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List of the most influential female people in Mathematics,

#451

Nike Sun

#52894

Overall Influence

Nike Sun is a probability theorist who works as an associate professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, on leave from the department of statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. She won the Rollo Davidson Prize in 2017. Her research concerns phase transitions and the counting complexity of problems ranging from the Ising model in physics to the behavior of random instances of the Boolean satisfiability problem in computer science.

#452

Judith Campisi

#47015

Overall Influence

Judith Campisi is an American biochemist and cell biologist. She is a professor of biogerontology at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging. She is also a member of the SENS Research Foundation Advisory Board and an adviser at the Lifeboat Foundation. She is co-editor in chief of the Aging Journal, together with Mikhail Blagosklonny and David Sinclair, and founder of the pharmaceutical company Unity Biotechnology. She is listed in Who's Who in Gerontology. She is widely known for her research on how senescent cells influence aging and cancer — in particular the Senescence Associated Secreto...

#453

Sylvie Méléard

#55837

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Sylvie Méléard is a French mathematician specializing in probability theory, stochastic processes, particle systems, and stochastic differential equations. She is editor-in-chief of Stochastic Processes and Their Applications.

#454

Paula Tretkoff

#61641

Overall Influence

Paula Tretkoff is an Australian-American mathematician who studies number theory, noncommutative geometry, and hypergeometric functions. She is a professor of mathematics at Texas A&M University, and a director of research at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique associated with the University of Lille.

#455

Laura Taalman

#57716

Overall Influence

Laura Anne Taalman, also known as mathgrrl, is an American mathematician known for her work on the mathematics of Sudoku and for her mathematical 3D printing models. Her mathematical research concerns knot theory and singular algebraic geometry; she is a professor of mathematics at James Madison University.

#456

Maria Wonenburger

Maria Wonenburger

#48729

Overall Influence

1927 - 2014 (87 years)

María Josefa Wonenburger Planells was a Galician mathematician who did research in the United States and Canada. She is known for her work on group theory. She was the first Spaniard to obtain a Fulbright scholarship for doctoral studies in mathematics.

#457

Susan Goldstine

#36177

Overall Influence

Susan Goldstine is an American mathematician active in mathematics and fiber arts. She is a professor of mathematics at St. Mary's College of Maryland, and the Steven Muller Distinguished Professor in the Sciences at St. Mary's College.

#458

Gabriele Nebe

#57429

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Gabriele Nebe is a German mathematician with contributions in the theory of lattices, modular forms, spherical designs, and error-correcting codes. With Neil Sloane, she maintains the Online Catalogue of Lattices. She is a professor in the department of mathematics at RWTH Aachen University.

#459

Alissa Crans

#49090

Overall Influence

Alissa Susan Crans is an American mathematician specializing in higher-dimensional algebra. She is a professor of mathematics at Loyola Marymount University, and the associate director of Project NExT, a program of the Mathematical Association of America to mentor post-doctoral mathematicians, statisticians, and mathematics teachers.

#460

Bin Yu

#19395

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Bin Yu is a Chinese-American statistician. She is currently Chancellor's Professor in the Departments of Statistics and of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.

#461

Hortensia Soto

#47851

Overall Influence

Hortensia Soto is a Mexican–American mathematics educator, and a professor of mathematics at Colorado State University. In May 2018, she was appointed Associate Secretary of the Mathematical Association of America .

#462

Ping Zhang

#63833

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Ping Zhang is a mathematician specializing in graph theory. She is a professor of mathematics at Western Michigan University and the author of multiple textbooks on graph theory and mathematical proof.

#463

Margaret Gurney

#58588

Overall Influence

1908 - 2002 (94 years)

Margaret Gurney was an American mathematician, statistician, and computer programmer. Originally trained in the mathematical study of partial differential equations at Swarthmore College, Brown University, and the University of Göttingen, she came to work for the United States Census Bureau. There, she became known for her expertise in sampling, stratified sampling, and survey methodology. At the Census Bureau she also worked as an early programmer of the UNIVAC I computer. Later, she became an international consultant, teaching statistical methods in developing countries. She won the Departm...

#464

Shabnam Akhtari

#64185

Overall Influence

Shabnam Akhtari is a Canadian-Iranian mathematician specializing in number theory, and in particular in Diophantine equations, Thue equations, and the geometry of numbers. She is a professor of mathematics at Pennsylvania State University.

#465

Karin Erdmann

#56254

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Karin Erdmann is a German mathematician specializing in the areas of algebra known as representation theory and homological algebra . She is notable for her work in modular representation theory which has been cited over 1500 times according to the Mathematical Reviews. Her nephew Martin Erdmann is professor for experimental particle physics at the RWTH Aachen University.

#466

Suzanne Weekes

#52998

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Suzanne L. Weekes is the Executive Director of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. She is also Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Worcester Polytechnic Institute . She is a co-founder of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Undergraduate Program.

#467

Auguste Dick

#39077

Overall Influence

1910 - 1993 (83 years)

Auguste Franziska Dick was an Austrian mathematician, historian of mathematics, and handwriting expert, known for her research on the history of mathematics under the Nazis, and for her biography of Emmy Noether.

#468

Mamokgethi Phakeng

Mamokgethi Phakeng

#27496

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Rosina Mamokgethi Phakeng is a South African professor of mathematics education who in 2018 became a vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Town . She has been the vice principal of research and innovation, at the University of South Africa and acting executive dean of the College of Science, Engineering and Technology at UNISA. In 2018 she was an invited speaker at the International Congresses of Mathematicians. In February 2023 it was announced that she would leave her position as vice-chancellor of UCT and take early retirement. She was succeeded by Professor Daya Reddy on 13 March 202...

#469

Sandrine Péché

#58829

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (47 years)

Sandrine Péché is a French mathematician who works as a professor in the Laboratoire de Probabilités, Statistique et Modélisation of Paris Diderot University. Her research concerns probability theory, mathematical physics, and the theory and applications of random matrices.

#470

Elizabeth Wilmer

#49033

Overall Influence

Elizabeth Lee Wilmer is an American mathematician known for her work on Markov chain mixing times. She is a professor, and former department head, of mathematics at Oberlin College. As a 16-year-old high school student at Stuyvesant High School and captain of the school mathematics team, Wilmer won second place in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search in 1987, for a project involving 3-coloring of graphs. The first-place winner that year was also female, marking the first year that the top two prizes both went to women. As an undergraduate at Harvard College, she led the university's team tha...

#471

V. Lakshmibai

#66983

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Venkatraman Lakshmibai is an Indian mathematician who is a professor emerita of mathematics at Northeastern University in Boston. Her research concerns algebraic geometry, the theory of algebraic groups, and representation theory, including in particular the theory of flag varieties and Schubert varieties.

#472

Eve Oja

#60374

Overall Influence

1948 - 2019 (71 years)

Eve Oja was an Estonian mathematician specializing in functional analysis. She was a professor at the University of Tartu. Early life and education Oja was born in Tallinn and studied at the Tartu State University , completing her undergraduate studies in 1972 and earning a doctorate in 1975. Her dissertation, Безусловные шаудеровы разложения в локально выпуклых пространствах was supervised by Gunnar Kangro.

#473

Tara E. Brendle

#63542

Overall Influence

Tara Elise Brendle is an American mathematician who works in geometric group theory, which involves the intersection of algebra and low-dimensional topology. In particular, she studies mapping class group of surfaces, including braid groups, and their relationship to automorphism groups of free groups and arithmetic groups. She is a professor of mathematics and head of mathematics at the University of Glasgow.

#474

Marie Farge

#44209

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Marie Farge is a French mathematician and physicist who works as a director of research at CNRS, the French National Centre for Scientific Research. She is known for her research on wavelets and turbulence in fluid mechanics.

#475

Pamela Gorkin

#53749

Overall Influence

Pamela Gorkin is an American mathematician specializing in complex analysis and operator theory. She is a professor of mathematics at Bucknell University. Education and career Gorkin earned bachelor's and master's degrees in statistics from Michigan State University in 1976. She then shifted to pure mathematics for her doctoral studies, completing her Ph.D. at Michigan State in 1982, the same year she joined the Bucknell Faculty. Her dissertation, Decompositions of the Maximal Ideal Space of L, was supervised by Sheldon Axler.

#476

Lara Alcock

#40607

Overall Influence

Lara Alcock is a British mathematics educator. She is a reader in mathematics education at Loughborough University, head of the Mathematics Education Centre at Loughborough, and the author of several books on mathematics. Alcock won the Selden Prize for her research in mathematics education and the inaugural John Blake University Teaching Medal in 2021. Alcock is a National Teaching Fellow.

#477

Nancy Hingston

#37028

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Nancy Burgess Hingston is a mathematician working in differential geometry. She is a professor emerita of mathematics at The College of New Jersey. Early life and education Nancy Hingston's father William Hingston was superintendent of the Central Bucks School District in Pennsylvania; her mother was a high school mathematics and computer science teacher. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a double major in mathematics and physics. After a year studying physics as a graduate student, she switched to mathematics, and completed her PhD in 1981 from Harvard University under th...

#478

Elena Marchisotto

#40685

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Elena Anne Corie Marchisotto is a mathematician, mathematics educator, and historian of mathematics. She is a professor emeritus of mathematics at California State University, Northridge. Education and career Marchisotto graduated from Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart in 1967 and earned a master's degree from California State University, Northridge in 1977. She completed a Ph.D. in 1990 from New York University. Her dissertation, The contributions of Mario Pieri to mathematics and mathematics education, was jointly supervised by Kenneth P. Goldberg and Anneli Cahn Lax.

#479

Margaret Brown

#58322

Overall Influence

Margaret Louise Brown is a British mathematics educator known for her research on numeracy and the learning stages of mathematics. She is an emeritus professor of mathematics education at King's College London, the former head of the School of Education at King's College London, the former president of the British Educational Research Association, , the former director of Graded Assessment in Mathematics , the former chair of the trustees of the School Mathematics Project, and the former president of the Mathematical Association.

#480

Xihong Lin

#22687

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Xihong Lin is a Chinese–American statistician known for her contributions to mixed models, nonparametric and semiparametric regression, and statistical genetics and genomics. , she is the Henry Pickering Walcott Professor and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Coordinating Director of the Program in Quantitative Genomics.

#481

Annette Huber-Klawitter

Annette Huber-Klawitter

#68421

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Annette Huber-Klawitter is a German mathematician at the University of Freiburg. Her research interests includes algebraic geometry, in particular the Bloch–Kato conjectures. A native of Frankfurt am Main, Huber-Klawitter began her academic career at the Goethe University Frankfurt. She obtained her doctorate from the University of Münster in 1994, under the supervision of Christopher Deninger. In 1996 Huber-Klawitter won an EMS Prize. She was an invited speaker at the 2002 International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing. In 2012 she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

#482

Chikako Mese

#62819

Overall Influence

Chikako Mese is an American mathematician known for her work in differential geometry, geometric analysis and the theory of harmonic maps. She is a professor of mathematics at Johns Hopkins University.

#483

Claudia Klüppelberg

Claudia Klüppelberg

#47680

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Claudia Klüppelberg is a German mathematical statistician and applied probability theorist, known for her work in risk assessment and statistical finance. She is a professor emerita of mathematical statistics at the Technical University of Munich.

#484

Georgia Benkart

#66328

Overall Influence

1949 - 2022 (73 years)

Georgia McClure Benkart was an American mathematician who was known for her work in the structure and representation theory of Lie algebras and related algebraic structures. She published over 130 journal articles and co-authored three American Mathematical Society memoirs in four broad categories: modular Lie algebras; combinatorics of Lie algebra representations; graded algebras and superalgebras; and quantum groups and related structures.

#485

Rebecca Goldin

#52015

Overall Influence

Rebecca Freja Goldin is an American mathematician who works as a professor of mathematical sciences at George Mason University and director of the Statistical Assessment Service, a nonprofit organization associated with GMU that aims to improve the use of statistics in journalism. Her mathematical research concerns symplectic geometry, including work on Hamiltonian actions and symplectic quotients.

#486

Giuliana Davidoff

#65031

Overall Influence

Giuliana P. Davidoff is an American mathematician specializing in number theory and expander graphs. She is the Robert L. Rooke Professor of Mathematics and the chair of mathematics and statistics at Mount Holyoke College.

#487

Huguette Delavault

#54606

Overall Influence

1924 - 2003 (79 years)

Huguette Delavault was a French mathematician, specializing in mathematical physics. Education and career Delavault was born on 15 January 1924, in Andilly, Charente-Maritime; her parents were both teachers. She studied at a school for teachers, the École normale d'instituteurs in La Rochelle, France, from 1940 to 1943, and then became a student at the École normale supérieure de Fontenay-aux-Roses from 1946 to 1949. After interrupting her studies for health reasons, in 1952 she passed her agrégation in mathematics. She became a researcher at CNRS from 1952 to 1958, while earning a doctorate ...

#488

Karen Aardal

#47537

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Karen I. Aardal is a Norwegian and Dutch applied mathematician, theoretical computer scientist, and operations researcher. Her research involves combinatorial optimization, integer programming, approximation algorithms, and facility location, with applications such as positioning emergency vehicles to optimize their response time. She is a professor in the Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics at the Delft University of Technology, and the chair of the Mathematical Optimization Society for the 2016–2019 term.

#489

Beverly Anderson

#62074

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Beverly Jacques Anderson is an American mathematician and emeritus professor at the University of the District of Columbia. In the 1990s she worked at the National Academy of Sciences as Director of Minority Programs for the Mathematical Sciences Education Board, and led the Making Mathematics Work for Minorities program.

#490

Adriana Neumann de Oliveira

#24798

Overall Influence

Adriana Neumann de Oliveira is a Brazilian mathematician specializing in interacting particle systems, awarded by the L'Oréal-UNESCO Prizes for women in science in 2016. She is a professor in the Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul.

#491

Yael Tauman Kalai

Yael Tauman Kalai

#20074

Overall Influence

Yael Tauman Kalai is a cryptographer and theoretical computer scientist who works as a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New England and as an adjunct professor at MIT in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab.

#492

Jo Ellis-Monaghan

#62020

Overall Influence

Joanna Anthony Ellis-Monaghan is an American mathematician and mathematics educator whose research interests include graph polynomials and topological graph theory. She is a professor of mathematics at the Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics of the University of Amsterdam.

#493

Jane Ye

#66192

Overall Influence

Jane Ye （叶娟娟）is a Chinese-Canadian mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at University of Victoria. Her interests include variational analysis and optimization constraint problems. She is the 2015 winner of the Krieger–Nelson Prize, given annually by the Canadian Mathematical Society to an outstanding female researcher in mathematics.

#494

Laura Grigori

#60153

Overall Influence

Laura Grigori is a French-Romanian applied mathematician and computer scientist known for her research on numerical linear algebra and communication-avoiding algorithms. She is a director of research for the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation in Paris, and heads the "Alpines" scientific computing project jointly affiliated with INRIA and the of Sorbonne University.

#495

Helena J. Nussenzveig Lopes

#51213

Overall Influence

Helena Judith Nussenzveig Lopes is a Brazilian mathematician, known for her work on the Euler equations for incompressible flow in fluid dynamics. She is a professor titular in the Department of Mathematical Methods at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

#496

Magda Peligrad

#57564

Overall Influence

Magda Peligrad is a Romanian mathematician and mathematical statistician known for her research in probability theory, and particularly on central limit theorems and stochastic processes. She works at the University of Cincinnati, where she is Distinguished Charles Phelps Taft Professor of Mathematical Sciences.

#497

Grace Yang

#62856

Overall Influence

Grace Lo Yang is a Chinese statistician whose research areas include stochastic processes in the physical sciences, asymptotic theory, and survival analysis. She is a professor of statistics in the department of mathematics at the University of Maryland, College Park. She was president of the International Chinese Statistical Association for 1990–1991 and program director for statistics at the National Science Foundation from 2005 to 2008.

#498

Julie Bergner

#48834

Overall Influence

Julia Elizabeth Bergner is a mathematician specializing in algebraic topology, homotopy theory, and higher category theory. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Virginia. Education and career Bergner graduated from Gonzaga University in 2000. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Notre Dame in 2005. Her dissertation, Three Models for the Homotopy Theory of Homotopy Theories, was supervised by William Gerard Dwyer.

#499

Kristin Umland

#66012

Overall Influence

Kristin Umland is an American mathematician and mathematics educator. She was on the faculty of the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico for nearly two decades before leaving to help build the nonprofit organization Illustrative Mathematics .

#500

Candice Renee Price

#63761

Overall Influence

Candice Renee Price is an African-American mathematician and is an Associate professor at Smith College. She, along with Erica Graham, Raegan Higgins, and Shelby Wilson created the website Mathematically Gifted and Black which features the contributions of modern-day black mathematicians. She is an advocate for greater representation of females and people of color in the STEM fields. Price's area of mathematical research is DNA topology.

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