List of women in mathematics

This is a list of women who have made noteworthy contributions to or achievements in mathematics. These include mathematical research, mathematics education, the history and philosophy of mathematics, public outreach, and mathematics contests.

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Karen Aardal (born 1961), Norwegian and Dutch applied mathematician, theoretical computer scientist, and operations researcher

Hanan Mohamed Abdelrahman, Egyptian and Norwegian mathematics educator

Izabela Abramowicz (1889–1973), Polish mathematician and mathematics educator

Louise Doris Adams (1889–1965), British mathematics reformer, president of the Mathematical Association

Rachel Blodgett Adams (1894–1982), American mathematician, one of the earliest mathematics doctorates from Radcliffe College

Tatyana Afanasyeva (1876–1964), Russian-Dutch researcher in statistical mechanics, randomness, and geometry education

Amandine Aftalion (born 1973), French applied mathematician, studies superfluids and the mathematics of footracing

Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718–1799), Italian mathematician and philosopher, possibly the first female mathematics professor

Ilka Agricola (born 1973), German expert on differential geometry and its applications in mathematical physics

Nkechi Agwu (born 1962), African American ethnomathematician

Dorit Aharonov (born 1970), Israeli specialist in quantum computing

Beatrice Aitchison (1908–1997), American topologist who became a transportation economist in the US civil service

Noreen Sher Akbar, Pakistani fluid dynamicist

Shabnam Akhtari, Iranian number theorist

Jacqueline Akinpelu (born 1953), American applied mathematician and operations researcher

Asuman Aksoy, Turkish-American functional analyst

Meike Akveld, Swiss knot theorist and mathematics educator

Fatiha Alabau (born 1961), French expert in control of partial differential equations, president of French applied mathematics society

Mara Alagic, Serbian mathematics educator, editor-in-chief of Journal of Mathematics and the Arts

Ofelia Teresa Alas (born 1943), second woman to receive mathematics Ph.D. in Brazil from a Brazilian institution

Lara Alcock, British mathematics educator and author

Helen Popova Alderson (1924–1972), Russian and British mathematician and translator, wrote on quasigroups and reciprocity laws

Grace Alele-Williams (1932–2022), first woman to lead a Nigerian university

Aldona Aleškevičienė-Statulevičienė (1936–2017), Lithuanian probability theorist

Stephanie B. Alexander, American differential geometer

Florence Eliza Allen (1876–1960), second female and fourth overall mathematics PhD from the University of Wisconsin

Linda J. S. Allen, American mathematician and mathematical biologist

Elizabeth S. Allman (born 1965), American mathematical biologist

Ann S. Almgren, American applied mathematician who works on computational simulations of supernovae and white dwarfs

Melania Alvarez, Mexican-Canadian mathematics educator, organizer of summer mathematics camps for indigenous students

Yvette Amice (1936–1993), French expert on p-adic analysis who became president of the French mathematical society

Divsha Amirà (1899–1966), Israeli geometer and mathematics educator

T. A. Sarasvati Amma (1918–2000), Historian of ancient Indian mathematics

Astrid an Huef, New Zealand expert on functional analysis, president of New Zealand Mathematical Society

Nalini Anantharaman (born 1976), French mathematical physicist, winner of the Henri Poincaré Prize

Beverly Anderson (born 1943), American mathematician, director of minority programs for Mathematical Sciences Education Board

Kirsti Andersen (born 1941), Danish historian of mathematics

Cabiria Andreian Cazacu (1928–2018), Romanian complex analyst

Hajnal Andréka (born 1947), Hungarian researcher in algebraic logic

Annie Dale Biddle Andrews (1885–1940), algebraic geometer, first female PhD from the University of California, Berkeley

Grace Andrews (mathematician) (1869–1951), one of only two women listed in the first edition of American Men of Science

Lidia Angeleri Hügel (born 1960), Italian expert on tilting theory and silting theory

Guacolda Antoine Lazzerini (1908–2015), Chilean mathematician and mathematics educator

Kathleen Antonelli (1921–2006), Irish-American programmer of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer

Paola Antonietti (born 1980), Italian numerical analyst, applies domain decomposition methods to geophysical simulation

Noriko H. Arai (born 1962), Japanese mathematical logician and artificial intelligence researcher

Crista Arangala, American numerical analyst, textbook author, and international educator

Carolina Araujo, Brazilian algebraic geometer

Gabriela Araujo-Pardo, Mexican graph theorist, president of Mexican Mathematical Society

Maria Angela Ardinghelli (1730–1825), Italian translator of Stephen Hales, mathematician, physicist and noble

Esther Arkin, Israeli-American researcher in operations research and computational geometry

Sandra Arlinghaus, founder of the Institute of Mathematical Geography

Beulah Armstrong (1895–1965), American mathematician, University of Illinois

Marie-Claude Arnaud, French expert in dynamical systems

Mary Nicholas Arnoldy (1893–1985), American nun and mathematician

Fuensanta Aroca, Spanish-Mexican tropical geometer

Elayne Arrington, American aerospace engineer, expert on Soviet aircraft

Sharon Arroyo, American operations researcher in aircraft manufacture

Michèle Artigue (born 1946), French expert in mathematics education

Natascha Artin Brunswick (1909–2003), German-American mathematician, photographer, and journal editor

Shiri Artstein (born 1978), Israeli mathematician specializing in convex geometry and asymptotic geometric analysis

Marcia Ascher (1935–2013), American ethnomathematician

Winifred Asprey (1917–2007), helped establish the first computer science lab at Vassar

Hilda Assiyatun, Indonesian graph theorist, president of Indonesian Combinatorial Society

Susan Assmann (1956–2020), American discrete mathematician and biostatistician

Michèle Audin (born 1954), French researcher in symplectic geometry

Bonnie Averbach (1933–2019), American mathematics and actuarial educator and author

Tamara Awerbuch-Friedlander (died 2021), American biomathematician and public health scientist

Christine Ayoub (1922–2024), Canadian-American algebraist

Hertha Ayrton (1854–1923), English engineer, mathematician, physicist, and inventor, winner of the Hughes Medal

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Ellen Baake (born 1961), German mathematical biologist

Wealthy Babcock (1895–1990), American mathematician, namesake of Kansas University mathematics library

Christine Bachoc (born 1964), French expert on coding theory and kissing numbers

Clara Latimer Bacon (1866–1948), first woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics from Johns Hopkins University

Jenny Baglivo (born 1948), American mathematician, statistician, and book author

Hajer Bahouri (born 1958), Franco-Tunisian mathematician interested in partial differential equations

Ann E. Bailie (born 1935), American mathematician and space scientist, discovered that the earth is pear-shaped

Frances Ellen Baker (1902–1995), American mathematician and number theorist

Kitty Baker (1912–2014), American mathematics educator, artist and weaver, and author

Rose Baker, British physicist, mathematician, and statistician

Ruth Baker, British mathematical biologist interested in pattern formation and morphogenesis

Rena Bakhshi (born 1981), Dutch complex network theorist

Viviane Baladi (born 1963), Swiss-French expert on dynamical systems

Jennifer Balakrishnan, American number theorist who solved the "cursed curve"

Deborah Loewenberg Ball, American mathematics education researcher

Cristina Ballantine, Romanian-born American algebraic combinatorist and number theorist

Catherine Bandle (born 1943), Swiss expert on differential equations and isoperimetric inequalities

Selenne Bañuelos (born 1985), Mexican-American mathematician and mathematical biologist

Hélène Barcelo (born 1954), mathematician from Québec, former editor-in-chief of Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A

Grace Marie Bareis (1875–1962), American group theorist, first mathematics Ph.D. at Ohio State, and founding member of the MAA

Nina Bari (1901–1961), Soviet mathematician known for her work on trigonometric series

Ruth Aaronson Bari (1917–2005), American mathematician known for her work in graph theory and homomorphisms

Mildred Barnard (1908–2000), Australian biometrician, mathematician and statistician

Janet Barnett, American mathematician known for integrating the history of mathematics into her teaching

Ida Barney (1886–1982), American mathematics professor and astronomer

Charlotte Barnum (1860–1934), mathematician and social activist, first female mathematics PhD from Yale

Margaret Baron (1915–1996), British mathematics educator and historian of mathematics

Lida Barrett (1927–2021), second female president of the MAA

Katrina Barron (born 1965), American expert on vertex operator algebra

June Barrow-Green (born 1953), British historian of mathematics

Jean Bartik (1924–2011), one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer

Martha Helen Barton (1891–1971), American mathematician and professor

Estelle Basor (born 1947), American mathematician interested in operator theory and the theory of random matrices

Marjorie Batchelor, American mathematician known for Batchelor's theorem on supermanifolds

Grace Bates (1914–1996), one of few women in the United States to be granted a PhD in mathematics in the 1940s

Lynn Batten (born 1948), Canadian immigrant to Australia, researcher in finite geometries and cryptography

Helga Baum (born 1954), German differential geometer

Patricia E. Bauman, studies the mathematics of liquid crystals and superconductors

Karin Baur, Swiss combinatorial representation theorist

Agnes Sime Baxter (1870–1917), second Canadian and fourth North American woman to earn a mathematics PhD

Margaret Bayer, American mathematician working in polyhedral combinatorics

Pilar Bayer (born 1946), Spanish number theorist

Eva Bayer-Fluckiger (born 1951), Hungarian-Swiss mathematician, proved Serre's conjecture on Galois cohomology of classical groups

Jillian Beardwood (1934–2019), British mathematician, contributed to the traveling salesperson problem

Karine Beauchard (born 1978), French control theorist

Agnès Beaudry, Canadian-American stable homotopy theorist

Miriam Becker (1909–2000), American mathematician whose career became a test case for unionization and academic tenure

Astrid Beckmann (born 1957), German mathematician, mathematics educator, physicist, and academic administrator

May Beenken (1901–1988), American mathematician

Janet Beery, American mathematician and historian of mathematics

Mary Beisiegel, American mathematics educator

Marion Beiter (1907–1982), American mathematician, expert on cyclotomic polynomials

sarah-marie belcastro, American algebraic geometer, editor of books on mathematics and fiber arts

Hélène Bellosta (1946–2011), French historian of mathematics in medieval Islam

Alexandra Bellow (1935–2025), Romanian researcher in ergodic theory, probability and analysis

Margherita Piazzola Beloch (1879–1976), Italian researcher in algebraic geometry, algebraic topology and photogrammetry

Amel Ben Abda, Tunisian applied mathematician

Carolina Benedetti, Colombian combinatorist, co-executive director of Mathematical Circles Colombia

Suzan Rose Benedict (1873–1942), first woman to earn a PhD from the University of Michigan

Georgia Benkart (1947–2022), American mathematician, expert on Lie algebras

Alona Ben-Tal, Israeli and New Zealand applied mathematician, models human and bird breathing

Deborah J. Bennett (born 1950), American mathematics educator and popular mathematics book author

Sylvie Benzoni (born 1967), French expert in fluid dynamics and partial differential equations, director of the Institut Henri Poincaré

Bonnie Berger, American mathematician and computer scientist, researcher in computational molecular biology

Marsha Berger (born 1953), American researcher in numerical analysis, computational fluid dynamics, and parallel computing

Tanja Bergkvist (born 1974), Swedish mathematician and anti-feminist activist

Julie Bergner, American expert on algebraic topology, homotopy theory, and higher category theory

Nicole Berline (born 1944), French researcher on index theory of elliptic differential operators

Natalia Berloff, professor of applied mathematics at the University of Cambridge

Leah Berman (born 1976), American discrete geometer

Christine Bernardi (1955–2018), French expert on numerical analysis of partial differential equations

Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (1914–1988), applied mathematician, first female president of the MAA

Inga Berre (born 1978), Norwegian applied mathematician, models porous media and geothermal systems

Valérie Berthé (born 1968), French researcher in symbolic dynamics, combinatorics on words, and discrete geometry

Andrea Bertozzi (born 1965), American researcher in partial differential equations, studies mathematics of urban crime

Nadine Bezuk, American mathematics educator, president and executive director of Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators

Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak (1938–2009), professor of combinatorics and head of mathematics at the University of Mumbai

Ushadevi Bhosle (born 1949), Indian expert on vector bundles

Francesca Biagini (born 1973), Italian-German probability theorist and financial mathematician

Ginestra Bianconi, Italian network scientist

Lydia Bieri (born 1972), Swiss-American expert on general relativity, gravity waves, and the history of cosmology

Anna Maria Bigatti, Italian algebraist, developer of CoCoA

Hester Bijl, Dutch professor of numerical mathematics and academic administrator

Miggy Biller, British mathematician and mathematics educator

Sara Billey (born 1968), American algebraic combinatorialist

Katalin Bimbó (born 1963), Canadian mathematical logician and proof theorist

Christina Birkenhake (born 1961), German algebraic geometer

Joan Birman (born 1927), American braid and knot theorist

Laure Blanc-Féraud (born 1963), French applied mathematician and image processing researcher

Gertrude Blanch (1897–1996), American numerical analyst

Roswitha Blind, German convex geometer and politician

Karen M. Bliss, American applied mathematician specializing in biomedical applications and materials science

Lenore Blum (born 1942), distinguished professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University

Jo Boaler (born 1964), British-American promoter of mathematics education reform and equitable mathematics classrooms

Mary L. Boas (1917–2010), author of Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences

Christine Böckmann (born 1955), German numerical analyst, expert in atmospheric lidar

Graciela Boente, Argentine mathematical statistician known for her research in robust statistics

Sabine Bögli, Swiss mathematical analyst

Neda Bokan (born 1947), Serbian differential geometer

Vrushali Bokil, Indian-American applied mathematician

Natashia Boland (born 1967), Australian mathematician and operations researcher

Sylvie Boldo, French expert in formal verification of numerical computation

Aline Bonami, French mathematical analyst, president of the Société mathématique de France

Petra Bonfert-Taylor, German-American complex analyst and engineering educator

Virginie Bonnaillie-Noël (born 1976), French numerical analyst

Alicia Boole Stott (1860–1940), Irish-English four-dimensional geometer

Mary Everest Boole (1832–1916), self-taught author of didactic works on mathematics

Kathleen Booth (1922–2022), British mathematician and pioneer of assembly language computer programming

Liliana Borcea, Romanian-American applied mathematician, expert on wave propagation

Valentina Borok (1931–2004), Soviet Ukrainian mathematician who studied partial differential equations

Celia Grillo Borromeo (1684–1777), Genovese mathematician and scientist, discovered Clélie curve

Liouba Bortniker (1860 – after 1903), Russian-French mathematician, first woman agrégée in mathematics, first winner of Peccot prize

Fernanda Botelho (born 1957), Portuguese-American functional analyst

Julia Böttcher, German graph theorist

Mary Michel Boulus (1926–2012), American Catholic nun, mathematics teacher, and college president

Ludmila Bourchtein, Soviet and Brazilian mathematical analyst and textbook author

Anne Bourlioux, Canadian expert in turbulent combustion and world record holder in indoor rowing

Élisabeth Bouscaren (born 1956), French mathematician who studies the connections between algebraic geometry and model theory

Mireille Bousquet-Mélou (born 1967), French combinatorialist

Anne Boutet de Monvel (born 1948), French applied mathematician and mathematical physicist

Debra Boutin (1957–2025), American mathematician, expert on the symmetries of graphs

Sylvia Bozeman (born 1947), African-American mathematician and academic administrator

Lis Brack-Bernsen (born 1946), Danish and Swiss mathematician, historian of science, and historian of mathematics

Mary Bradburn (1923–2000), British mathematics educator, president of the Mathematical Association

Elizabeth Bradley (born 1961), American expert in nonlinear dynamical systems, competed in 1988 Olympics

Lillian K. Bradley (1921–1995), first African-American woman to earn a doctorate in any subject at the University of Texas

Dorothy Brady (1903–1977), American mathematician and economist

Priscilla Braislin (1838–1888), first professor of mathematics at Vassar College

Leila Bram (1927–1979), head of mathematics for Office of Naval Research

Leticia Brambila Paz (born 1953), Mexican algebraic geometer

Bodil Branner (born 1943), founder of European Women in Mathematics, chair of the Danish Mathematical Society

Hel Braun (1914–1986), German number theorist

Elena Braverman, Russian, Israeli, and Canadian researcher in delay differential equations and difference equations

Loretta Braxton (1934–2019), American mathematician

Marilyn Breen (born 1944), American geometer

Tara E. Brendle, American low-dimensional topologist and combinatorial group theorist

Susanne Brenner, expert in the numerical solution of differential equations

Sonja Brentjes (born 1951), German historian of Islamic mathematics and cartography

Diane Briars (born 1951), American mathematics educator, advocate for education reform, president of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Kathrin Bringmann (born 1977), German number theorist, expert on mock theta functions, winner of SASTRA Ramanujan Prize

Ruth Britto, American mathematical physicist

Jill Britton (1944–2016), Canadian mathematics educator, author of educational books on mathematics

Bárbara M. Brizuela, American researcher on mathematics education in early childhood and elementary school

Anne Broadbent, Canadian researcher on quantum computing, quantum cryptography, and quantum information

Tamara Broderick, American mathematician and computer scientist who works in machine learning and Bayesian inference

Lia Bronsard (born 1963), Canadian expert on interface dynamics, president of Canadian Mathematical Society

Margaret Brown, British mathematics educator

Susan Brown (1937–2017), English fluid mechanics researcher, possibly second female mathematics professor in UK

Marjorie Lee Browne (1914–1979), one of the first African-American women to receive a doctorate in mathematics

Laurence Broze (born 1960), Belgian applied mathematician, statistician, and economist, president of l'association femmes et mathématiques

Karen Brucks (1957–2017), American mathematician, expert on one-dimensional dynamical systems

Maria Bruna (born 1984), Spanish applied mathematician known for stochastic modelling of multiscale phenomena

Sophie Bryant (1850–1922), Anglo-Irish mathematician, educator, feminist and activist

Ranee Brylinski (born 1957), American mathematician known for her research in representation theory and quantum logic gates

Evelyn Buckwar, German-Austrian expert on stochastic differential equations

Alina Bucur, American analytic number theorist and arithmetic statistician

Lilya Budaghyan, Armenian-Norwegian cryptographer

Annalisa Buffa (born 1973), Italian specialist in numerical analysis for partial differential equations

Marta Bunge (1938–2022), Argentine-Canadian category theorist

Angelika Bunse-Gerstner (born 1951), German expert on numerical linear algebra

Regina S. Burachik, Argentine-Australian researcher in convex analysis, functional analysis and non-smooth analysis

Almut Burchard, German-Canadian functional analyst, probability theorist, and communication network analyst

Marilyn Burns (born 1941), American mathematics educator and author of children's books on mathematics

Ellen Burrell (1850–1938), American mathematician

Gail F. Burrill, American mathematics educator, president of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Leone Burton (1936–2007), British researcher in ethnomathematics, founded book series on women in mathematics

Edith Bush (1882–1977), American mathematician, first female engineering professor at Tufts University

Ida Busbridge (1908–1988), studied integral equations and radiative transfer, first female mathematics fellow at Oxford

Marjorie V. Butcher (1925–2016), American actuarial mathematician, first woman mathematics instructor at Michigan, first woman professor at Trinity College Connecticut

Lynne Butler (born 1955), American combinatorialist and mathematical statistician

Margaret K. Butler (1924–2013), computer programmer, director of the National Energy Software Center at Argonne

Helen Byrne, British applied mathematician and mathematical biologist

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María Emilia Caballero, Mexican probability theorist

Angelina Cabras (1898–1993), Italian mathematician, physicist, and theoretical mechanics professor

Hannah Cairo, American harmonic analyst

Fioralba Cakoni, Albanian expert on inverse scattering theory

Maria-Carme Calderer, Spanish-American researcher in applied mathematics

Nora Calderwood (1896–1985), Scottish mathematician, namesake of Birmingham University's Calderwood Prize

Helen Calkins (1893–1970), American mathematician and professor

Daniela Calvetti, Italian-American mathematician whose work connects Bayesian statistics with numerical analysis

Erika Tatiana Camacho (born 1974), Mexican-American mathematical biologist

Lucy Campbell, geophysical fluid dynamics researcher from Barbados, Jamaica, Ghana, and Canada

Sue Ann Campbell, Canadian applied mathematician and computational neuroscientist, president of Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematical Society

Jessie Forbes Cameron (1883–1968), British mathematician, first woman to complete her PhD in mathematics at the University of Marburg

Naiomi Cameron, American combinatorist, vice president of National Association of Mathematicians

Patricia Campbell, American mathematics educator

María Antònia Canals (1930–2022), Spanish mathematics educator and recreational mathematician

Sunčica Čanić, Croatian-American expert in modeling the cardiovascular system and devices for treating it

Ana Cannas da Silva (born 1968), Portuguese mathematician specializing in symplectic geometry and geometric topology

Barbara Canright (1920–1997), American human computer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Yaiza Canzani, Spanish and Uruguayan mathematical analysis, known for work in spectral geometry and microlocal analysis

Mireille Capitaine, French researcher on random matrices and free probability theory

Lucia Caporaso, Italian algebraic geometer

Marian Palmer Capps (1901–2001), American mathematician and leader of prominent African-American women's societies

Ana Caraiani, Romanian-American IMO medalist, Putnam fellow, expert in algebraic number theory and the Langlands program

Olivia Caramello (born 1984), Italian topos theorist

Alessandra Carbone, Italian mathematician and computer scientist, studies protein interactions in muscular dystrophy

Marilyn Carlson, American mathematics education scholar focusing on the teaching of precalculus

Sally Elizabeth Carlson (1896–2000), first woman to obtain a doctorate in mathematics at the University of Minnesota

Debra Carney, American mathematics educator

Ana Carpio, Spanish applied mathematician

María J. Carro (born 1961), Spanish mathematical analyst

Anna Cartan (1878–1923), French mathematician, teacher and textbook author, student of Marie Curie

Coralia Cartis, Romanian expert on compressed sensing, numerical analysis, and regularization methods in optimization

Mary Cartwright (1900–1998), British mathematician, one of the first to analyze a dynamical system with chaos

María Andrea Casamayor (1700–1780), only 18th-century Spanish scientist whose work is still extant

Bettye Anne Case, American mathematician and historian of mathematics

Emma Castelnuovo (1913–2014), Italian mathematics educator and textbook author

Eleonora Catsigeras (born 1956), Uruguayan mathematician, applies dynamical systems in neuroscience

Catherine Cavagnaro (born 1965), American low-dimensional topologist and aerobatic aviator

Beatrice Mabel Cave-Browne-Cave (1874–1947), English pioneer in the mathematics of aeronautics

Frances Cave-Browne-Cave (1876–1965), English mathematician and computer scientist, taught at Girton College, Cambridge

Anny Cazenave (born 1944), French space geodesist, pioneer in satellite altimetry

Zoia Ceaușescu (1949–2006), Romanian functional analyst, daughter of Communist leader

Elena Celledoni (born 1967), Italian-Norwegian expert on numerical analysis, Lie groups, and structure-preserving algorithms

Isabelle Chalendar, French functional analyst

Vivien Challis, Australian Applied mathematician, expert in topology optimization

Sue Chandler, author of English secondary-school mathematics textbooks

Melody Chan, American expert in combinatorial commutative algebra, graph theory, and tropical geometry

Sun-Yung Alice Chang (born 1948), Chinese-American mathematical analyst, member of National Academy of Sciences

Josephine Chanler (1906–1992), American mathematician

Mei-Chu Chang, Taiwanese-American expert in algebraic geometry and combinatorial number theory

Vyjayanthi Chari (born 1958), Indian-American expert in quantum algebra

Ruth Charney (born 1950), American expert on geometric group theory and Artin groups, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)

Marie Charpentier (1903–1994), first woman to earn a doctorate in pure mathematics in France and second to obtain a faculty position there

Émilie du Châtelet (1706–1749), French translator and commentator of Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica

Françoise Chatelin (1941–2020), French applied mathematician and numerical analyst

Indira Chatterji (born 1973), Swiss-Indian low-dimensional geometer

Zoé Chatzidakis, French researcher in model theory and differential algebra

Laura Chaubard, French mathematician, Director General of the École Polytechnique

Madeleine Chaumont (1896–1973), French mathematician, one of first women at École normale supérieure

Jennifer Tour Chayes (born 1956), expert on phase transitions in networks, founder of the theory group at Microsoft Research

Karine Chemla (born 1958), French historian of Chinese mathematics

Jacqueline Chen, American applied mathematician and mechanical engineer, applies massively parallel computing to simulate combustion

Jing (Maggie) Chen, Chinese-British financial mathematician, expert on Hawkes processes

Xiaojun Chen, Chinese applied mathematician, expert on nonconvex optimization

Margaret Cheney (born 1955), American expert on inverse problems

Eugenia Cheng, English category theorist and pianist, uses analogies with food and baking to teach mathematics to non-mathematicians

Leslie Cheng, American harmonic analyst

Maggie Cheng, Chinese-American applied mathematician, computer scientist, and network scientist

Miranda Cheng (born 1979), Taiwanese-Dutch mathematician and theoretical physicist, formulated umbral moonshine

Yingda Cheng (born 1983), Chinese-American applied mathematician, expert in Galerkin methods

Alina Chertock, mathematician specializing in the numerical solution of partial differential equations modeling flow and chemotaxis

Amanda Chetwynd, British combinatorist and spatial statistician

Elaine Chew, Singaporean-American expert in the mathematics and visualization of concepts in music theory

Tanya Christiansen, American expert on scattering theory and partial differential equations

Graciela Chichilnisky (born 1944), Argentine-American mathematical economist and authority on climate change

Lauren M. Childs, American mathematician, expert on modeling disease spread

Phyllis Chinn (born 1941), American graph theorist and historian of mathematics

Grace Chisholm Young (1868–1944), English mathematician, first woman to receive a German doctorate

Sonya Christian, Indian mathematician and American community college administrator

YoungJu Choie (born 1959), Korean number theorist

Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923–2025), French mathematician and physicist, first woman elected to the French Academy

Maria Chudnovsky (born 1977), Israeli-American graph theorist, MacArthur Fellow

Fan Chung (born 1949), Taiwanese-American researcher in random graphs

Julia Chuzhoy, Israeli expert in approximation algorithms and graph minor theory

Monique Chyba, applied control theory to autonomous underwater vehicles

Agata Ciabattoni, Italian non-classical mathematical logician

Maria Cibrario (1905–1992), Italian specialist in partial differential equations

Marta Civil, American mathematics educator

Mónica Clapp, Mexican researcher in nonlinear partial differential equations and algebraic topology

Cathy Ann Clark, American applied mathematician known for computational modeling of undersea acoustics

Lisa Orloff Clark, professor of mathematics at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand

Joan Clarke (1917–1996), English code-breaker at Bletchley Park, numismatist

Jeanne N. Clelland (born 1970), American expert on differential geometry and its applications to differential equations

Mary Clem (1905–1979), American mathematician and human computer, invented zero check error detection

Harriet Redfield Cobb (1866–1958), American mathematician

Anne Cobbe (1920–1971), British algebraist

Sally Cockburn (born 1960), Canadian-American mathematician

Jane Purcell Coffee (1944–2023), one of the first women to earn a mathematics PhD at U. Penn.; founded a teaching academy

Judita Cofman (1936–2001), Yugoslav-German finite geometer and mathematics educator, first mathematics doctorate from Novi Sad

Doris Cohen, American mathematician, first female author in the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

Elaine Cohen, American pioneer in the use of splines for geometric modeling

Marion Cohen (born 1943), American poet and mathematician, teaches the relationship between art and mathematics

Miriam Cohen (born 1941), Israeli researcher in Hopf algebras, quantum groups and non-commutative rings

Amy Cohen-Corwin, American expert in the Korteweg–de Vries equation and cubic Schrödinger equation

Alina Carmen Cojocaru, Romanian number theorist

Margaret Buchanan Cole, American mathematician at West Virginia University

Nancy Cole (1902–1991), American mathematician, made pioneering contributions to Morse theory

Caroline Colijn, Canadian mathematical epidemiologist

Susan Jane Colley (born 1959), first female editor-in-chief of the American Mathematical Monthly

Agnes Bell Collier (1860–1930), British mathematician

Karen L. Collins, American graph theorist and combinatorist

Sandra Collins (born 1970), Irish fluid dynamicist and librarian

Coralie Colmez, French writer on legal mathematics

Maria Colombo (born 1989), Italian mathematical analyst

Caterina Consani (born 1963), Italian mathematician specializing in arithmetic geometry

Keisha Cook, American mathematical biologist

Pamela Cook, American expert in fluid dynamics, president of SIAM

Frances Cope (1902–1983), American researcher on differential equations, namesake of the Thorndike nomogram

Lennie Copeland (1881–1951), American mathematician and professor at Wellesley College

Minerva Cordero, Puerto Rican expert on finite geometry

Lesley Cormack (born 1957), Canadian historian of mathematics and historian of geography

Leticia Corral (born 1959), Mexican mathematician, astrophysicist and materials scientist

Sylvie Corteel, French combinatorialist, former editor-in-chief of Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A

Véronique Cortier, French mathematician and computer scientist, uses mathematical logic to verify cryptographic protocols

Carla Cotwright-Williams (born 1973), African-American data scientist for the US government

Pamela G. Coxson, American applied mathematician specializing in disease modeling

Collette Coullard, American matroid theorist and operations researcher

Judith Covington, American mathematics educator

Lenore Cowen, American discrete mathematician, computer scientist, and computational biologist

Elizabeth Buchanan Cowley (1874–1945), American mathematician, advocated high school teaching of solid geometry

Annalisa Crannell, American expert on water waves and geometric perspective

Alissa Crans, American mathematician specializing in higher-dimensional algebra

Mary Croarken, British historian of mathematics and of computing

Marie Crous, 17th-century mathematician who introduced the decimal system to France

Ana Bela Cruzeiro (born 1957), Portuguese and Swiss stochastic analyst

Barbara Csima, Canadian computability theorist, president of Canadian Mathematical Society

Marianna Csörnyei (born 1975), Hungarian researcher in real analysis, geometric measure theory, and functional analysis

Helen F. Cullen (1919–2007), American topologist

Jane Cullum (born 1938), American applied mathematician known for her work in numerical algorithms and control theory

Linda Cummings, British-American computational complex fluid dynamicist

Louise Duffield Cummings (1870–1947), Canadian-American expert on Steiner triple systems

María Cumplido (born 1992), Spanish geometric group theorist

Susan Jane Cunningham (1842–1921), founded the mathematics and astronomy departments at Swarthmore College

Serafina Cuomo (born 1966), Italian historian of ancient mathematics

Antonella Cupillari (born 1955), Italian-American mathematics educator, historian of mathematics, and biographer of Agnesi

Ruth F. Curtain (1941–2018), Australian-Dutch expert in infinite-dimensional linear systems

Carina Curto (born 1978), American mathematical neuroscientist

Eleanor P. Cushing (1856–1925), American mathematician

Elizabeth Cuthill (1923–2011), American applied mathematician and Navy researcher known for sparse matrix ordering

Annie Cuyt (born 1956), Belgian expert on approximation

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Sophie Dabo-Niang, Senegalese-French mathematician and statistician

Susan D'Agostino, American mathematician and science writer

Amy Dahan, French mathematician, historian of mathematics, and historian of the politics of climate change

Mimi Dai, American expert in partial differential equations

Karma Dajani, Lebanese-Dutch mathematician, applies ergodic theory to number theory

Anne-Laure Dalibard, French mathematician, expert on fluid dynamics in oceanography

Ewa Damek (born 1958), Polish mathematical analyst, namesake of Damek–Ricci spaces

Danijela Damjanović, Serbian-Swedish dynamical systems theorist

Pallavi Dani, Indian-American geometric group theorist

Donatella Danielli (born 1966), Italian-American specialist in partial differential equations

Sofia Danova (1879–1946), Bulgarian teacher and philanthropist, first Bulgarian woman to graduate in mathematics

Christine Darden (born 1942), American aeronautical engineer who researches sonic booms

Geraldine Claudette Darden (born 1936), one of the first African-American women to earn a PhD in mathematics

Panagiota Daskalopoulos, Greek-American differential geometer

Nilanjana Datta, Indian-born British quantum information theorist

Ingrid Daubechies (born 1954), Belgian physicist and mathematician, known for wavelets

Monique Dauge (born 1956), French mathematician and numerical analyst

Chantal David (born 1964), Canadian analytic number theorist and arithmetic statistician

Giuliana Davidoff, American number theorist and expert on expander graphs

Penny J. Davies, Scottish expert on wave scattering, president of Edinburgh Mathematical Society

Cristiana De Filippis (born 1992), Italian expert in regularity theory for partial differential equations

Nicole De Grande-De Kimpe (1936–2008), Belgian pioneer in

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Christine De Mol (born 1954), Belgian applied mathematician and mathematical physicist

Ineke De Moortel, Belgian mathematician who studies the Sun's corona; president of Edinburgh Mathematical Society

Valeria de Paiva, Brazilian researcher in categorical logic

Lisette de Pillis, American researcher on the mathematics of cancer growth

Kaye A. de Ruiz, American mathematics educator

Daniela De Silva, Italian mathematician known for her expertise in partial differential equations

Luz de Teresa (born 1965), Mexican control theorist, president of Mexican Mathematical Society

Gerda de Vries, Canadian mathematician who studies dynamical systems and mathematical physiology

Winifred Margaret Deans (1901–1990), British translator of German mathematics and physics texts into English

Mary Deconge (1933–2025), one of the first African-American women to earn a PhD in mathematics

Maria Deijfen (born 1975), Swedish graph theorist and probability theorist

Huguette Delavault (1924–2003), French mathematical physicist, activist for women in mathematics

Ermelinda DeLaViña, Hispanic American graph theorist

Laura DeMarco, American researcher in dynamical systems and complex analysis

Beryl May Dent (1900–1977), British mathematical physicist, researcher in molecular forces and computer-aided design

Darinka Dentcheva, Bulgarian-American convex analyst

Alicja Derkowska (born 1940), Polish social activist, mathematician and educator.

Marjorie Devaney (1931–2007), mathematician, electrical engineer, and pioneering computer programmer

Shakuntala Devi (1939–2013), Indian child prodigy, writer, and mental calculator

Cécile DeWitt-Morette (1922–2017), French founder of l'École de physique des Houches

Elena Deza (born 1961), French-Russian mathematician, author of books on figurate numbers and metric spaces

Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini (born 1946), Italian expert on type theory, lambda calculus, and programming language semantics

Eleonora Di Nezza, Italian Kahler geometer

Giulia Di Nunno (born 1973), Italian expert in stochastic analysis and financial mathematics, promoter of mathematics in Africa

Sandra Di Rocco (born 1967), Italian-Swedish algebraic geometer

Daniela di Serafino (1966–2022), Italian applied mathematician and numerical analyst

Carrie Diaz Eaton, American mathematical biologist

Auguste Dick (1910–1993), Austrian historian of mathematics and biographer of Emmy Noether

Alicia Dickenstein (born 1955), Argentine algebraic geometer, vice-president of the International Mathematical Union

Caren Diefenderfer (1952–2017), American mathematician, president of National Numeracy Network

Susanne Dierolf (1942–2009), German expert on topological vector spaces

Ada Dietz (1882–1950), American weaver who used algebraic expressions to design textiles

Alice M. Dimick (1878–1956), American mathematician PhD

Ulla Dinger (born 1955), Swedish mathematical analyst, first female doctorate in mathematics at University of Gothenburg

Irit Dinur, Israeli researcher in probabilistically checkable proofs and hardness of approximation

Serena Dipierro, Italian expert on partial differential equations

Susanne Ditlevsen, Danish mathematical biologist and biostatistician

Natasha Dobrinen, American set theorist and infinitary combinatorist

Mary P. Dolciani (1923–1985), developed modern method for teaching high school algebra in the United States

Yvonne Dold-Samplonius (1937–2014), Dutch historian of Islamic mathematics

Valéria Neves Domingos Cavalcanti (born 1965), Brazilian expert on the control and stabilization of viscoelastic systems

Rosa Donat (born 1960), Spanish mathematician, uses multiresolution methods for flows with shock waves and high Mach number

Suzanne Dorée, American group theorist and mathematics educator

Maria Rita D'Orsogna (born 1972), Italian and American applied mathematician and environmental activist

Isabel Dotti, Argentine expert on homogeneous manifolds

Itala D'Ottaviano (born 1944), Brazilian logician

Yael Dowker (1919–2016), Israeli researcher in measure theory and ergodic theory

Agnes Meyer Driscoll (1889–1971), American cryptanalyst during both World War I and World War II

Kathy Driver, South African expert in special functions, orthogonal polynomials and approximation theory

Suely Druck, Brazilian mathematician, president of Brazilian Mathematical Society

Cornelia Druțu Romanian mathematician, won Whitehead Prize for research in geometric group theory

Malgorzata Dubiel, Polish and Canadian mathematics educator

Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin (1905–1972), first woman full professor of mathematics in France, expert in fluid mechanics and abstract algebra

Moon Duchin, American expert in geometric topology, geometric group theory, and Teichmüller theory

Marie Duflo (1940–2019), French probability theorist, activist for foreigners in France

Vida Dujmović (born 1972), Yugoslav-Canadian graph theorist

Della Dumbaugh, American historian of mathematics, editor-in-chief of American Mathematical Monthly

Ioana Dumitriu (born 1976), Romanian-American numerical analyst

Julena Steinheider Duncombe (1911–2003), American mathematics teacher and astronomer

Elizabeth B. Dussan V. (born 1946), American expert on the behavior of fluids

Nira Dyn, Israeli expert on subdivision surfaces

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Madeline Early (1912–2001), American mathematician and university professor.

Annie Easley (1933–2011), African-American computer scientist, mathematician, and rocket scientist

Sheila May Edmonds (1916–2002), British mathematician, Vice-Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge

Josephine D. Edwards (1942–1985), Australian mathematician, founded Australian Mathematics Competition

Mary Edwards (c. 1750–1815), human computer for the British Nautical Almanac

Ranthony Edmonds, American postdoctoral algebraist

Constance van Eeden (1927–2021), Dutch nonparameteric statistician who contributed to the development of statistics in Canada

Hettie Belle Ege (1861–1942), American mathematician, acting president of Mills College

Tatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest (1905–1984), Dutch researcher in combinatorics and graph theory

Andrée Ehresmann (1935–2026), French category theorist

Gertrude Ehrlich (1923–2025), Austrian-American algebraist and number theorist

Thyra Eibe (1866–1955), first woman to earn a mathematics degree from the University of Copenhagen, translator of Euclid

Gabriele Eichfelder (born 1977), German applied mathematician, expert on vector-valued and set-valued optimization

Bettina Eick (born 1968), German computational group theorist

Ellen Eischen (born 1979), American number theorist

Carolyn Eisele (1902–2000), American mathematician, historian of mathematics, expert on Charles Sanders Peirce

Nathalie Eisenbaum, French probability theorist

Kirsten Eisenträger, German-American researcher in computational number theory

Tanja Eisner (born 1980), Ukrainian-German expert on operator theory

Nicole El Karoui (born 1944), Tunisian-French pioneer in mathematical finance

Amèle El Mahdi (born 1956), Algerian mathematics professor and writer

Donna DeEtte Elbert (1928-2019), American human calculator, worked on differential equations modeling magnetohydrodynamics

Nerida Ellerton (born 1942), Australian mathematics educator and historian of mathematics education

Joanne Elliott (1925–2023), American mathematician specializing in potential theory

Jo Ellis-Monaghan, American mathematician interested in graph polynomials and topological graph theory

Maria Emelianenko, Russian-American expert on centroidal Voronoi tessellation

Susan Empson, American scholar of mathematics education including childhood development of the concept of fractions

Gisela Engeln-Müllges (1940–2026), escapee from East Germany, expert in numerical algorithms, and abstract artist

Lyn English, Australian mathematics education scholar

Susanna S. Epp (born 1943), American researcher in discrete mathematics and mathematical logic

Karin Erdmann (born 1948), German researcher in modular representation theory and homological algebra

Viveka Erlandsson, Swedish low-dimensional topologist and geometer

Anna Erschler (born 1977), Russian-French expert on random walks on groups

Hélène Esnault (born 1953), French algebraic geometer, winner of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize

Malena Español, Argentine-American applied and computational mathematician, expert in regularization methods for discrete inverse problems

Maria J. Esteban (born 1956), Basque-French applied mathematician, president of International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Alison Etheridge FRS (born 1964), English researcher in theoretical population genetics and mathematical ecology

Christina Eubanks-Turner, American mathematics educator, graph theorist, and commutative algebraist

Bess Marie Eversull (1899–1978), first woman to earn a PhD in mathematics from the University of Cincinnati

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Marie Fabianová (1872–1943), Czech PhD mathematician, teacher and school principal, first female to graduate with a PhD in math from Charles University

Cornelia Fabri (1869–1915), Italian mathematician, first woman to graduate in math from University of Pisa.

Vera Faddeeva (1906–1983), Russian expert on numerical linear algebra

Fariba Fahroo, Persian-American expert in pseudospectral optimal control, winner of AIAA Mechanics and Control of Flight Award

Barbara Trader Faires (born 1943), American mathematician and textbook author, secretary of MAA

Bianca Falcidieno, Italian applied mathematician, pioneer of semantics-driven shape modeling

Etta Zuber Falconer (1933–2002), one of the first African-American women to receive a PhD in mathematics

Ruma Falk (1932–2020), Israeli psychologist and philosopher of mathematics specializing in human understanding of probability

María Falk de Losada, American-born Colombian mathematician, co-founded Colombian Mathematical Olympiad, rector of Antonio Nariño University

Mary Fama (1938–2021), New Zealand applied mathematician, expert on rock deformation in mining

Barbara Fantechi (born 1966), Italian algebraic geometer

Rosa María Farfán, Mexican researcher in social epistemology and mathematics education

Marie Farge (born 1953), French mathematician and physicist known for her research on wavelets and turbulence in fluid mechanics

Fay Farnum (1888–1977), American mathematician, founding member of MAA

Mary Celine Fasenmyer (1906–1996), Catholic nun whose research on hypergeometric functions prefigured WZ theory

Heike Fassbender, German expert in numerical linear algebra, first woman to lead a German mathematical society

Brittany Fasy, American computer scientist and applied mathematician focusing on topological data analysis

Lisa Fauci (born 1960), American applied mathematician who applies computational fluid dynamics to biological processes

Patricia Fauring, Argentine mathematician, coach of the Argentine mathematical olympiad team

Odile Favaron (born 1938), French graph theorist

Philippa Fawcett (1868–1948), English educationalist, first woman to obtain the top score in the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos

Anita Burdman Feferman (1927–2015), American historian of mathematics and mathematical biographer

Nina Fefferman, American mathematical biologist

Eva-Maria Feichtner (born 1972), German algebraic geometer

Joan Feigenbaum (born 1958), theoretical computer scientist, co-inventor of trust management

Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein (1912–2006), helped decipher Japanese Purple cryptography, worked on Venona counter-intelligence

Olivia Prosper Feldman, American applied mathematician, models the spread and dynamics of infectious diseases

Käte Fenchel (1905–1983), Jewish German researcher on non-abelian groups

Zhilan Feng (born 1959), Chinese-American applied mathematician, mathematical biologist, and epidemiologist

Elizabeth Fennema (1928–2021), researched attitudes of young women towards mathematics and their classroom interactions

Anuška Ferligoj (born 1947), Slovenian mathematical sociologist and researcher in network analysis

Begoña Fernández, Mexican probability theorist and expert in mathematical finance

Elena Fernández (born 1956), Spanish operations researcher, president of Association of European Operational Research Societies

Isabel Fernández (born 1979), Spanish geometric analyst

Marisa Fernández, Spanish differential geometer

Jacqueline Ferrand (1918–2014), French researcher on conformal representation theory, potential theory, and Riemannian manifolds

Lilia Ferrario, Italian and Australian applied mathematician and theoretical astrophysicist, expert on magnetic fields of stars

Daniela Ferrero, Uruguayan and American graph theorist

Antonia Ferrín Moreiras (1914–2009), Spanish mathematician and first Galician woman astronomer

Joan Ferrini-Mundy (born 1954), American researcher in mathematics education

Soheyla Feyzbakhsh, Iranian-British mathematician whose research connects algebraic geometry to string theory

Judith V. Field (born 1943), British historian of mathematics and art

Anna Fino, Italian differential geometer

Jessica Fintzen, German p-adic representation theorist

Farideh Firoozbakht (1962–2019), Iranian number theorist

Ilse Fischer (born 1975), Austrian combinatorialist

Irene Fischer (1907–2009), Austrian-American geodesist for Mercury and Apollo spaceflights, member of National Academy of Engineering

Vera Fischer, Austrian set theorist and mathematical logician

Naomi Fisher, American mathematics educator, worked to bring together research mathematicians and educators

Mary Flahive (born 1948), American mathematician, author of books on difference equations and diophantine approximation

Sarah Flannery (born 1982), winner of the EU Young Scientist of the Year Award for her teenage research on cryptography

Erica Flapan (born 1956), American researcher in low-dimensional topology and knot theory

Jennifer Flegg, Australian applied mathematician

Irmgard Flügge-Lotz (1903–1974), German aerodynamics researcher, first female engineering professor at Stanford

Natasha Flyer (born 1969), American earth scientist and applied mathematician, expert on radial basis functions

Anne Bosworth Focke (1868–1907), first mathematics professor at what is now University of Rhode Island; student of David Hilbert

Amanda Folsom (born 1979), American number theorist

Irene Fonseca (born 1956), Portuguese-American director of the Center for Nonlinear Analysis at Carnegie Mellon University

Liliana Forzani, Argentine applied mathematician and statistician, expert in dimensionality reduction

Urszula Alicja Foryś (born 1965), Polish mathematical biologist and biomedical engineer

Phyllis Fox (1923–2017), American mathematician and computer scientist, collaborator on the first LISP interpreter

Marguerite Frank (1927–2024), French-American pioneer in convex optimization theory and mathematical programming

Megan Loef Franke, American educational psychologist, studies the development of mathematical thought in childhood

Johanna N. Y. Franklin, American expert on algorithmic randomness

Hélène Frankowska, Polish-French control theorist and set-valued analyst

Ailana Fraser, Canadian researcher on geometric analysis and the theory of minimal surfaces

Elena Freda (1890–1978), Italian mathematician, applied mathematical analysis to electromagnetics and biology

Haya Freedman (1923–2005), Israeli-British mathematician who studied the Tamari lattice and ring theory

Herta Freitag (1908–2000), Austrian-American expert on Fibonacci numbers

Nedda Friberti (born 1913), Italian mathematician, refugee from Nazi-occupied Italy

Susan Friedlander (born 1946), English-American researcher in fluid dynamics, first female editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of the AMS

Joyce Friedman (1928–2018), American mathematician, operations researcher, computer scientist, and computational linguist

Aline Huke Frink (1904–2000), American mathematician and professor

Charlotte Froese Fischer (1929–2024), Canadian-American expert on atomic-structure calculations who predicted negative calcium ions

Cleota Gage Fry (1910–2001), American mathematician, physicist and university professor

Hannah Fry (born 1984), English complex systems theorist and public speaker

Shirley M. Frye, American mathematics educator, president of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Elza Furtado Gomide (1925–2013), Brazilian mathematician, first female doctorate in mathematics at University of São Paulo

Cohl Furey, Canadian mathematical physicist

Fumiko Futamura, Japanese-American mathematician, expert on graphical perspective

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Lisl Gaal (1924–2024), Austrian-born American set theorist and Galois theorist

Isabelle Gallagher (born 1973), French researcher in partial differential equations

Eva Gallardo (born 1971), president of Spanish Mathematical Society

Irene M. Gamba (born 1957), Argentine-American applied mathematician

Svetlana Gannushkina (born 1942), Russian mathematician and human rights activist

Nina Gantert, Swiss and German probability theorist

Kseniya Garaschuk (born 1982), Soviet-born Canadian mathematics educator, editor of Crux Mathematicorum

Pascale Garaud, French-American applied mathematician interested in fluid dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, and their applications to astrophysics

Yboon García Ramos, Peruvian mathematician focusing on mathematical optimization

Laura Gardini (born 1952), Italian mathematician, applies chaotic dynamics to economics

Manuela Garín (1914–2019), Spanish-born pioneer of Mexican mathematics

Annie Marie Watkins Garraway (born 1940), American mathematician who worked in telecommunications and electronic data transmission

Adriana Garroni (born 1966), Italian mathematician, expert on modeling plasticity and fracture

Mary Cleophas Garvin (1899–1990), American mathematician

Élisabeth Gassiat (born 1961), French mathematical statistician

Karin Gatermann (1961–2005), German mathematician, researcher in symbolic computation and dynamical systems

Geneviève Gauthier (born 1967), Canadian financial mathematician, statistician, and decision scientist

Véronique Gayrard, French probability theorist

Mai Gehrke (born 1964), Danish lattice theorist and mathematical logician

Hilda Geiringer (1893–1973), Austrian researcher on Fourier series, statistics, probability, and plasticity, refugee from Nazi Germany

Anne Gelb, American mathematician interested in numerical analysis, partial differential equations, and Fourier analysis of images

Sue Geller, American mathematician with interdisciplinary interests in algebraic K-theory, bioinformatics, and biostatistics

Hélyette Geman, French researcher in mathematical finance

Ruth Gentry (1862–1917), American geometer

Sommer Gentry, American mathematician, applies dance notation to haptic interaction and operations research to organ transplants

Penka Georgieva, expert on enumerative geometry, symplectic topology, and Gromov–Witten invariants

Maria-Pia Geppert (1907–1997), German mathematician and biostatistician who founded the Biometrical Journal

Ralucca Gera, American graph theorist and mathematics educator

Marlies Gerber, American ergodic theorist and descriptive set theorist

Teena Gerhardt (born 1980), American algebraic geometer

Sophie Germain (1776–1831), French number theorist, physicist, and philosopher, correspondent of Gauss

Marie Gernet (1865–1924), first German woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics

Nadeschda Gernet (1877–1943), Russian mathematician, student of David Hilbert, worked in the calculus of variations

Judith Gersting (born 1940), American mathematician, computer scientist, and textbook author

Ellen Gethner, American graph theorist

Patrizia Gianni (born 1952), Italian expert in computer algebra

E. Glenadine Gibb (1919–1984), American mathematics education researcher, president of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Danuta Gierulanka (1909–1995), Polish mathematics educator and philosopher of mathematics

Irène Gijbels, Belgian mathematical statistician and expert in nonparametric statistics

Olga Gil Medrano (born 1956), Spanish geometric analyst, first female president of the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society

Anna C. Gilbert (born 1972), American expert in streaming algorithms and matching pursuit

Jane Piore Gilman (born 1945), topologist and group theorist, distinguished professor of mathematics at Rutgers University

Gloria Ford Gilmer, American ethnomathematician

Joella Gipson (1929–2012), American music educator and mathematics educator, first African-American student at Mt. St. Mary's College

Vivette Girault (born 1943), French expert on numerical analysis, finite element methods, and computational fluid dynamics

E. G. Glagoleva (1926–2015), Soviet and Russian mathematician, mathematics educator, and textbook author

Josephine Burns Glasgow (1887–1969), American group theorist, active in American Association of University Women

Muriel Glauert (1892–1949), British mathematician and aerodynamicist

Sarah Glaz (born 1947), Romanian-Israeli-American commutative algebraist and mathematical poet

Heide Gluesing-Luerssen (born 1961), German mathematician specializing in algebraic coding theory

Julia Gog, English mathematical biologist, uses mathematics to study the spread of infectious diseases

Linda Gojak, American mathematics educator, president of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nüzhet Gökdoğan (1910–2003), Turkish astronomer and mathematician, founder of Turkish Mathematical Society

Bonnie Gold (born 1948), American mathematician, mathematical logician, philosopher of mathematics, and mathematics educator

Lisa Goldberg, American mathematical finance scholar and statistician

Mildred Ginsberg Goldberger (1923–2006), American computer and economist lecturer

Rebecca Goldin, American expert in symplectic geometry

Jennie Golding, British mathematician who focuses on mathematics education policy

Christina Goldschmidt, British probability theorist

Catherine Goldstein (born 1958), French number theorist and historian of mathematics

Gisèle Ruiz Goldstein (born 1958), American expert in partial differential equations, operator theory, and mathematical finance

Susan Goldstine, American mathematician active in mathematics and fiber arts

Shafi Goldwasser (born 1958), American-born Israeli theoretical cryptographer

Concha Gómez, Italian and Cuban-American mathematician and advocate for diversity in STEM

Patricia Gonçalves, Portuguese probability theorist

Sherry Gong, second American gold medal winner at International Mathematical Olympiad

Enriqueta González Baz (1915–2002), first woman to earn a mathematics degree in Mexico, founder of the Mexican Mathematical Society

Valentina Gorbachuk (born 1937), Ukrainian operator theorist

Maria Gordina (born 1968), Russian-American mathematical analyst

Carolyn S. Gordon (born 1950), isospectral geometer who proved that you can't hear the shape of a drum

Julia Gordon, Canadian representation theorist, winner of Michler and Krieger–Nelson prizes

Pamela Gorkin, American complex analyst and textbook author

Sigal Gottlieb, American expert in numerical simulation of the partial differential equations used in aerodynamics

Aline Gouget (born 1977), French cryptographer

Mary de Lellis Gough (1892–1983), American mathematician

Alice Bache Gould (1858–1953), American mathematician and historian

Gene Grabeel (1920–2015), American mathematician and cryptanalyst who founded the Venona project

Judith Grabiner (born 1938), American historian of 18th- and 19th-century mathematics

Eva-Maria Graefe, German-English mathematical physicist, expert in ultracold atoms and Non-Hermitian quantum mechanics

Christine Graffigne (born 1959), French expert on Markov random fields for image analysis

Maria Gramegna (1887–1915), Italian mathematician, pioneer of abstraction in functional analysis

Evelyn Boyd Granville (1924–2023), one of the first African-American women to receive a PhD in mathematics

Antonella Grassi, mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry and string theory

Mary Graustein (1884–1972), American mathematician, first mathematical doctorate from Radcliffe College

Marion Cameron Gray (1902–1979), Scottish telephone engineer, discoverer of the Gray graph

Mary W. Gray (born 1939), author on mathematics, mathematics education, economic equity, discrimination law, and academic freedom

Judy Green (born 1943), logician and historian of women in mathematics

Anne Greenbaum (born 1951), American expert in theoretical and numerical linear algebra

Catherine Greenhill, Australian graph theorist

Sarah J. Greenwald, American mathematician, studies connections between mathematics and society

Cindy Greenwood (born 1937), Canadian statistician, winner of Krieger-Nelson Prize

Sina Greenwood, New Zealand topologist

Ruth Gregory, British mathematical physicist specializing in general relativity and cosmology

Margaret Greig (1922–1999), English applied mathematician, developed theory for worsted spinning

Harriet Griffin (1903–1991), American mathematician, author of a textbook on number theory

Lois Wilfred Griffiths (1899–1981), American expert on polygonal numbers

Laura Grigori, French applied mathematician, known for communication-avoiding algorithms for numerical linear algebra

Ellina Grigorieva, Russian expert on mathematical problem solving

Elisenda Grigsby, American low-dimensional topologist

Clara Grima (born 1971), Spanish computational geometer, co-discoverer of scutoids, mathematics popularizer

Margaret Grimshaw (1905–1990), English mathematician at Cambridge and author on Hilbert spaces

Birgit Grodal (1943–2004), Danish mathematical economist, studied atomless economies

Ione Grogan (1891–1961), American schoolteacher, mathematics professor, and literary club leader

Edna Grossman, German-born American designer of the Data Encryption Standard and of the slide attack in cryptography

Marcia Groszek, American mathematician whose research concerns mathematical logic, set theory, forcing, and recursion theory

Gerd Grubb (born 1939), Danish expert on pseudodifferential operators

Helen G. Grundman, American number theorist

Weiqing Gu, Chinese-American researcher on differential geometry and the mathematics of cancer growth

Rebeca Guber (1926–2020), Argentine mathematician, founder of Argentine Calculation Society

Christine Guenther, American expert on the Ricci flow

Laura Guggenbühl (1901–1985), American mathematician known for her work in triangle geometry and the history of mathematics

Colette Guillopé, French researcher in partial differential equations and fluid dynamics, former president of femmes et mathématiques

Joséphine Guidy Wandja (born 1945), Ivorian mathematician

Alice Guionnet (born 1969), French probability theorist

Geneviève Guitel (1895–1982), French mathematician who studied natural-language numbering systems

Xin Guo, Chinese and American operations researcher, applied mathematician, and financial engineer

Kanta Gupta (1938–2016), Indian-Canadian researcher on abstract algebra and group theory

Neena Gupta, Indian mathematician who solved the Zariski cancellation problem

Rona Gurkewitz, American mathematician and computer scientist known for her work on modular origami

Margaret Gurney (1908–2002), American mathematician, survey statistician, and pioneering computer programmer

Rochelle Gutierrez, American education theorist who studies the impacts of race, class and language on mathematics education

Simone Gutt (born 1956), Belgian differential geometer

Martha Guzmán Partida, Mexican functional analyst

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Bénédicte Haas (born 1976), French probability theorist

Ruth Haas, American mathematician known for mentorship of other women mathematicians

Violet B. Haas (1926–1986), American control theorist

Naomi Habib, Israeli computational neuroscientist who researches genomics and genome engineering

Olga Hadžić (1946–1995), Serbian expert on fixed-point theorems

Dörte Haftendorn (born 1948), German mathematician, mathematics educator, and textbook author

Kari Hag (born 1941), Norwegian expert on quasiconformal mappings

Elisabeth Hagemann (born 1906), early German female doctorate in mathematics

Marjorie Hahn (born 1948), American probability theorist and tennis player

Deborah Tepper Haimo (1921–2007), Ukrainian-Palestinian-American classical analyst, third female president of the Mathematical Association of America

Susie W. Håkansson (born 1940), mathematics educator, director of the California Mathematics Project

Ursula Hamenstädt (born 1961), German differential geometry

Christine Hamill (1923–1956), English mathematician specializing in group theory and finite geometry

Mary-Elizabeth Hamstrom (1927–2009), American topologist

Xiaoying Han, Chinese mathematician who studies random dynamical systems and stochastic differential equations

Gila Hanna (born 1934), Canadian mathematics educator and philosopher of mathematics

Anita Hansbo (born 1960), Swedish mathematician, rector of Jönköping University

Megumi Harada, Canadian expert on equivariant symplectic and algebraic geometry

Eleonor Harboure (1948–2022), first woman president of the Argentina Mathematical Union

Alison Harcourt (born 1929), Australian mathematician and statistician known for branch and bound algorithms and quantification of poverty in Australia

Frances Hardcastle (1866–1941), group theorist, one of the founders of the American Mathematical Society

Kathryn E. Hare (born 1959), Canadian expert in harmonic analysis

Valentina Harizanov, Serbian-American researcher in computability and model theory

Dorothee Haroske (born 1968), German expert on function spaces

Heather Harrington (born 1984), applied mathematician and algebraic systems biologist

Leona Harris, American mathematician and diversity activist

Pamela E. Harris, Mexican combinatorist and mathematics blogger

Jenny Harrison, American expert on generalized functions and minimal surfaces

Frances Harshbarger (1902–1987), one of the first female American mathematicians to receive a doctorate

Bertha Hart, American mathematician

Sarah B. Hart, British group theorist

Shelly Harvey, American researcher in knot theory, low-dimensional topology, and group theory

Mary Gertrude Haseman (1889–1979), American knot theorist

Asma Hassannezhad, Iranian spectral geometer

Maria Hasse (1921–2014), German graph theorist, set theorist, and category theorist, first female professor in science at TU Dresden

Rhonda Hatcher, American number theorist, winner of Haimo teaching award

Deanna Haunsperger, American mathematician, former president of the Mathematical Association of America

Jane M. Hawkins, American researcher in dynamic systems, complex dynamics, cellular automata, and Julia sets

Louise Hay (1935–1989), founding member of the Association for Women in Mathematics

Linda B. Hayden (born 1949), African-American mathematics educator and mathematical geoscientist known for mentorship of women and minorities

Ellen Hayes (1851–1930), American mathematician, astronomer, and political radical

Margaret Hayman (1923–1994), British mathematics educator, co-founder of British Mathematical Olympiad

Euphemia Lofton Haynes (1890–1980), first African-American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics

Nola Anderson Haynes (1897–1996), American mathematician, professor

Sarah D. Allen Oren Haynes (1836–1907), first female state librarian of Indiana and first female faculty member at Purdue University

Teresa W. Haynes (born 1953), American expert on domination in graphs

Emilie Virginia Haynsworth (1916–1985), American linear algebraist known for Schur complements and Haynsworth inertia additivity formula

Olive Hazlett (1890–1974), American algebraist at the University of Illinois

Sandra Mitchell Hedetniemi (born 1949), American researcher in graph theory and graph algorithms

Maria Heep-Altiner (born 1959), German mathematician and actuary

Jane Heffernan, Canadian mathematician who studies mathematical models for the spread of infectious disease

Katherine Heinrich (born 1954), Canadian combinatorialist, first female president of Canadian Mathematical Society

Christine Heitsch, American expert on the mathematics of RNA structure

Diane Henderson, American applied mathematician and experimental fluid dynamics researcher

Nadia Heninger (born 1982), American cryptographer, computer security expert, and computational number theorist

Cora Barbara Hennel (1888–1947), American mathematician, first woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics at the Indiana University

Dagmar R. Henney (1931–2023), German-American expert on additive set-values and Banach spaces

Inge Henningsen (born 1941), statistician, writer and feminist

Allison Henrich (born 1980), American knot theorist

Shandelle Henson (born 1964), American mathematician and mathematical biologist, expert on population dynamics

Rebecca A. Herb (born 1948), American researcher in abstract algebra and Lie groups

Raphaèle Herbin, French expert on the finite volume method

Grete Hermann (1901–1984), German mathematician and philosopher also noted for her work in physics and education

Susan Hermiller, American group theorist

Norma Hernández (born 1934), American mathematics educator, studied factors affecting Mexican-American mathematics students

Constance Anne Herschel (1855–1939), British lecturer in natural sciences and mathematics

Patricia Hersh (born 1973), American expert on algebraic and topological combinatorics

Bobby Hersom (born 1929), British mathematician and computer scientist

Kathryn Hess (born 1967), American mathematician who uses algebraic topology to understand structures in neurology and materials science

Silvia Heubach, German-American mathematician specializing in enumerative combinatorics, combinatorial game theory, and bioinformatics

Gloria Conyers Hewitt (born 1935), early African-American female mathematics PhD, MAA governor

Laurie Heyer, American mathematician specializing in genomics and bioinformatics

Patricia Hiddleston (1933–2017), Scottish and Rhodesian mathematician

Aparna Higgins, Indian-American graph theorist known for encouraging undergraduate research

Raegan Higgins, American mathematician, co-director of the EDGE program for Women

Poh Wah Hillock, Singaporean and Australian mathematician, Australian University Teacher of the Year

Nancy Hingston, American differential geometer

Wei Ho, American arithmetic geometer

Hoàng Xuân Sính (born 1933), first female Vietnamese mathematician, student of Grothendieck, founder of Thang Long University

Catherine Hobbs (born 1968), British singularity theorist, applies geometry to robotics

Dorit S. Hochbaum (born 1949), American expert on approximation algorithms for facility location, covering and packing, and scheduling

Marlis Hochbruck (born 1964), German expert on matrix exponentials and their applications to differential equations

Angie Hodge-Zickerman, American mathematics educator and ultramarathon runner

Maria Hoffmann-Ostenhof (born 1947), Austrian expert on the Schrödinger equation

Leslie Hogben, American mathematician specializing in graph theory and linear algebra, known for graduate mentorship

Nina Holden, Norwegian probability theorist

Judy A. Holdener (born 1965), American number theorist who simplified the proof of Touchard's theorem on perfect numbers

Barbara R. Holland (born 1976), New Zealand born Australian phylogeneticist

Lotte Hollands (born 1981), Dutch mathematical physicist

Tara S. Holm, American algebraic geometer and symplectic geometer

Olga Holtz (born 1973), Russian numerical analyst, winner of the European Mathematical Society Prize

Betty W. Holz (1919–2005), American mathematician and defense analyst

Jennifer Hom, American low-dimensional topologist

Dorothy McFadden Hoover (1918–2000), American human computer involved in the design of swept-wing aircraft

Grace Hopper (1906–1992), American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral

Eleanor Mollie Horadam (1921–2002), English-Australian mathematician, studied generalized integers, mother of Kathy

Kathy Horadam (born 1951), Australian mathematician, studies Hadamard matrices, daughter of Eleanor Mollie

Annick Horiuchi, French historian of Japanese mathematics

Anette Hosoi, American mechanical engineer, biophysicist, and mathematician, studies fluid dynamics, robotics, and bio-inspired design

Victoria Howle, American expert in numerical linear algebra, founded AWM essay contest

Susan Howson (born 1973), British mathematician known for work on algebraic number theory and arithmetic geometry

Rebecca Hoyle, British applied mathematician, expert on pattern formation

Celia Hoyles (born 1946), British mathematician, president of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications

Christine Hrenya, American computational fluid dynamicist, expert in fluidization and multiphase flow

Pao-sheng Hsu, Mathematics educator, founder of AWM Teacher Partnership Program

Hu Hesheng (1928–2024), differential geometer, president of Shanghai Mathematical Society, member of Chinese Academy of Science

Lan-Hsuan Huang, Taiwanese-American geometric analyst and relativity theorist

Katharina T. Huber (born 1965), German mathematical biologist, expert in the foundations and visualization of phylogeny

Verena Huber-Dyson (1923–2016), Swiss-American group theorist and logician, expert on undecidability in group theory

Annette Huber-Klawitter (born 1967), German algebraic geometer, expert in the Bloch–Kato conjectures

Vera Huckel, American human computer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

Anne Lester Hudson, American expert in topological semigroups, mathematics educator, and mathematics competition coach

Hilda Phoebe Hudson (1881–1965), English researcher on Cremona transformations in algebraic geometry

Sabine Van Huffel (born 1958), Belgian applied mathematician, expert on total least squares and applications to medical diagnostics

Cynthia Huffman, American commutative algebraist, historian of mathematics, and ethnomathematician

Rhonda Hughes (born 1947), American wavelet researcher, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics

Gerunda Hughes (born 1951), American scholar of education focusing on educational assessment in mathematics

Deborah Hughes Hallett, mathematics education reformer

Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann (born 1946), German-American representation theorist and ring theorist

Dominique Hulin (born 1959), French differential geometer

Mabel Gweneth Humphreys (1911–2006), Canadian-American number theorist and namesake of the M. Gweneth Humphreys Award

Eugénie Hunsicker, American mathematician who works at the intersection of analysis, geometry and topology

Fern Hunt (born 1948), American mathematician known for her work in applied mathematics and mathematical biology

Bobbie Hunter, New Zealand educational theorist and mathematics educator

Louise Stokes Hunter (died 1988), American mathematics educator, first African-American woman with a degree from the University of Virginia

Joan Hutchinson (born 1945), American graph theorist who extended the planar separator theorem to graphs of higher genus

Marie Hušková (born 1942), Czech mathematician who worked in theoretical statistics and change-point problems

Hypatia (died 415), head of the Neoplatonic school at Alexandria, murdered by a Christian mob

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Mikaela Iacobelli, Italian expert in dynamic particle systems and partial differential equations

Milagros D. Ibe (1931–2023), Filipino mathematics educator, vice chancellor of the University of the Philippines Diliman

Rosalie Iemhoff (born 1969), Dutch logician

Mihaela Ifrim, Romanian-American mathematical analyst

Mihaela Ignatova, Bulgarian mathematical analyst

Marina Iliopoulou, Greek harmonic analyst and discrete geometer

Annette Imhausen (born 1970), German historian of ancient Egyptian mathematics

Helen Infeld (1907–1993), American-born mathematics professor who fled to Poland because of McCarthyism

Tasha Inniss, first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, director of education for INFORMS

Eleny Ionel, Romanian-American symplectic geometer

Alessandra Iozzi (born 1959), Italian-American-Swiss geometric group theorist

Ilse Ipsen, German-American expert in numerical linear algebra

Valerie Isham (born 1947), British applied probabilist, president of Royal Statistical Society

Shihoko Ishii (born 1950), Japanese mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry

Vanaja Iyengar ( –2001), founding vice chancellor of Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam, a women's university in Andhra Pradesh, India

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Trachette Jackson (born 1972), researcher in mathematical oncology, second African-American woman to become a Sloan Fellow in mathematics

Jessie Marie Jacobs (1890–1954), fired from mathematics instructorship for having a child, aided husband Hermann Muller's Nobel-winning genetic research

Alex James, British and New Zealand applied mathematician, mathematical biologist, and epidemiologist

Cathérine Jami (born 1961), French historian of Chinese mathematics

Jeannette Janssen, Dutch and Canadian graph theorist

Maarit Järvenpää, Finnish mathematician specializing in fractal geometry, geometric measure theory, and dynamical systems

Monique Jeanblanc (born 1947), French financial mathematician

Lisa Jeffrey FRSC, Canadian expert in symplectic geometry and quantum field theory

Erica Jen, American applied mathematician, studies mathematical analysis of chaotic and complex behavior

Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins, Canadian philosopher of mathematics

Jacqueline Jensen-Vallin, American low-dimensional topologist, editor of MAA FOCUS

Svetlana Jitomirskaya (born 1966), Ukrainian mathematician working on dynamical systems and mathematical physics

Naomi Jochnowitz, American algebraic number theorist known for her mentorship of women in mathematics

Aimee Johnson, American expert on dynamical systems

Katherine Johnson (1918–2020), calculated the trajectory for Project Mercury and the 1969 Apollo 11 flight to the Moon

Marion Lee Johnson, African-American mathematician, helped calculate trajectories for the Apollo 11 Moon landing

Roberta Frances Johnson (1902–1988), American mathematics educator

Antonia J. Jones (1943–2010), British mathematician and computer scientist

Eleanor Jones (1929–2021), one of the first African American women to receive a PhD in mathematics

Shelly M. Jones, American mathematics educator

Nataša Jonoska (born 1961), Macedonian-American expert in DNA computing

Kerstin Jordaan, president of South African Mathematical Society

Artishia Wilkerson Jordan (1901–1974), African-American mathematics educator and clubwoman

Nicole M. Joseph, American scholar of mathematics education focusing on the experiences of African-American women and girls in mathematics

Nalini Joshi, researcher in differential equations, Australian Laureate Fellow, Hardy Lecturer, president of Australian Mathematical Society

Josephine Jue, Chinese-American mathematician, compiler, and programmer, first Asian-American woman at NASA

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Josephine Wairimu Kagunda, Kenyan applied mathematician and epidemiologist

Margarethe Kahn (1880–c. 1942), one of the first female German doctorates, contributed to Hilbert's sixteenth problem

Suzan Kahramaner (1913–2006), one of the first female mathematicians in Turkish academia

Delaram Kahrobaei, Iranian-American applied algebraist and post-quantum cryptographer

Gabriele Kaiser, German mathematics educator

Nataliya Kalashnykova, Soviet-Mexican expert on bilevel optimization

Efstratia Kalfagianni, Greek-American topologist

Eva Kallin, American researcher in geometric axiom systems, functional algebra, and polynomial convexity

Gudrun Kalmbach (born 1937), German quantum logician

Anne-Sophie Kaloghiros, French algebraic geometer

Barbara Kaltenbacher, Austrian applied analyst, president of Austrian Mathematical Society

Hermine Agavni Kalustyan (1914–1989), Armenian-Turkish mathematician and politician

Constance Kamii (died 2023), Swiss-Japanese-American mathematics education scholar and psychologist

Shoshana Kamin (born 1930), Soviet-Israeli mathematical physicist, wrote about parabolic partial differential equations

Rosella Kanarik (1909–2014), American mathematics professor and educator

Mihyun Kang, South Korean graph theorist

Chiu-Yen Kao (born 1974), Taiwanese-American expert in image processing and mathematical biology

Gizem Karaali, Turkish representation theorist, founding editor of Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

Mary Cordia Karl (1893–1984), American geometer

Carol Karp (1926–1972), American researcher on infinitary logic, viola player

Yael Karshon (born 1964), Israeli-Canadian expert on symplectic geometry

Elaine Kasimatis, American discrete geometer and mathematics educator

Haya Kaspi (born 1948), Israeli probability theorist

Fanny Kassel (born 1984), French expert on Lie groups

Svetlana Katok (born 1947), Russian-American founder of Electronic Research Announcements of the AMS

Yoshie Katsurada (1911–1980), Japanese differential geometer, first Japanese woman with a doctorate or professorship in mathematics

Bruria Kaufman (1918–2010), Israeli theoretical physicist who collaborated with Einstein on general relativity

Kathleen Kavanagh, American mathematician, applies simulation-based engineering to water quality and sustainability

Elham Kazemi (born 1970), Iranian-American mathematics educator

Mercy Kazima, established Malawi's first doctoral program in mathematics education

Ailsa Keating, British symplectic geometer

Rinat Kedem (born 1965), American mathematician and mathematical physicist

Linda Keen (born 1940), American mathematician and computer scientist, president of AWM

Lyudmila Keldysh (1904–1976), Russian set theorist and geometric topologist

Ruth Kellerhals (born 1957), Swiss expert on hyperbolic geometry, geometric group theory and polylogarithm identities

Christine Kelley, American coding theorist, director of Project NExT

Julia Kempe, French, German, and Israeli researcher in quantum computing

Claribel Kendall (1889–1965), one of the founders of the Rocky Mountain Section of the MAA

Juliette Kennedy, mathematical logician in Finland

Patricia Clark Kenschaft (born 1940), American mathematician, prolific book author, and activist for equity and diversity

Autumn Kent, American mathematician specializing in topology and geometry, promoter of transgender rights

Deborah Kent (born 1978), American historian of mathematics

Leah Keshet, Israeli-Canadian mathematical biologist, first female president of the Society for Mathematical Biology

Radha Kessar, Indian mathematician known for her research in the representation theory of finite groups

Jennifer Key, South African mathematician, expert on group theory, finite geometry, combinatorial designs, and coding theory

Barbara Keyfitz (born 1944), Canadian-American researcher on nonlinear partial differential equations, president of AWM and ICIAM

Lily Khadjavi, American mathematician, author on mathematics for social justice

'Mamphono Khaketla (born 1960), Lesotho mathematician, senator, and finance minister

Olga Kharlampovich (born 1958), Russian-Canadian group theorist who solved the Tarski conjecture on first-order theories of free groups

Carolyn Kieran, Canadian mathematics educator

Anna Kiesenhofer (born 1991), Austrian cyclist and mathematical physicist

Misha Kilmer, American applied mathematician known for research in numerical linear algebra and scientific computing

Eun Jung Kim, South Korean researcher in parameterized complexity and graph width

Ju-Lee Kim (born 1969), Korean-American expert on the representation theory of p-adic groups

Chawne Kimber (born 1971), African-American mathematician and quilter, incorporates social justice into mathematics teaching

Amy C. King (1928–2014), American mathematics educator

Angie Turner King (1905–2004), American mathematics and chemistry educator

Karen D. King (1971–2019), African-American mathematics educator and Falconer Lecturer

L. Christine Kinsey, American topologist and textbook author

Faina Mihajlovna Kirillova (1931–2024), Belarusian optimal control theorist

Vivien Kirk, New Zealand dynamical systems theorist, president of New Zealand Mathematical Society

Ellen Kirkman, American algebraist

Denise Kirschner, American mathematical biologist and immunologist

Frances Kirwan (born 1959), British specialist in algebraic and symplectic geometry

Virginia Kiryakova, Bulgarian mathematician, expert on fractional calculus and special functions

Jane Kister, British-American mathematical logician, editor of Mathematical Reviews

Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen, Danish researcher in mathematics education and the philosophy and history of mathematics

Kathrin Klamroth (born 1968), German expert on combinatorial optimization and facility location

Erica Klarreich (born 1972), American geometer and writer

Maria Klawe (born 1951), Canadian-American theoretical computer scientist, president of Harvey Mudd College

Caroline Klivans, American algebraic combinatorist, expert on chip-firing games

Małgorzata Klimek (born 1957), Polish mathematician, expert on fractional calculus

Genevieve M. Knight (1939–2021), African-American mathematics educator

Julia F. Knight, American specialist in model theory and computability theory

Sarah Koch (born 1979), American complex analyst and complex dynamicist

Henna Koivusalo (born 1985), Finnish expert on dynamical systems, fractal geometry, and quasicrystals

Eleanor Krawitz Kolchin (1927–2019), American mathematician, programmer, and astronomer, calculated orbits for the Apollo program

Tamara G. Kolda, American applied mathematician at Sandia National Laboratories

Natalia Komarova, Russian-American mathematician, studies cancer, language, gun control, pop music, and other complex systems

Nancy Kopell (born 1942), American researcher in the dynamics of the nervous system

Elaine Koppelman (1937–2019), American mathematician

Maria Korovina (born 1962), Russian research on functional spaces and differential equations

Marianne Korten, Argentine-German mathematician specializing in partial differential equations

Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach (born 1941), French differential geometer, namesake of the Kosmann lift

Ekaterina Kostina, Belarusian-German expert on nonlinear optimization

Motoko Kotani (born 1960), Japanese discrete geometric analyst and academic administrator

Sofya Kovalevskaya (1850–1891), first major Russian female mathematician, worked in analysis, differential equations and mechanics

Bryna Kra (born 1966), American mathematician who applies dynamical systems in number theory and combinatorics

Edna Kramer (1902–1984), American mathematician and author of mathematics books

Gunilla Kreiss (born 1958), Swedish numerical analyst

Cecilia Krieger (1894–1974), third person and first woman to earn a Canadian mathematics PhD, translator of Sierpiński

Holly Krieger, American dynamical systems theorist

Anna Zofia Krygowska (1904–1988), Polish mathematician known for her work in mathematics education

Ewa Kubicka, Polish-American graph theorist and actuarial scientist

Vera Kublanovskaya (1920–2012), Russian inventor of the QR algorithm for computing eigenvalues and eigenvectors

Daniela Kühn (born 1973), German-English combinatorialist, expert on infinite graphs, winner of the Whitehead Prize

Radhika Kulkarni, Indian-American operations researcher, president of INFORMS

Angela Kunoth (born 1963), German numerical analyst

Frances Kuo, Taiwanese-Australian applied mathematician, expert on quasi-Monte Carlo methods

Krystyna Kuperberg (born 1944), Polish-American topologist who found a smooth counterexample to the Seifert conjecture

Věra Kůrková (born 1948), Czech expert in neural networks and approximation theory

Rachel Kuske (born 1965), American-Canadian expert on stochastic and nonlinear dynamics, asymptotic methods, and industrial mathematics

Klavdija Kutnar (born 1980), Slovenian algebraic graph theorist and academic administrator

Gitta Kutyniok (born 1972), German researcher in harmonic analysis, compressed sensing, and image processing

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Izabella Łaba (born 1966), Polish-Canadian specialist in harmonic analysis, geometric measure theory, and additive combinatorics

Carole Lacampagne, American mathematician known for her work in mathematics education and gender equality

Christine Ladd-Franklin (1847–1930), American psychologist, logician, and mathematician

Jeanne LaDuke (born 1938), American child actress, mathematical analyst, and historian of mathematics

Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922–2004), Soviet mathematician, proved convergence of a finite difference method for Navier–Stokes

Yvonne Lai, American scholar of mathematics education

V. Lakshmibai, Indian-American expert on flag varieties and Schubert varieties

Matilde Lalín, Argentine-Canadian number theorist, expert on L-functions and Mahler measure

Lam Lay Yong (born 1936), Singaporean historian of mathematics, claimed Chinese origin for Hindu-Arabic numerals

Ailsa Land, British operations researcher known for developing branch and bound algorithms

Susan Landau (born 1954), American mathematician and computer scientist, known for internet security and denesting radicals

Mary Landers (1905–1991), American mathematician, activist for academic collective bargaining

Kerry Landman, Australian applied mathematician

Alicia Prieto Langarica, American applied mathematician

Tanja Lange, German number theorist and cryptographer

Amy Langville (born 1975), American college basketball star and expert on ranking systems

Loredana Lanzani (born 1965), Italian-American harmonic analyst

Glenda Lappan (born 1939), developed Connected Mathematics curriculum, led National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Ruth Lara (1936–2000), Portuguese-Angolan educator, mathematician, translator, and activist, briefly first lady of Angola

Gillie Larew (1882–1977), American mathematician, first alumna of Randolph–Macon Woman's College to become full professor there

Jean Ann Larson, American set theorist and historian of mathematical logic

Elisabeth Larsson (born 1971), Swedish researcher in scientific computing

Joan Lasenby, British applied mathematician, expert on geometric algebra

Irena Lasiecka (born 1948), Polish-American expert in control theory of partial differential equations

Renu C. Laskar (born 1932), Indian-American graph theorist, specialist in domination numbers and circular arc graphs

Klavdiya Latysheva (1897–1956), Soviet mathematician, contributed to differential equations, electrodynamics and probability

Monique Laurent (born 1960), French-Dutch expert in mathematical optimization

Kristin Lauter (born 1969), American researcher in elliptic curve cryptography, president of AWM

Anna Lawniczak (born 1953), Polish-Canadian applied mathematician and cellular automatist

Emille D. Lawrence, American topological graph theorist

Ruth Lawrence (born 1971), child prodigy, British-Israeli researcher in knot theory and algebraic topology

Snezana Lawrence, Yugoslav and British historian of mathematics

Anneli Cahn Lax (1922–1999), American mathematician, winner of the George Pólya Award

Anita Layton, Hong Kong-American applied mathematician who studies mathematical models of kidney function

Katherine Puckett Layton, American mathematics educator and textbook author

Lê Thị Thanh Nhàn (born 1970), Vietnamese mathematician, vice rector for Science at Thái Nguyên University, won Kovalevskaya Prize

Alice Lee (1858–1939), helped discredit craniology

Heisook Lee (born 1948), South Korean algebraist and algebraic coding theorist

Hollylynne Lee, American mathematics and statistics educator

Lee Hyang-sook (born 1963), South Korean mathematician, president of Ewha Womans University

Joceline Lega, French applied mathematician interested in nonlinear dynamics

Anne M. Leggett, American mathematical logician, editor of AWM Newsletter

Emma Lehmer (1906–2007), Russian-American mathematician known for work on reciprocity laws in algebraic number theory

Marguerite Lehr (1898–1987), pioneer in the use of television to teach mathematics

Tanya Leise, American biomathematician, expert in circadian rhythms

Joan Leitzel (1936–2026), American mathematics educator and university administrator

Miriam Leiva, Cuban-American mathematics educator

Anne Lemaître (born 1957), Belgian applied mathematician, expert on orbital resonance and space debris

Mary Leng, British philosopher of mathematics

Frédérique Lenger (1921–2005), Belgian mathematics educator and leader of the New Math movement

Suzanne Lenhart (born 1954), American researcher in partial differential equations, president of AWM

Ulrike Leopold-Wildburger (born 1949), Austrian mathematical economist, applied mathematician, and operations researcher

Katrin Leschke (born 1968), German differential geometer, quaternionic analyst, and minimal surface theorist

Nandi Olive Leslie, American industrial mathematician

Gail Letzter (1960–2024), American quantum group representation theorist and intelligence agency executive

Annie Leuch-Reineck (1880–1978), Swiss mathematician and women's rights activist

Debbie Leung, Canadian expert in quantum communications

Rachel Levy (born 1968), American applied mathematician, mathematics educator, and blogger

Sophia Levy (1888–1963), American astronomer, numerical analyst, and mathematics educator

Marta Lewicka (born 1972), Polish expert in nonlinear elasticity

Florence Lewis (1877–1964), American mathematician and astronomer

Marie Lhuissier (born 1989), French mathematical storyteller and children's book author

Fengyan Li, Chinese and American applied mathematician specializing in computational magnetohydrodynamics

Jing-Rebecca Li, applied mathematician in France, studies magnetic resonance imaging and Lyapunov equations

Na Li, Chinese-American electrical engineer, applied mathematician, and control theorist

Sherry Li, Chinese-American developer of sparse parallel solvers for systems of linear equations

Winnie Li (born 1948), Chinese-American researcher in number theory, coding theory, automorphic forms, and spectral graph theory

Paulette Libermann (1919–2007), French specialist in differential geometry

Pamela Liebeck (1930–2012), British mathematician and mathematics educator

Lillian Rosanoff Lieber (1886–1986), American mathematics professor and author of popular books on science and mathematics

Magnhild Lien, Norwegian mathematician specializing in knot theory

Ewa Ligocka (1947–1922), Polish mathematical analyst and political activist

Vlada Limic, Croatian-French probability theorist

Nelly Litvak (born 1972), Russian and Dutch complex network theorist

Elizaveta Litvinova (1845–c.