Wednesday 9 November 2016

Woman Mathematician

1. Hypatia of Alexandria (AD 350 or 370-AD 417,Egyptian)
Woman Mathematician Hypatia of Alexandria
Woman Mathematician
     She was the daughter of a mathematician called Theon. Hypatia brilliance in astronomy, philosophy and mathematics made her the first and last greatest female thinker of ancient Alexandria located in Egypt.

2. Maria Agnesi (1718-1799, Italian)

Woman Mathematician Maria Agnesi
Woman Mathematician


     Maria Agnesi was an Italian philosopher and mathematician, most known for being the first female to be appointed as a mathematics professor. She wrote a book on math that still survives, (i.e, Analytical Institutions) for the Use of Italian Youth in English. Another pioneering contribution was the Witch of Agnesi- a curve that she wrote the equation for.

3. Émilie du Châtelet (1706-1749, French)
Woman Mathematician Emilie du Chatelet
Woman Mathematician

     She was a physicist, mathematician and writer during the Enlightenment era in Europe. She commented on Newton’s Principia Mathematica which is its best known translation in French even today.

4. Sophie Germain (1776-1831, French)
Woman Mathematician Sophie Germain
Woman Mathematician

     Sophie Germain’s paper on elasticity theory made her the first woman to be awarded from the Paris Academy of Sciences in 1816 and first unmarried woman to attend sessions at the Academy of Sciences and the Instit de France. She was also a major contributor in proving Fermat’s Last Theorem.

5. Ada Lovelace (1815-1852, British)
Woman Mathematician Ada Lovelace
Woman Mathematician

     When asked to translate the memoir of Charles Babbage, the Analytical Engine, Lovelace went ahead and added her own comments and notes about a method of calculating a sequence of Bernoulli numbers: what is today known as the world’s first ever computer program subsequently making Lovelace renowned as the world’s first computer programmer.


6. Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850-1891, Russian)
Woman Mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaya
Woman Mathematician

     Kovalevskaya’s biggest achievement was becoming the first woman in Europe to receive full professorship at the University of Stockholm.

Contributions:

  • She gave the Cauchy-Kovalevskaya Theorem its end result in 1875.
  • worked on a paper in which she invented the Kovalevskaya Top and published ten papers based on mathematics and mathematical physics.



7. Emmy Noether (1882-1935, German)
Woman Mathematician Emmy Noether
Woman Mathematician
     Emmy Noether is famous for coining the Noether’s Theorem that clarifies the relationship between conservation laws and symmetry, as well as Noether’s Ring that changed the basics of abstract algebra.

Contributions:

  • Theories for non-commutative algebras
  • hyper-complex numbers
  • commutative rings.

Awards and Recognition:
  • She received the Ackermann-Teuber Memorial Award for her input in the field of mathematics.


8. Mary Cartwright (1900-1998, British)
Woman Mathematician Mary Cartwright
Woman Mathematician

     Cartwright was the first female selected as a Fellow for the Royal Society of England.

Contributions:

  • She authored over a 100 papers which include her work on level curves, functions in the unit disk, topology and ordinary differential equations among others.
Awards and Recognition:
  • Received the De Morgan Medal from the London Mathematical Society
  • Received Sylvester Medal of the Royal Society

9. Julia Robinson (1919-1985, American)

Woman Mathematician Julia Robinson
Woman Mathematician

     Though she suffered from ill-health throughout her short life, Robinson made it as the first female mathematician elected by the National Academy of Sciences. 

Contributions:

  • She is well regarded for her work on Hilbert’s Tenth problem and decision problems.
Awards and Recognition:
  • President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.



10. Shafi Goldwasser (1958 - Till Date, American)

Woman Mathematician Shafi Goldwasser
Woman Mathematician
     Goldwasser is an American professor teaching mathematics at Weizmann Institute of Science and computer science at  and MIT.

Contributions:

  • Zero-knowledge proof
  • Complexity theory
  • Computation number theory
  • Cryptography.
Awards and Recognition:
  • Gödel Prize twice for her work on theoretical computer science



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