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WOMEN MATHEMATICIANS

Elizabeth Magie

Elizabeth Magie was an American inventor and educator who invented the board game “The Landlord’s Game,” which was published in 1905 and was a precursor to Monopoly.

Josephine Guidy Wandja

Joséphine Guidy Wandja is an Ivorian mathematician. She is known for her work for being the first African woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics.

Maria Winckelmann was a gifted German astronomer and the first woman to discover a comet. Even though her husband originally took credit for the discovery, he later admitted that she was the actual discoverer of the comet.

Hypatia

Hypatia was born in Alexandria, Egypt circa 350–370, and died in 415 AD. She was known for her work in philosophy, mathematics, and astronomy and she is the first female mathematician whose life was well-documented.

Rozsa Peter

Rózsa was born Rózsa Politzer in Budapest, Hungary on February 17, 1905, and died on February 16, 1977. She later changed her name to Péter. She is considered one of the founders of the recursive function theory of mathematics.

Katherine Johnson

Katherine Johnson is a mathematician who contributed to NASA in the early 1960s. She is best known for her work on the Mercury and Apollo programs, calculating the trajectories for manned spaceflights.

Mary Jackson

Mary Jackson was the first African-American woman to work as an engineer at NASA. She was also a brilliant mathematician who helped design the Saturn V rocket that launched Apollo 11 into space.

Mary Cartwright

Dame Mary Cartwright was a brilliant English Mathematician who was a pioneer of the field of mathematics now known as Chaos Theory.

Maryam Mirzakhani

Maryam Mirzakhani is the only woman, and the only Iranian, to receive the Fields Medal for Mathematics for outstanding contributions to research on Riemann surfaces.