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List of the most influential female people in Mathematics,

#751

Rebecca Hoyle

#61586

Overall Influence

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

#752

Mireille Capitaine

#72704

Overall Influence

Mireille Capitaine is a French mathematician whose research focuses on random matrices and free probability theory. In 2012 she was a recipient of the G. de B. Robinson Award for a paper she coauthored that introduced free Bessel laws, a two-parameter family of generalizations of the free Poisson distribution. She received her PhD in 1996 from Paul Sabatier University, where she was advised by Michel Ledoux. She is currently a researcher for the French National Centre for Scientific Research , associated with the Toulouse Institute of Mathematics.

#753

Nancy Pedersen

#66437

Overall Influence

Nancy L. Pedersen is an American genetic epidemiologist. She is Professor of Genetic Epidemiology and the leader of the Swedish Adoption/Twin Study of Aging at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. She is known for her research on human twins, much of which is based on the Swedish Twin Registry. This has included research on the genetic basis of Alzheimer's disease and self-confidence.

#754

Christiane Tammer

#72413

Overall Influence

Christiane Tammer is a German mathematician known for her work on mathematical optimization. She is a professor in the Institute of Mathematics of Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, and editor-in-chief of Optimization: A Journal of Mathematical Programming and Operations Research.

#755

Nancy Neudauer

#61775

Overall Influence

Nancy Ann Neudauer is an American mathematician specializing in matroid theory and known for her work in mathematical outreach in Africa and South America. She is a professor of mathematics at Pacific University, a co-director of the Center for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics, and a former governor of the Pacific Northwest Section of the Mathematical Association of America.

#756

Martha K. Smith

#72332

Overall Influence

Martha K. Smith is an American mathematician, mathematics educator, professor emerita in the department of mathematics, and associated professor emerita in the department of statistics and data science at the University of Texas at Austin. She made contributions to non-commutative algebra and as well as to mathematics education.

#757

Mireille Martin-Deschamps

#69594

Overall Influence

Mireille Martin-Deschamps is a French mathematician who studies the algebraic geometry of space curves. She was president of the Société mathématique de France. Education and career Martin-Deschamps studied at the École normale supérieure de jeunes filles from 1965 to 1969, and completed a doctorate in 1976 at Paris-Sud University, supervised by Pierre Samuel. She was a researcher for the French National Centre for Scientific Research from 1969 until 2003, when she became a professor at Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University. She retired in 2010, and the university held a colloquium i...

#758

Annalisa Crannell

Annalisa Crannell

#72641

Overall Influence

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

#759

Victoria Howle

#71704

Overall Influence

Victoria E. Howle is an American applied mathematician specializing in numerical linear algebra and known as one of the developers of the Trilinos open-source software library for scientific computing. She is a full professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Texas Tech University.

#760

Coralia Cartis

#66003

Overall Influence

Coralia Cartis is a Romanian mathematician at the University of Oxford whose research interests include compressed sensing, numerical analysis, and regularisation methods in mathematical optimization. At Oxford, she is a Professor in Numerical Optimization in the Mathematical Institute, and a tutorial fellow of Balliol College.

#761

Alison Ramage

#68157

Overall Influence

Alison Ramage is a British applied mathematician and numerical analyst specialising in preconditioning methods for numerical linear algebra, and their applications to the numerical solution of partial differential equations. She is a reader in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Strathclyde.

#762

Elizabeth S. Allman

#64407

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Elizabeth Spencer Allman is an American mathematician. She is a professor of mathematics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Alaska Fairbanks; her research interests range from abstract algebra and algebraic statistics to biomathematics and phylogeny.

#763

Adriana Pesci

#65780

Overall Influence

Adriana Irma Pesci is an Argentine applied mathematician and mathematical physicist at the University of Cambridge, specialising in fluid dynamics. Her research topics have included lattice models of polymer solutions, Hele-Shaw flow, flagellar motion of organisms in fluids, soap films on Möbius strips, and the Leidenfrost effect.

#764

Crista Arangala

#28905

Overall Influence

Crista Arangala is an American mathematician and textbook author, specializing in numerical analysis. She is a professor of mathematics and chair of the department of mathematics and statistics at Elon University, and a Fulbright Scholar.

#765

Patricia Campbell

#72372

Overall Influence

Patricia F. Campbell is an American mathematician and mathematics educator. She is a professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her work has concerned the improvement of mathematics education in minority and lower-income secondary schools, and the effectiveness of mathematics coaching in mathematics education.

#766

Diane Henderson

#53595

Overall Influence

Diane Marie Henderson is an American applied mathematician, specializing in fluid dynamics and mathematical oceanography. Unusually for a mathematics professor, some of her research involves physical experiments with wave tanks, high speed cameras, and oil droplets.

#767

Karin Baur

#73731

Overall Influence

Karin Baur is a Swiss mathematician who is working in the mathematical fields algebra, representation theory, cluster algebras, cluster categories, combinatorics, Lie algebras. Currently she is a professor at University of Leeds and she also a full professor at University of Graz. From 2007–2012 she has been an assistant professor at ETH Zurich. Moreover, she is one of the protagonists of the project Women of Mathematics throughout Europe.

#768

Barbara Wohlmuth

Barbara Wohlmuth

#40459

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Barbara I. Wohlmuth is a German mathematician specializing in the numerical solution of partial differential equations. She holds the chair of numerical mathematics at the Technical University of Munich .

#769

L. Christine Kinsey

#64057

Overall Influence

Laura Christine Kinsey is an American mathematician specializing in topology. She is a professor of mathematics at Canisius College. Education Kinsey graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1975 with honors in mathematics. She returned to the University of Maryland, College Park for graduate study, completing a Ph.D. there in 1984. Her dissertation, Pseudoisotopies and Submersions of a Compact Manifold to the Circle, was jointly supervised by Henry C. King and Walter Neumann.

#770

Agnieszka Malinowska

#72697

Overall Influence

Agnieszka Barbara Malinowska is a Polish mathematician known for her research and books on fractional calculus and the fractional calculus of variations. She is an associate professor of mathematics, in the faculty of computer science of Bialystok University of Technology.

#771

Penny J. Davies

#73476

Overall Influence

Penelope Jane Davies is a Scottish mathematician who in 2009 became the second female president of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, after Elizabeth McHarg. Her research involves numerical simulation of the partial differential equations describing wave scattering and elastic stability and biomechanical modelling. She is a senior lecturer in mathematics and statistics at the University of Strathclyde.

#772

Nina Virchenko

#60380

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (94 years)

Nina Opanasivna Virchenko is a Ukrainian mathematician, academic, author, and member of the Ukrainian resistance movement. While a student in Kyiv in 1948, she was arrested on charges of Ukrainian nationalism, and was a political prisoner in a gulag in Eastern Siberia for six years.

#773

Marguerite Frank

#13317

Overall Influence

1927 - Present (97 years)

Marguerite Straus Frank is a French-American mathematician who is a pioneer in convex optimization theory and mathematical programming. Education After attending secondary schooling in Paris and Toronto, Frank contributed largely to the fields of transportation theory and Lie algebras, which later became the topic of her PhD thesis, New Simple Lie Algebras. She was one of the first female PhD students in mathematics at Harvard University, completing her dissertation in 1956, with Abraham Adrian Albert as her advisor.

#774

Snezana Lawrence

#71379

Overall Influence

Snezana Lawrence is a Yugoslav and British historian of mathematics and a senior lecturer in mathematics and design engineering at Middlesex University. Education and career Lawrence is originally from Yugoslavia, of mixed Serbian and Jewish ancestry. She studied descriptive geometry at the University of Belgrade before moving to England in 1991 during the Breakup of Yugoslavia and ensuing Yugoslav Wars, and later becoming a naturalized British citizen. She earned her PhD from the Open University in 2002. Her dissertation, Geometry of Architecture and Freemasonry in 19th Century England, was ...

#775

Mary Pugh

#59710

Overall Influence

Mary Claire Pugh is an applied mathematician known for her research on thin films, including the thin-film equation and Hele-Shaw flow. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Toronto.

#776

Anita Layton

#64864

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Anita T. Layton is an applied mathematician who applies methods from computational mathematics and partial differential equations to model kidney function. She presently holds a Canada 150 Research Chair in Mathematical Biology and Medicine at the University of Waterloo. She is also a professor in the university's Department of Applied Mathematics. She joined the Waterloo faculty in 2018. Previously, she was the Robert R. & Katherine B. Penn Professor of Mathematics at Duke University, where she also held appointments in the department of biomedical engineering and the department of medicine.

#777

Gabriella Pinzari

#65584

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Gabriella Pinzari is an Italian mathematician known for her research on the -body problem. Research Pinzari's research on the -body problem has been described as "the most natural way to apply" the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem to the problem. The original work of Vladimir Arnold on this theorem attempted to use it to show the stability of the Solar System or similar systems of planetary orbits, but this worked only for the three-body problem because of a degeneracy in Arnold's mathematical framework. Pinzari showed how to eliminate this problem, and extended the solution to larger numbers o...

#778

Leiki Loone

#72008

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Leiki Loone , is an Estonian mathematician specialising in applications of functional analysis in theory of summability and in the structure theory of topological vector spaces. She is married to Estonian philosopher Eero Loone. The couple have two daughters.

#779

Anna Skripka

#73602

Overall Influence

Anna Skripka is a Ukrainian-American mathematician whose research topics include noncommutative analysis and probability. She is a professor at the University of New Mexico. Education and career Skripka did her undergraduate studies at the V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University in Ukraine. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Missouri. After working as a visiting assistant professor at Texas A&M University and as an assistant professor at the University of Central Florida, she joined the University of New Mexico Department of Mathematics and Statistics in 2012, where she is currentl...

#780

Vivien Kirk

#45153

Overall Influence

Vivien Kirk is a New Zealand mathematician who studies dynamical systems. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Auckland, where she also serves as associate dean, and was president of the New Zealand Mathematical Society for 2017–2019.

#781

Tatiana Shubin

#73038

Overall Influence

Tatiana Shubin is a Soviet and American mathematician known for her work developing math circles, social structures for the mathematical enrichment of secondary-school students, especially among the Navajo and other Native American people. She is a professor of mathematics at San José State University in California.

#782

Daphne L. Smith

#73495

Overall Influence

Daphne Letitia Smith was the first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , in 1985. She is the president of the National Alumnae Association of Spelman College, her alma mater, and a member of Spelman's Board of Trustees; in 2011 she was honored with the Alumnae Association's Hall of Fame Award, "the organization’s highest honor".

#783

Bárbara M. Brizuela

#72852

Overall Influence

Bárbara M. Brizuela is an American mathematics educator, and an associate professor education at Tufts University. Education and career Brizuela was born in the United States, though raised in Argentina and Venezuela. She has an Ed.D from Harvard University where she studied under Eleanor Duckworth. Prior to that, she received a Master of Arts, General Studies in Education from Tufts and a Licenciada en Ciencias Pedagógicas and Licenciada en Psicopedagogía degrees from the Universidad de Belgrano. She was a Spencer Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education from 1997 until 2000 and a Roy E.

#784

Kerry Landman

#71019

Overall Influence

Kerry Anne Landman is an Australian applied mathematician, known for her cross-disciplinary research. Over her research career she established and led collaborations across engineering, industry and biological fields. In 2007, she became the first woman professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne. She retired in 2015 and is now an Emeritus Professor at the University of Melbourne.

#785

Irene Sciriha

#73517

Overall Influence

Irene Sciriha Aquilina is a Maltese mathematician specializing in spectral graph theory and chemical graph theory. A particular topic of her research has been the singular graphs, graphs whose adjacency matrix is a singular matrix, and the nut graphs, singular graphs all of whose nontrivial induced subgraphs are non-singular. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Malta.

#786

Nüzhet Gökdoğan

#16615

Overall Influence

1910 - 2003 (93 years)

Hatice Nüzhet Gökdoğan was a Turkish astronomer, mathematician and academic. After studying mathematics and astronomy in France as a young adult, Gökdoğan joined the faculty of Istanbul University in 1934 and completed her PhD. She was elected Dean of the university's Faculty of Science in 1954, becoming the first Turkish woman to serve as a university dean, and she was later made Chair of the astronomy department, significantly expanding her department's capacity and working to improve national and international collaboration between astronomers.

#787

Anne-Sophie Kaloghiros

#73904

Overall Influence

Anne-Sophie Kaloghiros is a mathematics researcher in algebraic geometry and reader in Mathematics at Brunel University London. Kaloghiros was awarded the London Mathematical Society Emmy Noether Fellowship in 2020.

#788

Caroline Colijn

Caroline Colijn

#68625

Overall Influence

Caroline Colijn is a Canadian mathematician and epidemiologist. She holds a Canada 150 Research Chair in Mathematics for Evolution, Infection and Public Health at Simon Fraser University . Early life and education Colijn earned her undergraduate degree from the University of British Columbia before enrolling at York University for her Master's degree in environmental studies and the University of Waterloo for her PhD. She completed her post-doctoral training with Michael Mackey at McGill University and later studied epidemiology with Megan Murray at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Heal...

#789

Rosemary Renaut

#73089

Overall Influence

Rosemary Anne Renaut is a British and American computational mathematician whose research interests include inverse problems and regularization with applications to medical imaging and seismic analysis. She is a professor in the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at Arizona State University.

#790

Mary Wynne Warner

#66666

Overall Influence

1932 - 1998 (66 years)

Mary Wynne Warner was a Welsh mathematician, specializing in fuzzy mathematics. Her obituary in the Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society noted that fuzzy topology was "the field in which she was one of the pioneers and recognized as one of the leading figures for the past thirty years."

#791

Jennifer Switkes

#72776

Overall Influence

Jennifer Switkes is a Canadian-American applied mathematician interested in mathematical modeling and operations research, and also known for her volunteer work teaching mathematics in prisons. She is an associate professor of mathematics at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona , where she is associate chair of the mathematics department.

#792

Angela Slavova

#71032

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Angela Slavova is a Bulgarian applied mathematician. She heads the Department of Mathematical Physics in the Institute of Mathematics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and is former chair of the Bulgarian section of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

#793

Jane Hutton

#38133

Overall Influence

Jane Luise Hutton is a British medical statistician. Her research interests include meta-analysis, survival analysis, and ethics in mathematics, and she has participated in highly-cited studies on autism and cerebral palsy. She is a professor of statistics at the University of Warwick. She also frequently visits the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences in South Africa as a volunteer statistics instructor.

#794

Julia F. Knight

Julia F. Knight

#61936

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Julia Frandsen Knight is an American mathematician, specializing in model theory and computability theory. She is the Charles L. Huisking Professor of Mathematics at the University of Notre Dame and director of the graduate program in mathematics there.

#795

Sara Lombardo

#72193

Overall Influence

Sara Lombardo is an Italian applied mathematician whose research topics include nonlinear dynamics, rogue waves and solitons, integrable systems, and automorphic Lie algebras. She is Executive Dean of the School of Mathematical & Computer Sciences at Heriot-Watt University. Previously she was professor of mathematics at Loughborough University, and associate dean with teaching responsibilities.

#796

Dorothy McFadden Hoover

#53829

Overall Influence

1918 - 2000 (82 years)

Dorothy Estheryne McFadden Hoover was an American physicist and mathematician. Hoover was a pioneer in the early days of NASA. Originally one of the first black women hired at Langley as a human computer, Hoover would eventually become a published physicist and mathematician. Hoover is one of the first black women to be listed as a co-author on NASA research publications. Her research supported the development of America's first jet fighter, the Sabre. Hoover's accomplishments were featured in Margot Lee Shetterly's bestselling book, Hidden Figures.

#797

Lynn Schreyer

#73066

Overall Influence

Lynn G. Schreyer is an American applied mathematician whose research concerns the mathematical modeling of porous media. She is associate professor of mathematics and statistics at Washington State University, and full professor of the department of mathematics and statistics at Washington State University in March 2021 . Dr. Schreyer was the former chair of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Activity Group on Geosciences.

#798

Emily E. Witt

#73801

Overall Influence

Emily Elspeth Witt is an American mathematician, an associate professor and Keeler Intra-University Professor of mathematics at the University of Kansas. Her research involves commutative algebra, representation theory, and singularity theory.

#799

Vera Fischer

#70561

Overall Influence

Vera V. Fischer is an Austrian mathematician specializing in set theory, mathematical logic, and infinitary combinatorics. She is a privatdozent in the Kurt Gödel Research Center for Mathematical Logic at the University of Vienna.

#800

Christine Heitsch

#57391

Overall Influence

Christine Elizabeth Heitsch is a mathematician whose research involves the biomolecular structure of RNA. She is a professor of mathematics in the Georgia Tech School of Mathematics, and the founding director of the Southeast Center for Mathematics and Biology at Georgia Tech.

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