabeth Baker is a British applied mathematics, applied mathematician and mathematical and theoretical biology, mathematical biologist at the University of Oxford whose research interests include pattern formation, morphogenesis, and the m ...

, British mathematical biologist interested in pattern formation and morphogenesis * Viviane Baladi (born 1963), Swiss-French expert on dynamical systems *

Jennifer Balakrishnan Jennifer Shyamala Sayaka Balakrishnan is an American mathematician known for leading a team that solved the problem of the "cursed curve", a Diophantine equation that was known for being "famously difficult". More generally, Balakrishnan speciali ...

, American number theorist who solved the "cursed curve" *

Deborah Loewenberg Ball Deborah Loewenberg Ball is an educational researcher noted for her work in mathematics instruction and the mathematical preparation of teachers. From 2017 to 2018 she serves as president of the American Educational Research Association. She served ...

, American mathematics education researcher *

Catherine Bandle Catherine Bandle (born 22 March 1943) is a Swiss mathematician known for her research on differential equations, including semilinear elliptic equations and Reaction–diffusion system, reaction-diffusion equations, and for her book on isoperimetr ...

(born 1943), Swiss expert on differential equations and isoperimetric inequalities * Selenne Bañuelos (born 1985), Mexican-American mathematician and mathematical biologist *

Hélène Barcelo Hélène Barcelo (born 1954) is a mathematician from Québec specializing in algebraic combinatorics. Within that field, her interests include combinatorial representation theory, homotopy theory, and Arrangement of hyperplanes, arrangements of h ...

(born 1954), mathematician from Québec, former 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 Nina Karlovna Bari (russian: Нина Карловна Бари; 19 November 1901 – 15 July 1961) was a USSR, Soviet mathematician known for her work on trigonometric series.

(1901–1961), Soviet mathematician known for her work on trigonometric series *

Ruth Aaronson Bari Ruth Aaronson Bari (November 17, 1917 – August 25, 2005) was an American mathematician known for her work in graph theory and algebraic homomorphisms. She was a professor at George Washington University, beginning in 1966. Career The daughter ...

(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 Ida Barney (November 6, 1886 – March 7, 1982) was an American astronomer, best known for her 22 volumes of astrometric measurements on 150,000 stars. She was educated at Smith College and Yale University and spent most of her career at the Yal ...

(1886–1982), American mathematics professor and astronomer *

Charlotte Barnum Charlotte Cynthia Barnum (May 17, 1860 – March 27, 1934), mathematician and social activist, was the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics from Yale University. Early life and education Charlotte Barnum was born in Phillipston, Mas ...

(1860–1934), mathematician and social activist, first female mathematics PhD from Yale *

Margaret Baron Margaret E. Baron (1915 – 16 August 1996) was a British mathematics educator and historian of mathematics known for her book on the history of calculus. Life Baron was originally from Gateshead, in northeastern England, and earned a bachelor' ...

(1915–1996), British mathematics educator and historian of mathematics *

Lida Barrett Lida Baker Kittrell Barrett (May 21, 1927 – January 28, 2021) was an American mathematics professor and administrator. She served on many committees and boards and contributed to mathematics, mathematics education, and increasing the participa ...

(1927–2021), second female president of the MAA *

June Barrow-Green June Barrow-Green (born 1953) is a Professor of History of Mathematics at the Open University and a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Education Barrow-Green obtained a BSc Hons in Mathematics in 1986 and an MSc in Mathemat ...

(born 1953), British historian of mathematics *

Jean Bartik Jean Bartik ( Betty Jean Jennings; December 27, 1924 – March 23, 2011) was one of the original six programmers for the ENIAC computer. Bartik studied mathematics in school then began work at the University of Pennsylvania, first manually ca ...

(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 Grace Elizabeth Bates (13 August 1914 – 19 November 1996) was an American mathematician and one of few women in the United States to be granted a Ph.D. in mathematics in the 1940s. She became an emeritus professor at Mount Holyoke College. Bate ...

(1914–1996), one of few women in the United States to be granted a PhD in mathematics in the 1940s *

Lynn Batten Lynn Margaret Batten (1948 – 28 July 2022 Helga Baum Helga Baum (née Dlubek, born 1954) is a German mathematician. She is professor for differential geometry and global analysis in the Institute for Mathematics of the Humboldt University of Berlin Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: H ...

(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 Agnes Sime Baxter (Hill) (18 March 1870 – 9 March 1917) was a Canadian-born mathematician. She studied at Dalhousie University, receiving her BA in 1891, and her MA in 1892. She received her Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1895; her dissertat ...

(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 Jillian Beardwood (1934–2019) was a British mathematician known for the Beardwood-Halton-Hammersley Theorem. Published by the Cambridge Philosophical Society in a 1959 article entitled "The Shortest Path Through Many Points", the theorem ...

(1934–2019), British mathematician, contributed to the traveling salesperson problem * Karine Beauchard (born 1978), French control theorist *

Miriam Becker Miriam Freda Becker (later Miriam Mazur, March 30, 1909 – March 5, 2000) was an American mathematician whose career became a test case for unionization and academic tenure in the City University of New York system in the 1930s. Early life and ...

(1909–2000), American mathematician whose career became a test case for unionization and academic tenure *

Astrid Beckmann Astrid Beckmann ( Rautenberg, born 20 December 1957) is a German physicist, a professor of mathematics and Mathematics Education, mathematics education, and was a long-serving university president. Beckmann served as president of the Pädagogisc ...

(born 1957), German mathematician, mathematics educator, physicist, and academic administrator * May Beenken (1901–1988), American mathematician *

Janet Beery Janet Lynn Beery is an American mathematician and historian of mathematics who serves as a professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of Redlands. She also served as the editor-in-chief of mathematics history journal ''Converge ...

, American mathematician and historian of mathematics * Mary Beisiegel, American mathematics educator * Marion Beiter (1907–1982), American mathematician, expert on cyclotomic polynomials *

sarah-marie belcastro Sarah-Marie Belcastro (''aka'' sarah-marie belcastro, born 1970 in San Diego) is an American mathematician and book author. She is an instructor at the Art of Problem Solving Online School and is the director of Bryn Mawr's residential summer prog ...

, American algebraic geometer, editor of books on mathematics and fiber arts * Hélène Bellosta (1946–2011), French historian of mathematics in medieval Islam *

Alexandra Bellow Alexandra Bellow (née Bagdasar; previously Ionescu Tulcea; born 30 August 1935) is a Romanian-American mathematician, who has made contributions to the fields of ergodic theory, probability and analysis. Biography Bellow was born in Bucharest ...

(born 1935), Romanian researcher in ergodic theory, probability and analysis *

Margherita Piazzola Beloch Margherita Beloch Piazzolla (12 July 1879, in Frascati – 28 September 1976, in Rome) was an Italian mathematician who worked in algebraic geometry, algebraic topology and photogrammetry. Biography Beloch was the daughter of the German hist ...

(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 (1947–2022), American mathematician, expert on Lie algebras *

Alona Ben-Tal Alona Ben-Tal is an Israeli and New Zealand applied mathematician who works as an associate professor and deputy head of school in the School of Natural and Computational Sciences at Massey University. Her research concerns dynamical systems an ...

, Israeli and New Zealand applied mathematician, models human and bird breathing *

Deborah J. Bennett Deborah Jo Bennett (born 1950) is an American mathematician, mathematics education, mathematics educator, and book author. She is a professor of mathematics at New Jersey City University. Education and career Bennett is originally from Tuscaloos ...

(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 Marsha J. Berger (born 1953) is an American computer scientist. Her areas of research include numerical analysis, computational fluid dynamics, and high-performance parallel computing. She is a Silver Professor (emeritus) of Computer Science and M ...

(born 1953), American researcher in numerical analysis, computational fluid dynamics, and parallel computing * Tanja Bergkvist (born 1974), Swedish mathematician and anti-feminist activist *

Julie Bergner Julia Elizabeth Bergner is a mathematician specializing in algebraic topology, homotopy theory, and higher category theory. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Virginia. Education and career Bergner graduated from Gonzaga Uni ...

, 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 Leah Wrenn Berman Williams (born 1976) is a mathematician at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, specializing in discrete geometry. At the University of Alaska, she is a professor of mathematics, the head of the department of mathematics and statis ...

(born 1976), American discrete geometer * Christine Bernardi (1955–2018), French expert on numerical analysis of partial differential equations *

Dorothy Lewis Bernstein Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (April 11, 1914 – February 5, 1988) was an American mathematician known for her work in applied mathematics, statistics, computer programming, and her research on the Laplace transform. She was the first woman to be ele ...

(1914–1988), applied mathematician, first female president of the MAA *

Inga Berre Inga Berre (born 31 July 1978) is a Norwegian applied mathematician who studies numerical methods for the partial differential equations used to model fractured geothermal systems and porous media more generally. She is a professor in the depar ...

(born 1978), Norwegian applied mathematician, models porous media and geothermal systems *

Valérie Berthé Valérie Berthé (born 16 December 1968) is a French mathematician who works as a director of research for the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) at the Institut de Recherche en Informatique Fondamentale (IRIF), a joint project b ...

(born 1968), French researcher in symbolic dynamics, combinatorics on words, and discrete geometry *

Andrea Bertozzi Andrea Louise Bertozzi (born 1965) is an American mathematician. Her research interests are in non-linear partial differential equations and applied mathematics. Education and career She earned her bachelor's and master's degrees from Princeton ...

(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 Francesca Biagini (born 31 July 1973) is a German and Italian mathematician specializing in mathematical finance, stochastic calculus, and probability theory. Topics in her research include fractional Brownian motion and portfolio optimization f ...

(born 1973), Italian-German probability theorist and financial mathematician *

Ginestra Bianconi Ginestra Bianconi is a Network science, network scientist and mathematical physics, mathematical physicist, known for her work on statistical mechanics, network theory, multilayer and higher-order networks, and in particular for the Bianconi–Ba ...

, Italian network scientist *

Lydia Bieri Lydia Rosina Bieri (born 1972) is a Swiss-American applied mathematician, geometric analyst, mathematical physicist, cosmologist, and historian of science whose research concerns general relativity, gravity waves, and gravitational memory effe ...

(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 Margherita Joan (Miggy) Biller is a British mathematics teacher, the head of mathematics at York College. She was named an MBE in the 2016 New Year Honours "for services to mathematics in further education". Biller taught mathematics at St Pe ...

, British mathematician and mathematics educator *

Sara Billey Sara Cosette Billey (born February 6, 1968 in Alva, Oklahoma, United States) is an American mathematician working in algebraic combinatorics. She is known for her contributions on Schubert polynomials, singular loci of Schubert varieties, Kosta ...

(born 1968), American algebraic combinatorialist * Katalin Bimbó (born 1963), Canadian mathematical logician and proof theorist * Christina Birkenhake (born 1961), German algebraic geometer *

Joan Birman Joan Sylvia Lyttle Birman (born May 30, 1927, in New York CityLarry Riddle., ''Biographies of Women Mathematicians'', at Agnes Scott College) is an American mathematician, specializing in low-dimensional topology. She has made contributions to th ...

(born 1927), American braid and knot theorist * Laure Blanc-Féraud (born 1963), French applied mathematician and image processing researcher *

Gertrude Blanch Gertrude Blanch (2 February 1897, in Kolno, Russian Empire (now Poland) – 1 January 1996) was an American mathematician who did pioneering work in numerical analysis and computation. She was a leader of the Mathematical Tables Project in New Yo ...

(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 Lenore Carol Blum (née Epstein, born December 18, 1942) is an American computer scientist and mathematician who has made pioneering contributions to the theories of real number computation, cryptography, and pseudorandom number generation. She ...

(born 1942), distinguished professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University *

Jo Boaler Jo Boaler (born 18 February 1964) is a British education author and Nomellini-Olivier Professor of Mathematics Education at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. Boaler is involved in promoting reform mathematics and equitable mathematics ...

(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 Christine Böckmann (née Hense, born 1955) is a German applied mathematician, numerical analyst, and expert on atmospheric lidar. She is an ''außerplanmäßiger Professor'' of mathematics at the University of Potsdam, and one of the Princip ...

(born 1955), German numerical analyst, expert in atmospheric lidar *

Graciela Boente Graciela Lina Boente Boente is an Argentine mathematical statistician at the University of Buenos Aires. She is known for her research in robust statistics, and particularly for robust methods for principal component analysis and regression analy ...

, Argentine mathematical statistician known for her research in robust statistics *

Neda Bokan Neda Bokan (born 1947) is a Serbian mathematician specializing in differential geometry. Education and career Bokan joined the Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts as an assistant in 1969, began working at the Uni ...

(born 1947), Serbian differential geometer *

Natashia Boland Natashia Lesley Boland (born 1967) is a professor of mathematics at Georgia Institute of Technology. Boland completed a PhD at the University of Western Australia in 1992, and afterwards she pursued postdoctoral research at the University of ...

(born 1967), Australian mathematician and operations researcher * Sylvie Boldo, French expert in formal verification of numerical computation *

Aline Bonami Aline Bonami (née Nivat) is a French mathematician known for her expertise in mathematical analysis. She is a professor emeritus at the University of Orléans, and was president of the Société mathématique de France for 2012–2013. Education ...

, French mathematical analyst, president of the Société mathématique de France *

Petra Bonfert-Taylor Petra Bonfert-Taylor is a German-born mathematician known for research in complex analysis and her work in web development for the International Mathematical Union (IMU) Committee for Women in Mathematics. She is professor of engineering and Ass ...

, German-American complex analyst and engineering educator * Virginie Bonnaillie-Noël (born 1976), French numerical analyst *

Alicia Boole Stott Alicia Boole Stott (8 June 1860 – 17 December 1940) was an Irish mathematician. Despite never holding an academic position, she made a number of valuable contributions to the field, receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of Groni ...

(1860–1940), Irish-English four-dimensional geometer *

Mary Everest Boole Mary Everest Boole (11 March 1832 in Wickwar, Gloucestershire – 17 May 1916 in Middlesex, England) was a self-taught mathematician who is best known as an author of didactic works on mathematics, such as ''Philosophy and Fun of Algebra'', an ...

(1832–1916), self-taught author of didactic works on mathematics *

Kathleen Booth Kathleen Hylda Valerie Booth ( Britten, 9 July 1922 – 29 September 2022) was a British computer scientist and mathematician who wrote the first assembly language and designed the assembler and autocode for the first computer systems at Birkbe ...

(1922–2022), British mathematician and pioneer of assembly language computer programming * Liliana Borcea, Romanian-American applied mathematician, expert on wave propagation *

Valentina Borok Valentina Mikhailovna Borok (9 July 1931 – 4 February 2004) was a Soviet Ukrainian mathematician. She is mainly known for her work on partial differential equations. Life Borok was born on July 9, 1931 in Kharkiv in Ukraine (then USSR), into ...

(1931–2004), Soviet Ukrainian mathematician who studied partial differential equations *

Celia Grillo Borromeo Clelia Grillo Borromeo Arese or Celia Grillo Borromeo (1684 – 23 August 1777) was an Italian (Genovese) natural philosopher, mathematician and scientist. Life and education Borromeo was born in Genoa, the daughter of duke Marcantonio of Mondr ...

(1684–1777), Genovese mathematician and scientist, discovered Clélie curve * Liouba Bortniker (1860 – after 1903), Russian-French mathematician, first woman agrégée in mathematics, first winner of Peccot prize * Fernanda Botelho (born 1957), Portuguese-American functional analyst * Mary Michel Boulus (1926–2012), American Catholic nun, mathematics teacher, and college president *

Anne Bourlioux Anne Bourlioux is a Canadian mathematician whose research involves the numerical simulation of Combustion#Turbulent, turbulent combustion. She is a winner of the Richard C. DiPrima Prize, and a professor of mathematics and statistics at the Unive ...

, Canadian expert in turbulent combustion and world record holder in indoor rowing *

Élisabeth Bouscaren Élisabeth Bouscaren (born 1956) is a French mathematician who works on algebraic geometry, algebra and mathematical logic (model theory). Education and career Bouscaren received her doctorate in 1979 from the University of Paris VII and her ha ...

(born 1956), French mathematician who studies the connections between algebraic geometry and model theory *

Mireille Bousquet-Mélou Mireille Bousquet-Mélou (born May 12, 1967) is a French mathematician who specializes in enumerative combinatorics and who works as a senior researcher for the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) at the computer science department ...

(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 Elizabeth Bradley (20 May 1922 – 30 October 2000) was an English actress, perhaps most famous for playing battle-axe Maud Grimes in the fictional soap '' Coronation Street''. Early life Bradley was born Joan Abraham in Macclesfield, Cheshire ...

(born 1961), American expert in nonlinear dynamical systems, competed in 1988 Olympics * Lillian K. Bradley (1921–1995), first African-American woman to earn a doctorate in any subject at the University of Texas *

Dorothy Brady Dorothy Elizabeth Stahl Brady (June 14, 1903 – April 17, 1977) was an American mathematician and economist. She was a professor of economics at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania from 1958 to 1970. Early life Born in Elk River, M ...

(1903–1977), American mathematician and economist *

Priscilla Braislin Priscilla Harris Braislin Merrick (July 1838 – December 15, 1888) was the first mathematics professor at Vassar College. Early life Braislin was originally from Burlington, New Jersey, the eldest of six children. Her father was Catholic and he ...

(1838–1888), first professor of mathematics at Vassar College *

Leila Bram Leila Ann Dragonette Bram (1927–September 7, 1979) was an American mathematician. She was one of the first to study mock theta functions, and for many years directed the mathematics program at the Office of Naval Research, a position where she ...

(1927–1979), head of mathematics for Office of Naval Research * Leticia Brambila Paz (born 1953), Mexican algebraic geometer *

Bodil Branner Bodil Branner (born 5 February 1943, in Aarhus) is a retired Danish mathematician, one of the founders of European Women in Mathematics and a former chair of the Danish Mathematical Society. Her research concerned holomorphic dynamics and the his ...

(born 1943), founder of European Women in Mathematics, chair of the Danish Mathematical Society *

Hel Braun Helene (Hel) Braun (June 3, 1914 – May 15, 1986) was a German mathematician who specialized in number theory and modular forms. Her autobiography, ''The Beginning of A Scientific Career,'' described her experience as a female scientist working ...

(1914–1986), German number theorist *

Elena Braverman Elena Yanovna Braverman (née Lumelskaya, russian: Елена Яновна Браверман) is a Russian, Israeli, and Canadian mathematician known for her research in delay differential equations, difference equations, and population dynamics ...

, 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 Susanne Cecelia Brenner is an American mathematician, whose research concerns the finite element method and related techniques for the numerical solution of differential equations. She is a Boyd Professor at Louisiana State University. Previously, ...

, expert in the numerical solution of differential equations *

Sonja Brentjes Sonja Brentjes (born 1951) is a German historian of science, historian of mathematics, and historian of cartography known for her work on mapmapking and mathematics in medieval Islam. Education and career Brentjes is the daughter of archaeologi ...

(born 1951), German historian of Islamic mathematics and cartography *

Diane Briars Diane Jane Briars (born 1951) is an American mathematics education, mathematics educator, the former president of both the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. She has been an advocat ...

(born 1951), American mathematics educator, advocate for education reform, president of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics *

Kathrin Bringmann Kathrin Bringmann (born 8 May 1977) is a German number theorist in the University of Cologne, Germany, who has made fundamental contributions to the theory of mock theta functions. Education and career Kathrin Bringmann was born on 8 May 1977, ...

(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 Lia Bronsard (b. 14 March 1963) is a Canadian mathematician and the former president of the Canadian Mathematical Society. She is a professor of mathematics at McMaster University. Contributions In her research, she has used geometric flows to ...

(born 1963), Canadian expert on interface dynamics, president of Canadian Mathematical Society *

Margaret Brown Margaret Brown (née Tobin; July 18, 1867 – October 26, 1932), posthumously known as "The Unsinkable Molly Brown", was an American socialite and philanthropist. She unsuccessfully encouraged the crew in Lifeboat No. 6 to return to the debris ...

, British mathematics educator * Susan Brown (1937–2017), English fluid mechanics researcher, possibly second female mathematics professor in UK *

Marjorie Lee Browne Marjorie Lee Browne (July 2, 1914 – October 19, 1979) was a mathematics educator. She was one of the first African-American women to receive a PhD in mathematics. Early life and education Marjorie Lee Browne was a prominent mathematician and ...

(1914–1979), one of the first African-American women to receive a doctorate in mathematics *

Laurence Broze Laurence Broze (born 1960) is a Belgian applied mathematician specializing in statistics and econometrics and particularly in the theory of rational expectations. She is a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Lille in France. From ...

(born 1960), Belgian applied mathematician, statistician, and economist, president of l'association femmes et mathématiques *

Karen Brucks Karen Marie Brucks (February 1, 1957 – July 8, 2017) was an American mathematician known for her research in topological dynamics, and for her advocacy of women in mathematics. She worked for many years as a faculty member and administrator at ...

(1957–2017), American mathematician, expert on one-dimensional dynamical systems *

Maria Bruna Maria Bruna Estrach (born 1984) is an applied mathematician whose interests include stochastic modelling of multiscale phenomena with applications in mathematical biology and industry. She is affiliated with the University of Cambridge, where sh ...

(born 1984), Spanish applied mathematician known for stochastic modelling of multiscale phenomena *

Sophie Bryant Sophie Willock Bryant (15 February 1850, Sandymount, Dublin, – 14 August 1922, Chamonix, France) was an Anglo-Irish mathematician, educator, feminist and activist. Early life and education Bryant was born Sophie Willock in Dublin in 1850. H ...

(1850–1922), Anglo-Irish mathematician, educator, feminist and activist *

Ranee Brylinski Ranee Kathryn Brylinski (née Gupta, born January 28, 1957) is an American mathematician known for her research in representation theory and quantum logic gates. Formerly a professor of mathematics at Pennsylvania State University, she left academ ...

(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 Regina Sandra Burachik is an Argentine mathematician who works on optimization and analysis (particularly: convex analysis, functional analysis and non-smooth analysis). Currently, she is a professor at the University of South Australia. She ea ...

, Argentine-Australian researcher in convex analysis, functional analysis and non-smooth analysis *

Marilyn Burns Marilyn Burns (born Mary Lynn Ann Burns; May 7, 1949 – August 5, 2014) was an American actress. Burns was known for playing Sally Hardesty in '' The Texas Chain Saw Massacre'' (1974), which established her as a scream queen and a catalyst ...

(born 1941), American mathematics educator and author of children's books on mathematics *

Ellen Burrell Ellen Louisa Burrell (June 12, 1850 – December 3, 1938) was an American mathematics professor, head of the Department of Pure Mathematics at Wellesley College from 1897 to 1916. Early life Burrell was born in Lockport, New York, the daughte ...

(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 Ida Winifred Busbridge (1908–1988) was a British mathematician who taught at the University of Oxford from 1935 until 1970. She was the first woman to be appointed to an Oxford fellowship in mathematics. Early life and education Ida Busbridg ...

(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 Margaret Kampschaefer Butler (March 27, 1924 – March 8, 2013) was a mathematician who participated in creating and updating computer software. During the early 1950s, Butler contributed to the development of History of computing hardware, early ...

(1924–2013), computer programmer, director of the National Energy Software Center at Argonne * Helen Byrne, British applied mathematician and mathematical biologist

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* María Emilia Caballero, Mexican probability theorist * Angelina Cabras (1898–1993), Italian mathematician, physicist, and theoretical mechanics professor * Fioralba Cakoni, Albanian expert on inverse scattering theory *

Maria-Carme Calderer Maria-Carme T. Calderer (Berga, 1951) is a professor of mathematics at University of Minnesota. Her research concerns applied mathematics. Career Calderer received her Ph.D. from Heriot-Watt University in 1980. She was a postdoctoral researcher ...

, Spanish-American researcher in applied mathematics *

Nora Calderwood Nora Isobel Calderwood (14 March 1896 – April 1985) was a Scottish professor and mathematician. Early life and education Calderwood was born in 1896 in Blairgowrie, Perthshire, in Scotland. Her father Daniel Scott Calderwood was the head ...

(1896–1985), Scottish mathematician, namesake of Birmingham University's Calderwood Prize *

Daniela Calvetti Daniela Calvetti is an Italian-American applied mathematician whose work concerns scientific computing, and connects Bayesian statistics to numerical analysis. She is the James Wood Williamson Professor of Mathematics at Case Western Reserve Univer ...

, 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 Jessie Forbes Cameron (1883 – 1968) was a British mathematician who in 1912 became the first woman to complete her doctorate in mathematics at the University of Marburg in Germany. Life and work Jessie Cameron was born on 8 January 1883 in S ...

(1883–1968), British mathematician, first woman to complete her PhD in mathematics at the University of Marburg *

Naiomi Cameron Naiomi Tuere Cameron is an American mathematician working in the field of combinatorics. She is an associate professor at Spelman College as well as the vice president of National Association of Mathematicians. She was previously an associate profe ...

, American combinatorist, vice president of National Association of Mathematicians * Patricia Campbell, American mathematics educator *

María Antònia Canals Maria may refer to: People * Mary, mother of Jesus * Maria (given name), a popular given name in many languages Place names Extraterrestrial *170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877 *Lunar maria (plural of ''mare''), large, da ...

(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 Ana M. L. G. Cannas da Silva (born 1968) is a Portuguese mathematician specializing in symplectic geometry and geometric topology. She works in Switzerland as an adjunct professor in mathematics at ETH Zurich. Early life and education Cannas was ...

(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 Lucia Caporaso is an Italian mathematician, holding a professorship in mathematics at Roma Tre University. She was born in Rome, Italy, on May 22,1965. Her research includes work in algebraic geometry, arithmetic geometry, tropical geometry and en ...

, 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 Anna Cartan (15 May 1878 – 1923) was a French mathematician, teacher and textbook author who was a student of Marie Curie and Jules Tannery. Early years Cartan was the youngest child born to Anne Florentine Cottaz (1841–1927) and Josep ...

(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 Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright, (17 December 1900 – 3 April 1998) was a British mathematician. She was one of the pioneers of what would later become known as chaos theory. Along with J. E. Littlewood, Cartwright saw many solutions to a problem ...

(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 Bettye Anne Busbee Case is Olga Larson Professor Emerita of Mathematics at Florida State University. Her mathematical research concerns complex variables; she has also published on mathematics education and the history of mathematics. She is the ed ...

, American mathematician and historian of mathematics *

Emma Castelnuovo Emma Castelnuovo (12 December 1913 – 13 April 2014) was an Italian mathematician and teacher of Jewish descent. In 2013, the year of her 100th birthday, the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction created an award named after ...

(1913–2014), Italian mathematics educator and textbook author * Catherine Cavagnaro (born 1965), American low-dimensional topologist and aerobatic aviator *

Beatrice Mabel Cave-Browne-Cave Beatrice Mabel Cave-Browne-Cave, MBE AFRAeS (30 May 1874 – 9 July 1947) was an English mathematician who undertook pioneering work in the mathematics of aeronautics. Birth and education Beatrice Cave-Browne-Cave was the daughter of Sir Thoma ...

(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 Anny Cazenave () is a French space geodesist and one of the pioneers in satellite altimetry. She works for the French space agency CNES and has been deputy director of the (LEGOS) at Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées in Toulouse since 1996. Since 20 ...

(born 1944), French space geodesist, pioneer in satellite altimetry *

Zoia Ceaușescu Zoia Ceaușescu (; 28 February 1949 – 20 November 2006) was a Romanian mathematician, the daughter of Communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife, Elena. She was also known as Tovarășa Zoia (comrade Zoia). Biography Zoia Ceaușescu st ...

(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 F. Sue Chandler, known as Sue (or Suzanne) Chandler, is a British schoolteacher and textbook writer, who, together with co-author Linda Bostock, wrote the "Bostock and Chandler" series of textbooks for advanced level mathematics in the UK. At th ...

, author of English secondary-school mathematics textbooks *

Melody Chan Melody Tung Chan is an American mathematician and violinist who works as Associate Professor of Mathematics at Brown University. She is a winner of the Alice T. Schafer Prize and of the AWM–Microsoft Research Prize in Algebra and Number Theory ...

, American expert in combinatorial commutative algebra, graph theory, and tropical geometry *

Sun-Yung Alice Chang Sun-Yung Alice Chang (, hak, Chông Sṳn-yùng, ; born 1948) is a Taiwanese American mathematician specializing in aspects of mathematical analysis ranging from harmonic analysis and partial differential equations to differential geometry. S ...

(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 Vyjayanthi Chari (born 1958) is an Indian–American Distinguished Professor and the F. Burton Jones Endowed Chair for Pure Mathematics at the University of California, Riverside, known for her research in representation theory and quantum algebra ...

(born 1958), Indian-American expert in quantum algebra *

Ruth Charney Ruth Michele Charney (born 1950) is an American mathematician known for her work in geometric group theory and Artin groups. Other areas of research include K-theory and algebraic topology. She holds the Theodore and Evelyn G. Berenson Chair in ...

(born 1950), American expert on geometric group theory and Artin groups, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) *

Marie Charpentier Jeanne Radegonde Marie Charpentier (30 October 1903 – 9 October 1994) was a French mathematician. She was the first woman to obtain a doctorate in pure mathematics in France, and the second woman, after Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin, to obtain a ...

(1903–1994), first woman to earn a doctorate in pure mathematics in France and second to obtain a faculty position there *

Émilie du Châtelet Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet (; 17 December 1706 – 10 September 1749) was a French natural philosopher and mathematician from the early 1730s until her death due to complications during childbirth in 1749. ...

(1706–1749), French translator and commentator of Isaac Newton's ''Principia Mathematica'' *

Indira Chatterji Indira Lara Chatterji (born 25 January 1973) is a Swiss-Indian mathematician working in France as a professor of mathematics in the J. A. Dieudonné Laboratory of the University of Côte d'Azur. Her research involves low-dimensional geometry, cub ...

(born 1973), Swiss-Indian low-dimensional geometer *

Zoé Chatzidakis Zoé Maria Chatzidakis is a mathematician who works as a director of research at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France. Her research concerns model theory and difference algebra. She was invited to give the Tarski Lectures in 2020, tho ...

, French researcher in model theory and differential algebra *

Madeleine Chaumont Madeleine Chaumont (8 April 1896 – 27 July 1973) was a French mathematics teacher, who was notable as one of the first 41 women to be admitted to the École normale supérieure, and the second woman to be awarded the male agrégation in mathe ...

(1896–1973), French mathematician, one of first women at École normale supérieure * Jennifer Tour Chayes (born 1956), expert on phase transitions in networks, founder of the theory group at Microsoft Research *

Karine Chemla Karine Chemla (born in Tunis February 8, 1957) is a French historian of mathematics and sinologist who works as a director of research at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). She is also a senior fellow at the New York Universi ...

(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 Margaret Cheney (born 1955) is an American mathematician whose research involves inverse problem An inverse problem in science is the process of calculating from a set of observations the causal factors that produced them: for example, calcula ...

(born 1955), American expert on inverse problems *

Leslie Cheng Leslie C. Cheng is an American mathematician specializing in harmonic analysis. She holds the Rachel C. Hale Chair in Mathematics at Bryn Mawr College. Cheng did poorly in calculus in high school, and began her undergraduate studies at Bryn Mawr i ...

, 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 Eugenia Loh-Gene Cheng is a British mathematician and concert pianist. Her mathematical interests include higher category theory, and as a pianist she specialises in lieder and art song. She is also passionate about explaining mathematics to ...

, English category theorist and pianist, uses analogies with food and baking to teach mathematics to non-mathematicians *

Amanda Chetwynd Amanda G. Chetwynd is a British mathematician and statistician specializing in combinatorics and spatial statistics. She is Professor of Mathematics and Statistics and Provost for Student Experience, Colleges and the Library at Lancaster Univers ...

, British combinatorist and spatial statistician *

Elaine Chew Elaine Chew is an operations researcher and pianist focused on the study of musical structures as they apply to musical performance, composition and cognition, the analysis of electrocardiographic traces of Heart arrhythmia, arrhythmia, and digita ...

, Singaporean-American expert in the mathematics and visualization of concepts in music theory *

Tanya Christiansen Tanya Julie Christiansen is an American mathematician who works in scattering theory and the theory of partial differential equations. She is Luther Marion Defoe Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the University of Missouri. Education and ...

, American expert on scattering theory and partial differential equations *

Graciela Chichilnisky Graciela Chichilnisky (born 1944) is an Argentine American mathematical economist. She is a professor of economics at Columbia University and has expertise in climate change.

(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 Grace Chisholm Young (née Chisholm, 15 March 1868 – 29 March 1944) was an English mathematician. She was educated at Girton College, Cambridge, England and continued her studies at Göttingen University in Germany, where in 1895 she receive ...

(1868–1944), English mathematician, first woman to receive a German doctorate *

YoungJu Choie YoungJu Choie (, born June 15, 1959) is a South Korean mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH). Her research interests include number theory and modular forms.Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (; born 29 December 1923) is a French mathematician and physicist. She has made seminal contributions to the study of General relativity, Einstein's general theory of relativity, by showing that the Einstein field equations, ...

(born 1923), French mathematician and physicist, first woman elected to the French Academy *

Maria Chudnovsky Maria Chudnovsky (born January 6, 1977) is an Israeli-American mathematician working on graph theory and combinatorial optimization. She is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow. Education and career Chudnovsky is a professor in the department of mathematic ...

(born 1977), Israeli-American graph theorist, MacArthur Fellow *

Fan Chung Fan-Rong King Chung Graham (; born October 9, 1949), known professionally as Fan Chung, is a Taiwanese-born American mathematician who works mainly in the areas of spectral graph theory, extremal graph theory and random graphs, in particular in g ...

(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 Agata Ciabattoni is an Italian mathematical logician specializing in non-classical logic. She is a full professor at the Institute of Logic and Computation of the Faculty of Informatics at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), and a co-ch ...

, Italian non-classical mathematical logician * Maria Cibrario (1905–1992), Italian specialist in partial differential equations *

Marta Civil Marta Civil is an American mathematics educator. Her research involves understanding the cultural background of minority schoolchildren, particularly Hispanic and Latina/o students in the Southwestern United States, and using that understanding ...

, American mathematics educator *

Mónica Clapp Mónica Alicia Clapp Jiménez Labora is a mathematician at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) known for her work in nonlinear partial differential equations and algebraic topology. Life and work Clapp was born in Mexico City. S ...

, Mexican researcher in nonlinear partial differential equations and algebraic topology *

Joan Clarke Joan Elisabeth Lowther Murray, MBE (''née'' Clarke; 24 June 1917 – 4 September 1996) was an English cryptanalyst and numismatist best known for her work as a code-breaker at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. Although she did not ...

(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 Mary A. Clem (née Mary A. McLaughlin; 19051979) was an American mathematician, and a human computer. She was a staff member at Iowa State University, and was recognized for inventing the “zero check” technique for detecting errors. Biograph ...

(1905–1979), American mathematician and human computer, invented zero check error detection * Harriet Redfield Cobb (1866–1958), American mathematician *

Anne Cobbe Anne Philippa Cobbe (7 August 1920 – 15 December 1971) was a mathematician at the University of Oxford. She was an inspirational and supportive pure mathematics tutor at Somerville College which, during her time there, was still a women's coll ...

(1920–1971), British algebraist * Sally Cockburn (born 1960), Canadian-American mathematician *

Judita Cofman Judita Cofman (1936–2001) was a Yugoslav-German mathematician, the first person to earn a doctorate in mathematics at the University of Novi Sad. She was known for her work in finite geometry and for her books aimed at young mathematicians. Earl ...

(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 Miriam Cohen (born October 1941) is an Israeli mathematician and a professor in the Department of Mathematics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev whose main areas of research are Hopf algebras, quantum groups and Noncommutative rings. Biograph ...

(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 Alina Carmen Cojocaru is a Romanian mathematician who works in number theory and is known for her research on elliptic curves, arithmetic geometry, and sieve theory. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a ...

, 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 Agnes Bell Collier (31 January 1860 – 2 January 1930) was a British mathematician who was a pioneer female mathematician, associated with Newnham College, Cambridge. Born in Hyde, Cheshire, she was the eighth child of Joseph Smith Collier ...

(1860–1930), British mathematician * Karen L. Collins, American graph theorist and combinatorist *

Sandra Collins Sandra Collins is an American DJ, record producer, and remixer. Biography Collins got her start on the West Coast of the U.S. in Phoenix, Arizona and then moved into residencies in Los Angeles, and eventually moved towards trance. She used Ame ...

(born 1970), Irish fluid dynamicist and librarian *

Coralie Colmez Coralie Colmez is a French author and tutor in mathematics and mathematics education. Early life and career Coralie Colmez is the daughter of mathematicians Pierre Colmez and Leila Schneps. Colmez was raised in Paris, France. After completing ...

, French writer on legal mathematics * Maria Colombo (born 1989), Italian mathematical analyst *

Caterina Consani Caterina (Katia) Consani (born 1963) is an Italian mathematician specializing in arithmetic geometry. She is a professor of mathematics at Johns Hopkins University. Contributions Consani is the namesake of the Consani–Scholten quintic, a qui ...

(born 1963), Italian mathematician specializing in arithmetic geometry *

Pamela Cook Leslie Pamela Cook-Ioannidis (born 1945) is an American mathematician, the Unidel Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware. She was the president of the Society for Industrial and Ap ...

, 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 Sylvie Corteel is a French mathematician at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique and Paris Diderot University and the University of California, Berkeley, who was an editor-in-chief of the ''Journal of Combinatorial Theory'', Series A. H ...

, French combinatorialist, former 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 Carla Denise Cotwright-Williams (born November 6) is an American mathematician who works as a Technical Director & Data Scientist for the United States Department of Defense. She was the second African-American woman to earn a doctorate in mathem ...

(born 1973), African-American data scientist for the US government * Pamela G. Coxson, American applied mathematician specializing in disease modeling * Collette Coullard, American matroid theorist and operations researcher * Judith Covington, American mathematics educator *

Lenore Cowen Lenore Jennifer Cowen is an American mathematician and computer scientist known for her work in graph coloring, network routing, and computational biology. She is a professor of computer science and (by courtesy) of mathematics at Tufts Universit ...

, American discrete mathematician, computer scientist, and computational biologist *

Elizabeth Buchanan Cowley Elizabeth Buchanan Cowley (1874–1945) was an American mathematician. Life Cowley was born on May 22, 1874, in Allegheny, Pennsylvania.. She had four siblings, but they and her father all died by 1900. Cowley's mother, Mary Junkin Buchanan Cowley ...

(1874–1945), American mathematician, advocated high school teaching of solid geometry *

Annalisa Crannell Annalisa Crannell is an American mathematician, and an expert in the mathematics of water waves, chaos theory, and geometric perspective. She is a professor of mathematics at Franklin & Marshall College. Education Crannell is the daughter of ...

, American expert on water waves and geometric perspective *

Alissa Crans Alissa Susan Crans is an American mathematician specializing in higher-dimensional algebra. She is a professor of mathematics at Loyola Marymount University, and the associate director of Project NExT, a program of the Mathematical Association of ...

, American mathematician specializing in higher-dimensional algebra *

Marie Crous Marie Crous ( fl. 1641) was a French mathematician. She introduced the decimal system to France in the 17th century. Biography Coming from a modest origin, Marie Crous became an accomplished writer and teacher at Charlotte-Rose de Caumont La ...

, 17th-century mathematician who introduced the decimal system to France *

Ana Bela Cruzeiro Ana Bela Cruzeiro (born 1957) is a Portuguese and Swiss mathematician whose research concerns stochastic analysis and the Malliavin calculus, as well as the differential equations used to model fluid dynamics and quantum mechanics. She is a prof ...

(born 1957), Portuguese and Swiss stochastic analyst *

Marianna Csörnyei Marianna Csörnyei (born October 8, 1975 in Budapest) is a Hungary, Hungarian mathematician who works as a professor at the University of Chicago. She does research in real analysis, geometric measure theory, and geometric nonlinear functional anal ...

(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 Serafina Cuomo (born May 21, 1966) is an Italian historian and professor at Durham University. Cuomo specialises in the history of ancient mathematics, including the computing practices in ancient Rome and Pappos, and also with the history of tec ...

(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 (1941–2018), Australian-Dutch expert in infinite-dimensional linear systems * Carina Curto (born 1978), American mathematical neuroscientist *

Eleanor P. Cushing Eleanor Philbrook Cushing (December 27, 1856 – April 21, 1925) was an American mathematics professor, on the faculty of Smith College from 1881 to 1922. Early life and education Cushing was born in Bath, Maine, the daughter of Samuel Woodw ...

(1856–1925), American mathematician *

Elizabeth Cuthill Elizabeth Hahnemann Cuthill (October 16, 1923 – January 11, 2011) was an American applied mathematician and numerical analyst known for her work on sparse matrix algorithms, on block iterative methods for the numerical approximation of differen ...

(1923–2011), American applied mathematician and Navy researcher known for sparse matrix ordering *

Annie Cuyt Annie A. M. Cuyt (born 1956) is a Belgian computational mathematician known for her work on continued fractions, numerical analysis, Padé approximants, and related topics. She is a professor at the University of Antwerp, and a member of the Roy ...

(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 Karma Dajani is a Lebanese-Dutch mathematician whose research interests include ergodic theory, probability theory, and their applications in number theory. She is an associate professor of mathematics at Utrecht University. Education and career ...

, 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 Pallavi Dani is an Indian-American mathematician and an associate professor of mathematics at Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Her research area is geometric group theory; in particular, she studies quasi-isometry invar ...

, 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 Christine Darden (born September 10, 1942, as Christine Mann) is an American mathematician, data analyst, and aeronautical engineer who devoted much of her 40-year career in aerodynamics at NASA to researching supersonic flight and sonic booms. S ...

(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 Baroness Ingrid Daubechies ( ; ; born 17 August 1954) is a Belgian physicist and mathematician. She is best known for her work with wavelets in image compression. Daubechies is recognized for her study of the mathematical methods that enhance i ...

(born 1954), Belgian physicist and mathematician, known for wavelets * Monique Dauge (born 1956), French mathematician and numerical analyst * 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 * Nicole De Grande-De Kimpe (1936–2008), Belgian pioneer in

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-adic functional analysis * 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 Valeria Correa Vaz de Paiva is a Brazilian mathematician, logician, and computer scientist. Her work includes research on logical approaches to computation, especially using category theory, knowledge representation and natural language semanti ...

, 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 * Luz de Teresa (born 1965), Mexican control theorist, president of Mexican Mathematical Society *

Gerda de Vries Gerda de Vries is a Canadian mathematician whose research interests include dynamical systems and mathematical physiology. She is a professor of mathematical and statistical sciences at the University of Alberta, and the former president of the So ...

, Canadian mathematician who studies dynamical systems and mathematical physiology *

Winifred Margaret Deans Winifred Margaret Deans (9 October 1901 – 7 June 1990) was a prolific translator of German scientific texts into English, who also taught mathematics and physics to secondary schoolchildren and worked at the Commonwealth Bureau of Animal Nutriti ...

(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 Huguette Delavault (15 January 1924 – 2 April 2003) was a French mathematician, specializing in mathematical physics. (in French), Caroline More, femmesetassociations.org, archived from the original on September 27, 2007.Ermelinda DeLaViña Ermelinda DeLaViña is an American mathematician specializing in graph theory. She is a professor in the Computer and Mathematical Sciences Department of the University of Houston–Downtown, where she is also Associate Dean of the College of Scie ...

, Hispanic American graph theorist *

Laura DeMarco Laura Grace DeMarco is a professor of mathematics at Harvard University, whose research concerns dynamical systems and complex analysis. Career DeMarco received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2002 under the supervision of Curtis T. McMul ...

, American researcher in dynamical systems and complex analysis *

Beryl May Dent Beryl May Dent (10 May 19009 August 1977) was an English mathematical physicist, technical librarian, and a programmer of early analogue and digital computers to solve electrical engineering problems. She was born in Chippenham, Wiltshire, th ...

(1900–1977), British mathematical physicist, researcher in molecular forces and computer-aided design * Darinka Dentcheva, Bulgarian-American convex analyst *

Marjorie Devaney Marjorie Ann "Marge" Jones Devaney (March 3, 1931 – September 20, 2007) was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, and computer scientist who assisted in the development of the MANIAC I (Mathematical Analyzer Numerical Integrator And ...

(1931–2007), mathematician, electrical engineer, and pioneering computer programmer *

Shakuntala Devi Shakuntala Devi (4 November 1929 – 21 April 2013) was an Indian mental calculator and writer, popularly known as the "Human Computer". Her talent earned her a place in the 1982 edition of ''The Guinness Book of World Records''. However, ...

(1939–2013), Indian child prodigy, writer, and mental calculator *

Cécile DeWitt-Morette Cécile Andrée Paule DeWitt-Morette (21 December 1922 – 8 May 2017) was a French mathematician and physicist. She founded a summer school at Les Houches in the French Alps. For this and her publications, she was awarded the American Socie ...

(1922–2017), French founder of l'École de physique des Houches *

Elena Deza Elena Ivanovna Deza (russian: Елена Ивановна Деза, née Panteleeva; born 23 August 1961) is a French and Russian mathematician known for her books on metric spaces and figurate numbers. Education and career Deza was born on 23 A ...

(born 1961), French-Russian mathematician, author of books on figurate numbers and metric spaces * 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 Giulia Di Nunno (born 1973) is an Italian mathematician specializing in stochastic analysis and financial mathematics who works as a professor of mathematics at the University of Oslo, with an adjunct appointment at the Norwegian School of Economi ...

(born 1973), Italian expert in stochastic analysis and financial mathematics, promoter of mathematics in Africa *

Sandra Di Rocco Sandra Di Rocco (born 1967) is an Italian mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry. She works in Sweden as a professor of mathematics and dean of the faculty of engineering science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and chairs the Ac ...

(born 1967), Italian-Swedish algebraic geometer * Carrie Diaz Eaton, American mathematical biologist *

Auguste Dick Auguste Franziska Dick (née Kraus, 1910–1993) was an Austrian mathematician, historian of mathematics, and handwriting expert, known for her research on the history of mathematics under the Nazis, and for her biography of Emmy Noether. Dick ear ...

(1910–1993), Austrian historian of mathematics and biographer of Emmy Noether *

Alicia Dickenstein Alicia Dickenstein (born 17 January 1955, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine mathematician known for her work on algebraic geometry, particularly toric geometry, tropical geometry, and their applications to biological systems. She is a full profe ...

(born 1955), Argentine algebraic geometer, vice-president of the International Mathematical Union * Caren Diefenderfer (1952–2017), American mathematician, president of National Numeracy Network * Susanne Dierolf (1942–2009), German expert on topological vector spaces * Ada Dietz (1882–1950), American weaver who used algebraic expressions to design textiles *

Ulla Dinger Ulla Margarete Dinger (born 1955) is a Swedish mathematician specializing in mathematical analysis. She was the first woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics at the University of Gothenburg. Dinger completed her doctorate at the University of Got ...

(born 1955), Swedish mathematical analyst, first female doctorate in mathematics at University of Gothenburg *

Irit Dinur Irit Dinur (Hebrew: אירית דינור) is an Israeli mathematician. She is professor of computer science at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Her research is in foundations of computer science and in combinatorics, and especially in probabil ...

, Israeli researcher in probabilistically checkable proofs and hardness of approximation * Serena Dipierro, Italian expert on partial differential equations * 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 Yvonne Dold-Samplonius (20 May 1937 – 16 June 2014) was a Dutch mathematician and historian who specialized in the history of Islamic mathematics during the Middle age. She was particularly interested in the mathematical methods used by Islamic ...

(1937–2014), Dutch historian of Islamic mathematics * Suzanne Dorée, American group theorist and mathematics educator * Isabel Dotti, Argentine expert on homogeneous manifolds * Itala D'Ottaviano (born 1944), Brazilian logician *

Yael Dowker Yael Naim Dowker (1919–2016) was an English mathematician, prominent especially due to her work in the fields of measure theory, ergodic theory and topological dynamics. Biography Yael Naim (later Dowker) was born in Tel Aviv. She left for t ...

(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 Cornelia Druțu is a Romanian mathematician notable for her contributions in the area of geometric group theory. She is Professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. Education and career Druțu wa ...

Romanian mathematician, won Whitehead Prize for research in geometric group theory * Malgorzata Dubiel, Polish and Canadian mathematics educator *

Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin (7 July 1905 – 19 October 1972) was a French mathematician, the second woman to obtain a doctorate in pure mathematics in France, the first woman to become a full professor of mathematics in France, the president o ...

(1905–1972), first woman full professor of mathematics in France, expert in fluid mechanics and abstract algebra *

Moon Duchin Moon Duchin is an American mathematician who works as a professor at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. Her mathematical research concerns geometric topology, geometric group theory, and Teichmüller theory. She is also interested in th ...

, 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 *

Della Dumbaugh Della Jeanne Dumbaugh (also published as Della Dumbaugh Fenster) is an American mathematician and history of mathematics, historian of mathematics, focusing on the history of algebra and number theory. She is a professor of mathematics at the Un ...

, American historian of mathematics, editor-in-chief of ''American Mathematical Monthly'' *

Ioana Dumitriu Ioana Dumitriu (born July 6, 1976) is a Romanian-American mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at the University of California, San Diego.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 Nira (Richter) Dyn ( he, נירה דין) is an Israeli mathematician who studied geometric modeling, subdivision surfaces, approximation theory, and image compression. She is a professor emeritus of applied mathematics at Tel Aviv University, a ...

, Israeli expert on subdivision surfaces

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Annie Easley Annie Jean Easley (April 23, 1933 – June 25, 2011) was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and rocket scientist. She worked for the Lewis Research Center (now Glenn Research Center) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administrat ...

(1933–2011), African-American computer scientist, mathematician, and rocket scientist *

Sheila May Edmonds Sheila May Edmonds (1 April 1916 – 2 September 2002) was a British mathematician, a Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, and Vice-Principal of Newnham College from 1960 to 1981. Early life and education Born in Kingston, Kent, Edmonds s ...

(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 (1927–2021), 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 Tatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest, later van Aardenne-Ehrenfest, (Vienna, October 28, 1905 – Dordrecht, November 29, 1984) was a Dutch mathematician. She was the daughter of Paul Ehrenfest (1880–1933) and Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva (1876–1964). ...

(1905–1984), Dutch researcher in combinatorics and graph theory *

Andrée Ehresmann Andrée Ehresmann (born Andrée Bastiani; 1935) is a French mathematician specialising in category theory. Education and career Ehresmann was a researcher at CNRS from 1957 to 1963. She was awarded a Ph.D. in 1962 at University of Paris unde ...

(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 *

Bettina Eick Bettina Eick is a German mathematician specializing in computational group theory. She is Professor of Mathematics at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Technische Universität (TU) Braunschweig. Life and education Eick was born on May ...

(born 1968), German computational group theorist *

Carolyn Eisele Carolyn Eisele (June 13, 1902 – January 15, 2000) was an American mathematician and history of mathematics, historian of mathematics known as an expert on the works of Charles Sanders Peirce.... Education and career Eisele was born on June ...

(1902–2000), American mathematician, historian of mathematics, expert on Charles Sanders Peirce *

Nathalie Eisenbaum Nathalie Eisenbaum is a French mathematician, statistician, and probability theory, probability theorist. She works as a director of research with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, associated with the laboratory for applied mathemat ...

, French probability theorist * Kirsten Eisenträger, German-American researcher in computational number theory *

Tanja Eisner Tatjana (Tanja) Eisner (née Lobova, born 1980) is a German and Ukrainian mathematician specializing in functional analysis, operator theory as well as ergodic theory and its connection to number theory. She is a professor of mathematics at Leipzi ...

(born 1980), Ukrainian-German expert on operator theory *

Nicole El Karoui Nicole El Karoui (''née'' Schvartz) is a French mathematician and pioneer in the development of mathematical finance, born May 29, 1944, in Paris. She is considered one of the pioneers on the French school of mathematical finance and trained ma ...

(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 Joanne Elliott (born December 5, 1925) is an American mathematician specializing in potential theory, who has been described as a "disciple" of her co-author, probability theorist William Feller. She is a professor emeritus of mathematics at Rutge ...

(born 1925), American mathematician specializing in potential theory *

Jo Ellis-Monaghan Joanna Anthony Ellis-Monaghan is an American mathematician and mathematics educator whose research interests include graph polynomials and topological graph theory. She is a professor of mathematics at the Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathema ...

, 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 Susanna Samuels Epp (born 1943) is an author, mathematician, and professor. Her interests include discrete mathematics, mathematical logic, cognitive psychology, and mathematics education, and she has written numerous articles, publications, and ...

(born 1943), American researcher in discrete mathematics and mathematical logic *

Karin Erdmann Karin Erdmann (born 1948) is a German mathematician specializing in the areas of algebra Algebra () is one of the broad areas of mathematics. Roughly speaking, algebra is the study of mathematical symbols and the rules for manipulating the ...

(born 1948), German researcher in modular representation theory and homological algebra *

Viveka Erlandsson Viveka Erlandsson is a Swedish mathematician specialising in low-dimensional topology and geometry, and known in particular for extending the work of Maryam Mirzakhani on counting geodesics on hyperbolic manifolds. She is a lecturer at the Unive ...

, Swedish low-dimensional topologist and geometer *

Anna Erschler Anna Gennadievna Erschler, née Dyubina, (Анна Геннадьевна Эршлер; born 14 February 1977), is a Russian mathematician, working in France. She specializes in geometric group theory and probability theory, in particular, random w ...

(born 1977), Russian-French expert on random walks on groups *

Hélène Esnault Hélène Esnault (born 17 July 1953) is a French and German mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry. Biography Born in Paris, Esnault earned her PhD in 1976 from the University of Paris VII. She wrote her dissertation on ''Singularit ...

(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 Alison Mary Etheridge One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: (born 1964) is Professor of Probability and Head of the Department of Statistics, University of Oxford. Etheridge is a fell ...

FRS (born 1964), English researcher in theoretical population genetics and mathematical ecology * Christina Eubanks-Turner, American mathematics educator, graph theorist, and commutative algebraist

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Vera Faddeeva Vera Faddeeva (russian: Вера Николаевна Фаддеева; Vera Nikolaevna Faddeeva; 1906–1983) was a Soviet mathematician. Faddeeva published some of the earliest work in the field of numerical linear algebra. Her 1950 work, ''Com ...

(1906–1983), Russian expert on numerical linear algebra *

Fariba Fahroo Fariba Fahroo is an American Persian mathematician, a program manager at the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and a former program manager at the Defense Sciences Office. Along with I. Michael Ross, I. M. Ross, she has published papers in p ...

, 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 Etta Zuber Falconer (21 November 1933 – 19 September 2002) was an educator and mathematician the bulk of whose career was spent at Spelman College, where she eventually served as department head and associate provost. She was one of the earl ...

(1933–2002), one of the first African-American women to receive a PhD in mathematics *

Ruma Falk Ruma Falk ( he, רומה פלק, née Oren-Aharonovich, 1932–2020) was an Israeli psychologist and philosopher of mathematics known for her work on probability theory and human understanding of probability and statistics. Life Falk was born ...

(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 * Mary Fama (1938–2021), New Zealand applied mathematician, expert on rock deformation in mining * Martha Isabel Fandiño Pinilla (born 1956), Colombian and Italian mathematics educator * Barbara Fantechi (born 1966), Italian algebraic geometer * Rosa María Farfán, Mexican researcher in social epistemology and mathematics education * Marie Farge (born 1953), French mathematician and physicist known for her research on wavelets and turbulence in fluid mechanics *

Mary Celine Fasenmyer Mary Celine Fasenmyer, RSM (October 4, 1906, Crown, Pennsylvania – December 27, 1996, Erie, Pennsylvania) was an American mathematician and Catholic religious sister. She is most noted for her work on hypergeometric functions and linear algebr ...

(1906–1996), Catholic nun whose research on hypergeometric functions prefigured WZ theory *

Heike Fassbender Heike Fassbender is a German mathematician specializing in numerical linear algebra. She is a professor in the Institute for Computational Mathematics at the Technical University of Braunschweig, and the president for the 2017–2019 term of the Ge ...

, 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 Philippa Garrett Fawcett (4 April 1868 – 10 June 1948) was an English mathematician and educationalist. She was the first woman to obtain the top score in the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos exams. She taught at Newnham College, Cambridge, and at ...

(1868–1948), English educationalist, first woman to obtain the top score in the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos *

Anita Burdman Feferman Anita Burdman Feferman (July 27, 1927 – April 9, 2015) was an American historian of mathematics and biographer, known for her biographies of Jean van Heijenoort and (with her husband, logician Solomon Feferman) of Alfred Tarski. Life Feferman ...

(1927–2015), American historian of mathematics and mathematical biographer * Nina Fefferman, American mathematical biologist *

Eva-Maria Feichtner Eva-Maria Elisabeth Feichtner (born 1972) is a German mathematician, the founder and director of the Institute for Algebra, Geometry, Topology and their Applications at the University of Bremen, where she is professor of algebra and vice presiden ...

(born 1972), German algebraic geometer * Joan Feigenbaum (born 1958), theoretical computer scientist, co-inventor of trust management *

Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein Genevieve Marie Grotjan Feinstein (April 30, 1913 – August 10, 2006) was an American mathematician and cryptanalyst. She worked for the Signals Intelligence Service throughout World War II, during which time she played an important role in deci ...

(1912–2006), helped decipher Japanese Purple cryptography, worked on Venona counter-intelligence *

Käte Fenchel Käte Fenchel née Käte Sperling (21 December 1905 – 19 December 1983) was a German-born Jewish mathematician, best known for her work on non-abelian groups. Life Käte was born in Berlin to a newspaper reporter and a bookkeeper, Rusza ...

(1905–1983), Jewish German researcher on non-abelian groups *

Zhilan Feng Zhilan Julie Feng (born 1959) is a Chinese-American applied mathematician whose research topics include mathematical biology, population dynamics, and epidemiology. She is a professor of mathematics at Purdue University, and a program director ...

(born 1959), Chinese-American applied mathematician, mathematical biologist, and epidemiologist *

Elizabeth Fennema Ann Elizabeth Fennema ( Hammer; April 8, 1928 – December 20, 2021) was an American educator specializing in the teaching of mathematics. Early life and education Fennema was born in El Dorado, Kansas, on April 8, 1928, and attended the local Met ...

(1928–2021), researched attitudes of young women towards mathematics and their classroom interactions *

Anuška Ferligoj Anuška Ferligoj is a Slovenian mathematician, born August 19, 1947 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, whose specialty is statistics and network analysis. Her specific interests include multivariate analysis (theory and application in social sciences, med ...

(born 1947), Slovenian mathematical sociologist and researcher in network analysis *

Begoña Fernández Begoña Fernández Molinos (born 22 March 1980 in Vigo) is a former Spanish team handball player. She was member of the Spanish national team. She played at the 2008 European Women's Handball Championship in the Republic of Macedonia, where ...

, Mexican probability theorist and expert in mathematical finance * Elena Fernández (born 1956), Spanish operations researcher, president of Association of European Operational Research Societies * Marisa Fernández, Spanish differential geometer *

Jacqueline Ferrand Jacqueline Lelong-Ferrand (17 February 1918, Alès, France – 26 April 2014, Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine, Sceaux, France) was a French mathematician who worked on conformal map, conformal representation theory, potential theory, and Riemannian mani ...

(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 Joan Ferrini-Mundy (born 1954) is a mathematics educator. Her research interests include calculus teaching and learning, mathematics teacher learning, and STEM education policy. She is currently the president of the University of Maine. Caree ...

(born 1954), American researcher in mathematics education *

Judith V. Field Judith Veronica Field (born 1943) is a British historian of science with interests in mathematics and the impact of science in art, an honorary visiting research fellow in the Department of History of Art of Birkbeck, University of London, form ...

(born 1943), British historian of mathematics and art * Anna Fino, Italian differential geometer * Jessica Fintzen, German -adic representation theorist * Farideh Firoozbakht (1962–2019), Iranian number theorist *

Ilse Fischer Ilse Fischer (born 29 June 1975) is an Austrian mathematician whose research concerns enumerative combinatorics and algebraic combinatorics, connecting these topics to representation theory and statistical mechanics. She is a professor of mathemat ...

(born 1975), Austrian combinatorialist *

Irene Fischer Irene Kaminka Fischer (born July 27, 1907 in Vienna, Austria, died October 22, 2009 in Boston) was an Austrian-American mathematician and geodesist. She was a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Geophysical Un ...

(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 Mary Elizabeth Flahive (born 1948) is a professor of mathematics at Oregon State University. Her research interests are in number theory; she is the author of two books on difference equations and Diophantine approximation, and is also interested i ...

(born 1948), American mathematician, author of books on difference equations and diophantine approximation *

Sarah Flannery Sarah Flannery (born 1982, County Cork, Ireland) was, at sixteen years old, the winner of the 1999 Esat Young Scientist Exhibition for her development of the Cayley–Purser algorithm, based on work she had done with researchers at Baltimore Tec ...

(born 1982), winner of the EU Young Scientist of the Year Award for her teenage research on cryptography *

Erica Flapan Erica Flapan (born August 14, 1956) is an American mathematician, the Lingurn H. Burkhead Professor of Mathematics at Pomona College. Education and career Flapan did her undergraduate studies at Hamilton College (New York), graduating in 1977, and ...

(born 1956), American researcher in low-dimensional topology and knot theory *

Jennifer Flegg Jennifer A. Flegg is an Australian mathematician and is a Professor of applied mathematics in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne. Education and career Flegg received her PhD in Applied Mathematics from Queen ...

, Australian applied mathematician *

Irmgard Flügge-Lotz Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, née Lotz (16 July 1903 – 22 May 1974) was a German-American mathematician and aerospace engineer. She was a pioneer in the development of the theory of discontinuous automatic control, which has found wide application ...

(1903–1974), German aerodynamics researcher, first female engineering professor at Stanford *

Natasha Flyer Natasha Flyer (born 1969) is an American earth scientist and applied mathematician known for her expertise on radial basis functions. She works as a research scientist in the Analytics and Integrative Machine Learning laboratory of the National Cen ...

(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 Marguerite Straus Frank (born September 8, 1927) is a French-American mathematician who is a pioneer in convex optimization theory and mathematical programming. Education After attending secondary schooling in Paris and Toronto, Frank contribut ...

(born 1927), French-American pioneer in convex optimization theory and mathematical programming *

Hélène Frankowska Hélène Frankowska, or Halina Frankowska is a Polish and French mathematician known for her research in control theory and set-valued analysis. She is a director of research at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, and works in the Ins ...

, Polish-French control theorist and set-valued analyst * Ailana Fraser, Canadian researcher on geometric analysis and the theory of minimal surfaces *

Elena Freda Elena Freda (25 March 1890 – 25 November 1978) was an Italian mathematician and mathematical physicist known for her collaboration with Vito Volterra Vito Volterra (, ; 3 May 1860 – 11 October 1940) was an Italian mathematician and physi ...

(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 Herta Freitag ( Taussig; December 6, 1908 – January 25, 2000) was an Austrian-American mathematician, a professor of mathematics at Hollins College, known for her work on the Fibonacci numbers. Life She was born as Herta Taussig in Vienna, ...

(1908–2000), Austrian-American expert on Fibonacci numbers *

Susan Friedlander Susan Jean Friedlander (née Poate; born January 26, 1946) is an American mathematician. Her research concerns mathematical fluid dynamics, the Euler equations and the Navier-Stokes equations. Education Friedlander graduated from University Coll ...

(born 1946), English-American researcher in fluid dynamics, first female editor-in-chief of the ''Bulletin of the AMS'' *

Joyce Friedman Joyce Barbara Friedman (1928 – November 28, 2018) was an American mathematician, operations researcher, computer scientist, and computational linguist who worked as a professor at the University of Michigan and Boston University and served as p ...

(1928–2018), American mathematician, operations researcher, computer scientist, and computational linguist *

Aline Huke Frink Aline Huke Frink (March 2, 1904 – March 14, 2000) was an American mathematician, and a professor on the faculty of the Pennsylvania State University from 1930 to 1969. Early life and education Aline Huke was born in Torrington, Connecticut ...

(1904–2000), American mathematician and professor *

Charlotte Froese Fischer Charlotte Froese Fischer (born 1929) is a Canadian-American applied mathematician and computer scientist noted for the development and implementation of the Multi-Configurational Hartree–Fock (MCHF) approach to atomic-structure calculations an ...

(born 1929), Canadian-American expert on atomic-structure calculations who predicted negative calcium ions *

Hannah Fry Hannah Fry (born February 1984) is a British mathematician, author, and radio and television presenter. She is Professor in the Mathematics of Cities at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. She studies the patterns of human behaviour, ...

(born 1984), English complex systems theorist and public speaker *

Shirley M. Frye Shirley M. Frye (née Urban) is an American mathematics education, mathematics educator. She is the former president of the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Education and career F ...

, 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 *

Cohl Furey Cohl Furey, also known as Nichol Furey, is a Canadian mathematical physicist. Career Furey has a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics from Simon Fraser University (2005), Master's degree from the University of Cambridge (2006) and a Ph.D i ...

, Canadian mathematical physicist *

Fumiko Futamura Fumiko Futamura is a Japanese-American mathematician known for her work on the mathematics of perspective and perspective drawing. She is a professor of mathematics at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, and Lord Chair in Mathematics a ...

, Japanese-American mathematician, expert on graphical perspective

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Lisl Gaal (Ilse) Lisl Novak Gaal (born January 17, 1924) is an Austrian-born American mathematician known for her contributions to set theory and Galois theory. She was the first woman to hold a tenure-track position in mathematics at Cornell University, and ...

(born 1924), Austrian-born American set theorist and Galois theorist *

Isabelle Gallagher Isabelle Gallagher (born 27 October 1973) is a French mathematician. Her research concerns partial differential equations such as the Navier–Stokes equations, wave equation, and Schrödinger equation, as well as harmonic analysis of the Heis ...

(born 1973), French researcher in partial differential equations * Eva Gallardo (born 1971), president of Spanish Mathematical Society *

Irene M. Gamba Irene Martínez Gamba (born 1957) is an Argentine–American mathematician. She works as a professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin, where she holds the W.A. Tex Moncrief, Jr. Chair in Computational Engineering and Sciences an ...

(born 1957), Argentine-American applied mathematician *

Svetlana Gannushkina Svetlana Alekseevna Gannushkina (russian: Светла́на Алексе́евна Га́ннушкина, born 6 March 1942) is a mathematician and human rights activist in Russia who was reported to have been a serious contender for the 2010 ...

(born 1942), Russian mathematician and human rights activist *

Nina Gantert Nina Gantert is a Swiss and German probability theorist, and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. She holds the chair for probability in the department of mathematics at the Technical University of Munich, a position she has hel ...

, Swiss and German probability theorist *

Kseniya Garaschuk Kseniya Garaschuk (born 1982) is a Soviet-born Canadian mathematician and mathematics educator. She is an associate professor of mathematics and statistics at the University of the Fraser Valley, and the editor-in-chief of the mathematics journal ...

(born 1982), Soviet-born Canadian mathematics educator, editor of ''Crux Mathematicorum'' *

Pascale Garaud Pascale Garaud is a French astrophysicist and applied mathematician interested in fluid dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, and their applications to astrophysics and geophysics. She is a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Californi ...

, 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 * Adriana Garroni (born 1966), Italian mathematician, expert on modeling plasticity and fracture * Mary Cleophas Garvin (1899–1990), American mathematician * Geneviève Gauthier (born 1967), Canadian financial mathematician, statistician, and decision scientist *

Véronique Gayrard Véronique Gayrard is a French mathematician specializing in probability and statistical physics, with research topics including Hopfield networks, the long-term behavior of the random energy model and similar glassy systems, and metastability i ...

, French probability theorist * Mai Gehrke (born 1964), Danish lattice theorist and mathematical logician *

Hilda Geiringer Hilda Geiringer (28 September 1893 – 22 March 1973), also known as Hilda von Mises and Hilda Pollaczek-Geiringer, was an Austrian mathematician. Life Geiringer was born in 1893 in Vienna, Austria into a Jewish family. Her father, Ludwig Geiri ...

(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 Marie-Sophie Germain (; 1 April 1776 – 27 June 1831) was a French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher. Despite initial opposition from her parents and difficulties presented by society, she gained education from books in her father's lib ...

(1776–1831), French number theorist, physicist, and philosopher, correspondent of Gauss *

Marie Gernet Marie Gernet (1 October 1865 – 1924) was a German mathematician who in 1895 became the second woman to obtain a doctorate at Heidelberg University. The first was Käthe Windscheid, who earned a doctorate for her work on English pastoral poetry ...

(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 Judith Lee MacKenzie Gersting (born August 20, 1940) is an American mathematician, computer scientist, and textbook author. She is a professor emerita of computer science at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis and at the Universit ...

(born 1940), American mathematician, computer scientist, and textbook author *

Ellen Gethner Ellen Gethner is a US mathematician and computer scientist specializing in graph theory who won the Mathematical Association of America's Chauvenet Prize in 2002 with co-authors Stan Wagon and Brian Wick for their paper ''A stroll through the G ...

, American graph theorist *

Patrizia Gianni Patrizia M. Gianni (born 1952) is an Italian mathematician specializing in computer algebra. She is known for her early research on Gröbner bases including her discovery of the FGLM algorithm for changing monomial orderings in Gröbner bases, ...

(born 1952), Italian expert in computer algebra * 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 Anna Catherine Gilbert (born 1972) is an American mathematician who works as the Herman Goldstine Collegiate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan. She also holds a courtesy appointment in electrical engineering and computer sci ...

(born 1972), American expert in streaming algorithms and matching pursuit *

Jane Piore Gilman Jane Piore Gilman (born 1945) is an American mathematician, a 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 Vivette Girault (born 1943) is a French mathematician, whose research expertise lies in numerical analysis, finite element methods and computational fluid dynamics. She has been affiliated with Pierre and Marie Curie University. Girault, who was b ...

(born 1943), French expert on numerical analysis, finite element methods, and computational fluid dynamics * E. G. Glagoleva (1926–2015), Soviet and Russian mathematician, mathematics educator, and textbook author * Josephine Burns Glasgow (1887–1969), American group theorist, active in American Association of University Women *

Muriel Glauert Muriel Glauert (née Barker) (7 May 1892 – 23 December 1949) was a British mathematician who made significant contributions to early advances in aerodynamics. Early life and education Muriel Barker was born in Nottingham, the daughter of a ...

(1892–1949), British mathematician and aerodynamicist *

Sarah Glaz Sarah Glaz (born 1947) is a mathematician and mathematical poet. Her research specialty is commutative algebra; she is a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Connecticut. Education and career Glaz was born in Bucharest, Romania, ...

(born 1947), Romanian-Israeli-American commutative algebraist and mathematical poet * Heide Gluesing-Luerssen (born 1961), German mathematician specializing in algebraic coding theory *

Julia Gog Julia Rose Gog is a British mathematician and professor of mathematical biology in the faculty of mathematics at the University of Cambridge. She is also a David N. Moore fellow, director of studies in mathematics at Queens' College, Cambridge ...

, 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 Hatice Nüzhet Gökdoğan (; 14 August 1910 – 24 April 2003) was a Turkish astronomer, mathematician and academic. After studying mathematics and astronomy in France as a young adult, Gökdoğan joined the faculty of Istanbul University in 19 ...

(1910–2003), Turkish astronomer and mathematician, founder of Turkish Mathematical Society *

Bonnie Gold Bonnie Gold (born 1948) is an American mathematician, mathematical logician, philosopher of mathematics, and mathematics educator. She is a professor emerita of mathematics at Monmouth University. Education and career Gold completed her Ph.D. i ...

(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 : Catherine Goldstein (born July 5, 1958 in Paris) is a French number theorist and historian of mathematics who works as a director of research at the (IMJ). She was president of L'association femmes et mathématiques in 1991. Education and ca ...

(born 1958), French number theorist and historian of mathematics *

Gisèle Ruiz Goldstein Gisèle Ruiz Goldstein is an American mathematician known for her research in partial differential equations, operator theory, and applications of mathematics to physics and finance. Goldstein has won multiple awards; in particular, one of her p ...

(born 1958), American expert in partial differential equations, operator theory, and mathematical finance *

Susan Goldstine Susan Goldstine is an American mathematician active in mathematics and fiber arts. She is a professor of mathematics at St. Mary's College of Maryland, and (for 2019–2022) the Steven Muller Distinguished Professor in the Sciences at St. Mary's C ...

, American mathematician active in mathematics and fiber arts *

Shafi Goldwasser en, Shafrira Goldwasser , name = Shafi Goldwasser , image = Shafi Goldwasser.JPG , caption = Shafi Goldwasser in 2010 , birth_place = New York City, New York, U.S. , birth_date = , death_date ...

(born 1958), American-born Israeli theoretical cryptographer * Concha Gómez, Italian and Cuban-American mathematician and advocate for diversity in STEM *

Sherry Gong Sherry Gong is an American mathematician specializing in low-dimensional topology and known as one of the most successful female competitors at the International Mathematical Olympiad. She is an assistant professor at Texas A&M University. Early ...

, 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 Carolyn S. Gordon (born 1950) is a mathematician and Benjamin Cheney Professor of Mathematics at Dartmouth College. She is most well known for giving a negative answer to the question "Can you hear the shape of a drum?" in her work with David Webb ...

(born 1950), isospectral geometer who proved that you can't hear the shape of a drum *

Julia Gordon Julia Gordon is a mathematician at the University of British Columbia whose research concerns algebraic geometry, including representation theory, -adic groups, motivic integration, and the Langlands program. Gordon earned her PhD at the Univer ...

, Canadian representation theorist, winner of Michler and Krieger–Nelson prizes *

Pamela Gorkin Pamela Gorkin is an American mathematician specializing in complex analysis and operator theory. She is a professor of mathematics at Bucknell University. Education and career Gorkin earned bachelor's and master's degrees in statistics from Michi ...

, American complex analyst and textbook author *

Sigal Gottlieb Sigal Gottlieb is an applied mathematician. She is a professor of mathematics and (since 2013) the director of the Center for Scientific Computing and Visualization Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Life Sigal Gottlieb is t ...

, 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 Alice Bache Gould (January 5, 1868 – July 25, 1953) was an American mathematician, philanthropist, and historian, who spent much of her time in Puerto Rico, South America and Spain. She was impelled in that direction by her family's sometime r ...

(1858–1953), American mathematician and historian *

Gene Grabeel Gene Grabeel (June 5, 1920 – January 30, 2015) was an American mathematician and cryptanalyst who founded the Venona project. Early life Grabeel was born on June 5, 1920, in Rose Hill, Lee County, Virginia, where she grew up; her mother rais ...

(1920–2015), American mathematician and cryptanalyst who founded the Venona project *

Judith Grabiner Judith Victor Grabiner (born October 12, 1938) is an American mathematician and historian of mathematics, who is Flora Sanborn Pitzer Professor Emerita of Mathematics at Pitzer College, one of the Claremont Colleges. Her main interest is in mathema ...

(born 1938), American historian of 18th- and 19th-century mathematics *

Eva-Maria Graefe Eva-Maria Graefe is a German mathematical physicist who works as a reader in mathematical physics at Imperial College London and as a University Research Fellow of the Royal Society. Her research involves ultracold atoms and non-Hermitian quantum ...

, 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 Evelyn Boyd Granville (born May 1, 1924) was the second African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics from an American university; she earned it in 1949 from Yale University. She graduated from Smith College in 1945.. She performed p ...

(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 Marion Gray (26 March 1902 – 16 September 1979) was a Scottish mathematician who discovered a graph with 54 vertices and 81 edges while working at American Telephone & Telegraph. The graph is commonly known as the Gray graph. Early life and ...

(1902–1979), Scottish telephone engineer, discoverer of the Gray graph *

Mary W. Gray Mary Lee Wheat Gray (born April 8, 1938) is an American mathematician, statistician, and lawyer. She is the author of books and papers in the fields of mathematics, mathematics education, computer science, applied statistics, economic equity, dis ...

(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 Anne Greenbaum (born 1951) is an American applied mathematician and professor at the University of Washington. She was named a SIAM Fellow in 2015 "for contributions to theoretical and numerical linear algebra". She has written graduate and un ...

(born 1951), American expert in theoretical and numerical linear algebra *

Catherine Greenhill Catherine Greenhill is an Australian mathematician known for her research on random graphs, combinatorial enumeration and Markov chains. She is a professor of mathematics in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of New Sout ...

, 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 * Sina Greenwood, New Zealand topologist *

Ruth Gregory Ruth Ann Watson Gregory is a British mathematician and physicist, currently Head of Department of Physics and Professor of Theoretical Physics at King's College London.

, British mathematical physicist specializing in general relativity and cosmology * Margaret Greig (1922–1999), English applied mathematician, developed theory for worsted spinning *

Harriet Griffin Harriet Madeline Griffin (April 6, 1903 – January 13, 1991) was an American mathematician, and the author of a textbook on number theory. She taught for many years at Brooklyn College. Education and career Griffin was born on April 6, 1903, in ...

(1903–1991), American mathematician, author of a textbook on number theory * Lois Wilfred Griffiths (1899–1981), American expert on polygonal numbers *

Laura Grigori Laura Grigori is a French-Romanian applied mathematician and computer scientist known for her research on numerical linear algebra and communication-avoiding algorithms. She is a director of research for the French Institute for Research in Comp ...

, 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 Clara Isabel Grima Ruiz (born 1971) is a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Seville, specializing in computational geometry. She is known for her research on scutoids (polyhedron-like shapes that can pack the space between pairs ...

(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 Birgit Grodal (24 June 1943 - 4 May 2004), was an economics professor at the University of Copenhagen from 1968 until her death in 2004. Early life Birgit Grodal was born on 24 June 1943 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She grew up in Frederiksberg. She ...

(1943–2004), Danish mathematical economist, studied atomless economies * Ione Grogan (1891–1961), American schoolteacher, mathematics professor, and literary club leader *

Edna Grossman Edna Grossman (born Edna Kalka) is an American mathematician. She was born in Germany, grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated with a B.S. in mathematics from Brooklyn College. She earned her M.S. in mathematics from New York University's Co ...

, 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 Rebeca Cherep de Guber (2 July 1926 – 25 August 2020) was an Argentine mathematician, university professor, textbook author and 1960s pioneer in the development of computer science Computer science is the study of computation, ...

(1926–2020), 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 Joséphine Guidy Wandja (born 1945, also Guidy-Wandja) is an Ivorian mathematician. She is the first African woman with a PhD in mathematics. Early life She moved to France aged 14. She attended the Lycée Jules-Ferry in Paris, and later t ...

(born 1945), Ivorian mathematician *

Alice Guionnet Alice Guionnet (born 24 May 1969) is a French mathematician known for her work in probability theory, in particular on large random matrices. Biography Guionnet entered the École Normale Supérieure (Paris) in 1989. She earned her PhD in 1995 ...

(born 1969), French probability theorist *

Geneviève Guitel Geneviève Guitel (24 May 1895 – 30 July 1982) was a French mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concern ...

(1895–1982), French mathematician who studied natural-language numbering systems *

Kanta Gupta Chander Kanta Gupta (8 October 1938 – 27 March 2016) was a Canadian distinguished professor of mathematics at the University of Manitoba, known for her research in abstract algebra and group theory. Much of her research concerns the automor ...

(1938–2016), Indian-Canadian researcher on abstract algebra and group theory *

Neena Gupta Neena Gupta (born 4 June 1959) is an Indian actress and television director who works in Hindi films and television. Known for her work in both art-house and commercial films, she won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for pl ...

, Indian mathematician who solved the Zariski cancellation problem * Rona Gurkewitz, American mathematician and computer scientist known for her work on modular origami *

Margaret Gurney Margaret Gurney (October 28, 1908 – March 19, 2002) was an American mathematician, statistician, and computer programmer. Originally trained in the mathematical study of partial differential equations at Swarthmore College, Brown University, an ...

(1908–2002), American mathematician, survey statistician, and pioneering computer programmer *

Rochelle Gutierrez Rochelle Gutierrez is a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Her main focus is changing the way in which mathematics is taught to the minority and the effects of race, class and language on teaching and learni ...

, American education theorist who studies the impacts of race, class and language on mathematics education *

Simone Gutt Simone Gutt (born 1956) is a Belgian mathematician specializing in differential geometry. She is a professor of mathematics at the Université libre de Bruxelles. Education and career Gutt was born on 13 July 1956 in Uccle, near Brussels. She co ...

(born 1956), Belgian differential geometer *

Martha Guzmán Partida Martha Dolores Guzmán Partida is a Mexican mathematician specializing in functional analysis, including Fourier analysis, harmonic analysis, and the theory of distributions. She is a professor of mathematics at the Universidad de Sonora. Edu ...

, Mexican functional analyst

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Ruth Haas Ruth Haas is an American mathematician and professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Previously she was the Achilles Professor of Mathematics at Smith College. She received the M. Gweneth Humphreys Award from the Association for Women in M ...

, American mathematician known for mentorship of other women mathematicians * Violet B. Haas (1926–1986), American control theorist * Olga Hadžić (1946–1995), Serbian expert on fixed-point theorems * Dörte Haftendorn (born 1948), German mathematician, mathematics educator, and textbook author *

Kari Hag Kari Jorun Blakkisrud Hag (born April 4, 1941) is a Norwegian mathematician known for her research in complex analysis on quasicircles and quasiconformal mappings, and for her efforts for gender equality in mathematics. She is a professor emerita ...

(born 1941), Norwegian expert on quasiconformal mappings * Marjorie Hahn (born 1948), American probability theorist and tennis player *

Deborah Tepper Haimo Deborah Tepper Haimo (1921–2007) was an American mathematician who became president of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). Her research concerned "classical analysis, in particular, generalizations of the heat equation, special functi ...

(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 Christine Mary Hamill (24 July 1923 – 24 March 1956) was an English mathematician who specialised in group theory and finite geometry. Education Hamill was one of the four children of English physiologist Philip Hamill. She attended St Paul ...

(1923–1956), English mathematician specializing in group theory and finite geometry *

Mary-Elizabeth Hamstrom Mary-Elizabeth Hamstrom (May 24, 1927 – December 2, 2009) was an American mathematician known for her contributions to topology, and particularly to point-set topology and the theory of homeomorphism groups of manifolds. She was for many years ...

(1927–2009), American topologist * Xiaoying Han, Chinese mathematician who studies random dynamical systems and stochastic differential equations *

Gila Hanna Gila Hanna is a Canadian mathematics educator and philosopher of mathematics whose research interests include the nature and educational role of mathematical proofs, and gender in mathematics education. She is professor emerita in the Department ...

(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 Frances Hardcastle (13 August 1866 – 26 December 1941) was an English mathematician, in 1894 one of the founding members of the American Mathematical Society. Her work included contributions to the theory of point groups. Biography Born in ...

(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 Valentina Harizanov is a Serbian-American mathematician and professor of mathematics at The George Washington University. Her main research contributions are in computable structure theory (roughly at the intersection of computability theory a ...

, Serbian-American researcher in computability and model theory * Dorothee Haroske (born 1968), German expert on function spaces *

Heather Harrington Heather A. Harrington (born 1984) is an applied mathematician interested in dynamical systems, chemical reaction network theory, topological data analysis, and systems biology. She is professor of mathematics, and Royal Society University Researc ...

(born 1984), applied mathematician and algebraic systems biologist * Pamela E. Harris, Mexican combinatorist and mathematics blogger *

Jenny Harrison Jenny Harrison is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. Education and career Harrison grew up in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. On graduating from the University of Alabama, she won a Marshall Scholarship which she used to ...

, American expert on generalized functions and minimal surfaces * Frances Harshbarger (1902–1987), one of the first female American mathematicians to receive a doctorate *

Bertha Hart Bertha Irene Hart was an American mathematician. She had a Master of Arts degree from Cornell University, and was at one point an associate professor of mathematics for Western Maryland College. Affiliations In 1946 she was elected to “ordinary ...

, American mathematician * Sarah B. Hart, British group theorist * Shelly Harvey, American researcher in knot theory, low-dimensional topology, and group theory *

Mary Gertrude Haseman Mary Gertrude Haseman (March 6, 1889 – April 9, 1979) was an American mathematician known for her work in knot theory. Biography Mary Gertrude Haseman was born in or near the small town of Linton, Indiana, the seventh of nine children, ...

(1889–1979), American knot theorist *

Asma Hassannezhad Asma Hassannezhad is an Iranian mathematician whose research concerns geometric analysis, spectral geometry, and differential geometry. She is a lecturer in pure mathematics in the School of Mathematics at the University of Bristol, where she is ...

, Iranian spectral geometer *

Maria Hasse Maria-Viktoria Hasse (May 30, 1921 – January 10, 2014) was a German mathematician who became the first female professor in the faculty of mathematics and science at TU Dresden. She wrote books on set theory and category theory, and is known as on ...

(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 Deanna Haunsperger is an American mathematician and Professor of Mathematics at Carleton College. She was the president of the Mathematical Association of America for the 2017–2018 term. She co-created and co-organized the Carleton College Summ ...

, American mathematician, former president of the Mathematical Association of America *

Jane M. Hawkins Jane Margaret Hawkins is an American mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Louise Hay Louise Lynn Hay (October 8, 1926 – August 30, 2017) was an American motivational author and the founder of Hay House. She authored several New Thought self-help books, including the 1984 book '' You Can Heal Your Life''. Early life and ...

(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 Ellen Amanda Hayes (September 23, 1851October 27, 1930) was an American mathematician and astronomer. She was a controversial figure, not only because of being a female college professor, but also for embracing many radical causes. Early life Ha ...

(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 Emilie Virginia Haynsworth (June 1, 1916 – May 4, 1985) was an American mathematician at Auburn University who worked in linear algebra and matrix theory. She gave the name to Schur complements and is the namesake of the Haynsworth inertia addit ...

(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 Jane Marie Heffernan is a Canadian mathematician. Her research focuses on understanding the spread and persistence of infectious diseases. She is a full professor at York University and a Tier 2 York Research Chair in Multi-Scale Quantitative Met ...

, 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 Nadia Heninger (born 1982) is an American cryptographer, computer security expert, and computational number theorist at the University of California, San Diego. Contributions Heninger is known for her work on freezing powered-down security devic ...

(born 1982), American cryptographer, computer security expert, and computational number theorist *

Cora Barbara Hennel Cora Barbara Hennel (January 21, 1886 – June 26, 1947) was an Indiana mathematician active in the first half of the 20th century. Early life and education Hennel was born in Evansville, Indiana to Joseph H. and Anna Marie Thuman Hennel. After ...

(1888–1947), American mathematician, first woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics at the Indiana University *

Dagmar R. Henney Dagmar Renate Kirchner Henney (born May 6, 1931) is a German-born American mathematician and former professor of calculus, finite mathematics, and measure and integration at George Washington University in Washington, DC. Early life and edu ...

(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 Rebecca A. Herb (born 1948) is an American mathematician, a professor emeritus, professor emerita at the University of Maryland. Her research involves abstract algebra and Lie groups. In 2012, Herb became one of the inaugural fellows of the Americ ...

(born 1948), American researcher in abstract algebra and Lie groups *

Raphaèle Herbin Raphaèle Herbin is a French applied mathematician; she is known for her work on the finite volume method. Herbin has been a professor at Aix-Marseille University since 1995, and directs the Institut de Mathématiques de Marseille. She earned her ...

, French expert on the finite volume method *

Grete Hermann Grete Hermann (2 March 1901 – 15 April 1984) was a Germans, German mathematician and philosopher noted for her work in mathematics, physics, philosophy and education. She is noted for her early philosophical work on the foundations of quantum m ...

(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 Patricia Lynn Hersh (born 1973) is an American mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at the University of Oregon. Her research concerns algebraic combinatorics, topological combinatorics, and the connections between combinatorics a ...

(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 Silvia Heubach is a German-American mathematician specializing in enumerative combinatorics, combinatorial game theory, and bioinformatics. She is a professor of mathematics at California State University, Los Angeles. Education and career 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 Aparna W. Higgins is a mathematician known for her encouragement of undergraduate mathematicians to participate in mathematical research. Higgins originally specialized in universal algebra, but her more recent research concerns graph theory, inclu ...

, Indian-American graph theorist known for encouraging undergraduate research * Raegan Higgins, American mathematician, co-director of the EDGE program for Women *

Nancy Hingston Nancy Burgess Hingston is a mathematician working in differential geometry. She is a professor emerita of mathematics at The College of New Jersey.. Early life and education Nancy Hingston's father William Hingston was superintendent of the Ce ...

, American differential geometer * Wei Ho, American arithmetic geometer *

Hoàng Xuân Sính Hoàng Xuân Sính (born September 8, 1933) is a Vietnamese mathematician, a student of Grothendieck, the first female mathematician in Vietnam, the founder of Thang Long University, and the recipient of the ''Ordre des Palmes Académiques''. Ea ...

(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 Dorit S. Hochbaum is a professor of industrial engineering and operations research at the University of California, Berkeley.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 Leslie Hogben is an American mathematician specializing in graph theory and linear algebra, and known for her mentorship of graduate students in mathematics. She is a professor of mathematics at Iowa State University, where she holds the Dio Lewis ...

, 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 Lotte Hollands (born 1981) is a Dutch mathematician and mathematical physicist who studies quantum field theory, supersymmetric gauge theory, and string theory. She is an associate professor and Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow in the Departm ...

(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 * Jennifer Hom, American low-dimensional topologist * Dorothy McFadden Hoover (1918–2000), American human computer involved in the design of swept-wing aircraft *

Grace Hopper Grace Brewster Hopper (; December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy Rear admiral (United States), rear admiral. One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I, Harvard Mar ...

(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 Kathryn Jennifer Horadam (born 1951) is an Australian mathematician known for her work on Hadamard matrices and related topics in mathematics and information security. She is an Emeritus Professor at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RM ...

(born 1951), Australian mathematician, studies Hadamard matrices, daughter of Eleanor Mollie *

Annick Horiuchi Annick Mito Horiuchi is a French historian of mathematics and historian of science. She is a professor at Paris Diderot University Paris Diderot University, also known as Paris 7 (french: Université Paris Diderot), was a French university loc ...

, French historian of Japanese mathematics *

Anette Hosoi Anette E. "Peko" Hosoi is an American mechanical engineer, biophysicist, and mathematician, currently the Neil and Jane Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering and associate dean of engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ...

, American mechanical engineer, biophysicist, and mathematician, studies fluid dynamics, robotics, and bio-inspired design *

Victoria Howle Victoria E. Howle is an American applied mathematician specializing in numerical linear algebra and known as one of the developers of the Trilinos open-source software library for scientific computing. She is an associate professor in the Departme ...

, 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 Rebecca Bryony Hoyle is a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Southampton, and associate dean for research at Southampton. She was the London Mathematical Society Mary Cartwright Lecturer for 2017. Research Hoyle describes herse ...

, British applied mathematician, expert on pattern formation *

Celia Hoyles Dame Celia Mary Hoyles, ( French; born 18 May 1946) is a British mathematician, educationalist and Professor of Mathematics Education at University College London (UCL), in the Institute of Education (IoE). Early life and education Celia Mary F ...

(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 Hu Hesheng (; born 20 June 1928) is a Chinese mathematician. She served as vice-president of Chinese Mathematical Society, president of the Shanghai Mathematical Society, and is an academician of Chinese Academy of Science. She held the Noethe ...

(born 1928), differential geometer, president of Shanghai Mathematical Society, member of Chinese Academy of Science * Katharina T. Huber (born 1965), German mathematical biologist, expert in the foundations and visualization of phylogeny *

Verena Huber-Dyson Verena Esther Huber-Dyson (May 6, 1923 – March 12, 2016) was a Swiss-American mathematician, known for her work on group theory and formal logic. She has been described as a "brilliant mathematician", and did research on the interface betw ...

(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 Vera Huckel (1908–1999) was an American mathematician and aerospace engineer and one of the first female "computers" at NACA, now NASA, where she mainly worked in the Dynamic Loads Division. Life and work Huckel was born in 1908 and studied ma ...

, 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 Hilda Phoebe Hudson (11 June 1881 Cambridge – 26 November 1965 London) was an English mathematician who worked on algebraic geometry, in particular on Cremona transformations. Hudson was interested in the link between mathematics and her rel ...

(1881–1965), English researcher on Cremona transformations in algebraic geometry *

Sabine Van Huffel Sabine J. A. Van Huffel (born September 26, 1958) is a Belgian computer scientist, applied mathematician, and electrical engineer, whose research concerns computational methods for medical diagnostics, and in particular methods based on total least ...

(born 1958), Belgian applied mathematician, expert on total least squares and applications to medical diagnostics *

Rhonda Hughes Rhonda Jo Hughes (born Rhonda Weisberg September 28, 1947). is an American mathematician, the Helen Herrmann Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Bryn Mawr College.

(born 1947), American wavelet researcher, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics *

Deborah Hughes Hallett Deborah J. Hughes Hallett is a mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at the University of Arizona. Her expertise is in the undergraduate teaching of mathematics. She has also taught as Professor of the Practice in the Teaching of M ...

, mathematics education reformer * Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann (born 1946), German-American representation theorist and ring theorist * Dominique Hulin (born 1959), French differential geometer *

Mabel Gweneth Humphreys Mabel Gweneth Humphreys was a Canadian-American mathematician and Professor of Mathematics at Randolph-Macon Women's College. The M. Gweneth Humphreys Award of the Association for Women in Mathematics was established in her honor. Education H ...

(1911–2006), Canadian-American number theorist and namesake of the M. Gweneth Humphreys Award *

Eugénie Hunsicker Eugénie Lee Hunsicker is an American mathematician who works at Loughborough University in England as a senior lecturer in pure mathematics and as director of equality and diversity for the school of science. Her research in pure mathematics has ...

, 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 Ella Louise Stokes Hunter (died 1988) was an American mathematics educator who became the first African-American woman to earn a degree at the University of Virginia. She taught for many years at Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute and V ...

(died 1988), American mathematics educator, first African-American woman with a degree from the University of Virginia *

Joan Hutchinson Joan Prince Hutchinson (born 1945) is an American mathematician and Professor Emerita of Mathematics from Macalester College. Education Joan Hutchinson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; her father was a demographer and university professor, ...

(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 Hypatia, Koine pronunciation (born 350–370; died 415 AD) was a neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician, who lived in Alexandria, Egypt, then part of the Eastern Roman Empire. She was a prominent thinker in Alexandria wher ...

(died 415), head of the Neoplatonic school at Alexandria, murdered by a Christian mob

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* Milagros D. Ibe (born 1931), Filipino mathematics educator, vice chancellor of the University of the Philippines Diliman * Mihaela Ignatova, Bulgarian mathematical analyst *

Annette Imhausen Annette Imhausen (also known as Annette Warner, born June 12, 1970) is a German historian of mathematics known for her work on Ancient Egyptian mathematics. She is a professor in the Normative Orders Cluster of Excellence at Goethe University Fra ...

(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 Eleny-Nicoleta Ionel is a Romanian mathematician whose research concerns symplectic geometry, including the study of the Gromov–Witten invariants and Gopakumar–Vafa invariant. Among her most significant results are the construction of relative ...

, Romanian-American symplectic geometer * Alessandra Iozzi (born 1959), Italian-American-Swiss geometric group theorist *

Ilse Ipsen Ilse Clara Franziska Ipsen is a German-American mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at North Carolina State University. She was formerly associate director of the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute, a joint ...

, German-American expert in numerical linear algebra *

Valerie Isham Valerie Susan Isham (born 1947) is a British applied probabilist and former President of the Royal Statistical Society. Isham's research interests in include point processes, spatial processes, spatio-temporal processes and population process ...

(born 1947), British applied probabilist, president of Royal Statistical Society * Shihoko Ishii (born 1950), Japanese mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry *

Vanaja Iyengar Vanaja Iyengar (died 2001) was an Indian mathematician, educationist and the founder vice-chancellor of Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam, Tirupati, in the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. She was one of the founders of the Andhra Mahil ...

( –2001), founding vice chancellor of Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam, a women's university in Andhra Pradesh, India

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* 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 Monique Jeanblanc-Picqué (born 1947) is a French mathematician known for her work in mathematical finance; other topics in her research have included control theory and probability theory. She is a professor emerita at the University of Évry ...

(born 1947), French financial mathematician *

Lisa Jeffrey Lisa Claire Jeffrey FRSC is a Canadian mathematician, a professor of mathematics at the University of Toronto. In her research, she uses symplectic geometry to provide rigorous proofs of results in quantum field theory. Jeffrey graduated from P ...

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 Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins is a Canadian philosopher who holds a Canada Research Chair and is Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. She is also a professor at the Northern Institute of Philosophy, University of Aberdeen. Her ...

, 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 (1929–2021), 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

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* 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 * Nataliya Kalashnykova, Soviet-Mexican expert on bilevel optimization * Efstratia Kalfagianni, Greek-American topologist * Eva Kallin, American researcher in geometric axiom systems, functional algebra, and polynomial convexity * Gudrun Kalmbach (born 1937), German quantum logician * Anne-Sophie Kaloghiros, French algebraic geometer * Barbara Kaltenbacher, Austrian applied analyst, president of Austrian Mathematical Society * Hermine Agavni Kalustyan (1914–1989), Armenian-Turkish mathematician and politician * Constance Kamii, Swiss-Japanese-American mathematics education scholar and psychologist * Shoshana Kamin (born 1930), Soviet-Israeli mathematical physicist, wrote about parabolic partial differential equations * Mihyun Kang, South Korean graph theorist * 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 * Ailsa Keating, French-British symplectic geometer * 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 * Lily Khadjavi, American mathematician, author on mathematics for social justice * '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 * Eun Jung Kim (parameterized complexity), Eun Jung Kim, South Korean researcher in parameterized complexity and graph width * 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 * Virginia Kiryakova, Bulgarian mathematician, expert on fractional calculus and special functions * 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 * Małgorzata Klimek (born 1957), Polish mathematician, expert on fractional calculus * Genevieve M. Knight (1939–2021), 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 * Motoko Kotani (born 1960), Japanese discrete geometric analyst and academic administrator * 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 * Radhika Kulkarni, Indian-American operations researcher, president of INFORMS * 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

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* 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 * Matilde Lalín, Argentine-Canadian number theorist, expert on L-functions and Mahler measure * 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 (scientific computing), 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 (mathematician), 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 (mathematician), Rachel Levy (born 1968), American applied mathematician, mathematics educator, and blogger * Sophia Levy (1888–1963), American astronomer, numerical analyst, and mathematics educator * 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 (1895- after 1959), 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 * Maria Silvia Lucido (1963–2008), Italian mathematician, expert on the prime graphs of finite groups * 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

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* 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 * Annie MacKinnon (1868–1940), Canadian-born American mathematician, third woman to earn a mathematics doctorate at an American university * 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 (mathematician), Elizabeth Mansfield, Australian expert on moving frames and conservation laws * Lisa Mantini, American mathematician * 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 * Verónica Martínez de la Vega (born 1971), Mexican hypertopologist * 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 * Laura Matusevich, Argentine commutative algebraist * 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 (1935–2021), first African-American doctorate at the University of Georgia * Mary McCammon ( – 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 (mathematician), 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 * Jenny McNulty, American matroid theorist and academic administrator * Florence Marie Mears (1896–1995), American specialist in summation methods * Catherine Meadows, American cryptographer who formally verifies cryptographic protocols * Elizabeth Meckes (1980–2020), American probability theorist * Nicole Megow, German discrete mathematician and theoretical computer scientist, researcher in scheduling algorithms * Beatrice Meini (born 1968), Italian computational mathematician and numerical analyst * 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 * Adele Merritt, American applied mathematician and intelligence officer * Uta Merzbach (1933–2017), German-American historian of mathematics, first Smithsonian curator of mathematical instruments * Vilma Mesa, Colombian-American mathematics educator * Chikako Mese, American differential geometer * Jill P. Mesirov, American mathematician, computer scientist, and computational biologist, president of AWM * Jaqueline Mesquita (born 1985), Brazilian mathematician specializing in differential equations * Dora Metcalf (1892–1982), British mathematician and data analysis entrepreneur * 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 (mathematical biologist), Laura Miller, American mathematician, applies fluid dynamics to insect flight and jellyfish propulsion * Maggie Miller (mathematician), Maggie Miller, American low-dimensional topologist * 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 * 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 * Amanda Montejano, Mexican graph theorist, expert in coloring geometric graphs * Clemency Montelle (born 1977), New Zealand historian of Indian mathematics and astronomy * Susan Montgomery (born 1943), American researcher in noncommutative algebra * Helen Moore (mathematician), 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 * Hélène Morlon (born 1978), French mathematical biologist, models biodiversity * 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 (mathematician), 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

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* 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 * Lyudmyla Nazarova, Ukrainian representation theorist * 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 (mathematician), 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". * 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

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* 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 * Yoshiko Ogata, Japanese quantum mathematical physicist * 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 * Janis Oldham (1956–2021), African-American differential geometer and mathematics educator * 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 * Déborah Oliveros, Mexican discrete and convex geometer * 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 * Eugenia O'Reilly-Regueiro, Mexican algebraic combinatorist * Rosa Orellana, American mathematician specializing in algebraic combinatorics and representation theory * Ewa Orłowska (born 1935), Polish logician * Omayra Ortega, American mathematical epidemiologist * Laura Ortíz-Bobadilla, Mexican expert on holomorphic foliations * 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 * Sofiya Ostrovska (born 1958), Ukrainian probability theorist and approximation 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

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* 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 * Mariolina Padula (died 2012), Italian expert on fluid dynamics * 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 * Jinyoung Park (mathematician), Jinyoung Park, South Korean combinatorist * 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 * Adriana Pesci, Argentine fluid dynamicist, expert on flagellar motion, soap films, and the Leidenfrost effect * 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 (statistician), 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 * Mamokgethi Phakeng (born 1966), first black female South African to earn a PhD in mathematics education * 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 -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 * Tina Pizzardo (1903 – 1989), Italian mathematics teacher and anti-fascist * Shirley Pledger, New Zealand mathematician and statistician known for her work on mark and recapture methods * Vera Pless (1931–2020), 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 * Amber L. Puha, American probability theorist * Jessica Purcell, American and Australian low-dimensional topologist * Florence Purington (1862–1950), first dean of Mount Holyoke College * 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

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* 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

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* 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 * Alison Ramage, British expert in preconditioning methods for numerical linear algebra * 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 * Asha Rao, Indian-Australian mathematician and expert in cybersecurity * 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 * Michela Redivo-Zaglia, Italian numerical analyst * 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 * Rosemary Renaut, British and American computational mathematician * 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 (mathematician), 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 * Eliane R. Rodrigues, Brazilian-Mexican researcher on stochastic models for pollution and health * 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 * Corinna Rossi (born 1968), Italian Egyptologist and historian of Egyptian mathematics and architecture * Alice Roth (1905–1977), Swiss mathematician known for her invention of Swiss cheese spaces * Hildegard Rothe-Ille (1899–1942), German mathematician specializing in Ramsey theory * 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 * Maria Aparecida Soares Ruas (born 1948), Brazilian singularity theorist * 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 * Beulah Russell (1878-1940), American mathematician * Barbara Falkenbach Ryan, American mathematician, computer scientist, statistician and business executive

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* 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 (mathematician), 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 * Cami Sawyer, American and New Zealand expert on distance learning in mathematics * Karen Saxe, American expert on functional analysis and social choice theory * Jacquelien Scherpen, Dutch nonlinear control theorist * 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 (mathematician), Jennifer Scott (born 1960), British numerical analyst * Catherine Searle, American differential geometer * Ruthmae Sears, Bahamian-American mathematics educator * 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 * Anna Seigal, British applied algebraic geometer * 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'' * Cristina Sernadas (born 1951), Portuguese mathematical logician * Brigitte Servatius (born 1954), Austrian-American expert on matroids and structural rigidity * Nataša Šešum, expert in geometric flows * 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 * Anna Sierpińska (born 1947), Polish-Canadian scholar of understanding and epistemology in mathematics education * 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 * Anna Skripka, Ukrainian-American noncommutative analyst * Gillian Slater, British mathematician and academic administrator, vice chancellor of Bournemouth University * 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 * Deirdre Smeltzer (born 1964), American mathematician, mathematics educator, academic administrator, and textbook author * Sonja Smets, Belgian and Dutch mathematical logician, works on quantum logic and belief revision * Adelaide Smith (1878–1938), 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 * 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 (1920–2022), 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 (mathematician), Chris Stevens, American topological group theorist, historian of mathematics, and mathematics educator * Lorna Stewart, Canadian graph theorist and graph algorithms researcher * 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 (mathematician), Emily Stone, American mathematician, works in fluid mechanics and dynamical systems * Betsy Stovall, American harmonic analyst * 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

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* 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 * Martha Takane, Mexican algebraist and algebraic combinatorist * 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 * Yunqing Tang, Chinese-American number theorist and arithmetic geometer * 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 * Aretha Teckentrup, British mathematician, data scientist, and numerical analyst * 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 (philosopher), Theano (6th century BC), one or possibly two different Pythagorean philosophers * Diana Thomas (mathematician), 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 * Alison Tomlin, British physical chemist and applied mathematician, develops detailed models of combustion * Virginia Torczon, American applied mathematician, computer scientist, and expert in nonlinear optimization * Antoinette Tordesillas, Australian applied mathematician * Marie Torhorst (1888–1989), German mathematician, school teacher, and politician * Anna-Karin Tornberg, Swedish computational mathematician * Eve Torrence (born 1963), American mathematician, president of Pi Mu Epsilon * 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 * Konstantina Trivisa, Greek-American expert in fluid dynamics and flocking * Mary Esther Trueblood (1872–1939), American mathematician, studied with Felix Klein * Chrysoula Tsogka, Greek applied mathematician, expert in wave propagation through complex media * 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), Belarusian graph theorist, co-invented split graphs * Galina Tyurina (1938–1970), Soviet algebraic geometer

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* 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 * Arantza Urkaregi (born 1954), Spanish mathematician and Basque separatist and feminist politician

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* 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 * Olena Vaneeva (born 1982), Ukrainian mathematician specializing in group analysis of differential equations * 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 * Luitgard Veraart, German financial mathematician * 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 * Nina Virchenko (born 1930), Ukrainian mathematician and anti-Soviet activist * 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

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* 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 * Nathalie Wahl (born 1976), Belgian topologist * Yoshiko Wakabayashi (born 1950), Brazilian researcher in combinatorial optimization and polyhedral combinatorics * 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 * 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 (astronomer), Wang Zhenyi (1768–1797), Qing dynasty mathematician and astronomer * Lesley Ward, Australian harmonic and complex analyst * Rachel Ward (mathematician), 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 Mathematical Association of America * Anne Watson (mathematics educator), 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 * Kirsten Wickelgren, American number theorist and geometer * 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 * Margaret Willerding (1919–2003), American mathematician and textbook author * Karen Willcox, New Zealand applied mathematician, expert on reduced-order modeling and multi-fidelity methods * Elizabeth Williams (educationist), Elizabeth Williams (1895–1986), British mathematician and educationist * Emily Coddington Williams (1873–1952), American historian of mathematics, translator, novelist, playwright, and biographer * Kim Williams (architect), Kim Williams, scholar of connections between mathematics and architecture * Lauren Williams (mathematician), 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 * 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 * Emily E. Witt, American commutative algebraist and representation theorist * 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 American Women in Mathematics * 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

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

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* Carolyn Yackel, American commutative algebraist and mathematical fiber artist * Erna Beth Yackel (1939–2022), American mathematics educator * 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

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* 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 * Anna Zdunik, Polish researcher on dynamical systems * 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), 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

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Chronological Index of Women Mathematicians

List of Noether Lecturers

Famous Female Mathematicians

MacTutor index of female mathematicians

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