List of female mathematicians
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This is a list of female mathematicians who have made significant contributions to mathematics.
The majority of mathematicians are male, but there have been some demographic changes since World War II. Women are still underrepresented in mathematics, as with neighboring branches of science such as physics. A number of prizes instituted by the AMS and other mathematical societies are aimed at changing this situation.
Prominent female mathematicians have included (in chronological order):
- Hypatia of Alexandria (? - 415 AD)
- Émilie du Châtelet (1706 - 1749)
- Maria Agnesi (1718 - 1799)
- Sophie Germain (1776 - 1831)
- Ada Lovelace (1815 – 1852)
- Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850 - 1891)
- Charlotte Scott (1858 – 1931)
- Emmy Noether (1882 - 1935)
- Mary Cartwright (1900 - 1998)
- Ruth Moufang(1905 - 1977)
- Rózsa Péter (1905 - 1977)
- Olga Taussky-Todd (1906–1995)
- Hanna Neumann (1914 - 1971)
- Jessie MacWilliams (1917 - 1990)
- Julia Robinson (1919 - 1985)
- Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya (1922 - 2004)
- Mary Ellen Rudin (1924 - )
- Idun Reiten (1942 - )
- Audrey Terras (1942 - )
- Karen Uhlenbeck (1942 - )
- Krystyna Kuperberg (1944 - )
- Dusa McDuff (1945 - )
- Cheryl Praeger (1948 - )
- Ingrid Daubechies (1954 - )
- Éva Tardos (1957 - )
- Shafi Goldwasser (1958 - )
- Marianna Csörnyei (1975 - )
- Maryam Mirzakhani (1977 - )
