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List of the most influential female people in Mathematics,

#1051

Joanne Elliott

#68248

Overall Influence

1925 - Present (99 years)

Joanne Elliott was an American mathematician who specialized in potential theory, who was described as a "disciple" of her co-author, probability theorist William Feller. She was also a professor of mathematics at Rutgers University.

#1052

Gertrude Ehrlich

#47031

Overall Influence

1923 - Present (101 years)

Gertrude Ehrlich is an Austrian-American mathematician, specializing in abstract algebra and algebraic number theory. She is a professor emerita of mathematics at the University of Maryland, College Park.

#1053

Marta Lewicka

#72026

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Marta Lewicka is a Polish-American professor of mathematics at the University of Pittsburgh, specializing in mathematical analysis. Lewicka has contributed results in the theory of hyperbolic systems of conservation laws, fluid dynamics, calculus of variations, nonlinear elasticity, nonlinear potential theory and differential games.

#1054

Doris Stockton

#68585

Overall Influence

1924 - 2018 (94 years)

Doris G. Skillman Stockton was an American mathematician specializing in partial differential equations and Banach spaces, and known for her many mathematics textbooks. For many years she was a professor of mathematics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

#1055

Susan Jane Colley

#95590

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Susan Jane Colley is an American mathematician. She is Andrew and Pauline Delaney Professor of Mathematics at Oberlin College, and a former editor-in-chief of the American Mathematical Monthly. Her mathematical research specialty is enumerative geometry.

#1056

Dorothy McCoy

#88809

Overall Influence

1903 - 2001 (98 years)

Dorothy McCoy was an American mathematician and university professor. She was the first woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics from the University of Iowa, and she worked for many years as a professor of mathematics at Belhaven College and Wayland Baptist College.

#1057

Gabriele Steidl

#94369

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Gabriele Steidl is a German mathematician whose research interests include computational harmonic analysis, convex optimization, and image processing. She is a professor of mathematics at the Technical University of Berlin.

#1058

Helen F. Cullen

#77549

Overall Influence

1919 - 2007 (88 years)

Helen Frances Cullen was an American mathematician specializing in topology. She worked for many years as a professor of mathematics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and was the first female faculty member in the mathematics department at Amherst. She was known as the author of the book Introduction to General Topology , as well as for her outspoken antisemitism.

#1059

Kaye Stacey

#83563

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Kaye C. Vale Stacey is an Australian mathematics educator who held the Foundation Chair of Mathematics Education in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne for 20 years, from 1992 until her retirement in 2012. She is the editor-in-chief of Educational Designer, the journal of the International Society for Design and Development in Education.

#1060

Indulata Sukla

#42622

Overall Influence

1944 - 2022 (78 years)

Indulata L. Sukla was an Indian academic, who was professor of mathematics for more than three decades at Sambalpur University, Sambalpur, Odisha. She did her schooling from Maharani Prem Kumari Girls’ School and B.Sc. with Mathematics Honours from M.P.C. College, Baripada. She completed her M.Sc. in Mathematics from Ravenshaw College, Cuttack in 1966, and had a brief stint as a lecturer in M.P.C. College, before moving to the University of Jabalpur with a CSIR Fellowship to pursue Ph.D. under the supervision of Tribikram Pati. While pursuing her researches, she joined Sambalpur University in...

#1061

Shirley McBay

#85589

Overall Influence

1935 - 2021 (86 years)

Shirley Ann Mathis McBay was an American mathematician who was the founder and president of the Quality Education for Minorities Network, a nonprofit dedicated to improving minority education. She was the dean for student affairs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1980 to 1990. She was the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia . McBay was recognized by Mathematically Gifted & Black as a Black History Month 2017 Honoree.

#1062

Elena Moldovan Popoviciu

#64778

Overall Influence

1924 - 2009 (85 years)

Elena Moldovan Popoviciu was a Romanian mathematician known for her work in functional analysis and specializing in generalizations of the concept of a convex function. She was a winner of the Simion Stoilow Prize in mathematics.

#1063

Marie Rognes

#94254

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (42 years)

Marie Elisabeth Rognes is a Norwegian applied mathematician specializing in scientific computing and numerical methods for partial differential equations. She works at the Simula Research Laboratory, as one of their chief research scientists.

#1064

Katherine Heinrich

#88886

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Katherine A. Heinrich is a mathematician and mathematics teacher who wasthe first female president of the Canadian Mathematical Society. Her research interests include graph theory and the theory of combinatorial designs. Originally from Australia, she moved to Canada where she worked as a professor at Simon Fraser University and as an academic administrator at the University of Regina.

#1065

Agnes M. Herzberg

#64107

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Agnes Margaret Herzberg is a Canadian statistician who works as a professor of mathematics and statistics at Queen's University. She was president of the Statistical Society of Canada for 1991–1992, its first female president.

#1066

Harriet Griffin

#81532

Overall Influence

1903 - 1991 (88 years)

Harriet Madeline Griffin was an American mathematician, and the author of a textbook on number theory. She taught for many years at Brooklyn College. Education and career Griffin was born on April 6, 1903, in Brooklyn, one of two daughters of a furniture salesman. She was educated at Baldwin High School in Baldwin, New York, graduating as valedictorian in 1920. She earned a bachelor's degree at Hunter College in 1925, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, winning the Thomas Hunter Prize in mathematics, and becoming a founding member of Pi Mu Epsilon; her sister graduated in the same year and become a ma...

#1067

Mary Flahive

#95338

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Mary Elizabeth Flahive is a professor of mathematics at Oregon State University. Her research interests are in number theory; she is the author of two books on difference equations and Diophantine approximation, and is also interested in the geometry of numbers and algebraic coding theory.

#1068

Aline Huke Frink

#85256

Overall Influence

1904 - 2000 (96 years)

Aline Huke Frink was an American mathematician, and a professor on the faculty of the Pennsylvania State University from 1930 to 1969. Early life and education Aline Huke was born in Torrington, Connecticut and raised in Massachusetts, the daughter of Allen Johnson Huke and Mary Evelyn Feustel Huke. Her father was a businessman, and her mother was a schoolteacher.

#1069

Frances Ellen Baker

#88617

Overall Influence

1902 - 1995 (93 years)

Frances Ellen Baker was an American mathematician who became a professor of mathematics and chair of the mathematics department at Vassar College. Early life and education Baker's father was Richard Philip Baker, a British-born mathematician, mathematical model maker, and college administrator. Her mother, Katherine Riedelbauch Baker, was a music teacher and chamber musician. Baker was born on December 19, 1902, in Anna, Illinois, and was home-schooled until high school, where she attended a public school in Iowa City, Iowa. She became valedictorian of her school, graduating in 1919.

#1070

Élisabeth Bouscaren

Élisabeth Bouscaren

#82258

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Élisabeth Bouscaren is a French mathematician who works on algebraic geometry, algebra and mathematical logic . Education and career Bouscaren received her doctorate in 1979 from the University of Paris VII and her habilitation in 1985. From 1981 she worked at the French National Center for Scientific Research until 2005, when she moved to the University of Paris XI. Since 2007, she has held the position of Research Director at CNRS.

#1071

Jacqueline Naze Tjøtta

Jacqueline Naze Tjøtta

#81178

Overall Influence

1935 - 2017 (82 years)

Jacqueline Andrée Naze Tjøtta was a Norwegian mathematician who became the first female mathematical sciences professor in Norway. Jacqueline Naze was born in Montpellier, France, to musician Maurize André Naze and Renée Marie Courbet. She graduated in mathematics from the Aix-Marseille University and Sorbonne, Paris. She married Norwegian mathematician Sigve Tjøtta in 1964. She was appointed professor in applied mathematics at the University of Bergen from 1966. Her research interests focused on kinetic theory, magnetohydrodynamics and theoretical acoustics.

#1072

Linda Zhao

#83544

Overall Influence

Linda Hong Zhao is a Chinese-American statistician. She is a Professor of Statistics and at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Zhao specializes in modern machine learning methods.

#1073

Alena Šolcová

#52540

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Alena Šolcová is a Czech mathematician and science historian. She is the founder of the Kepler Museum, an astronomy museum in Prague. Life and work Between 1968 and 1973, Šolcová studied mathematics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics and Philosophy at Charles University. Between 2002 and 2005, she completed her doctoral studies in mathematics in Civil Engineering with the doctoral thesis titled Fermat's Ideas Revived in Mathematics Applied in Engineering, and in 2009 she completed her habilitation at the Czech Technical University in Prague, and was appointed associate professor in the...

#1074

Haya Kaspi

#71912

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Haya Kaspi is an Israeli operations researcher, statistician, and probability theorist. She is a professor emeritus of industrial engineering and management at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

#1075

Anita Schöbel

#83637

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Anita Schöbel is a German mathematician and operations researcher known for her work in facility location and mathematical optimization of timetables for public transportation. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Kaiserslautern, where she is head of the optimization group and director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics. She is also the president of the German Operations Research Society.

#1076

Angelika Bunse-Gerstner

#95450

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Angelika Bunse-Gerstner is a German mathematician specializing in numerical linear algebra and control theory. Education and career Bunse-Gerstner earned her Ph.D. from Bielefeld University in 1978. Her dissertation, Der HR-Algorithmus zur numerischen Bestimmung der Eigenwerte einer Matrix, was jointly supervised by Ludwig Elsner and Hans Johnen.

#1077

Juliet Popper Shaffer

#63775

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (92 years)

Juliet Popper Shaffer is an American psychologist, statistician and statistics educator known for her research on multiple hypothesis testing. She is a teaching professor emerita at the University of California, Berkeley.

#1078

Sheila Tinney

#66795

Overall Influence

1918 - 2010 (92 years)

Sheila Christina Tinney was an Irish mathematical physicist. Her 1941 PhD from the University of Edinburgh, completed under the supervision of Max Born in just two years, is believed to make her the first Irish-born and -raised woman to receive a doctorate in the mathematical sciences.

#1079

Roswitha Blind

#82609

Overall Influence

Roswitha Blind is a German mathematician, specializing in convex geometry, discrete geometry, and polyhedral combinatorics, and a politician and organizer for the Social Democratic Party of Germany in Stuttgart.

#1080

Margaret Rayner

#82877

Overall Influence

1929 - 2019 (90 years)

Margaret Eva Rayner was a British mathematician who became vice principal of St Hilda's College, Oxford and president of the Mathematical Association. She was known for her research on isoperimetric inequalities, her work in mathematics education, and her publications on the history of mathematics and of St Hilda's College.

#1081

Odile Macchi

#61171

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Odile Macchi is a French physicist and mathematician. She has been a member of the French Academy of Sciences since 2004. Life Odile Danjou was born in Aurillac during the German occupation. She is one of the six recorded children of Bernard Danjou and his wife, born Geneviève Féat.

#1082

Yuliya Mishura

#93974

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Yuliya Stepanivna Mishura is a Ukrainian mathematician specializing in probability theory and mathematical finance. She is a professor at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Education and career Mishura earned a Ph.D. in 1978 from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv with a dissertation on Limit Theorems for Functionals from Stochastic Fields supervised by Dmitrii Sergeevich Silvestrov. She earned a Dr. Sci. from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 1990 with a dissertation Martingale Methods in the Theory of Stochastic Fields.

#1083

Deborah Ashby

#62338

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Deborah Ashby is a British statistician and academic who specialises in medical statistics and Bayesian statistics. She is the Director of the School of Public Health and Chair in Medical Statistics and Clinical Trials at Imperial College London. She was previously a lecturer then a reader at the University of Liverpool and a professor at Queen Mary University of London.

#1084

Catherine Bandle

#93762

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Catherine Bandle is a Swiss mathematician known for her research on differential equations, including semilinear elliptic equations and reaction-diffusion equations, and for her book on isoperimetric inequalities. She is a professor emerita of mathematics at the University of Basel.

#1085

Annita Tuller

#91887

Overall Influence

1910 - 1994 (84 years)

Annita Tuller was an American mathematician known for her 1967 textbook A Modern Introduction to Geometries. She was a professor at Lehman College in the City University of New York system. Early life and education Tuller was born in Brooklyn, New York City, on December 30, 1910 to a family of Russian immigrants; her father was a jeweler. She went to public schools in Brooklyn, graduating from Erasmus Hall High School when she was 14 years old, and beginning her studies at Hunter College in the same year. She graduated from Hunter College in 1929, and became a graduate student at Bryn Mawr Co...

#1086

Pino Caballero Gil

#33443

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Pino Caballero Gil is a Spanish scientist. She is a professor in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of La Laguna where she coordinates the CryptULL cryptology research group.

#1087

Elayne Arrington

#78610

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Elayne Arrington is an American mathematician and engineer. She was the first African American woman to graduate with a bachelor's degree from the School of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. After earning her Ph.D., she went on to conduct performance analyses of Soviet Union aircraft at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

#1088

Sandra Di Rocco

#95769

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Sandra Di Rocco is an Italian mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry. She works in Sweden as a professor of mathematics and dean of the faculty of engineering science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and chairs the Activity Group on Algebraic Geometry of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

#1089

Lucy R. Wyatt

#89446

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Lucy R. Wyatt is an English mathematician and a professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sheffield, Yorkshire. She is a member of the Environmental Dynamics research group in the School of Mathematics.

#1090

Julianna Tymoczko

#81654

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Julianna Sophia Tymoczko is an American mathematician whose research connects algebraic geometry and algebraic combinatorics, including representation theory, Schubert calculus, equivariant cohomology, and Hessenberg varieties. She is a professor of mathematics at Smith College.

#1091

Geneviève Raugel

Geneviève Raugel

#92096

Overall Influence

1951 - 2019 (68 years)

Geneviève Raugel was a French mathematician working in the field of numerical analysis and dynamical systems. Biography Raugel entered the École normale supérieure de Fontenay-aux-Roses in 1972, obtaining the agrégation in mathematics in 1976. She earned her Ph.D degree from University of Rennes 1 in 1978 with a thesis entitled Résolution numérique de problèmes elliptiques dans des domaines avec coins .

#1092

Nancy Cole

#79569

Overall Influence

1902 - 1991 (89 years)

For the American educational psychologist and expert on educational assessment, see Nancy Cole. Nancy Cole was an American mathematician who made important and pioneering contributions to Morse theory.

#1093

Margaret Maxfield

#82603

Overall Influence

1926 - 2016 (90 years)

Margaret Alice Waugh Maxfield was an American mathematician and mathematics book author. Education and personal life Margaret Waugh was born on February 23, 1926, in Willimantic, Connecticut. Her father was agricultural economist Frederick V. Waugh and her grandfather was horticulturist Frank Albert Waugh.

#1094

Jean Yang

#83848

Overall Influence

Jean Yee Hwa Yang is an Australian statistician known for her work on variance reduction for microarrays, and for inferring proteins from mass spectrometry data. Yang is a Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sydney.

#1095

Miriam Becker

#82410

Overall Influence

1909 - 2000 (91 years)

Miriam Freda Becker was an American mathematician whose career became a test case for unionization and academic tenure in the City University of New York system in the 1930s. Early life and education Becker was the middle of three children of an immigrant family; her mother came from Russia and her father, an insurance salesman, from Austria. She majored in mathematics at Hunter College, in the City University of New York system, graduating in 1930, earned a master's degree there in 1932, and became a doctoral student at Yale University. She completed her Ph.D. in 1934 under the supervision o...

#1096

Clarice Weinberg

#94258

Overall Influence

Clarice Ring Weinberg is an American biostatistician and epidemiologist who works for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences as principal investigator in the Biostatistics and Computational Biology Branch. Her research concerns environmental epidemiology, and its combination with genetics in susceptibility to disease, including running the Sister Study on how environmental and genetic effects can lead to breast cancer. She has also published highly cited research on fertility.

#1097

Marta Macho Stadler

Marta Macho Stadler

#82951

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Marta Macho Stadler is a Basque mathematician, expert in scientific divulgation. She teaches undergraduate courses on geometry and topology at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU and her research area is the Geometric Theory of Foliations and Noncommutative Geometry. She is editor in chief of the digital blog Mujeres con Ciencia of the Scientific Culture Chair UPV/EHU and has been awarded several prizes, among others the Emakunde Equality Prize 2006.

#1098

Susanne Ditlevsen

Susanne Ditlevsen

#86496

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Susanne Ditlevsen is a Danish mathematician and statistician, interested in mathematical biology, perception, dynamical systems, and statistical modeling of biological systems. She is a professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences of the University of Copenhagen, where she heads the section of statistics and probability theory.

#1099

Julia Lane

#73832

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Julia Ingrid Lane is an economist and economic statistician who works as a professor at New York University's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, as well as NYU's Center for Urban Science and Progress, helping CUSP to build CUSP data facility. Also, she works in NYU's GovLab as a Provostial Fellow for Innovation Analytics and Senior Fellow.

#1100

Glenda Lappan

#91415

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Glenda T. Lappan is a professor emerita of mathematics at Michigan State University. She is known for her work in mathematics education and in particular for developing the widely used Connected Mathematics curriculum for middle school mathematics in the US.

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