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Hypatia
Hypatia (born 350–370 – March 415 AD) was a Neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who lived in Alexandria, at that time in the province of Egypt and a major city of the Roman Empire. In Alexandria, Hypatia was a prominent thinker who taught subjects including philosophy and astronomy, and in her lifetime was renowned as a great teacher and a wise counselor. Not the only fourth century Alexandrian female mathematician, Hypatia was preceded by Pandrosion. However, Hypatia is the first female mathematician whose life is reasonably well recorded. She wrote a commentary on Di
Elena Cornaro Piscopia
Venetian philosopher (1646–1684)
Daina Taimiņa
American mathematician of Latvian origin (born 1954)
Ulrike Tillmann
mathematician
Laila Soueif
Egyptian activist, mathematician, professor
Fátima de Madrid
Andalusian astronomer
Tamara Awerbuch-Friedlander
Biomathematician and public health scientist
Pandrosion
Pandrosion of Alexandria () was a mathematician in fourth-century-AD Alexandria, discussed in the Mathematical Collection of Pappus of Alexandria and known for having possibly developed an approximate method for doubling the cube. She is likely the earliest known female mathematician.
Alexandra Bellow
Romanian-American mathematician (1935–2025)
Sara Zahedi
Iranian-Swedish mathematician
Maria Chudnovsky
Mathematician and engineer
Lam Lay Yong
mathematician and historian of mathematics
Hourya Benis-Sinaceur
Moroccan philosopher
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Olabisi Ugbebor
Nigerian mathematician
Ayşe Soysal
Turkish mathematician (born 1948)
Eve Oja
Estonian mathematician (1948-2019)
Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu
American mathematician
Hanan Mohamed Abdelrahman
Egyptian-Norwegian mathematics educator
Mina Teicher
Israeli mathematician
Priyanshi Somani
Indian mental calculator
Lucy Campbell
Applied mathematician and numerical analyst
Ene-Margit Tiit
Estonian mathematician and statistician (born 1934)
'Mamphono Khaketla
Lesotho mathematician and senator
Verena Huber-Dyson
Swiss-American mathematician (1923-2016)
Neda Bokan
Serbian mathematician
Chuu-Lian Terng
mathematician
Amèle El Mahdi
Algerian writer, professor of mathematics
Argelia Velez-Rodriguez
Cuban-American mathematician and educator
Mileva Prvanović
Serbian mathematician (1929-2016)
Irene Sciriha
Maltese mathematician
Betül Tanbay
Turkish mathematician (born 1960)
Elena Braverman
Russian, Israeli, and Canadian mathematician
Judita Cofman
Yugoslav mathematician
Karen Willcox
aerospace engineer and computational scientist
Yael Karshon
Israeli and Canadian mathematician
Top Secret Rosies: The Female "Computers" of WWII
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Chantal David
Canadian mathematician
Laura Martignon
Colombian and Italian mathematician (1952-)
Mara Alagic
Serbian mathematics educator
Sara Negri
Mathematical logician
Miranda Teboh-Ewungkem
Cameroonian mathematician
Fioralba Cakoni
Albanian mathematician
Alma Johanna Ruubel
Estonian mathematician (1899-1990)
Jeanette Shakalli
Panamanian mathematician (born 1985)
Khalida Inayat Noor
Pakistani mathematician
Aldona Aleškevičienė-Statulevičienė
Lithuanian mathematician
Olga Hadžić
Serbian mathematician (1946-2019)