List of women in mathematics


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

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  • Ellen Baake, German mathematical biologist
  • Wealthy Babcock, American mathematician, namesake of Kansas University mathematics library
  • Christine Bachoc, French expert on coding theory and kissing numbers
  • Clara Latimer Bacon, first woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics from Johns Hopkins University
  • Jenny Baglivo, American mathematician, statistician, and book author
  • Hajer Bahouri, Franco-Tunisian mathematician interested in partial differential equations
  • Ann E. Bailie, American mathematician and space scientist, discovered that the earth is pear-shaped
  • Frances Ellen Baker, American mathematician and number theorist
  • Kitty Baker, American mathematics educator, artist and weaver, and author
  • Rose Baker, British physicist, mathematician, and statistician
  • Ruth Baker, British mathematical biologist interested in pattern formation and morphogenesis
  • Rena Bakhshi, Dutch complex network theorist
  • Viviane Baladi, Swiss-French expert on dynamical systems
  • Jennifer Balakrishnan, American number theorist who solved the "cursed curve"
  • Deborah Loewenberg Ball, American mathematics education researcher
  • Cristina Ballantine, Romanian-born American algebraic combinatorist and number theorist
  • Catherine Bandle, Swiss expert on differential equations and isoperimetric inequalities
  • Selenne Bañuelos, Mexican-American mathematician and mathematical biologist
  • Hélène Barcelo, mathematician from Québec, former editor-in-chief of Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A
  • Grace Marie Bareis, American group theorist, first mathematics Ph.D. at Ohio State, and founding member of the MAA
  • Nina Bari, Soviet mathematician known for her work on trigonometric series
  • Ruth Aaronson Bari, American mathematician known for her work in graph theory and homomorphisms
  • Mildred Barnard, Australian biometrician, mathematician and statistician
  • Janet Barnett, American mathematician known for integrating the history of mathematics into her teaching
  • Ida Barney, American mathematics professor and astronomer
  • Charlotte Barnum, mathematician and social activist, first female mathematics PhD from Yale
  • Margaret Baron, British mathematics educator and historian of mathematics
  • Lida Barrett, second female president of the MAA
  • Katrina Barron, American expert on vertex operator algebra
  • June Barrow-Green, British historian of mathematics
  • Jean Bartik, one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer
  • Martha Helen Barton, American mathematician and professor
  • Estelle Basor, 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, one of few women in the United States to be granted a PhD in mathematics in the 1940s
  • Lynn Batten, Canadian immigrant to Australia, researcher in finite geometries and cryptography
  • Helga Baum, German differential geometer
  • Patricia E. Bauman, studies the mathematics of liquid crystals and superconductors
  • Karin Baur, Swiss combinatorial representation theorist
  • Agnes Sime Baxter, second Canadian and fourth North American woman to earn a mathematics PhD
  • Margaret Bayer, American mathematician working in polyhedral combinatorics
  • Pilar Bayer, Spanish number theorist
  • Eva Bayer-Fluckiger, Hungarian-Swiss mathematician, proved Serre's conjecture on Galois cohomology of classical groups
  • Jillian Beardwood, British mathematician, contributed to the traveling salesperson problem
  • Karine Beauchard, French control theorist
  • Agnès Beaudry, Canadian-American stable homotopy theorist
  • Miriam Becker, American mathematician whose career became a test case for unionization and academic tenure
  • Astrid Beckmann, German mathematician, mathematics educator, physicist, and academic administrator
  • May Beenken, American mathematician
  • Janet Beery, American mathematician and historian of mathematics
  • Mary Beisiegel, American mathematics educator
  • Marion Beiter, American mathematician, expert on cyclotomic polynomials
  • sarah-marie belcastro, American algebraic geometer, editor of books on mathematics and fiber arts
  • Hélène Bellosta, French historian of mathematics in medieval Islam
  • Alexandra Bellow, Romanian researcher in ergodic theory, probability and analysis
  • Margherita Piazzola Beloch, Italian researcher in algebraic geometry, algebraic topology and photogrammetry
  • Amel Ben Abda, Tunisian applied mathematician
  • Carolina Benedetti, Colombian combinatorist, co-executive director of Mathematical Circles Colombia
  • Suzan Rose Benedict, first woman to earn a PhD from the University of Michigan
  • Georgia Benkart, American mathematician, expert on Lie algebras
  • Alona Ben-Tal, Israeli and New Zealand applied mathematician, models human and bird breathing
  • Deborah J. Bennett, American mathematics educator and popular mathematics book author
  • Sylvie Benzoni, 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, American researcher in numerical analysis, computational fluid dynamics, and parallel computing
  • Tanja Bergkvist, Swedish mathematician and anti-feminist activist
  • Julie Bergner, American expert on algebraic topology, homotopy theory, and higher category theory
  • Nicole Berline, French researcher on index theory of elliptic differential operators
  • Natalia Berloff, professor of applied mathematics at the University of Cambridge
  • Leah Berman, American discrete geometer
  • Christine Bernardi, French expert on numerical analysis of partial differential equations
  • Dorothy Lewis Bernstein, applied mathematician, first female president of the MAA
  • Inga Berre, Norwegian applied mathematician, models porous media and geothermal systems
  • Valérie Berthé, French researcher in symbolic dynamics, combinatorics on words, and discrete geometry
  • Andrea Bertozzi, 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, professor of combinatorics and head of mathematics at the University of Mumbai
  • Ushadevi Bhosle, Indian expert on vector bundles
  • Francesca Biagini, Italian-German probability theorist and financial mathematician
  • Ginestra Bianconi, Italian network scientist
  • Lydia Bieri, Swiss-American expert on general relativity, gravity waves, and the history of cosmology
  • Anna Maria Bigatti, Italian algebraist, developer of CoCoA
  • Hester Bijl, Dutch professor of numerical mathematics and academic administrator
  • Miggy Biller, British mathematician and mathematics educator
  • Sara Billey, American algebraic combinatorialist
  • Katalin Bimbó, Canadian mathematical logician and proof theorist
  • Christina Birkenhake, German algebraic geometer
  • Joan Birman, American braid and knot theorist
  • Laure Blanc-Féraud, French applied mathematician and image processing researcher
  • Gertrude Blanch, 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, distinguished professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University
  • Jo Boaler, British-American promoter of mathematics education reform and equitable mathematics classrooms
  • Mary L. Boas, author of Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences
  • Christine Böckmann, German numerical analyst, expert in atmospheric lidar
  • Graciela Boente, Argentine mathematical statistician known for her research in robust statistics
  • Sabine Bögli, Swiss mathematical analyst
  • Neda Bokan, Serbian differential geometer
  • Natashia Boland, Australian mathematician and operations researcher
  • Sylvie Boldo, French expert in formal verification of numerical computation
  • Aline Bonami, French mathematical analyst, president of the Société mathématique de France
  • Petra Bonfert-Taylor, German-American complex analyst and engineering educator
  • Virginie Bonnaillie-Noël, French numerical analyst
  • Alicia Boole Stott, Irish-English four-dimensional geometer
  • Mary Everest Boole, self-taught author of didactic works on mathematics
  • Kathleen Booth, British mathematician and pioneer of assembly language computer programming
  • Liliana Borcea, Romanian-American applied mathematician, expert on wave propagation
  • Valentina Borok, Soviet Ukrainian mathematician who studied partial differential equations
  • Celia Grillo Borromeo, Genovese mathematician and scientist, discovered Clélie curve
  • Liouba Bortniker, Russian-French mathematician, first woman agrégée in mathematics, first winner of Peccot prize
  • Fernanda Botelho, Portuguese-American functional analyst
  • Julia Böttcher, German graph theorist
  • Mary Michel Boulus, American Catholic nun, mathematics teacher, and college president
  • Ludmila Bourchtein, Soviet and Brazilian mathematical analyst and textbook author
  • Anne Bourlioux, Canadian expert in turbulent combustion and world record holder in indoor rowing
  • Élisabeth Bouscaren, French mathematician who studies the connections between algebraic geometry and model theory
  • Mireille Bousquet-Mélou, French combinatorialist
  • Anne Boutet de Monvel, French applied mathematician and mathematical physicist
  • Debra Boutin, American mathematician, expert on the symmetries of graphs
  • Sylvia Bozeman, African-American mathematician and academic administrator
  • Lis Brack-Bernsen, Danish and Swiss mathematician, historian of science, and historian of mathematics
  • Mary Bradburn, British mathematics educator, president of the Mathematical Association
  • Elizabeth Bradley, American expert in nonlinear dynamical systems, competed in 1988 Olympics
  • Lillian K. Bradley, first African-American woman to earn a doctorate in any subject at the University of Texas
  • Dorothy Brady, American mathematician and economist
  • Priscilla Braislin, first professor of mathematics at Vassar College
  • Leila Bram, head of mathematics for Office of Naval Research
  • Leticia Brambila Paz, Mexican algebraic geometer
  • Bodil Branner, founder of European Women in Mathematics, chair of the Danish Mathematical Society
  • Hel Braun, German number theorist
  • Elena Braverman, Russian, Israeli, and Canadian researcher in delay differential equations and difference equations
  • Loretta Braxton, American mathematician
  • Marilyn Breen, American geometer
  • Tara E. Brendle, American low-dimensional topologist and combinatorial group theorist
  • Susanne Brenner, expert in the numerical solution of differential equations
  • Sonja Brentjes, German historian of Islamic mathematics and cartography
  • Diane Briars, American mathematics educator, advocate for education reform, president of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
  • Kathrin Bringmann, German number theorist, expert on mock theta functions, winner of SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
  • Ruth Britto, American mathematical physicist
  • Jill Britton, 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, Canadian expert on interface dynamics, president of Canadian Mathematical Society
  • Margaret Brown, British mathematics educator
  • Susan Brown, English fluid mechanics researcher, possibly second female mathematics professor in UK
  • Marjorie Lee Browne, one of the first African-American women to receive a doctorate in mathematics
  • Laurence Broze, Belgian applied mathematician, statistician, and economist, president of l'association femmes et mathématiques
  • Karen Brucks, American mathematician, expert on one-dimensional dynamical systems
  • Maria Bruna, Spanish applied mathematician known for stochastic modelling of multiscale phenomena
  • Sophie Bryant, Anglo-Irish mathematician, educator, feminist and activist
  • Ranee Brylinski, 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, Italian specialist in numerical analysis for partial differential equations
  • Marta Bunge, Argentine-Canadian category theorist
  • Angelika Bunse-Gerstner, German expert on numerical linear algebra
  • Regina S. Burachik, Argentine-Australian researcher in convex analysis, functional analysis and non-smooth analysis
  • Almut Burchard, German-Canadian functional analyst, probability theorist, and communication network analyst
  • Marilyn Burns, American mathematics educator and author of children's books on mathematics
  • Ellen Burrell, American mathematician
  • Gail F. Burrill, American mathematics educator, president of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
  • Leone Burton, British researcher in ethnomathematics, founded book series on women in mathematics
  • Edith Bush, American mathematician, first female engineering professor at Tufts University
  • Ida Busbridge, studied integral equations and radiative transfer, first female mathematics fellow at Oxford
  • Marjorie V. Butcher, American actuarial mathematician, first woman mathematics instructor at Michigan, first woman professor at Trinity College Connecticut
  • Lynne Butler, American combinatorialist and mathematical statistician
  • Margaret K. Butler, computer programmer, director of the National Energy Software Center at Argonne
  • Helen Byrne, British applied mathematician and mathematical biologist

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  • Marie Fabianová, Czech PhD mathematician, teacher and school principal, first female to graduate with a PhD in math from Charles University
  • Cornelia Fabri, Italian mathematician, first woman to graduate in math from University of Pisa.
  • Vera Faddeeva, Russian expert on numerical linear algebra
  • Fariba Fahroo, Persian-American expert in pseudospectral optimal control, winner of AIAA Mechanics and Control of Flight Award
  • Barbara Trader Faires, American mathematician and textbook author, secretary of MAA
  • Bianca Falcidieno, Italian applied mathematician, pioneer of semantics-driven shape modeling
  • Etta Zuber Falconer, one of the first African-American women to receive a PhD in mathematics
  • Ruma Falk, 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, New Zealand applied mathematician, expert on rock deformation in mining
  • Barbara Fantechi, Italian algebraic geometer
  • Rosa María Farfán, Mexican researcher in social epistemology and mathematics education
  • Marie Farge, French mathematician and physicist known for her research on wavelets and turbulence in fluid mechanics
  • Fay Farnum, American mathematician, founding member of MAA
  • Mary Celine Fasenmyer, Catholic nun whose research on hypergeometric functions prefigured WZ theory
  • Heike Fassbender, German expert in numerical linear algebra, first woman to lead a German mathematical society
  • Lisa Fauci, American applied mathematician who applies computational fluid dynamics to biological processes
  • Patricia Fauring, Argentine mathematician, coach of the Argentine mathematical olympiad team
  • Odile Favaron, French graph theorist
  • Philippa Fawcett, English educationalist, first woman to obtain the top score in the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos
  • Anita Burdman Feferman, American historian of mathematics and mathematical biographer
  • Nina Fefferman, American mathematical biologist
  • Eva-Maria Feichtner, German algebraic geometer
  • Joan Feigenbaum, theoretical computer scientist, co-inventor of trust management
  • Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein, helped decipher Japanese Purple cryptography, worked on Venona counter-intelligence
  • Olivia Prosper Feldman, American applied mathematician, models the spread and dynamics of infectious diseases
  • Käte Fenchel, Jewish German researcher on non-abelian groups
  • Zhilan Feng, Chinese-American applied mathematician, mathematical biologist, and epidemiologist
  • Elizabeth Fennema, researched attitudes of young women towards mathematics and their classroom interactions
  • Anuška Ferligoj, Slovenian mathematical sociologist and researcher in network analysis
  • Begoña Fernández, Mexican probability theorist and expert in mathematical finance
  • Elena Fernández, Spanish operations researcher, president of Association of European Operational Research Societies
  • Marisa Fernández, Spanish differential geometer
  • Jacqueline Ferrand, French researcher on conformal representation theory, potential theory, and Riemannian manifolds
  • Daniela Ferrero, Uruguayan and American graph theorist
  • Antonia Ferrín Moreiras, Spanish mathematician and first Galician woman astronomer
  • Joan Ferrini-Mundy, American researcher in mathematics education
  • Soheyla Feyzbakhsh, Iranian-British mathematician whose research connects algebraic geometry to string theory
  • Judith V. Field, British historian of mathematics and art
  • Anna Fino, Italian differential geometer
  • Jessica Fintzen, German -adic representation theorist
  • Farideh Firoozbakht, Iranian number theorist
  • Ilse Fischer, Austrian combinatorialist
  • Irene Fischer, 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, American mathematician, author of books on difference equations and diophantine approximation
  • Sarah Flannery, winner of the EU Young Scientist of the Year Award for her teenage research on cryptography
  • Erica Flapan, American researcher in low-dimensional topology and knot theory
  • Jennifer Flegg, Australian applied mathematician
  • Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, German aerodynamics researcher, first female engineering professor at Stanford
  • Natasha Flyer, American earth scientist and applied mathematician, expert on radial basis functions
  • Anne Bosworth Focke, first mathematics professor at what is now University of Rhode Island; student of David Hilbert
  • Amanda Folsom, American number theorist
  • Irene Fonseca, Portuguese-American director of the Center for Nonlinear Analysis at Carnegie Mellon University
  • Liliana Forzani, Argentine applied mathematician and statistician, expert in dimensionality reduction
  • Urszula Alicja Foryś, Polish mathematical biologist and biomedical engineer
  • Phyllis Fox, American mathematician and computer scientist, collaborator on the first LISP interpreter
  • Marguerite Frank, French-American pioneer in convex optimization theory and mathematical programming
  • Megan Loef Franke, American educational psychologist, studies the development of mathematical thought in childhood
  • Johanna N. Y. Franklin, American expert on algorithmic randomness
  • Hélène Frankowska, Polish-French control theorist and set-valued analyst
  • Ailana Fraser, Canadian researcher on geometric analysis and the theory of minimal surfaces
  • Elena Freda, Italian mathematician, applied mathematical analysis to electromagnetics and biology
  • Haya Freedman, Israeli-British mathematician who studied the Tamari lattice and ring theory
  • Herta Freitag, Austrian-American expert on Fibonacci numbers
  • Nedda Friberti, Italian mathematician, refugee from Nazi-occupied Italy
  • Susan Friedlander, English-American researcher in fluid dynamics, first female editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of the AMS
  • Joyce Friedman, American mathematician, operations researcher, computer scientist, and computational linguist
  • Aline Huke Frink, American mathematician and professor
  • Charlotte Froese Fischer, Canadian-American expert on atomic-structure calculations who predicted negative calcium ions
  • Cleota Gage Fry, American mathematician, physicist and university professor
  • Hannah Fry, English complex systems theorist and public speaker
  • Shirley M. Frye, American mathematics educator, president of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
  • Elza Furtado Gomide, Brazilian mathematician, first female doctorate in mathematics at University of São Paulo
  • Cohl Furey, Canadian mathematical physicist
  • Fumiko Futamura, Japanese-American mathematician, expert on graphical perspective

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  • Lisl Gaal, Austrian-born American set theorist and Galois theorist
  • Isabelle Gallagher, French researcher in partial differential equations
  • Eva Gallardo, president of Spanish Mathematical Society
  • Irene M. Gamba, Argentine-American applied mathematician
  • Svetlana Gannushkina, Russian mathematician and human rights activist
  • Nina Gantert, Swiss and German probability theorist
  • Kseniya Garaschuk, Soviet-born Canadian mathematics educator, editor of Crux Mathematicorum
  • Pascale Garaud, French-American applied mathematician interested in fluid dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, and their applications to astrophysics
  • Yboon García Ramos, Peruvian mathematician focusing on mathematical optimization
  • Laura Gardini, Italian mathematician, applies chaotic dynamics to economics
  • Manuela Garín, Spanish-born pioneer of Mexican mathematics
  • Annie Marie Watkins Garraway, American mathematician who worked in telecommunications and electronic data transmission
  • Adriana Garroni, Italian mathematician, expert on modeling plasticity and fracture
  • Mary Cleophas Garvin, American mathematician
  • Élisabeth Gassiat, French mathematical statistician
  • Karin Gatermann, German mathematician, researcher in symbolic computation and dynamical systems
  • Geneviève Gauthier, Canadian financial mathematician, statistician, and decision scientist
  • Véronique Gayrard, French probability theorist
  • Mai Gehrke, Danish lattice theorist and mathematical logician
  • Hilda Geiringer, 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, American geometer
  • Sommer Gentry, American mathematician, applies dance notation to haptic interaction and operations research to organ transplants
  • Penka Georgieva, expert on enumerative geometry, symplectic topology, and Gromov–Witten invariants
  • Maria-Pia Geppert, German mathematician and biostatistician who founded the Biometrical Journal
  • Ralucca Gera, American graph theorist and mathematics educator
  • Teena Gerhardt, American algebraic geometer
  • Sophie Germain, French number theorist, physicist, and philosopher, correspondent of Gauss
  • Marie Gernet, first German woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics
  • Nadeschda Gernet, Russian mathematician, student of David Hilbert, worked in the calculus of variations
  • Judith Gersting, American mathematician, computer scientist, and textbook author
  • Ellen Gethner, American graph theorist
  • Patrizia Gianni, Italian expert in computer algebra
  • E. Glenadine Gibb, American mathematics education researcher, president of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
  • Danuta Gierulanka, Polish mathematics educator and philosopher of mathematics
  • Irène Gijbels, Belgian mathematical statistician and expert in nonparametric statistics
  • Olga Gil Medrano, Spanish geometric analyst, first female president of the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society
  • Anna C. Gilbert, American expert in streaming algorithms and matching pursuit
  • Jane Piore Gilman, topologist and group theorist, distinguished professor of mathematics at Rutgers University
  • Gloria Ford Gilmer, American ethnomathematician
  • Joella Gipson, American music educator and mathematics educator, first African-American student at Mt. St. Mary's College
  • Vivette Girault, French expert on numerical analysis, finite element methods, and computational fluid dynamics
  • E. G. Glagoleva, Soviet and Russian mathematician, mathematics educator, and textbook author
  • Josephine Burns Glasgow, American group theorist, active in American Association of University Women
  • Muriel Glauert, British mathematician and aerodynamicist
  • Sarah Glaz, Romanian-Israeli-American commutative algebraist and mathematical poet
  • Heide Gluesing-Luerssen, German mathematician specializing in algebraic coding theory
  • Julia Gog, English mathematical biologist, uses mathematics to study the spread of infectious diseases
  • Linda Gojak, American mathematics educator, president of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
  • Nüzhet Gökdoğan, Turkish astronomer and mathematician, founder of Turkish Mathematical Society
  • Bonnie Gold, 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, French number theorist and historian of mathematics
  • Gisèle Ruiz Goldstein, American expert in partial differential equations, operator theory, and mathematical finance
  • Susan Goldstine, American mathematician active in mathematics and fiber arts
  • Shafi Goldwasser, American-born Israeli theoretical cryptographer
  • Concha Gómez, Italian and Cuban-American mathematician and advocate for diversity in STEM
  • Patricia Gonçalves, Portuguese probability theorist
  • Sherry Gong, second American gold medal winner at International Mathematical Olympiad
  • Enriqueta González Baz, first woman to earn a mathematics degree in Mexico, founder of the Mexican Mathematical Society
  • Valentina Gorbachuk, Ukrainian operator theorist
  • Maria Gordina, Russian-American mathematical analyst
  • Carolyn S. Gordon, isospectral geometer who proved that you can't hear the shape of a drum
  • Julia Gordon, Canadian representation theorist, winner of Michler and Krieger–Nelson prizes
  • Pamela Gorkin, American complex analyst and textbook author
  • Sigal Gottlieb, American expert in numerical simulation of the partial differential equations used in aerodynamics
  • Aline Gouget, French cryptographer
  • Mary de Lellis Gough, American mathematician
  • Alice Bache Gould, American mathematician and historian
  • Gene Grabeel, American mathematician and cryptanalyst who founded the Venona project
  • Judith Grabiner, American historian of 18th- and 19th-century mathematics
  • Eva-Maria Graefe, German-English mathematical physicist, expert in ultracold atoms and Non-Hermitian quantum mechanics
  • Christine Graffigne, French expert on Markov random fields for image analysis
  • Maria Gramegna, Italian mathematician, pioneer of abstraction in functional analysis
  • Evelyn Boyd Granville, 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, American mathematician, first mathematical doctorate from Radcliffe College
  • Marion Cameron Gray, Scottish telephone engineer, discoverer of the Gray graph
  • Mary W. Gray, author on mathematics, mathematics education, economic equity, discrimination law, and academic freedom
  • Judy Green, logician and historian of women in mathematics
  • Anne Greenbaum, American expert in theoretical and numerical linear algebra
  • Catherine Greenhill, Australian graph theorist
  • Sarah J. Greenwald, American mathematician, studies connections between mathematics and society
  • Cindy Greenwood, Canadian statistician, winner of Krieger-Nelson Prize
  • Sina Greenwood, New Zealand topologist
  • Ruth Gregory, British mathematical physicist specializing in general relativity and cosmology
  • Margaret Greig, English applied mathematician, developed theory for worsted spinning
  • Harriet Griffin, American mathematician, author of a textbook on number theory
  • Lois Wilfred Griffiths, American expert on polygonal numbers
  • Laura Grigori, French applied mathematician, known for communication-avoiding algorithms for numerical linear algebra
  • Ellina Grigorieva, Russian expert on mathematical problem solving
  • Elisenda Grigsby, American low-dimensional topologist
  • Clara Grima, Spanish computational geometer, co-discoverer of scutoids, mathematics popularizer
  • Margaret Grimshaw, English mathematician at Cambridge and author on Hilbert spaces
  • Birgit Grodal, Danish mathematical economist, studied atomless economies
  • Ione Grogan, American schoolteacher, mathematics professor, and literary club leader
  • Edna Grossman, German-born American designer of the Data Encryption Standard and of the slide attack in cryptography
  • Marcia Groszek, American mathematician whose research concerns mathematical logic, set theory, forcing, and recursion theory
  • Gerd Grubb, 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, Argentine mathematician, founder of Argentine Calculation Society
  • Christine Guenther, American expert on the Ricci flow
  • Laura Guggenbühl, 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, Ivorian mathematician
  • Alice Guionnet, French probability theorist
  • Geneviève Guitel, French mathematician who studied natural-language numbering systems
  • Xin Guo, Chinese and American operations researcher, applied mathematician, and financial engineer
  • Kanta Gupta, Indian-Canadian researcher on abstract algebra and group theory
  • Neena Gupta, Indian mathematician who solved the Zariski cancellation problem
  • Rona Gurkewitz, American mathematician and computer scientist known for her work on modular origami
  • Margaret Gurney, American mathematician, survey statistician, and pioneering computer programmer
  • Rochelle Gutierrez, American education theorist who studies the impacts of race, class and language on mathematics education
  • Simone Gutt, Belgian differential geometer
  • Martha Guzmán Partida, Mexican functional analyst

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  • Ruth Haas, American mathematician known for mentorship of other women mathematicians
  • Violet B. Haas, American control theorist
  • Naomi Habib, Israeli computational neuroscientist who researches genomics and genome engineering
  • Olga Hadžić, Serbian expert on fixed-point theorems
  • Dörte Haftendorn, German mathematician, mathematics educator, and textbook author
  • Kari Hag, Norwegian expert on quasiconformal mappings
  • Elisabeth Hagemann, early German female doctorate in mathematics
  • Marjorie Hahn, American probability theorist and tennis player
  • Deborah Tepper Haimo, Ukrainian-Palestinian-American classical analyst, third female president of the Mathematical Association of America
  • Susie W. Håkansson, mathematics educator, director of the California Mathematics Project
  • Ursula Hamenstädt, German differential geometry
  • Christine Hamill, English mathematician specializing in group theory and finite geometry
  • Mary-Elizabeth Hamstrom, American topologist
  • Xiaoying Han, Chinese mathematician who studies random dynamical systems and stochastic differential equations
  • Gila Hanna, Canadian mathematics educator and philosopher of mathematics
  • Anita Hansbo, Swedish mathematician, rector of Jönköping University
  • Megumi Harada, Canadian expert on equivariant symplectic and algebraic geometry
  • Eleonor Harboure, first woman president of the Argentina Mathematical Union
  • Alison Harcourt, Australian mathematician and statistician known for branch and bound algorithms and quantification of poverty in Australia
  • Frances Hardcastle, group theorist, one of the founders of the American Mathematical Society
  • Kathryn E. Hare, Canadian expert in harmonic analysis
  • Valentina Harizanov, Serbian-American researcher in computability and model theory
  • Dorothee Haroske, German expert on function spaces
  • Heather Harrington, applied mathematician and algebraic systems biologist
  • Leona Harris, American mathematician and diversity activist
  • Pamela E. Harris, Mexican combinatorist and mathematics blogger
  • Jenny Harrison, American expert on generalized functions and minimal surfaces
  • Frances Harshbarger, one of the first female American mathematicians to receive a doctorate
  • Bertha Hart, American mathematician
  • Sarah B. Hart, British group theorist
  • Shelly Harvey, American researcher in knot theory, low-dimensional topology, and group theory
  • Mary Gertrude Haseman, American knot theorist
  • Asma Hassannezhad, Iranian spectral geometer
  • Maria Hasse, German graph theorist, set theorist, and category theorist, first female professor in science at TU Dresden
  • Rhonda Hatcher, American number theorist, winner of Haimo teaching award
  • Deanna Haunsperger, American mathematician, former president of the Mathematical Association of America
  • Jane M. Hawkins, American researcher in dynamic systems, complex dynamics, cellular automata, and Julia sets
  • Louise Hay, founding member of the Association for Women in Mathematics
  • Linda B. Hayden, African-American mathematics educator and mathematical geoscientist known for mentorship of women and minorities
  • Ellen Hayes, American mathematician, astronomer, and political radical
  • Margaret Hayman, British mathematics educator, co-founder of British Mathematical Olympiad
  • Euphemia Lofton Haynes, first African-American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics
  • Nola Anderson Haynes, American mathematician, professor
  • Sarah D. Allen Oren Haynes, first female state librarian of Indiana and first female faculty member at Purdue University
  • Teresa W. Haynes, American expert on domination in graphs
  • Emilie Virginia Haynsworth, American linear algebraist known for Schur complements and Haynsworth inertia additivity formula
  • Olive Hazlett, American algebraist at the University of Illinois
  • Sandra Mitchell Hedetniemi, American researcher in graph theory and graph algorithms
  • Maria Heep-Altiner, German mathematician and actuary
  • Jane Heffernan, Canadian mathematician who studies mathematical models for the spread of infectious disease
  • Katherine Heinrich, 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, American cryptographer, computer security expert, and computational number theorist
  • Cora Barbara Hennel, American mathematician, first woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics at the Indiana University
  • Dagmar R. Henney, German-American expert on additive set-values and Banach spaces
  • Inge Henningsen, statistician, writer and feminist
  • Allison Henrich, American knot theorist
  • Shandelle Henson, American mathematician and mathematical biologist, expert on population dynamics
  • Rebecca A. Herb, American researcher in abstract algebra and Lie groups
  • Raphaèle Herbin, French expert on the finite volume method
  • Grete Hermann, German mathematician and philosopher also noted for her work in physics and education
  • Susan Hermiller, American group theorist
  • Norma Hernández, American mathematics educator, studied factors affecting Mexican-American mathematics students
  • Constance Anne Herschel, British lecturer in natural sciences and mathematics
  • Patricia Hersh, American expert on algebraic and topological combinatorics
  • Bobby Hersom, British mathematician and computer scientist
  • Kathryn Hess, American mathematician who uses algebraic topology to understand structures in neurology and materials science
  • Silvia Heubach, German-American mathematician specializing in enumerative combinatorics, combinatorial game theory, and bioinformatics
  • Gloria Conyers Hewitt, early African-American female mathematics PhD, MAA governor
  • Laurie Heyer, American mathematician specializing in genomics and bioinformatics
  • Patricia Hiddleston, Scottish and Rhodesian mathematician
  • Aparna Higgins, Indian-American graph theorist known for encouraging undergraduate research
  • Raegan Higgins, American mathematician, co-director of the EDGE program for Women
  • Poh Wah Hillock, Singaporean and Australian mathematician, Australian University Teacher of the Year
  • Nancy Hingston, American differential geometer
  • Wei Ho, American arithmetic geometer
  • Hoàng Xuân Sính, first female Vietnamese mathematician, student of Grothendieck, founder of Thang Long University
  • Catherine Hobbs, British singularity theorist, applies geometry to robotics
  • Dorit S. Hochbaum, American expert on approximation algorithms for facility location, covering and packing, and scheduling
  • Marlis Hochbruck, German expert on matrix exponentials and their applications to differential equations
  • Angie Hodge-Zickerman, American mathematics educator and ultramarathon runner
  • Maria Hoffmann-Ostenhof, Austrian expert on the Schrödinger equation
  • Leslie Hogben, American mathematician specializing in graph theory and linear algebra, known for graduate mentorship
  • Nina Holden, Norwegian probability theorist
  • Judy A. Holdener, American number theorist who simplified the proof of Touchard's theorem on perfect numbers
  • Barbara R. Holland, New Zealand born Australian phylogeneticist
  • Lotte Hollands, Dutch mathematical physicist
  • Tara S. Holm, American algebraic geometer and symplectic geometer
  • Olga Holtz, Russian numerical analyst, winner of the European Mathematical Society Prize
  • Betty W. Holz, American mathematician and defense analyst
  • Jennifer Hom, American low-dimensional topologist
  • Dorothy McFadden Hoover, American human computer involved in the design of swept-wing aircraft
  • Grace Hopper, American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral
  • Eleanor Mollie Horadam, English-Australian mathematician, studied generalized integers, mother of Kathy
  • Kathy Horadam, Australian mathematician, studies Hadamard matrices, daughter of Eleanor Mollie
  • Annick Horiuchi, French historian of Japanese mathematics
  • Anette Hosoi, American mechanical engineer, biophysicist, and mathematician, studies fluid dynamics, robotics, and bio-inspired design
  • Victoria Howle, American expert in numerical linear algebra, founded AWM essay contest
  • Susan Howson, British mathematician known for work on algebraic number theory and arithmetic geometry
  • Rebecca Hoyle, British applied mathematician, expert on pattern formation
  • Celia Hoyles, 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, differential geometer, president of Shanghai Mathematical Society, member of Chinese Academy of Science
  • Lan-Hsuan Huang, Taiwanese-American geometric analyst and relativity theorist
  • Katharina T. Huber, German mathematical biologist, expert in the foundations and visualization of phylogeny
  • Verena Huber-Dyson, Swiss-American group theorist and logician, expert on undecidability in group theory
  • Annette Huber-Klawitter, German algebraic geometer, expert in the Bloch–Kato conjectures
  • Vera Huckel, American human computer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
  • Anne Lester Hudson, American expert in topological semigroups, mathematics educator, and mathematics competition coach
  • Hilda Phoebe Hudson, English researcher on Cremona transformations in algebraic geometry
  • Sabine Van Huffel, Belgian applied mathematician, expert on total least squares and applications to medical diagnostics
  • Rhonda Hughes, American wavelet researcher, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics
  • Deborah Hughes Hallett, mathematics education reformer
  • Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann, German-American representation theorist and ring theorist
  • Dominique Hulin, French differential geometer
  • Mabel Gweneth Humphreys, Canadian-American number theorist and namesake of the M. Gweneth Humphreys Award
  • Eugénie Hunsicker, American mathematician who works at the intersection of analysis, geometry and topology
  • Fern Hunt, American mathematician known for her work in applied mathematics and mathematical biology
  • Bobbie Hunter, New Zealand educational theorist and mathematics educator
  • Cynthia Huffman, American commutative algebraist, historian of mathematics, and ethnomathematician
  • Louise Stokes Hunter, American mathematics educator, first African-American woman with a degree from the University of Virginia
  • Joan Hutchinson, American graph theorist who extended the planar separator theorem to graphs of higher genus
  • Marie Hušková, Czech mathematician who worked in theoretical statistics and change-point problems
  • Hypatia, head of the Neoplatonic school at Alexandria, murdered by a Christian mob

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  • Milagros D. Ibe, Filipino mathematics educator, vice chancellor of the University of the Philippines Diliman
  • Rosalie Iemhoff, Dutch logician
  • Mihaela Ignatova, Bulgarian mathematical analyst
  • Marina Iliopoulou, Greek harmonic analyst and discrete geometer
  • Annette Imhausen, German historian of ancient Egyptian mathematics
  • Helen Infeld, American-born mathematics professor who fled to Poland because of McCarthyism
  • Tasha Inniss, first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, director of education for INFORMS
  • Eleny Ionel, Romanian-American symplectic geometer
  • Alessandra Iozzi, Italian-American-Swiss geometric group theorist
  • Ilse Ipsen, German-American expert in numerical linear algebra
  • Valerie Isham, British applied probabilist, president of Royal Statistical Society
  • Shihoko Ishii, Japanese mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry
  • Vanaja Iyengar, founding vice chancellor of Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam, a women's university in Andhra Pradesh, India

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  • Trachette Jackson, researcher in mathematical oncology, second African-American woman to become a Sloan Fellow in mathematics
  • Jessie Marie Jacobs, 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, French historian of Chinese mathematics
  • Jeannette Janssen, Dutch and Canadian graph theorist
  • Maarit Järvenpää, Finnish mathematician specializing in fractal geometry, geometric measure theory, and dynamical systems
  • Monique Jeanblanc, French financial mathematician
  • Lisa Jeffrey FRSC, Canadian expert in symplectic geometry and quantum field theory
  • Erica Jen, American applied mathematician, studies mathematical analysis of chaotic and complex behavior
  • Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins, Canadian philosopher of mathematics
  • Jacqueline Jensen-Vallin, American low-dimensional topologist, editor of MAA FOCUS
  • Svetlana Jitomirskaya, 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, 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
  • Roberta Frances Johnson, American mathematics educator
  • Antonia J. Jones, British mathematician and computer scientist
  • Eleanor Jones, one of the first African American women to receive a PhD in mathematics
  • Shelly M. Jones, American mathematics educator
  • Nataša Jonoska, Macedonian-American expert in DNA computing
  • Kerstin Jordaan, president of South African Mathematical Society
  • Artishia Wilkerson Jordan, African-American mathematics educator and clubwoman
  • Nicole M. Joseph, American scholar of mathematics education focusing on the experiences of African-American women and girls in mathematics
  • 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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  • Josephine Wairimu Kagunda, Kenyan applied mathematician and epidemiologist
  • Margarethe Kahn, one of the first female German doctorates, contributed to Hilbert's sixteenth problem
  • Suzan Kahramaner, one of the first female mathematicians in Turkish academia
  • Delaram Kahrobaei, Iranian-American applied algebraist and post-quantum cryptographer
  • 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, German quantum logician
  • Anne-Sophie Kaloghiros, French algebraic geometer
  • Barbara Kaltenbacher, Austrian applied analyst, president of Austrian Mathematical Society
  • Hermine Agavni Kalustyan, Armenian-Turkish mathematician and politician
  • Constance Kamii, Swiss-Japanese-American mathematics education scholar and psychologist
  • Shoshana Kamin, Soviet-Israeli mathematical physicist, wrote about parabolic partial differential equations
  • Rosella Kanarik, American mathematics professor and educator
  • Mihyun Kang, South Korean graph theorist
  • Chiu-Yen Kao, Taiwanese-American expert in image processing and mathematical biology
  • Gizem Karaali, Turkish representation theorist, founding editor of Journal of Humanistic Mathematics
  • Mary Cordia Karl, American geometer
  • Carol Karp, American researcher on infinitary logic, viola player
  • Yael Karshon, Israeli-Canadian expert on symplectic geometry
  • Elaine Kasimatis, American discrete geometer and mathematics educator
  • Haya Kaspi, Israeli probability theorist
  • Fanny Kassel, French expert on Lie groups
  • Svetlana Katok, Russian-American founder of Electronic Research Announcements of the AMS
  • Yoshie Katsurada, Japanese differential geometer, first Japanese woman with a doctorate or professorship in mathematics
  • Bruria Kaufman, 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, Iranian-American mathematics educator
  • Ailsa Keating, French-British symplectic geometer
  • Rinat Kedem, American mathematician and mathematical physicist
  • Linda Keen, American mathematician and computer scientist, president of AWM
  • Lyudmila Keldysh, Russian set theorist and geometric topologist
  • Ruth Kellerhals, Swiss expert on hyperbolic geometry, geometric group theory and polylogarithm identities
  • Christine Kelley, American coding theorist, director of Project NExT
  • Julia Kempe, French, German, and Israeli researcher in quantum computing
  • Claribel Kendall, one of the founders of the Rocky Mountain Section of the MAA
  • Juliette Kennedy, mathematical logician in Finland
  • Patricia Clark Kenschaft, American mathematician, prolific book author, and activist for equity and diversity
  • Autumn Kent, American mathematician specializing in topology and geometry, promoter of transgender rights
  • Deborah Kent, American historian of mathematics
  • 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
  • Jennifer Key, South African mathematician, expert on group theory, finite geometry, combinatorial designs, and coding theory
  • Barbara Keyfitz, 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, Lesotho mathematician, senator, and finance minister
  • Olga Kharlampovich, Russian-Canadian group theorist who solved the Tarski conjecture on first-order theories of free groups
  • Carolyn Kieran, Canadian mathematics educator
  • Anna Kiesenhofer, Austrian cyclist and mathematical physicist
  • Misha Kilmer, American applied mathematician known for research in numerical linear algebra and scientific computing
  • Eun Jung Kim, South Korean researcher in parameterized complexity and graph width
  • Ju-Lee Kim, Korean-American expert on the representation theory of p-adic groups
  • Chawne Kimber, African-American mathematician and quilter, incorporates social justice into mathematics teaching
  • Amy C. King, American mathematics educator
  • Angie Turner King, American mathematics and chemistry educator
  • Karen D. King, African-American mathematics educator and Falconer Lecturer
  • L. Christine Kinsey, American topologist and textbook author
  • Faina Mihajlovna Kirillova, 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, 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, German expert on combinatorial optimization and facility location
  • Erica Klarreich, American geometer and writer
  • Maria Klawe, Canadian-American theoretical computer scientist, president of Harvey Mudd College
  • Caroline Klivans, American algebraic combinatorist, expert on chip-firing games
  • Małgorzata Klimek, Polish mathematician, expert on fractional calculus
  • Genevieve M. Knight, African-American mathematics educator
  • Julia F. Knight, American specialist in model theory and computability theory
  • Sarah Koch, American complex analyst and complex dynamicist
  • Henna Koivusalo, Finnish expert on dynamical systems, fractal geometry, and quasicrystals
  • Eleanor Krawitz Kolchin, 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, American researcher in the dynamics of the nervous system
  • Elaine Koppelman, American mathematician
  • Maria Korovina, Russian research on functional spaces and differential equations
  • Marianne Korten, Argentine-German mathematician specializing in partial differential equations
  • Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach, French differential geometer, namesake of the Kosmann lift
  • Ekaterina Kostina, Belarusian-German expert on nonlinear optimization
  • Motoko Kotani, Japanese discrete geometric analyst and academic administrator
  • Sofya Kovalevskaya, first major Russian female mathematician, worked in analysis, differential equations and mechanics
  • Bryna Kra, American mathematician who applies dynamical systems in number theory and combinatorics
  • Edna Kramer, American mathematician and author of mathematics books
  • Gunilla Kreiss, Swedish numerical analyst
  • Cecilia Krieger, third person and first woman to earn a Canadian mathematics PhD, translator of Sierpiński
  • Holly Krieger, American dynamical systems theorist
  • Anna Zofia Krygowska, Polish mathematician known for her work in mathematics education
  • Ewa Kubicka, Polish-American graph theorist and actuarial scientist
  • Vera Kublanovskaya, Russian inventor of the QR algorithm for computing eigenvalues and eigenvectors
  • Daniela Kühn, German-English combinatorialist, expert on infinite graphs, winner of the Whitehead Prize
  • Radhika Kulkarni, Indian-American operations researcher, president of INFORMS
  • Angela Kunoth, German numerical analyst
  • Frances Kuo, Taiwanese-Australian applied mathematician, expert on quasi-Monte Carlo methods
  • Krystyna Kuperberg, Polish-American topologist who found a smooth counterexample to the Seifert conjecture
  • Věra Kůrková, Czech expert in neural networks and approximation theory
  • Rachel Kuske, American-Canadian expert on stochastic and nonlinear dynamics, asymptotic methods, and industrial mathematics
  • Klavdija Kutnar, Slovenian algebraic graph theorist and academic administrator
  • Gitta Kutyniok, German researcher in harmonic analysis, compressed sensing, and image processing

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  • Izabella Łaba, 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, American psychologist, logician, and mathematician
  • Jeanne LaDuke, American child actress, mathematical analyst, and historian of mathematics
  • Olga Ladyzhenskaya, Soviet mathematician, proved convergence of a finite difference method for Navier–Stokes
  • Yvonne Lai, American scholar of mathematics education
  • V. Lakshmibai, Indian-American expert on flag varieties and Schubert varieties
  • Matilde Lalín, Argentine-Canadian number theorist, expert on L-functions and Mahler measure
  • Lam Lay Yong, Singaporean historian of mathematics, claimed Chinese origin for Hindu-Arabic numerals
  • Ailsa Land, British operations researcher known for developing branch and bound algorithms
  • Susan Landau, American mathematician and computer scientist, known for internet security and denesting radicals
  • Mary Landers, 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, American college basketball star and expert on ranking systems
  • Loredana Lanzani, Italian-American harmonic analyst
  • Glenda Lappan, developed Connected Mathematics curriculum, led National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
  • Ruth Lara, Portuguese-Angolan educator, mathematician, translator, and activist, briefly first lady of Angola
  • Gillie Larew, 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, Swedish researcher in scientific computing
  • Joan Lasenby, British applied mathematician, expert on geometric algebra
  • Irena Lasiecka, Polish-American expert in control theory of partial differential equations
  • Renu C. Laskar, Indian-American graph theorist, specialist in domination numbers and circular arc graphs
  • Klavdiya Latysheva, Soviet mathematician, contributed to differential equations, electrodynamics and probability
  • Monique Laurent, French-Dutch expert in mathematical optimization
  • Kristin Lauter, American researcher in elliptic curve cryptography, president of AWM
  • Anna Lawniczak, Polish-Canadian applied mathematician and cellular automatist
  • Emille D. Lawrence, American topological graph theorist
  • Ruth Lawrence, child prodigy, British-Israeli researcher in knot theory and algebraic topology
  • Snezana Lawrence, Yugoslav and British historian of mathematics
  • Anneli Cahn Lax, 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, Vietnamese mathematician, vice rector for Science at Thái Nguyên University, won Kovalevskaya Prize
  • Alice Lee, helped discredit craniology
  • Heisook Lee, South Korean algebraist and algebraic coding theorist
  • Hollylynne Lee, American mathematics and statistics educator
  • Lee Hyang-sook, South Korean mathematician, president of Ewha Womans University
  • Joceline Lega, French applied mathematician interested in nonlinear dynamics
  • Anne M. Leggett, American mathematical logician, editor of AWM Newsletter
  • Emma Lehmer, Russian-American mathematician known for work on reciprocity laws in algebraic number theory
  • Marguerite Lehr, pioneer in the use of television to teach mathematics
  • Tanya Leise, American biomathematician, expert in circadian rhythms
  • Joan Leitzel, American mathematics educator and university administrator
  • Miriam Leiva, Cuban-American mathematics educator
  • Anne Lemaître, Belgian applied mathematician, expert on orbital resonance and space debris
  • Mary Leng, British philosopher of mathematics
  • Frédérique Lenger, Belgian mathematics educator and leader of the New Math movement
  • Suzanne Lenhart, American researcher in partial differential equations, president of AWM
  • Ulrike Leopold-Wildburger, Austrian mathematical economist, applied mathematician, and operations researcher
  • Katrin Leschke, German differential geometer, quaternionic analyst, and minimal surface theorist
  • Nandi Olive Leslie, American industrial mathematician
  • Gail Letzter, American quantum group representation theorist and intelligence agency executive
  • Annie Leuch-Reineck, Swiss mathematician and women's rights activist
  • Debbie Leung, Canadian expert in quantum communications
  • Rachel Levy, American applied mathematician, mathematics educator, and blogger
  • Sophia Levy, American astronomer, numerical analyst, and mathematics educator
  • Marta Lewicka, Polish expert in nonlinear elasticity
  • Florence Lewis, American mathematician and astronomer
  • Marie Lhuissier, French mathematical storyteller and children's book author
  • Fengyan Li, Chinese and American applied mathematician specializing in computational magnetohydrodynamics
  • Jing-Rebecca Li, applied mathematician in France, studies magnetic resonance imaging and Lyapunov equations
  • Na Li, Chinese-American electrical engineer, applied mathematician, and control theorist
  • Sherry Li, Chinese-American developer of sparse parallel solvers for systems of linear equations
  • Winnie Li, Chinese-American researcher in number theory, coding theory, automorphic forms, and spectral graph theory
  • Paulette Libermann, French specialist in differential geometry
  • Pamela Liebeck, British mathematician and mathematics educator
  • Lillian Rosanoff Lieber, American mathematics professor and author of popular books on science and mathematics
  • Magnhild Lien, Norwegian mathematician specializing in knot theory
  • Ewa Ligocka, Polish mathematical analyst and political activist
  • Nelly Litvak, Russian and Dutch complex network theorist
  • Elizaveta Litvinova, Russian mathematician and biographer, defied czar's order forbidding women to study abroad
  • Bonnie Litwiller, American mathematics educator and textbook author
  • Marie Litzinger, American number theorist
  • Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu, Taiwanese-American researcher in algebraic geometry and symplectic geometry
  • Naomi Livesay, human computer and mechanical calculator programmer for the Manhattan Project
  • Klara Löbenstein, German researcher in algebraic geometry
  • Patti Frazer Lock, American mathematics and statistics educator and textbook author
  • Deborah Frank Lockhart, administrator at the National Science Foundation
  • Susan Loepp, American algebraist and cryptographer
  • Marina Logares, Spanish geometer and LGBT+ activist
  • Mayme Logsdon, American algebraic geometer and mathematics educator
  • Louise Zung-nyi Loh, 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, Italian mathematical physicist and high school teacher
  • Maria Longobardi, Italian mathematical statistician, expert in entropy and extropy
  • Judith Q. Longyear, American researcher in graph theory and combinatorics
  • Maria Laura Moura Mouzinho Leite Lopes, first Brazilian woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics
  • 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, wrote the first computer program as part of her work on Babbage's Analytical Engine
  • María Teresa Lozano Imízcoz, Spanish low-dimensional topologist
  • Sylvia Chin-Pi Lu, Chinese-American commutative algebraist
  • Katarzyna Lubnauer, Polish probability theorist and politician
  • Edith Hirsch Luchins, Polish-American mathematician, experimented on psychology of mathematical problem solving
  • Maria Silvia Lucido, Italian mathematician, expert on the prime graphs of finite groups
  • Malwina Łuczak, Polish-Australian probability theorist
  • Monika Ludwig, Austrian researcher in convex geometry, member of Austrian Academy of Sciences
  • Alessandra Lunardi, Italian mathematical analyst
  • Xiaoyu Luo, Chinese and British applied mathematician, applies fluid dynamics and biomechanics to soft tissues
  • Élisabeth Lutz, French student of Weil, showed how to compute torsion subgroups of elliptic curves
  • Julie Lutz, American astronomer and mathematician who studies planetary nebulae and symbiotic binary stars
  • Sonja Lyttkens, Swedish mathematician, first Swedish woman to obtain a permanent academic position in mathematics

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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, American expert in nonlinear Fourier analysis, harmonic analysis, and partial differential equations
  • Pia Nalli, 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
  • Tamilla Nasirova, Azerbaijani probability theorist
  • Sonia Natale, Argentine expert in abstract algebra
  • Caryn Navy, 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, German researcher on sphere packings, lattices, and codes
  • Deanna Needell, American applied mathematician, won 2016 IMA Prize in Mathematics and Applications
  • Sara Negri, Italian-Finnish proof theorist
  • Evelyn Nelson, Canadian researcher in universal algebra with applications to theoretical computer science
  • Gail S. Nelson, 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, German-American mathematical biologist whose research concerns spatial ecology
  • Hanna Neumann, German-born mathematician who worked on group theory
  • Adriana Neumann de Oliveira, Brazilian expert in interacting particle systems
  • Robin Neumayer, American mathematician whose research connects the calculus of variations, partial differential equations, and geometric analysis
  • Mara Neusel, German-American invariant theorist and advocate for women in mathematics
  • Monica Nevins, Canadian algebraist
  • Virginia Newell, American mathematics educator, author, politician, and centenarian
  • Mary Frances Winston Newson, first female American to receive a PhD in mathematics from a European university
  • Sylvia de Neymet, First Mexican woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics in Mexico
  • Purity Ngina, Kenyan biomathematician
  • Giang Nguyen, Vietnamese-Australian applied mathematician and chess master
  • Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin, 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, British developer of the Crank–Nicolson method for solving partial differential equations
  • Barbara Niethammer, German expert on the growth of particles in liquids
  • Sofía Nieto, Spanish mathematician and actress
  • Nilima Nigam, Indian-Canadian applied mathematician and mathematical physiologist
  • Stanisława Nikodym, first Polish woman to earn PhD in mathematics, known for research in continuum theory
  • Mila Nikolova, Bulgarian researcher in image processing, inverse problems, and compressed sensing
  • Kumiko Nishioka, Japanese specialist on transcendental numbers and Mahler functions
  • Wiesława Nizioł, Polish researcher in arithmetic algebraic geometry
  • Emmy Noether, 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
  • M. Helena Noronha, Brazilian-American mathematics educator, mentor, and textbook author
  • Anne van den Nouweland, Dutch-American cooperative game theorist
  • Isabella Novik, Israeli-American expert on algebraic and geometric combinatorics
  • Frieda Nugel, 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, Finnish cryptographer

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  • Ietje Paalman-de Miranda, Surinamese–Dutch mathematician, first female mathematics professor at University of Amsterdam
  • Harriet Padberg, mathematician, music therapist, and pioneer of algorithmic music composition
  • Mariolina Padula, Italian expert on fluid dynamics
  • Christina Pagel, British German operations researcher, applies data analysis and mathematical modelling to health care
  • Eleanor Pairman, Scottish mathematician, developed methods to teach mathematics to blind students
  • Ilona Palásti, Hungarian researcher in discrete geometry, geometric probability, and random graphs
  • Pandrosion, ancient Greek mathematician predating Hypatia, developed an approximation for cube roots
  • Erika Pannwitz, 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, Bulgarian-American algebraic combinatorist
  • Theoni Pappas, American mathematics teacher and author of books on popular mathematics
  • Raman Parimala, Indian mathematician known for her contributions to algebra
  • Clare Parnell, 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, South Korean combinatorist
  • Karen Parshall, American historian of mathematics
  • Griselda Pascual, Spanish algebraic number theorist and mathematics translator
  • Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, Polish-American control theorist and mathematics educator
  • Maria Pastori, Italian mathematician, specialist in rational mechanics
  • Christine Paulin-Mohring, French mathematical logician and computer scientist, developer of Coq theorem prover
  • Barbara Paulson, American human computer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  • Nataša Pavlović, Serbian–American expert in fluid dynamics and nonlinear dispersive equations
  • Sylvie Paycha, French mathematician working in operator theory
  • Sandrine Péché, French expert on random matrices
  • Jean Pedersen, American mathematician and author, expert on mathematical paper folding
  • M. Cristina Pedicchio, Italian category theorist and academic administrator
  • Irena Peeva, American researcher in commutative algebra and its applications
  • Jeanne Peiffer, Luxembourgian historian of mathematics
  • Leona May Peirce 1863–1954), American mathematician and educator
  • Magda Peligrad, Romanian probability theorist known for her work on stochastic processes
  • Beatrice Pelloni, Italian expert on partial differential equations
  • Rose Peltesohn, 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, sixth American woman to receive a doctorate in mathematics
  • Cristina Pereyra, Venezuelan mathematician, author of several books on wavelets and harmonic analysis
  • Hazel Perfect, British combinatorialist, author, and translator, inventor of gammoids
  • Teri Perl, American mathematics educator, educational software designer, and author
  • Bernadette Perrin-Riou, French number theorist, winner of the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize
  • Mary Perry Smith, American mathematics educator, founder of MESA program for under-privileged students
  • Karoline Pershell, American mathematician and roboticist
  • Laura Person, American low-dimensional topologist
  • Ilaria Perugia, Italian applied mathematician and numerical analyst
  • Adriana Pesci, Argentine fluid dynamicist, expert on flagellar motion, soap films, and the Leidenfrost effect
  • Małgorzata Peszyńska, Polish-American applied mathematician, models geological flow in porous media
  • Rózsa Péter, recursion theorist, first woman elected to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • Stefanie Petermichl, German-French mathematical analyst, first female winner of the Salem Prize
  • Louise Petrén-Overton, first Swedish woman with a doctorate in mathematics
  • Guergana Petrova, Bulgarian applied mathematician, uses numerical methods to solve differential equations
  • Sonja Petrović, American mathematical statistician
  • Linda Petzold, researcher in differential algebraic equations and simulation, member of National Academy of Engineering
  • Julia Pevtsova, Russian-American representation theorist
  • Mamokgethi Phakeng, first black female South African to earn a PhD in mathematics education
  • Flora Philip, first female member of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society
  • Cynthia A. Phillips, American expert on combinatorial optimization
  • Dominique Picard, French expert on the statistical applications of wavelets
  • Sophie Piccard, Russian-Swiss mathematician, first female full professor in Switzerland
  • Lisa Piccirillo, American low-dimensional topologist
  • Ragni Piene, 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, Austrian pioneer in switching algebra
  • Marie Anne Victoire Pigeon, French mathematician, writer, and teacher
  • Faustina Pignatelli, princess of Colubrano, second woman elected to the Academy of Sciences of Bologna
  • Gabriella Pinzari, Italian expert on the -body problem
  • Jill Pipher, researcher in harmonic analysis, Fourier analysis, differential equations, and cryptography, president of AWM
  • Laura Pisati, Italian mathematician, first woman invited to speak at International Congress of Mathematicians
  • Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian philosopher, musician, and mathematics lecturer, first woman to earn a doctorate
  • Toniann Pitassi, American-Canadian computational complexity theorist, expert on proof complexity
  • Shirley Pledger, New Zealand mathematician and statistician known for her work on mark and recapture methods
  • Vera Pless, American mathematician specializing in combinatorics and coding theory
  • Kim Plofker, 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, Lie theorist who has applied difference sets to error correcting codes and coding theory
  • Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina, Soviet researcher in fluid mechanics, hydrodynamics, and history of mathematics
  • Clarice Poon, British applied mathematician, expert in optimization for image processing and machine learning
  • Elena Moldovan Popoviciu, Romanian functional analyst
  • Freda Porter, American applied mathematician, groundwater consultant, and Native American leader
  • Claire Postlethwaite, New Zealand dynamical systems theorist
  • Yvonne Pothier, Canadian mathematics educator, Catholic nun, and activist for refugees
  • Marian Pour-El, American mathematical logician and computable analyst
  • Victoria Powers, American real algebraic geometer and social choice theorist
  • Maria Assunta Pozio, Italian expert on partial differential equations
  • Claire Prada, French applied mathematician, expert on time-reversed acoustics
  • Cheryl Praeger, Australian researcher in group theory, algebraic graph theory and combinatorial designs
  • Malabika Pramanik, Indian-Canadian harmonic analyst
  • Norma Presmeg, South African and American mathematics education researcher
  • Eleanor C. Pressly, American mathematician and sounding rocket engineer
  • Emma Previato, 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
  • Elena Prieto-Rodriguez, Spanish and Australian mathematician, theoretical computer scientist, and mathematics educator
  • Michela Procesi, Italian expert in Hamiltonian partial differential equations
  • Dorette Pronk, Dutch and Canadian category theorist and mathematics contest leader
  • Christine Proust, French expert on Babylonian mathematics
  • Mileva Prvanović, Serbian differential geometer, first to earn a doctorate in geometry in Serbia
  • Danuta Przeworska-Rolewicz, Polish mathematician and resistance fighter in World War II
  • Mary Pugh, American-Canadian expert on thin films
  • Amber L. Puha, American probability theorist
  • Jessica Purcell, American and Australian low-dimensional topologist
  • Florence Purington, first dean of Mount Holyoke College
  • Ulla Pursiheimo, Finnish control theorist who became the first female mathematics professor in Finland
  • Helena Pycior, American historian of mathematics and expert on Marie Curie and human-animal relations

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  • Irene Sabadini, Italian hypercomplex analyst
  • Flora Sadler, Scottish mathematician and astronomer
  • Cora Sadosky, 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, French specialist in partial differential equations, member of the French Academy of Sciences
  • Reiko Sakamoto, Japanese expert in hyperbolic boundary value problems
  • Adriana Salerno, Venezuelan-American arithmetic geometer
  • Graciela Salicrup, Mexican pioneer in categorical topology
  • Judith D. Sally, American researcher in commutative algebra, Noether lecturer
  • Sema Salur, Turkish-American differential geometer
  • Jean E. Sammet, supervised the first scientific programming group, helped develop COBOL
  • Mildred Sanderson, American mathematician, established a correspondence between modular and formal invariants
  • Mary Sandoval, American global analyst and spectral geometer
  • Marta Sanz-Solé, Catalan researcher on stochastic processes, president of the European Mathematical Society
  • Winifred Sargent, English researcher on integration theory and BK-spaces
  • Alessandra Sarti, Italian algebraic geometer, namesake of Sarti surfaces
  • Makiko Sasada, Japanese mathematician, expert on hydrodynamic limits of particle systems
  • Keri Sather-Wagstaff, American commutative algebraist, academic administrator, and LGBTQ+ activist
  • Ruth Lyttle Satter, American researcher on circadian rhythms, namesake of Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics
  • Linda Gilbert Saucier, American mathematician, prolific textbook author
  • Lisa Sauermann, 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
  • Najiba Sbihi, Moroccan graph theorist and operations researcher
  • Renate Scheidler, German and Canadian computational number theorist
  • Jacquelien Scherpen, Dutch nonlinear control theorist
  • Analúcia Schliemann, Brazilian developmental psychologist focusing on mathematical reasoning
  • Carol Schumacher, Bolivian-born American mathematician, author of inquiry-based learning textbooks
  • Jane Cronin Scanlon, American researcher in partial differential equations and mathematical biology
  • Alice T. Schafer, American differential geometer, founding member of the Association for Women in Mathematics
  • Sakura Schafer-Nameki, German mathematical physicist
  • Mary Schaps, Israeli mathematician and academic administrator, researcher in deformation theory, group theory, and representation theory
  • Doris Schattschneider, American mathematician known for writing about tessellations and the art of M. C. Escher
  • Michelle Schatzman, 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
  • Anja Schlömerkemper, German applied mathematician, president of International Society for the Interaction of Mechanics and Mathematics
  • Karin Schnass, Austrian expert on sparse dictionary learning
  • Leila Schneps, American-French analytic number theorist and arithmetic geometer, archivist of Grothendieck's works
  • Anita Schöbel, German operations researcher, expert on optimization for public transportation
  • Maria E. Schonbek, Argentine-American researcher in fluid dynamics and associated partial differential equations
  • Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb, Austrian mathematician known for her research in image analysis
  • Ida May Schottenfels, American group theorist
  • Lynn Schreyer, American applied mathematician, models porous media
  • Mary Leontius Schulte, American nun, mathematics educator, and historian of mathematics
  • Jennifer Schultens, American low-dimensional topologist and knot theorist
  • Marie-Hélène Schwartz, 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, British mathematician who promoted mathematical education of American women
  • Elizabeth Scott, American statistician
  • Jennifer Scott, British numerical analyst
  • Catherine Searle, American differential geometer
  • Ruthmae Sears, Bahamian-American mathematics educator
  • Jennifer Seberry, Australian cryptographer, mathematician, and computer scientist, one of the founders of Asiacrypt
  • Alexandra Seceleanu, Romanian commutative algebraist
  • Rose Whelan Sedgewick, first person to earn a PhD in mathematics from Brown University
  • Esther Seiden, 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, Russian expert on discrete functions
  • Helaine Selin, American librarian, historian of science, and ethnomathematician
  • Muriel Seltman, British left-wing activist, mathematics educator, historian of mathematics, and author
  • Marjorie Senechal, 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, French expert on superconductivity, winner of the European Mathematical Society Prize
  • Vera Serganova, Russian-American researcher on superalgebras and their representations
  • Caroline Series, English specialist in hyperbolic geometry, Kleinian groups and dynamical systems
  • Lily Serna, Israeli-Australian arithmetical guru of the SBS game show Letters and Numbers
  • Maria Serna, Spanish expert on graph layout and adversarial queueing theory
  • Cristina Sernadas, Portuguese mathematical logician
  • Brigitte Servatius, Austrian-American expert on matroids and structural rigidity
  • Nataša Šešum, expert in geometric flows
  • Lena L. Severance, American mathematician, expert on equipollences
  • Ingeborg Seynsche, one of the earliest women to earn a doctorate at the University of Göttingen
  • Jeanette Shakalli, promoter of mathematics in Panama
  • Chehrzad Shakiban, first Iranian woman with a Ph.D. in mathematics
  • Sara Shakulova, Russian mathematician, first female mathematician of Tatar descent
  • Betty Shannon, mathematician and human computer, collaborator with husband Claude Shannon
  • Zorya Shapiro, Soviet mathematician, educator and translator
  • Tatyana Shaposhnikova, Russian-Swedish researcher on multipliers in function spaces, partial differential operators, and history of mathematics
  • Mei-Chi Shaw, Taiwanese-American researcher on partial differential equations
  • Mariya Shcherbina, Ukrainian expert on random matrices
  • Amy Shell-Gellasch, American historian of mathematics and book author
  • Diana Shelstad, Australian-American mathematician, formulated the fundamental lemma of the Langlands Program
  • Wenxian Shen, Chinese-American dynamical systems theorist
  • Irina Shevtsova, 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, 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, Polish-Canadian scholar of understanding and epistemology in mathematics education
  • Mary Silber, American expert in bifurcation theory and pattern formation
  • Alice Silverberg, American number theorist and cryptographer
  • Ruth Silverman, American computational geometer, founder of Association for Women in Mathematics
  • Evelyn Silvia, American functional analyst and mathematics educator
  • Rodica Simion, Romanian-American pioneer in the study of permutation patterns
  • Valeria Simoncini, Italian numerical analyst
  • Lao Genevra Simons, American mathematician and historian of mathematics
  • Hourya Benis Sinaceur, Moroccan expert in the theory and history of mathematics
  • Margaret P. Sinclair, Canadian mathematics educator
  • Mary Emily Sinclair, American mathematician, first woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics at the University of Chicago
  • Nathalie Sinclair, 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, Indian researcher in functional analysis and harmonic analysis
  • Sylvia Skan, British applied mathematician known for the Falkner–Skan boundary layer in fluid mechanics
  • Jessica Sklar, 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, 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, Canadian proponent of constructivist mathematical instruction
  • Ionica Smeets, Dutch number theorist and science communicator
  • Deirdre Smeltzer, 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, American mathematician, studied and taught internationally
  • Clara Eliza Smith, 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, American specialist in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry
  • Kate Smith-Miles, Australian applied mathematician, president of Australian Mathematical Society
  • Leslie M. Smith, American applied mathematician and engineering physicist working in turbulence
  • Martha K. Smith, American mathematics educator and non-commutative algebraist
  • Stacey Smith?, Australian-Canadian mathematician known for her scientific work on zombies
  • Agata Smoktunowicz, Polish-Scottish researcher in abstract algebra, constructed noncommutative nil rings
  • Nina Snaith, British researcher in random matrix theory, quantum chaos, and zeta functions
  • Vera Šnajder, Bosnian mathematician, first Bosnian to publish in mathematics, first female dean in Yugoslavia
  • Alena Šolcová, Czech applied mathematician and historian of mathematics
  • Priyanshi Somani, Indian mental calculator
  • Mary Somerville, 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, Hungarian number theorist and combinatorialist
  • Chris Soteros, Canadian applied mathematician, studies biomolecules and the knot theory of random space curves
  • Hortensia Soto, Mexican-American mathematics educator
  • Marilda Sotomayor, Brazilian mathematician, economist, and game theorist
  • Laila Soueif, Egyptian mathematics professor and women's rights activist
  • Perla Sousi, Greek probability theorist
  • Diane Souvaine, American computational geometer, advocate for women and minorities in mathematics and gender neutrality in teaching
  • Ayşe Soysal, Turkish mathematician, president of Boğaziçi University
  • Angela Spalsbury, American functional analyst and academic administrator
  • Mary Margaret Speer, American mathematician
  • Birgit Speh, American expert in Lie groups, namesake of Speh representations
  • Domina Eberle Spencer, 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, mathematician, musician, and astronomer, unconstitutionally fired from UC Berkeley for refusing to sign a loyalty oath
  • Dolores Richard Spikes, African-American mathematician, first female university chancellor and first female president of a university system in the US
  • Nicole Spillane, French and Irish applied mathematician
  • Vera W. de Spinadel, Argentine-Austrian researcher on metallic means
  • Claudia Spiro, American number theorist
  • Jean Springer, Jamaican-Canadian specialist in abstract algebra and academic administrator
  • Jane Squire, English mathematician studied solutions to finding longitude at sea
  • Bhama Srinivasan, representation theorist, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics
  • Hema Srinivasan, Indian-American mathematician specializing in abstract algebra and algebraic geometry
  • Kaye Stacey, Australian mathematics educator
  • Tanja Stadler, German mathematician, expert in phylogenetics
  • Gigliola Staffilani, Italian-American researcher on harmonic analysis and partial differential equations
  • Anna Stafford, one of the first postdoctoral researchers at the Institute for Advanced Study
  • Helene Stähelin, 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, 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, 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, British historian of mathematics
  • Angelika Steger, German-Swiss expert on graph theory, randomized algorithms, and approximation algorithms
  • Irene Stegun, American mathematician who edited a classic book of mathematical tables
  • Gabriele Steidl, German researcher in computational harmonic analysis, convex optimization, and image processing
  • Mary Kay Stein, American mathematics educator
  • Maya Stein, German-Chilean graph theorist
  • Berit Stensønes, Norwegian mathematician specializing in complex analysis and complex dynamics
  • Elizabeth Stephansen, first Norwegian woman to receive a mathematics doctorate
  • Edith Stern, child prodigy in mathematics and IBM engineer
  • Chris Stevens, American topological group theorist, historian of mathematics, and mathematics educator
  • Perdita Stevens, British algebraist, theoretical computer scientist, and software engineer
  • Lorna Stewart, Canadian graph theorist and graph algorithms researcher
  • Alice Christine Stickland, British applied mathematician, expert on radio propagation
  • Angeline Stickney, American suffragist, abolitionist, and mathematician, namesake of the largest crater on Phobos
  • Doris Stockton, American mathematician and textbook author
  • Mechthild Stoer, German applied mathematician and operations researcher, namesake of Stoer-Wagner minimum cut algorithm
  • Vesna Stojanoska, Macedonian-American homotopy theorist
  • Ruth Stokes, American mathematician, astronomer, and cryptologer, pioneer of linear programming, and founder of Pi Mu Epsilon journal
  • Yvonne Stokes, Australian expert on fluid mechanics, mathematical biology, and industrial applications of mathematics
  • Emily Stone, American mathematician, works in fluid mechanics and dynamical systems
  • Betsy Stovall, American harmonic analyst
  • Anita Straker, British mathematics educator, president of the Mathematical Association
  • Dona Strauss, British mathematician, founder of pointless topology and European Women in Mathematics
  • Anne Penfold Street, Australian combinatorialist, third woman mathematics professor in Australia
  • Ileana Streinu, Romanian-American computational geometer, expert on kinematics and structural rigidity
  • Catharina Stroppel, German researcher on representation theory, low-dimensional topology, and category theory
  • Marilyn Strutchens, African-American mathematics educator
  • Tatjana Stykel, Russian-German expert on numerical linear algebra, control theory, and differential-algebraic equations
  • Dorothy Geneva Styles, American organist, choir director, composer, poet, and mathematician
  • Bella Subbotovskaya, Soviet founder of the Jewish People's University
  • Indulata Sukla, Indian researcher on Fourier series, author of textbook on number theory and cryptography
  • Agnès Sulem, French applied mathematician, control theorist, and mathematical finance expert
  • Catherine Sulem, Algerian-born Canadian mathematician and violinist, expert on singularities in wave propagation
  • Nike Sun, American probability theorist studying phase transitions and counting complexity
  • Iryna Sushko, Ukrainian mathematician, applies nonlinear dynamical systems to economics
  • Rosamund Sutherland, British mathematics educator
  • Louise Nixon Sutton, first African-American woman to earn a mathematics PhD at New York University
  • Thyrsa Frazier Svager, African-American mathematician, donated entire salary to support African-American women in mathematics
  • Márta Svéd, Hungarian-Australian mathematician, wrote about non-Euclidean geometry
  • Marcia P. Sward, executive director of the Mathematical Association of America
  • Lorna Swain, British fluid dynamics researcher, early female lecturer at Cambridge
  • Irena Swanson, Yugoslav-born American commutative algebraist and mathematical quilter
  • Henda Swart, South African geometer and graph theorist, editor-in-chief of Utilitas Mathematica
  • Adela Świątek, Polish mathematician and a popularizer of mathematics
  • Jennifer Switkes, American mathematics educator and volunteer prison mathematics instructor
  • Polly Sy, Filipino functional analyst
  • Esther Szekeres, Hungarian-Australian mathematician posed the happy ending problem in discrete geometry
  • Ágnes Szendrei, Hungarian-American expert on universal algebra
  • Wanda Szmielew, Polish logician who proved the decidability of the first-order theory of abelian groups
  • Zofia Szmydt, 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, 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, Chinese-French specialist in complex dynamics and functions of complex numbers
  • Betül Tanbay, first female president of the Turkish Mathematical Society
  • Yunqing Tang, Chinese-American number theorist and arithmetic geometer
  • Rosalind Tanner, English mathematician and a historian of mathematics
  • Jing Tao, low-dimensional topologist and geometric group theorist
  • Anne Taormina, Belgian mathematical physicist interested in string theory, moonshine, and the symmetry of virus capsids
  • Gabriella Tarantello, Italian mathematician specializing in partial differential equations, differential geometry, and gauge theory
  • Éva Tardos, Hungarian-American researcher in combinatorial optimization algorithms
  • Corina Tarnita, Romanian-American mathematician and theoretical biologist
  • Olga Taussky-Todd, Austrian and later Czech-American advocate of matrix theory
  • Jean Taylor, American mathematician known for her work on soap bubbles and crystals
  • Miranda Teboh-Ewungkem, American mathematical biologist using ordinary and partial differential equations and statistical methods for modeling the dynamics and transmission of mosquito-borne infectious diseases
  • 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, Turkish-Brazilian differential geometer
  • Bridget Tenner, American mathematician, expert in permutation patterns
  • Katrin Tent, 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, Taiwanese-American differential geometer
  • Susanna Terracini, Italian mathematician known for her research on chaos in Hamiltonian dynamical systems
  • Audrey Terras, American number theorist specializing in quantum chaos and zeta functions
  • Susanne Teschl, Austrian expert on mathematical modeling of breath analysis
  • Donna Testerman, expert in the representation theory of algebraic groups
  • Ngamta Thamwattana, Thai-Australian expert in granular materials and nanotechnology
  • Theano, one or possibly two different Pythagorean philosophers
  • Diana Thomas, American mathematician who studies nutrition and body weight
  • Doreen Thomas, South African and Australian mathematician and engineer
  • Janet Thomas, founder of the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute
  • Rekha R. Thomas, American mathematician and operations researcher
  • Abigail Thompson, American low-dimensional topologist, educational reformer
  • Frances McBroom Thompson, American mathematics educator and textbook author
  • Gillian Thornley, 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, American mathematician, founder of Thomas More College, Kentucky
  • Ene-Margit Tiit, Estonian mathematician and statistician, founding president of Estonian Statistical Society
  • Mary Tiles, writer on the philosophy and history of set theory
  • Ulrike Tillmann FRS, German-English algebraic topologist
  • Sheila Tinney, 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, French-Norwegian researcher in kinetics, magnetohydrodynamics and theoretical acoustics
  • Renate Tobies, German historian of mathematics
  • Magdalena Toda, Romanian-American differential geometer
  • Gordana Todorov, 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
  • Cristina Toninelli, Italian probability theorist
  • Christina Tønnesen-Friedman, Danish-American Riemannian geometer
  • Virginia Torczon, American applied mathematician, computer scientist, and expert in nonlinear optimization
  • Antoinette Tordesillas, Australian applied mathematician
  • Marie Torhorst, German mathematician, school teacher, and politician
  • Anna-Karin Tornberg, Swedish computational mathematician
  • Eve Torrence, American mathematician, president of Pi Mu Epsilon
  • Clara Torres Latorre, Spanish mathematics contestant
  • Laura Toti Rigatelli, Italian historian of mathematics and biographer of Galois
  • Vera Traub, German expert on approximation algorithms in network optimization
  • Paula Tretkoff, Australian-American researcher in number theory, noncommutative geometry, and hypergeometric functions
  • Christiane Tretter, German expert in spectral theory and differential operators
  • Věra Trnková Czech category theorist
  • Konstantina Trivisa, Greek-American expert in fluid dynamics and flocking
  • A. Mary Tropper, British mathematician, textbook author, and translator
  • Mary Esther Trueblood, American mathematician, studied with Felix Klein
  • Chrysoula Tsogka, Greek applied mathematician, expert in wave propagation through complex media
  • Olga Tsuberbiller, Russian analytical geometer and textbook author
  • Virginia Tucker, American human computer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
  • Laurette Tuckerman, American and French researcher in computational fluid dynamics
  • Annita Tuller, American geometer and textbook author
  • Reidun Twarock, German-born mathematical biologist
  • Julianna Tymoczko, American algebraic geometer and algebraic combinatorist
  • Regina Tyshkevich, Belarusian graph theorist, co-invented split graphs
  • Galina Tyurina, Soviet algebraic geometer

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  • Olabisi Ugbebor, first female mathematics professor in Nigeria
  • Karen Uhlenbeck, American mathematician, MacArthur Fellow, National Medal of Science, Leroy P. Steele Prize, Abel Prize
  • Corinna Ulcigrai, Italian researcher on dynamical systems, won European Mathematical Society Prize and Whitehead Prize
  • Kristin Umland, American mathematics educator
  • Nina Uraltseva, Russian mathematical physicist, specialist in nonlinear partial differential equations
  • Arantza Urkaregi, Spanish mathematician and Basque separatist and feminist politician

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W

X

  • Ling Xiao, differential geometer and expert on geometric flow
  • Dianna Xu, American mathematician and computer scientist who studies computational problems on curves and surfaces
  • Xu Ruiyun, first Chinese woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics

Y

  • Carolyn Yackel, American commutative algebraist and mathematical fiber artist
  • Erna Beth Yackel, American mathematics educator
  • Mayuko Yamashita, Japanese mathematician and mathematical physicist
  • 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
  • Betsy Yanik, American mathematics educator, president of Women and Mathematics Education
  • Elena Yanovskaya, Soviet and Russian game theorist
  • Sofya Yanovskaya, restored mathematical logic research in Soviet Union, edited mathematical works of Karl Marx
  • Jane Ye, Chinese-Canadian researcher in variational analysis
  • Karen Yeats, Canadian mathematician whose research connects combinatorics to quantum field theory
  • Florence Yeldham, British school teacher and historian of arithmetic
  • Miriam Yevick, Dutch-American mathematical physicist
  • 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, charter member of the Mathematical Association of America
  • Cynthia Y. Young, American applied mathematician, textbook author, and academic administrator
  • Lai-Sang Young, Hong Kong born dynamical systems theorist
  • Mabel Minerva Young, 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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