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List of the most influential female people in Mathematics,

#1151

Gordana Todorov

#99912

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Gordana Todorov is a mathematician working in noncommutative algebra, representation theory, Artin algebras, and cluster algebras. She is a professor of mathematics at Northeastern University. Biography Todorov earned her Ph.D. in 1978, at Brandeis University. Her dissertation, Almost Split Sequences in the Representation Theory of Certain Classes of Artin Algebras, was supervised by Maurice Auslander.

#1152

Judy L. Walker

#87891

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Judy Leavitt Walker is an American mathematician. She is the Aaron Douglas Professor of Mathematics at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where she chaired the mathematics department from 2012 through 2016 and currently serves as the Associate Vice Chancellor for Faculty Affairs. Her research is in the area of algebraic coding theory.

#1153

Nora Federici

#48773

Overall Influence

1910 - 2001 (91 years)

Federici Nora was an Italian statistician. Biography Federici obtained a degree in political science at the University of Rome in 1933. In 1934 she took part in Corrado Gini's expedition to study the anthropometrics of Polish minorities such as the Karaites. She subscribed to fascism and was antisemitic, and was responsible for furnishing as a demographer detailed proposals for ‘reducing the number of Jewish individuals resident in Italy and, specifically isolating them spiritually and socially from the life of the nation,’ a measure she openly admired in Nazism.

#1154

Ellen Maycock

#53451

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Ellen Johnston Maycock is an American mathematician and mathematics educator. She is the former Johnson Family University Professor and professor emerita of mathematics at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. Her mathematical research was in functional analysis.

#1155

Faina Kirillova

#89662

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (93 years)

Faina Mihajlovna Kirillova is a Belarusian scientist in the field of mathematical theory of optimal control. She was the winner of the USSR Council of Ministers Prize "for the development and implementation of multi-purpose software tools for engineering calculations."

#1156

Margaret Willerding

#96531

Overall Influence

1919 - 2003 (84 years)

Margaret Frances Willerding was an American mathematician known for her combinatorial enumeration of quadratic forms, for her mathematics textbooks, and for her editorship of the problems department of the mathematics journal School Science and Mathematics.

#1157

Eleanor Mollie Horadam

#95000

Overall Influence

1921 - 2002 (81 years)

Eleanor Mollie Horadam was an English-Australian mathematician specialising in the number theory of generalised integers. Life Horadam was born in Dewsbury, Yorkshire. She read mathematics at Girton College, Cambridge. Then, while doing wartime service by day for Rolls-Royce performing stress–strain analysis of jet engines, she took night classes in engineering at the University of London, earning first-class honours there.

#1158

Hao Helen Zhang

#90501

Overall Influence

Hao Helen Zhang is a Chinese statistician. She is a professor at the University of Arizona, in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics Interdisciplinary Program, and Applied Mathematics Interdisciplinary Program there. With Bertrand Clarke and Ernest Fokoué, she is the author of the book Principles and Theory for Data Mining and Machine Learning.

#1159

Vivian O'Brien

#51473

Overall Influence

1924 - 2010 (86 years)

Vivian "Vob" O'Brien was an American applied mathematician and physicist whose research included fluid dynamics and visual perception. She worked for many years as a researcher at Johns Hopkins University, and is the namesake of the Craik–O'Brien–Cornsweet illusion.

#1160

Nicole Lazar

#102268

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Nicole Alana Lazar is a statistician who holds triple citizenship as an American, Canadian, and Israeli. She is a professor of statistics at the University of Georgia, where she is acting head of the statistics department. Her research interests include empirical likelihood, functional neuroimaging, model selection and the history and sociology of statistics.

#1161

Sheila Bird

#62053

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Sheila Macdonald Bird OBE FRSE FMedSci is a Scottish biostatistician whose assessment of misuse of statistics in the British Medical Journal and BMJ series ‘Statistics in Question’ led to statistical guidelines for contributors to medical journals. Bird's doctoral work on non-proportional hazards in breast cancer found application in organ transplantation where beneficial matching was the basis for UK's allocation of cadaveric kidneys for a decade. Bird led the Medical Research Council Biostatistical Initiative in support of AIDS/HIV studies in Scotland, as part of which Dr A. Graham Bird and she pioneered Willing Anonymous HIV Surveillance studies in prisons.

#1162

Jill S. Barnholtz-Sloan

#59697

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Jill Suzanne Barnholtz-Sloan is an American biostatistician and data scientist specialized in cancer epidemiology and etiologic investigations of brain tumors. She is a senior investigator and associate director for informatics and data science at the National Cancer Institute.

#1163

Ailana Fraser

#108518

Overall Influence

1998 - Present (26 years)

Ailana Margaret Fraser is a Canadian mathematician and professor of mathematics at the University of British Columbia. She is known for her work in geometric analysis and the theory of minimal surfaces. Her research is particularly focused on extremal eigenvalue problems and sharp eigenvalue estimates for surfaces, min-max minimal surface theory, free boundary minimal surfaces, and positive isotropic curvature.

#1164

Fern Hunt

#55683

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Fern Yvette Hunt is an American mathematician known for her work in applied mathematics and mathematical biology. She currently works as a researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, where she conducts research on the ergodic theory of dynamical systems.

#1165

Barbara Trader Faires

#97024

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Barbara Trader Faires is an American mathematician who served as professor, department chair, and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Westminster College in Pennsylvania and served for 8 years as Secretary of the Mathematical Association of America . She received the Yueh-Gin Gung and Dr. Charles Y. Hu Award for Distinguished Service to Mathematics from the MAA in 2022. She is now retired and living in Pulaski Township, Pennsylvania.

#1166

Mirka Miller

#77362

Overall Influence

1949 - 2016 (67 years)

Mirka Miller was a Czech-Australian mathematician and computer scientist interested in graph theory and data security. She was a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Newcastle.

#1167

Valentina Gorbachuk

#72037

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

Valentina Ivanivna Gorbachuk is a Soviet and Ukrainian mathematician, specializing in operator theory and partial differential equations. Education and career Gorbachuk was born in Mogilev on 25 June 1937; then part of the Soviet Union, it has since become part of Belarus. Her parents worked as an accountant and a telegraphist; in search of better work, they moved to Lutsk in what is now Ukraine when Gorbachuk was a child, and that is where she was schooled.

#1168

Roswitha März

#93820

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Roswitha März is a German mathematician known for her research on differential-algebraic systems of equations. She is a professor emeritus of mathematics at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Education and career März was born on October 15, 1940, in Varnsdorf, now part of the Czech Republic. Beginning in 1960 she studied mathematics at the University of Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg State University, earning a diploma in 1965. She earned a doctorate from the Chemnitz University of Technology in 1970. Her dissertation, Interpolation mit Parameteroptimierung, was supervised by Frieder Kuhne...

#1169

Dorte Olesen

#71094

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Dorte Marianne Olesen is a Danish mathematician. In 1988 at Roskilde University, she became the first Danish woman to be appointed a full professor of mathematics. She has also played a leading role in the development of education and research networks, both in Denmark and at the European level.

#1170

Mary Wootters

#91249

Overall Influence

Mary Katherine Wootters is an American coding theorist, information theorist, and theoretical computer scientist. She is an assistant professor of computer science and electrical engineering and a member of the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University.

#1171

Eugenia Cheng

#97129

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (48 years)

Eugenia Loh-Gene Cheng is a British mathematician, educator and concert pianist. Her mathematical interests include higher category theory, and as a pianist she specialises in lieder and art song. She is also known for explaining mathematics to non-mathematicians to combat math phobia, often using analogies with food and baking. Cheng is a scientist-in-residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

#1172

Marie Hušková

#98186

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Marie Hušková is a Czech mathematician who worked in theoretical statistics and change-point problem. She was a doctoral student of Jaroslav Hájek. In 2012 she was awarded by title Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau for long term cooperation with Dutch mathematical statisticians. She is also a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute.

#1173

Julia Kempe

#53138

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Julia Kempe is a French, German, and Israeli researcher in quantum computing. She is currently the Director of the Center for Data Science at NYU and Professor at the Courant Institute. Education and career Kempe was born in East Berlin, to a family of Russian descent. She moved to Austria in 1990, and did her undergraduate studies in mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna from 1992 to 1995, with a year as an exchange student in physics at the University of Technology Sydney. She then earned two Master of Advanced Studies degrees in France: one in mathematics in 1996 from Pierre and Marie Curie University and another in 1997 in physics from the École normale supérieure.

#1174

Margaret Sullivan Pepe

#78877

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Margaret Patricia O'Sullivan Pepe is an Irish biostatistician specializing in the evaluation of tests and biomarkers for disease screening. She is a professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington School of Public Health and a researcher at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

#1175

Klavdija Kutnar

Klavdija Kutnar

#76758

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (44 years)

Klavdija Kutnar is a Slovene mathematician. She received her PhD at the University of Primorska in 2008. She is Rector of the University of Primorska. Biography Klavdija Kutnar was born 23 December 1980, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She graduated from the Faculty of Education of the University of Ljubljana in 2003, and in 2008 received her PhD in mathematics at the University of Primorska under the supervision of Dragan Marušič. From 2010 to 2012 she was head of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Primorska Institute Andrej Marušič . In 2012, she was elected dean of the University o...

#1176

Elaine Koppelman

Elaine Koppelman

#81622

Overall Influence

1937 - 2019 (82 years)

Elaine H. Koppelman Eugster was an American mathematician. She was the James Beall Professor of Mathematics at Goucher College. Early life and education Koppelman was born on March 28, 1937, in Brooklyn, New York. She had two brothers. At the age of 16, Koppelman graduated from high school. She earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics with a minor in physics from Brooklyn College. Koppelman completed a Master of Arts and an all but dissertation in mathematics at Yale University. For two years, she conducted doctoral research on a mathematical problem before uncovering that an obscure mathema...

#1177

Olivia Caramello

#93555

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (40 years)

Olivia Caramello is an Italian mathematician. She holds a national Rita Levi-Montalcini associate professorship at the University of Insubria in Como, Italy. She is known for her work in topos theory and for pioneering the technique of toposes as bridges. She authored the 2017 book Theories, Sites, Toposes: Relating and studying mathematical theories through topos-theoretic bridges.

#1178

Marti Anderson

#51843

Overall Influence

Marti J. Anderson is an ecological statistician whose works is interdisciplinary, from marine biology and ecology to mathematical and applied statistics. Her core areas of research and expertise are: community ecology, biodiversity, multivariate analysis, resampling methods, experimental designs, and statistical models of species abundances. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, she is a Distinguished Professor in the New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study at Massey University and also the Director of the New Zealand research and software-development company, PRIMER-e .

#1179

Olga Hadžić

#92459

Overall Influence

1946 - 2019 (73 years)

Olga Hadžić was a Serbian mathematician known for her work on fixed-point theorems. Early life and education Hadžić was born in Novi Sad, on 25 August 1946, the daughter of lawyer Lazar Hadžić and the granddaughter of writer and physician . She attended both the Jovan Jovanović Zmaj Gymnasium and a music school in Novi Sad. She earned a degree in mathematics at the University of Novi Sad in 1968, and continued there as an assistant, earning a master's degree through the Faculty of Natural Sciences And Mathematics at the University of Belgrade in 1970, and completing a doctorate at the University of Novi Sad in 1972.

#1180

Isabella Novik

#106323

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Isabella Novik is a mathematician who works at the University of Washington as the Robert R. & Elaine F. Phelps Professor in Mathematics. Her research concerns algebraic combinatorics and polyhedral combinatorics.

#1181

Snehalata V. Huzurbazar

#73639

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Snehalata V. Huzurbazar is an American statistician, known for her work in statistical genetics, and also interested in applications of statistics to geology. She is a professor of biostatistics, and chair of the biostatistics department, at the West Virginia University School of Public Health.

#1182

Xiaole Shirley Liu

Xiaole Shirley Liu

#24723

Overall Influence

Xiaole Shirley Liu is computational biologist, cancer researcher, and entrepreneur. She has been a Professor in the Department of Data Sciences at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is now the co-founder and CEO of GV20 Therapeutics.

#1183

Joan Leitzel

#97322

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

Joan Ruth Leitzel is an American mathematician and university administrator. She was the president of the University of New Hampshire from 1996 to 2002. She received the Charles Holmes Pettee Medal in 2002 for her contributions to the University of New Hampshire. She attended Hanover College , Brown University , and Indiana University .

#1184

Gerda Claeskens

#94927

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Gerda Claeskens is a Belgian statistician. She is a professor of statistics in the Faculty of Economics and Business at KU Leuven, associated with the KU Research Centre for Operations Research and Business Statistics .

#1185

Jane-Ling Wang

#104867

Overall Influence

Jane-Ling Wang is a distinguished professor of statistics at the University of California, Davis who studies dimension reduction, functional data analysis, and aging. Education and career Wang graduated from National Taiwan University in 1975 with a bachelor of arts degree in mathematics. She earned a master's of arts in mathematics in 1978 from the University of California, Berkeley, and in 1982, obtained a doctorate in statistics from the University of California, Berkeley; her dissertation, supervised by Lucien Le Cam, was Asymptotically Minimax Estimators for Distributions with Increasing Failure Rate.

#1186

Ruth Kellerhals

#104796

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Ruth Kellerhals is a Swiss mathematician at the University of Fribourg, whose field of study is hyperbolic geometry, geometric group theory and polylogarithm identities. Biography As a child, she went to a gymnasium in Basel and then studied at the University of Basel, graduating in 1982 with a diploma directed by Heinz Huber "On finiteness of the isometry group of a compact negatively curved Riemannian manifold". She received her PhD in 1988, from the same university, with a thesis entitled "On the volumes of hyperbolic polytopes in dimensions three and four". Her advisor was Hans-Christoph Im Hof.

#1187

Ruth Silverman

#91915

Overall Influence

1936 - 2011 (75 years)

Ruth Silverman was an American mathematician and computer scientist known for her research in computational geometry. She was one of the original founders of the Association for Women in Mathematics in 1971.

#1188

Bozenna Pasik-Duncan

#99455

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Bozenna Janina Pasik-Duncan is a Polish-American mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at the University of Kansas. Research Pasik-Duncan's research concerns stochastic control and its applications in communications, economics, and health science. She is also interested in mathematics education, particularly for women in STEM fields.

#1189

Alessandra Carbone

#68745

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Alessandra Carbone is an Italian mathematician and computer scientist. She is a professor in the computer science department of the Pierre and Marie Curie University. Since 2009 she has headed the laboratory of computational and quantitative biology. This laboratory studies the function and evolution of biological systems. She is a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France and received the Irène Joliot-Curie Prize in 2010.

#1190

Laurence Broze

#74757

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Laurence Broze is a Belgian applied mathematician specializing in statistics and econometrics and particularly in the theory of rational expectations. She is a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Lille in France. From 2012 to 2018 she was president of l'association femmes et mathématiques, a French association for women in mathematics.

#1191

Nancy Obuchowski

#100606

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Nancy A. Obuchowski is an American biostatistician whose research concerns the accuracy of image-based medical diagnoses, including the use of nonparametric statistics, receiver operating characteristic curves, and accounting for the effects of clustered data in this application. She works at the Lerner Research Institute of the Cleveland Clinic as vice chair of Quantitative Health Sciences, with a joint appointment in the Department of Diagnostic Radiology. She is also a professor in the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University.

#1192

Zhilan Feng

#88682

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Zhilan Julie Feng is a Chinese-American applied mathematician whose research topics include mathematical biology, population dynamics, and epidemiology. She is a professor of mathematics at Purdue University, and a program director in the Division of Mathematical Sciences at the National Science Foundation.

#1193

Maria Aparecida Soares Ruas

#99570

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Maria Aparecida Soares Ruas is a Brazilian mathematician specializing in differential geometry and singularity theory. She is a professor at the University of São Paulo. Education and career Ruas was born on 5 January 1948, in Lins, São Paulo. She became interested in mathematics through a junior high school mathematics teacher, Râmisa Jorge, and after entering university study in 1967, earned a licenciate in mathematics in 1970 through what is now the Faculty of Science and Letters of the Araraquara campus of São Paulo State University.

#1194

Sheila Oates Williams

#97546

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Sheila Oates Williams is a British and Australian mathematician specializing in abstract algebra. She is the namesake of the Oates–Powell theorem in group theory, and a winner of the B. H. Neumann Award.

#1195

Mary McCammon

#95058

Overall Influence

1928 - 2008 (80 years)

Mary Lister McCammon was a British mathematician and professor at Pennsylvania State University. She was the first woman to complete a doctoral degree in mathematics at Imperial College London, which she did in 1953.

#1196

Barbara Reys

#99026

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Barbara Jean Bestgen Reys is an American mathematics educator known for her research in number sense and mental calculation, for her mathematics textbooks, and for her leadership in developing curriculum standards for elementary school mathematics education. She is Curators Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri, and a winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

#1197

Hélène Barcelo

#96044

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Hélène Barcelo is a mathematician from Québec specializing in algebraic combinatorics. Within that field, her interests include combinatorial representation theory, homotopy theory, and arrangements of hyperplanes. She is a professor emeritus of mathematics at Arizona State University, and deputy director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute . She was editor-in-chief of the Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, from 2001 to 2009.

#1198

Catherine Cavagnaro

#105103

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Catherine Elizabeth Cavagnaro is an American mathematician and aviator. She is a professor of mathematics at Sewanee: The University of the South, specializing in geometric topology and combinatorial group theory, and is co-editor of the Dictionary of Classical and Theoretical Mathematics. She is also a former record-holder in consecutive spins of an airplane, has been repeatedly recognized by the General Aviation Awards Program for her contributions to flight safety and instruction, and is listed in the Tennessee Aviation Hall of Fame.

#1199

Tatjana Stykel

#102577

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Tatjana Stykel is a Russian mathematician who works as a professor of computational mathematics in the Institute of Mathematics of the University of Augsburg in Germany. Her research interests include numerical linear algebra, control theory, and differential-algebraic systems of equations.

#1200

Susie W. Håkansson

#99095

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Susie Wong Håkansson is known for her work in mathematics education, teacher preparation and professional development. Since 1999, she has been Executive Director of the California Mathematics Project.

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