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, Norwegian and Dutch applied mathematician, theoretical computer scientist, and operations researcher
- Hanan Mohamed Abdelrahman, Egyptian and Norwegian mathematics educator
- Izabela Abramowicz, Polish mathematician and mathematics educator
- L. D. Adams, British mathematics reformer, president of the Mathematical Association
- Rachel Blodgett Adams, American mathematician, one of the earliest mathematics doctorates from Radcliffe College
- Tatyana Afanasyeva, Russian-Dutch researcher in statistical mechanics, randomness, and geometry education
- Amandine Aftalion, French applied mathematician, studies superfluids and the mathematics of footracing
- Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician and philosopher, possibly the first female mathematics professor
- Ilka Agricola, German expert on differential geometry and its applications in mathematical physics
- Nkechi Agwu, African American ethnomathematician
- Dorit Aharonov, Israeli specialist in quantum computing
- Beatrice Aitchison, American topologist who became a transportation economist in the US civil service
- Asuman Aksoy, Turkish-American functional analyst
- Mara Alagic, Serbian mathematics educator, editor-in-chief of Journal of Mathematics and the Arts
- Lara Alcock, British mathematics educator and author
- Helen Popova Alderson, Russian and British mathematician and translator, wrote on quasigroups and reciprocity laws
- Grace Alele-Williams, first woman to lead a Nigerian university
- Aldona Aleškevičienė-Statulevičienė, Lithuanian probability theorist
- Stephanie B. Alexander, American differential geometer
- Florence Eliza Allen, second female and fourth overall mathematics PhD from the University of Wisconsin
- Linda J. S. Allen, American mathematician and mathematical biologist
- Elizabeth S. Allman, 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, French expert on p-adic analysis who became president of the French mathematical society
- Divsha Amirà, Israeli geometer and mathematics educator
- T. A. Sarasvati Amma, Historian of ancient Indian mathematics
- Astrid an Huef, New Zealand expert on functional analysis, president of New Zealand Mathematical Society
- Nalini Anantharaman, French mathematical physicist, winner of the Henri Poincaré Prize
- Beverly Anderson, American mathematician, director of minority programs for Mathematical Sciences Education Board
- Kirsti Andersen, Danish historian of mathematics
- Cabiria Andreian Cazacu, Romanian complex analyst
- Hajnal Andréka, Hungarian researcher in algebraic logic
- Annie Dale Biddle Andrews, algebraic geometer, first female PhD from the University of California, Berkeley
- Grace Andrews , one of only two women listed in the first edition of American Men of Science
- Kathleen Antonelli, Irish-American programmer of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer
- Noriko H. Arai, Japanese mathematical logician and artificial intelligence researcher
- Crista Arangala, American numerical analyst, textbook author, and international educator
- Carolina Araujo, Brazilian algebraic geometer
- Maria Angela Ardinghelli, 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
- Marie-Claude Arnaud, French expert in dynamical systems
- Elayne Arrington, American aerospace engineer, expert on Soviet aircraft
- Michèle Artigue, French expert in mathematics education
- Natascha Artin Brunswick, German-American mathematician, photographer, and journal editor
- Shiri Artstein, Israeli mathematician specializing in convex geometry and asymptotic geometric analysis
- Marcia Ascher, American ethnomathematician
- Winifred Asprey, helped establish the first computer science lab at Vassar
- Michèle Audin, French researcher in symplectic geometry
- Tamara Awerbuch-Friedlander, American biomathematician and public health scientist
- Hertha Ayrton, English engineer, mathematician, physicist, and inventor, winner of the Hughes Medal
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- Ellen Baake, German mathematical biologist
- Wealthy Babcock, American mathematician, namesake of Kansas University mathematics library
- Christine Bachoc, French expert on coding theory and kissing numbers
- Clara Latimer Bacon, first woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics from Johns Hopkins University
- Hajer Bahouri, Franco-Tunisian mathematician interested in partial differential equations
- Rose Baker, British physicist, mathematician, and statistician
- Ruth Baker, British mathematical biologist interested in pattern formation and morphogenesis
- Viviane Baladi, Swiss-French expert on dynamical systems
- Jennifer Balakrishnan, American number theorist who solved the "cursed curve"
- Deborah Loewenberg Ball, American mathematics education researcher
- Catherine Bandle, Swiss expert on differential equations and isoperimetric inequalities
- Hélène Barcelo, mathematician from Québec, editor-in-chief of Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A
- Grace Marie Bareis, American group theorist, first mathematics Ph.D. at Ohio State, and founding member of the MAA
- Nina Bari, Soviet mathematician known for her work on trigonometric series
- Ruth Aaronson Bari, American mathematician known for her work in graph theory and homomorphisms
- Mildred Barnard, Australian biometrician, mathematician and statistician
- Janet Barnett, American mathematician known for integrating the history of mathematics into her teaching
- Ida Barney, American mathematics professor and astronomer
- Charlotte Barnum, mathematician and social activist, first female mathematics PhD from Yale
- Lida Barrett, second female president of the MAA
- June Barrow-Green, British historian of mathematics
- Jean Bartik, one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer
- Estelle Basor, American mathematician interested in operator theory and the theory of random matrices
- Grace Bates, one of few women in the United States to be granted a PhD in mathematics in the 1940s
- Lynn Batten, Canadian immigrant to Australia, researcher in finite geometries and cryptography
- Helga Baum, German differential geometer
- Patricia E. Bauman, studies the mathematics of liquid crystals and superconductors
- Agnes Sime Baxter, second Canadian and fourth North American woman to earn a mathematics PhD
- Margaret Bayer, American mathematician working in polyhedral combinatorics
- Pilar Bayer, Spanish number theorist
- Eva Bayer-Fluckiger, Hungarian-Swiss mathematician, proved Serre's conjecture on Galois cohomology of classical groups
- Jillian Beardwood, British mathematician, contributed to the traveling salesperson problem
- Karine Beauchard, French control theorist
- Astrid Beckmann, German mathematician, mathematics educator, physicist, and academic administrator
- May Beenken, American mathematician
- Janet Beery, American mathematician and historian of mathematics
- Alexandra Bellow, Romanian researcher in ergodic theory, probability and analysis
- Margherita Piazzola Beloch, Italian researcher in algebraic geometry, algebraic topology and photogrammetry
- Suzan Rose Benedict, first woman to earn a PhD from the University of Michigan
- Georgia Benkart, American expert on Lie algebras
- Sylvie Benzoni, 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, American researcher in numerical analysis, computational fluid dynamics, and parallel computing
- Julie Bergner, American expert on algebraic topology, homotopy theory, and higher category theory
- Nicole Berline, French researcher on index theory of elliptic differential operators
- Natalia Berloff, professor of applied mathematics at the University of Cambridge
- Leah Berman, American discrete geometer
- Christine Bernardi, French expert on numerical analysis of partial differential equations
- Dorothy Lewis Bernstein, applied mathematician, first female president of the MAA
- Inga Berre, Norwegian applied mathematician, models porous media and geothermal systems
- Valérie Berthé, French researcher in symbolic dynamics, combinatorics on words, and discrete geometry
- Andrea Bertozzi, American researcher in partial differential equations, studies mathematics of urban crime
- Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak, professor of combinatorics and head of mathematics at the University of Mumbai
- Ushadevi Bhosle, Indian expert on vector bundles
- Anna Maria Bigatti, Italian algebraist, developer of CoCoA
- Miggy Biller, British mathematician and mathematics educator
- Sara Billey, American algebraic combinatorialist
- Christina Birkenhake, German algebraic geometer
- Joan Birman, American braid and knot theorist
- Gertrude Blanch, American numerical analyst
- Karen M. Bliss, American applied mathematician specializing in biomedical applications and materials science
- Lenore Blum, distinguished professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University
- Jo Boaler, British-American promoter of mathematics education reform and equitable mathematics classrooms
- Mary L. Boas, author of Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences
- Christine Böckmann, German numerical analyst, expert in atmospheric lidar
- Graciela Boente, Argentine mathematical statistician known for her research in robust statistics
- Natashia Boland, Australian mathematician and operations researcher
- Aline Bonami, French mathematical analyst, president of the Société mathématique de France
- Alicia Boole Stott, Irish-English four-dimensional geometer
- Mary Everest Boole, self-taught author of didactic works on mathematics
- Kathleen Booth, English mathematician and pioneer of assembly language computer programming
- Liliana Borcea, Romanian-American applied mathematician, expert on wave propagation
- Valentina Borok, Soviet Ukrainian mathematician who studied partial differential equations
- Celia Grillo Borromeo, Genovese mathematician and scientist, discovered Clélie curve
- Fernanda Botelho, Portuguese-American functional analyst
- Anne Bourlioux, Canadian expert in turbulent combustion and world record holder in indoor rowing
- Élisabeth Bouscaren, French mathematician who studies the connections between algebraic geometry and model theory
- Mireille Bousquet-Mélou, French combinatorialist
- Sylvia Bozeman, African-American mathematician and academic administrator
- Lis Brack-Bernsen, Danish and Swiss mathematician, historian of science, and historian of mathematics
- Mary Bradburn, British mathematics educator, president of the Mathematical Association
- Lillian K. Bradley, first African-American woman to earn a doctorate in any subject at the University of Texas
- Dorothy Brady, American mathematician and economist
- Priscilla Braislin, first professor of mathematics at Vassar College
- Bodil Branner, founder of European Women in Mathematics, chair of the Danish Mathematical Society
- Hel Braun, German number theorist
- Elena Braverman, Russian, Israeli, and Canadian researcher in delay differential equations and difference equations
- Marilyn Breen, American geometer
- Tara E. Brendle, American low-dimensional topologist and combinatorial group theorist
- Susanne Brenner, expert in the numerical solution of differential equations
- Kathrin Bringmann, German number theorist, expert on mock theta functions, winner of SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
- Jill Britton, 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, Canadian expert on interface dynamics, president of Canadian Mathematical Society
- Margaret Brown, British mathematics educator
- Susan Brown, English fluid mechanics researcher, possibly first female applied mathematics professor in UK
- Marjorie Lee Browne, one of the first African-American women to receive a doctorate in mathematics
- Laurence Broze, Belgian applied mathematician, statistician, and economist, president of l'association femmes et mathématiques
- Maria Bruna, Spanish applied mathematician known for stochastic modelling of multiscale phenomena
- Sophie Bryant, Anglo-Irish mathematician, educator, feminist and activist
- Ranee Brylinski, American mathematician known for her research in representation theory and quantum logic gates
- Evelyn Buckwar, German-Austrian expert on stochastic differential equations
- Lilya Budaghyan, Armenian-Norwegian cryptographer
- Annalisa Buffa, Italian specialist in numerical analysis for partial differential equations
- Marta Bunge, Argentine-Canadian category theorist
- Angelika Bunse-Gerstner, German expert on numerical linear algebra
- Regina S. Burachik, Argentine-Australian researcher in convex analysis, functional analysis and non-smooth analysis
- Gail F. Burrill, American mathematics educator, president of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Leone Burton, British researcher in ethnomathematics, founded book series on women in mathematics
- Ida Busbridge, studied integral equations and radiative transfer, first female mathematics fellow at Oxford
- Lynne Butler, American combinatorialist and mathematical statistician
- Margaret K. Butler, computer programmer, director of the National Energy Software Center at Argonne
- Helen Byrne, British applied mathematician and mathematical biologist
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- Angelina Cabras, Italian mathematician, physicist, and theoretical mechanics professor
- Fioralba Cakoni, Albanian expert on inverse scattering theory
- Maria-Carme Calderer, Spanish-American researcher in applied mathematics
- Nora Calderwood, Scottish mathematician, namesake of Birmingham University's Calderwood Prize
- Daniela Calvetti, Italian-American mathematician whose work connects Bayesian statistics with numerical analysis
- Erika Tatiana Camacho, Mexican-American mathematical biologist
- Lucy Campbell, geophysical fluid dynamics researcher from Barbados, Jamaica, Ghana, and Canada
- Jessie Forbes Cameron, 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, 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, Portuguese mathematician specializing in symplectic geometry and geometric topology
- Barbara Canright, American human computer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Mireille Capitaine, French researcher on random matrices and free probability theory
- Lucia Caporaso, Italian algebraic geometer
- Ana Caraiani, Romanian-American IMO medalist, Putnam fellow, expert in algebraic number theory and the Langlands program
- Alessandra Carbone, Italian mathematician and computer scientist, studies protein interactions in muscular dystrophy
- Sally Elizabeth Carlson, first woman to obtain a doctorate in mathematics at the University of Minnesota
- Anna Cartan, 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, British mathematician, one of the first to analyze a dynamical system with chaos
- María Andrea Casamayor, only 18th-century Spanish scientist whose work is still extant
- Bettye Anne Case, American mathematician and historian of mathematics
- Emma Castelnuovo, Italian mathematics educator and textbook author
- Beatrice Mabel Cave-Browne-Cave, English pioneer in the mathematics of aeronautics
- Frances Cave-Browne-Cave, English mathematician and computer, taught at Girton College, Cambridge
- Anny Cazenave, French space geodesist, pioneer in satellite altimetry
- Zoia Ceaușescu, Romanian functional analyst, daughter of Communist leader
- Elena Celledoni, Italian-Norwegian expert on numerical analysis, Lie groups, and structure-preserving algorithms
- 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, Chinese-American mathematical analyst, member of National Academy of Sciences
- Josephine Chanler, American mathematician
- Mei-Chu Chang, Taiwanese-American expert in algebraic geometry and combinatorial number theory
- Vyjayanthi Chari, Indian-American expert in quantum algebra
- Ruth Charney, American expert on geometric group theory and Artin groups, president of AWM
- Marie Charpentier, first woman to earn a doctorate in pure mathematics in France and second to obtain a faculty position there
- Émilie du Châtelet, French translator and commentator of Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica
- Zoé Chatzidakis, French researcher in model theory and differential algebra
- Jennifer Tour Chayes, expert on phase transitions in networks, founder of the theory group at Microsoft Research
- Karine Chemla, French historian of Chinese mathematics
- Jacqueline Chen, American applied mathematician and mechanical engineer, applies massively parallel computing to simulate combustion
- Margaret Cheney, American expert on inverse problems
- Leslie Cheng, American harmonic analyst
- Miranda Cheng, Taiwanese-Dutch mathematician and theoretical physicist, formulated umbral moonshine
- Eugenia Cheng, English category theorist and pianist, uses analogies with food and baking to teach mathematics to non-mathematicians
- 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, Argentine-American mathematical economist and authority on climate change
- Phyllis Chinn, American graph theorist and historian of mathematics
- Grace Chisholm Young, English mathematician, first woman to receive a German doctorate
- YoungJu Choie, Korean number theorist
- Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, French mathematician and physicist, first woman elected to the French Academy
- Maria Chudnovsky, Israeli-American graph theorist, MacArthur Fellow
- Fan Chung, Taiwanese-American researcher in random graphs
- Julia Chuzhoy, Israeli expert in approximation algorithms and graph minor theory
- Agata Ciabattoni, Italian non-classical mathematical logician
- Marta Civil, American mathematics educator
- Mónica Clapp, Mexican researcher in nonlinear partial differential equations and algebraic topology
- Joan Clarke, English code-breaker at Bletchley Park, numismatist
- Jeanne N. Clelland, American expert on differential geometry and its applications to differential equations
- Anne Cobbe, British algebraist
- Sally Cockburn, Canadian-American mathematician
- Judita Cofman, 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, American poet and mathematician, teaches the relationship between art and mathematics
- Miriam Cohen, 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
- Caroline Colijn, Canadian mathematical epidemiologist
- Susan Jane Colley, first female editor-in-chief of the American Mathematical Monthly
- Agnes Bell Collier, British mathematician
- Karen L. Collins, American graph theorist and combinatorist
- Coralie Colmez, French writer on legal mathematics
- Caterina Consani, Italian mathematician specializing in arithmetic geometry
- Pamela Cook, American expert in fluid dynamics, president of SIAM
- Frances Cope, American researcher on differential equations, namesake of the Thorndike nomogram
- Minerva Cordero, Puerto Rican expert on finite geometry
- Sylvie Corteel, French combinatorialist, 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, African-American data scientist for the US government
- 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, 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
- Marie Crous, 17th-century mathematician who introduced the decimal system to France
- Marianna Csörnyei, Hungarian researcher in real analysis, geometric measure theory, and functional analysis
- Helen F. Cullen, American topologist
- Jane Cullum, American applied mathematician known for her work in numerical algorithms and control theory
- Louise Duffield Cummings, Canadian-American expert on Steiner triple systems
- Susan Jane Cunningham, founded the mathematics and astronomy departments at Swarthmore College
- Serafina Cuomo, Italian historian of ancient mathematics
- Ruth F. Curtain, Australian-Dutch expert in infinite-dimensional linear systems
- Carina Curto, American mathematical neuroscientist
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- Amy Dahan, French mathematician, historian of mathematics, and historian of the politics of climate change
- Karma Dajani, Lebanese-Dutch mathematician, applies ergodic theory to number theory
- Ewa Damek, Polish mathematical analyst, namesake of Damek–Ricci spaces
- Donatella Danielli, Italian-American specialist in partial differential equations
- Sofia Danova, Bulgarian teacher and philanthropist, first Bulgarian woman to graduate in mathematics
- Christine Darden, American aeronautical engineer who researches sonic booms
- Geraldine Claudette Darden, one of the first African-American women to earn a PhD in mathematics
- Panagiota Daskalopoulos, Greek-American differential geometer
- Ingrid Daubechies, Belgian physicist and mathematician, known for wavelets
- Chantal David, 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
- 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
- Daniela De Silva, Italian mathematician known for her expertise in partial differential equations
- Gerda de Vries, Canadian mathematician who studies dynamical systems and mathematical physiology
- Winifred Margaret Deans, British translator of German mathematics and physics texts into English
- Mary Deconge, one of the first African-American women to earn a PhD in mathematics
- Huguette Delavault, 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, British mathematical physicist, researcher in molecular forces and compuer-aided design
- Marjorie Devaney, mathematician, electrical engineer, and pioneering computer programmer
- Shakuntala Devi , Indian child prodigy, writer, and mental calculator
- Cécile DeWitt-Morette, French founder of l'École de physique des Houches
- Giulia Di Nunno, Italian expert in stochastic analysis and financial mathematics, promoter of mathematics in Africa
- Carrie Diaz Eaton, American mathematical biologist
- Auguste Dick, Austrian historian of mathematics and biographer of Emmy Noether
- Alicia Dickenstein, Argentine algebraic geometer, vice-president of the International Mathematical Union
- Caren Diefenderfer, American mathematician, president of National Numeracy Network
- Ada Dietz, American weaver who used algebraic expressions to design textiles
- Ulla Dinger, Swedish mathematical analyst, first female doctorate in mathematics at University of Gothenburg
- Irit Dinur, Israeli researcher in probabilistically checkable proofs and hardness of approximation
- Susanne Ditlevsen, Danish mathematical biologist and biostatistician
- Mary P. Dolciani, developed modern method for teaching high school algebra in the United States
- Yvonne Dold-Samplonius, Dutch historian of Islamic mathematics
- Suzanne Dorée, American group theorist and mathematics educator
- Yael Dowker, Israeli researcher in measure theory and ergodic theory
- Agnes Meyer Driscoll, American cryptanalyst during both World War I and World War II
- Cornelia Druțu Romanian mathematician, won Whitehead Prize for research in geometric group theory
- Malgorzata Dubiel, Polish and Canadian mathematics educator
- Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin, 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
- Ioana Dumitriu, Romanian-American numerical analyst
- Julena Steinheider Duncombe, American mathematics teacher and astronomer
- Elizabeth B. Dussan V., American expert on the behavior of fluids
- Nira Dyn, Israeli expert on subdivision surfaces
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- Annie Easley, African-American computer scientist, mathematician, and rocket scientist
- Sheila May Edmonds, British mathematician, Vice-Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge
- Josephine D. Edwards, Australian mathematician, founded Australian Mathematics Competition
- Mary Edwards, human computer for the British Nautical Almanac
- Constance van Eeden, Dutch nonparameteric statistician who contributed to the development of statistics in Canada
- Hettie Belle Ege, American mathematician, acting president of Mills College
- Tatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest, Dutch researcher in combinatorics and graph theory
- Andrée Ehresmann, French category theorist
- Thyra Eibe, first woman to earn a mathematics degree from the University of Copenhagen, translator of Euclid
- Carolyn Eisele, 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, Ukrainian-German expert on operator theory
- Nicole El Karoui, Tunisian-French pioneer in mathematical finance
- Amèle El Mahdi, Algerian mathematics professor and writer
- Joanne Elliott, 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
- Gisela Engeln-Müllges, escapee from East Germany, expert in numerical algorithms, and abstract artist
- Susanna S. Epp, American researcher in discrete mathematics and mathematical logic
- Karin Erdmann, German researcher in modular representation theory and homological algebra
- Anna Erschler, Russian-French expert on random walks on groups
- Hélène Esnault, French algebraic geometer, winner of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
- Maria J. Esteban, Basque-French applied mathematician, president of International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
- Alison Etheridge FRS, English researcher in theoretical population genetics and mathematical ecology
- Christina Eubanks-Turner, American mathematics educator, graph theorist, and commutative algebraist
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- Vera Faddeeva, 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, American mathematician and textbook author, secretary of MAA
- Etta Zuber Falconer, one of the first African-American women to receive a PhD in mathematics
- María Falk de Losada, American-born Colombian mathematician, co-founded Colombian Mathematical Olympiad, rector of Antonio Nariño University
- Martha Isabel Fandiño Pinilla, Colombian and Italian mathematics educator
- Barbara Fantechi, Italian algebraic geometer
- Marie Farge, French mathematician and physicist known for her research on wavelets and turbulence in fluid mechanics
- Mary Celine Fasenmyer, 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
- Lisa Fauci, American applied mathematician who applies computational fluid dynamics to biological processes
- Patricia Fauring, Argentine mathematician, coach of the Argentine mathematical olympiad team
- Odile Favaron, French graph theorist
- Philippa Fawcett, English educationalist, first woman to obtain the top score in the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos
- Anita Burdman Feferman, American historian of mathematics and mathematical biographer
- Joan Feigenbaum, theoretical computer scientist, co-inventor of trust management
- Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein, helped decipher Japanese Purple cryptography, worked on Venona counter-intelligence
- Käte Fenchel, Jewish German researcher on non-abelian groups
- Elizabeth Fennema, researched attitudes of young women towards mathematics and their classroom interactions
- Anuška Ferligoj, Slovenian mathematical sociologist and researcher in network analysis
- Jacqueline Ferrand, French researcher on conformal representation theory, potential theory, and Riemannian manifolds
- Antonia Ferrín Moreiras, Spanish mathematician and first Galician woman astronomer
- Joan Ferrini-Mundy, American researcher in mathematics education
- Farideh Firoozbakht, Iranian number theorist
- Ilse Fischer, Austrian combinatorialist
- Irene Fischer, Austrian-American geodesist for Mercury and Apollo spaceflights, member of National Academy of Engineering
- Vera Fischer, Austrian set theorist and mathematical logician
- Mary Flahive, American mathematician, author of books on difference equations and diophantine approximation
- Sarah Flannery, winner of the EU Young Scientist of the Year Award for her teenage research on cryptography
- Erica Flapan, American researcher in low-dimensional topology and knot theory
- Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, German aerodynamics researcher, first female engineering professor at Stanford
- Natasha Flyer, American earth scientist and applied mathematician, expert on radial basis functions
- Anne Bosworth Focke, first mathematics professor at what is now University of Rhode Island; student of David Hilbert
- Amanda Folsom, American number theorist
- Irene Fonseca , Portuguese-American director of the Center for Nonlinear Analysis at Carnegie Mellon University
- Phyllis Fox, American mathematician and computer scientist, collaborator on the first LISP interpreter
- Marguerite Frank, French-American pioneer in convex optimization theory and mathematical programming
- Hélène Frankowska, Polish-French control theorist and set-valued analyst
- Ailana Fraser, Canadian researcher on geometric analysis and the theory of minimal surfaces
- Haya Freedman, Israeli-British mathematician who studied the Tamari lattice and ring theory
- Herta Freitag, Austrian-American expert on Fibonacci numbers
- Susan Friedlander, English-American researcher in fluid dynamics, first female editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of the AMS
- Charlotte Froese Fischer, Canadian-American expert on atomic-structure calculations who predicted negative calcium ions
- Hannah Fry, English complex systems theorist and public speaker
- Shirley M. Frye, American mathematics educator, president of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Elza Furtado Gomide, Brazilian mathematician, first female doctorate in mathematics at University of São Paulo
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- Lisl Gaal, Austrian-born American set theorist and Galois theorist
- Isabelle Gallagher, French researcher in partial differential equations
- Irene M. Gamba, Argentine-American applied mathematician
- Svetlana Gannushkina, Russian mathematician and human rights activist
- Nina Gantert, Swiss and German probability theorist
- Pascale Garaud, French-American applied mathematician interested in fluid dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, and their applications to astrophysics
- Mary Cleophas Garvin, American mathematician
- Mai Gehrke, Danish lattice theorist and mathematical logician
- Hilda Geiringer, 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
- Ruth Gentry, American geometer
- Sommer Gentry, American mathematician, applies dance notation to haptic interaction and operations research to organ transplants
- Maria-Pia Geppert, German mathematician and biostatistician who founded the Biometrical Journal
- Sophie Germain, French number theorist, physicist, and philosopher, correspondent of Gauss
- Marie Gernet, first German woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics
- Nadeschda Gernet, Russian mathematician, student of David Hilbert, worked in the calculus of variations
- Ellen Gethner, American graph theorist
- Danuta Gierulanka, Polish mathematics educator and philosopher of mathematics
- Irène Gijbels, Belgian mathematical statistician and expert in nonparametric statistics
- Olga Gil Medrano, Spanish geometric analyst, first female president of the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society
- Anna C. Gilbert, American expert in streaming algorithms and matching pursuit
- Jane Piore Gilman, topologist and group theorist, distinguished professor of mathematics at Rutgers University
- Gloria Ford Gilmer, American ethnomathematician
- Vivette Girault, French expert on numerical analysis, finite element methods, and computational fluid dynamics
- Josephine Burns Glasgow, American group theorist, active in American Association of University Women
- Sarah Glaz, Romanian-Israeli-American commutative algebraist and mathematical poet
- Heide Gluesing-Luerssen, German mathematician specializing in algebraic coding theory
- Julia Gog, English mathematical biologist, uses mathematics to study the spread of infectious diseases
- Bonnie Gold, American mathematician, mathematical logician, philosopher of mathematics, and mathematics educator
- Lisa Goldberg, American mathematical finance scholar and statistician
- Rebecca Goldin, American expert in symplectic geometry
- Christina Goldschmidt, British probability theorist
- Catherine Goldstein, French number theorist and historian of mathematics
- Susan Goldstine, American mathematician active in mathematics and fiber arts
- Shafi Goldwasser, American-born Israeli theoretical cryptographer
- Concha Gómez, Italian and Cuban-American mathematician and advocate for diversity in STEM
- Sherry Gong, second American gold medal winner at International Mathematical Olympiad
- Enriqueta González Baz, first woman to earn a mathematics degree in Mexico, founder of the Mexican Mathematical Society
- Maria Gordina, Russian-American mathematical analyst
- Carolyn S. Gordon, 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, French cryptographer
- Mary de Lellis Gough, American mathematician
- Alice Bache Gould, American mathematician and historian
- Gene Grabeel, American mathematician and cryptanalyst who founded the Venona project
- Judith Grabiner, American historian of 18th- and 19th-century mathematics
- Eva-Maria Graefe, German-English mathematical physicist, expert in ultracold atoms and Non-Hermitian quantum mechanics
- Evelyn Boyd Granville, 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, American mathematician, first mathematical doctorate from Radcliffe College
- Marion Cameron Gray, Scottish telephone engineer, discoverer of the Gray graph
- Mary W. Gray, author on mathematics, mathematics education, economic equity, discrimination law, and academic freedom
- Judy Green, logician and historian of women in mathematics
- Anne Greenbaum, 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, Canadian statistician, winner of Krieger-Nelson Prize
- Ruth Gregory, British mathematical physicist specializing in general relativity and cosmology
- Margaret Greig, English applied mathematician, developed theory for worsted spinning
- Lois Wilfred Griffiths, 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, Spanish computational geometer, co-discoverer of scutoids, mathematics popularizer
- Margaret Grimshaw, English mathematician at Cambridge and author on Hilbert spaces
- Birgit Grodal, Danish mathematical economist, studied atomless economies
- 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, 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, Argentine mathematician, founder of Argentine Calculation Society
- Christine Guenther, American expert on the Ricci flow
- Laura Guggenbühl, 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, Ivorian mathematician
- Alice Guionnet, French probability theorist
- Geneviève Guitel, French mathematician who studied natural-language numbering systems
- Kanta Gupta, Indian-Canadian researcher on abstract algebra and group theory
- Neena Gupta, Indian mathematician who solved the Zariski cancellation problem
- Margaret Gurney, 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, Belgian differential geometer
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- Ruth Haas, American mathematician known for mentorship of other women mathematicians
- Dörte Haftendorn, German mathematician, mathematics educator, and textbook author
- Kari Hag, Norwegian expert on quasiconformal mappings
- Marjorie Hahn, American probability theorist and tennis player
- Deborah Tepper Haimo, Ukrainian-Palestinian-American classical analyst, third female president of the Mathematical Association of America
- Susie W. Håkansson, mathematics educator, director of the California Mathematics Project
- Ursula Hamenstädt, German differential geometry
- Christine Hamill, English mathematician specializing in group theory and finite geometry
- Mary-Elizabeth Hamstrom, American topologist
- Xiaoying Han, Chinese mathematician who studies random dynamical systems and stochastic differential equations
- Anita Hansbo, Swedish mathematician, rector of Jönköping University
- Megumi Harada, Canadian expert on equivariant symplectic and algebraic geometry
- Alison Harcourt, Australian mathematician and statistician known for branch and bound algorithms and quantification of poverty in Australia
- Frances Hardcastle, group theorist, one of the founders of the American Mathematical Society
- Kathryn E. Hare, Canadian expert in harmonic analysis
- Valentina Harizanov, Serbian-American researcher in computability and model theory
- Dorothee Haroske, German expert on function spaces
- Heather Harrington, applied mathematician and algebraic systems biologist
- Pamela E. Harris, Mexican combinatorist and mathematics blogger
- Jenny Harrison, American expert on generalized functions and minimal surfaces
- Frances Harshbarger, one of the first female American mathematicians to receive a doctorate
- Sarah B. Hart, British group theorist
- Shelly Harvey, American researcher in knot theory, low-dimensional topology, and group theory
- Maria Hasse, 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, president of the Mathematical Association of America
- Jane M. Hawkins, American researcher in dynamic systems, complex dynamics, cellular automata, and Julia sets
- Louise Hay, founding member of the Association for Women in Mathematics
- Linda B. Hayden, African-American mathematics educator and mathematical geoscientist known for mentorship of women and minorities
- Ellen Hayes, American mathematician, astronomer, and political radical
- Margaret Hayman, British mathematics educator, co-founder of British Mathematical Olympiad
- Euphemia Lofton Haynes, first African-American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics
- Teresa W. Haynes, American expert on domination in graphs
- Emilie Virginia Haynsworth, American linear algebraist known for Schur complements and Haynsworth inertia additivity formula
- Olive Hazlett, American algebraist at the University of Illinois
- Maria Heep-Altiner, German mathematician and actuary
- Jane Heffernan, Canadian mathematician who studies mathematical models for the spread of infectious disease
- Katherine Heinrich, 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, American cryptographer, computer security expert, and computational number theorist
- Cora Barbara Hennel, American mathematician, first woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics at the Indiana University
- Dagmar R. Henney, German-American expert on additive set-values and Banach spaces
- Inge Henningsen, statistician, writer and feminist
- Allison Henrich, American knot theorist
- Shandelle Henson, American mathematician and mathematical biologist, expert on population dynamics
- Rebecca A. Herb, American researcher in abstract algebra and Lie groups
- Raphaèle Herbin, French expert on the finite volume method
- Grete Hermann, German mathematician and philosopher also noted for her work in physics and education
- Susan Hermiller, American group theorist
- Constance Anne Herschel, British lecturer in natural sciences and mathematics
- Patricia Hersh, American expert on algebraic and topological combinatorics
- Bobby Hersom, British mathematician and computer scientist
- Kathryn Hess, 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, early African-American female mathematics PhD, MAA governor
- Laurie Heyer, American mathematician specializing in genomics and bioinformatics
- Patricia Hiddleston, 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
- Nancy Hingston, American differential geometer
- Hoàng Xuân Sính, first female Vietnamese mathematician, student of Grothendieck, founder of Thang Long University
- Catherine Hobbs, British singularity theorist, applies geometry to robotics
- Dorit S. Hochbaum, American expert on approximation algorithms for facility location, covering and packing, and scheduling
- Marlis Hochbruck, German expert on matrix exponentials and their applications to differential equations
- Maria Hoffmann-Ostenhof, Austrian expert on the Schrödinger equation
- Leslie Hogben, American mathematician specializing in graph theory and linear algebra, known for graduate mentorship
- Judy A. Holdener, American number theorist who simplified the proof of Touchard's theorem on perfect numbers
- Barbara R. Holland, New Zealand born Australian phylogeneticist
- Lotte Hollands, Dutch mathematical physicist
- Tara S. Holm, American algebraic geometer and symplectic geometer
- Olga Holtz, Russian numerical analyst, winner of the European Mathematical Society Prize
- Dorothy McFadden Hoover, American human computer involved in the design of swept-wing aircraft
- Grace Hopper, American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral
- Eleanor Mollie Horadam, English-Australian mathematician, studied generalized integers, mother of Kathy
- Kathy Horadam, 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, British mathematician known for work on algebraic number theory and arithmetic geometry
- Rebecca Hoyle, British applied mathematician, expert on pattern formation
- Celia Hoyles, British mathematician, president of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
- Hu Hesheng, differential geometer, president of Shanghai Mathematical Society, member of Chinese Academy of Science
- Verena Huber-Dyson, Swiss-American group theorist and logician, expert on undecidability in group theory
- Annette Huber-Klawitter, German algebraic geometer, expert in the Bloch–Kato conjectures
- Anne Lester Hudson, American expert in topological semigroups, mathematics educator, and mathematics competition coach
- Hilda Phoebe Hudson, English researcher on Cremona transformations in algebraic geometry
- Sabine Van Huffel, Belgian applied mathematician, expert on total least squares and applications to medical diagnostics
- Rhonda Hughes, American wavelet researcher, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics
- Deborah Hughes Hallett, mathematics education reformer
- Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann, German-American representation theorist and ring theorist
- Mabel Gweneth Humphreys, 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, American mathematician known for her work in applied mathematics and mathematical biology
- Roberta Hunter, New Zealand educational theorist and mathematics educator
- Joan Hutchinson, American graph theorist who extended the planar separator theorem to graphs of higher genus
- Marie Hušková, Czech mathematician who worked in theoretical statistics and change-point problems
- Hypatia, head of the Neoplatonic school at Alexandria, murdered by a Christian mob
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- Milagros D. Ibe, Filipino mathematics educator, vice chancellor of the University of the Philippines Diliman
- Mihaela Ignatova, Bulgarian mathematical analyst
- Annette Imhausen, German historian of ancient Egyptian mathematics
- 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
- Ilse Ipsen, German-American expert in numerical linear algebra
- Valerie Isham, British applied probabilist, president of Royal Statistical Society
- Shihoko Ishii, Japanese mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry
- Vanaja Iyengar, founding vice chancellor of Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam, a women's university in Andhra Pradesh, India
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- Trachette Jackson, researcher in mathematical oncology, second African-American woman to become a Sloan Fellow in mathematics
- Jessie Marie Jacobs, fired from mathematics instructorship for having a child, aided husband Hermann Muller's Nobel-winning genetic research
- Monique Jeanblanc, French financial mathematician
- Lisa Jeffrey FRSC, Canadian expert in symplectic geometry and quantum field theory
- Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins, Canadian philosopher of mathematics
- Jacqueline Jensen-Vallin, American low-dimensional topologist, editor of MAA FOCUS
- Svetlana Jitomirskaya, 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, 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
- Eleanor Jones, one of the first African American women to receive a PhD in mathematics
- Shelly M. Jones, American mathematics educator
- Nataša Jonoska, Macedonian-American expert in DNA computing
- Artishia Wilkerson Jordan, African-American mathematics educator and clubwoman
- 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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- Margarete Kahn, one of the first female German doctorates, contributed to Hilbert's sixteenth problem
- Suzan Kahramaner, one of the first female mathematicians in Turkish academia
- Gabriele Kaiser, German mathematics educator
- Efstratia Kalfagianni, Greek knot theorist
- Eva Kallin, American researcher in geometric axiom systems, functional algebra, and polynomial convexity
- Gudrun Kalmbach, German quantum logician
- Barbara Kaltenbacher, Austrian applied analyst, president of Austrian Mathematical Society
- Hermine Agavni Kalustyan, Armenian-Turkish mathematician and politician
- Shoshana Kamin, Soviet-Israeli mathematical physicist, wrote about parabolic partial differential equations
- Chiu-Yen Kao, Taiwanese-American expert in image processing and mathematical biology
- Gizem Karaali, Turkish representation theorist, founding editor of Journal of Humanistic Mathematics
- Mary Cordia Karl, American geometer
- Carol Karp, American researcher on infinitary logic, viola player
- Yael Karshon, Israeli-Canadian expert on symplectic geometry
- Haya Kaspi, Israeli probability theorist
- Fanny Kassel, French expert on Lie groups
- Svetlana Katok, Jewish Russian-American founder of Electronic Research Announcements of the AMS
- Bruria Kaufman, 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, Iranian-American mathematics educator
- Rinat Kedem, American mathematician and mathematical physicist
- Linda Keen, American mathematician and computer scientist, president of AWM
- Lyudmila Keldysh, Russian set theorist and geometric topologist
- Ruth Kellerhals, Swiss expert on hyperbolic geometry, geometric group theory and polylogarithm identities
- Julia Kempe, French, German, and Israeli researcher in quantum computing
- Claribel Kendall, one of the founders of the Rocky Mountain Section of the MAA
- Juliette Kennedy, mathematical logician in Finland
- Patricia Clark Kenschaft, American mathematician, prolific book author, and activist for equity and diversity
- Autumn Kent, American mathematician specializing in topology and geometry, promoter of transgender rights
- 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
- Barbara Keyfitz, Canadian-American researcher on nonlinear partial differential equations, president of AWM and ICIAM
- 'Mamphono Khaketla, Lesotho mathematician, senator, and finance minister
- Olga Kharlampovich, Russian-Canadian group theorist who solved the Tarski conjecture on first-order theories of free groups
- Carolyn Kieran, Canadian mathematics educator
- Misha Kilmer, American applied mathematician known for research in numerical linear algebra and scientific computing
- Ju-Lee Kim, Korean-American expert on the representation theory of p-adic groups
- Chawne Kimber, African-American mathematician and quilter, incorporates social justice into mathematics teaching
- Angie Turner King, American mathematics and chemistry educator
- Karen D. King, African-American mathematics educator and Falconer Lecturer
- L. Christine Kinsey, American topologist and textbook author
- Faina Mihajlovna Kirillova, Belarusian optimal control theorist
- Vivien Kirk, New Zealand dynamical systems theorist, president of New Zealand Mathematical Society
- Ellen Kirkman, American algebraist
- Frances Kirwan, British specialist in algebraic and symplectic geometry
- Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen, Danish researcher in mathematics education and the philosophy and history of mathematics
- Kathrin Klamroth, German expert on combinatorial optimization and facility location
- Erica Klarreich, American geometer and writer
- Maria Klawe, Canadian-American theoretical computer scientist, president of Harvey Mudd College
- Caroline Klivans, American algebraic combinatorist, expert on chip-firing games
- Genevieve M. Knight, African-American mathematics educator
- Julia F. Knight, American specialist in model theory and computability theory
- 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, American researcher in the dynamics of the nervous system
- Elaine Koppelman, American mathematician
- Maria Korovina, Russian research on functional spaces and differential equations
- Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach, French differential geometer, namesake of the Kosmann lift
- Sofia Kovalevskaya, first major Russian female mathematician, worked in analysis, differential equations and mechanics
- Bryna Kra, American mathematician who applies dynamical systems in number theory and combinatorics
- Edna Kramer, American mathematician and author of mathematics books
- Cecilia Krieger, third person and first woman to earn a Canadian mathematics PhD, translator of Sierpiński
- Holly Krieger, American dynamical systems theorist
- Anna Zofia Krygowska, Polish mathematician known for her work in mathematics education
- Ewa Kubicka, Polish-American graph theorist and actuarial scientist
- Vera Kublanovskaya, Russian inventor of the QR algorithm for computing eigenvalues and eigenvectors
- Daniela Kühn, German-English combinatorialist, expert on infinite graphs, winner of the Whitehead Prize
- Angela Kunoth, German numerical analyst
- Frances Kuo, Taiwanese-Australian applied mathematician, expert on quasi-Monte Carlo methods
- Krystyna Kuperberg, Polish-American topologist who found a smooth counterexample to the Seifert conjecture
- Věra Kůrková, Czech expert in neural networks and approximation theory
- Rachel Kuske, American-Canadian expert on stochastic and nonlinear dynamics, asymptotic methods, and industrial mathematics
- Klavdija Kutnar, Slovenian algebraic graph theorist and academic administrator
- Gitta Kutyniok, German researcher in harmonic analysis, compressed sensing, and image processing
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- Izabella Łaba, 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, American psychologist, logician, and mathematician
- Jeanne LaDuke, American child actress, mathematical analyst, and historian of mathematics
- Olga Ladyzhenskaya, Soviet mathematician, proved convergence of a finite difference method for Navier–Stokes
- V. Lakshmibai, Indian-American expert on flag varieties and Schubert varieties
- Ailsa Land, British operations researcher known for developing branch and bound algorithms
- Susan Landau, American mathematician and computer scientist, known for internet security and denesting radicals
- Tanja Lange, German number theorist and cryptographer
- Amy Langville, American college basketball star and expert on ranking systems
- Glenda Lappan, developed Connected Mathematics curriculum, led National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Gillie Larew, 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, Swedish researcher in scientific computing
- Irena Lasiecka, Polish-American expert in control theory of partial differential equations
- Renu C. Laskar, Indian-American graph theorist, specialist in domination numbers and circular arc graphs
- Klavdiya Latysheva, Soviet mathematician, contributed to differential equations, electrodynamics and probability
- Monique Laurent, French-Dutch expert in mathematical optimization
- Kristin Lauter, American researcher in elliptic curve cryptography, president of AWM
- Ruth Lawrence, child prodigy, British-Israeli researcher in knot theory and algebraic topology
- Anneli Cahn Lax, American mathematician, winner of the George Pólya Award
- Anita Layton, Hong Kong-American applied mathematician who studies mathematical models of kidney function
- Lê Thị Thanh Nhàn, Vietnamese mathematician, vice rector for Science at Thái Nguyên University, won Kovalevskaya Prize
- Alice Lee, helped discredit craniology
- Hollylynne Lee, American mathematics and statistics educator
- Joceline Lega, French applied mathematician interested in nonlinear dynamics
- Anne M. Leggett, American mathematical logician, editor of AWM Newsletter
- Emma Lehmer, Russian-American mathematician known for work on reciprocity laws in algebraic number theory
- Marguerite Lehr, pioneer in the use of television to teach mathematics
- Tanya Leise, American biomathematician, expert in circadian rhythms
- Joan Leitzel, American mathematics educator and university administrator
- Miriam Leiva, Cuban-American mathematics educator
- Mary Leng, British philosopher of mathematics
- Frédérique Lenger, Belgian mathematics educator and leader of the New Math movement
- Suzanne Lenhart, American researcher in partial differential equations, president of AWM
- Annie Leuch-Reineck, Swiss mathematician and women's rights activist
- Debbie Leung, Canadian expert in quantum communications
- Rachel Levy, American applied mathematician, mathematics educator, and blogger
- Marta Lewicka, Polish expert in nonlinear elasticity
- Florence Lewis, American mathematician and astronomer
- Jing-Rebecca Li, applied mathematician in France, studies magnetic resonance imaging and Lyapunov equations
- Sherry Li, Chinese-American developer of sparse parallel solvers for systems of linear equations
- Winnie Li, Chinese-American researcher in number theory, coding theory, automorphic forms, and spectral graph theory
- Paulette Libermann, French specialist in differential geometry
- Pamela Liebeck, British mathematician and mathematics educator
- Lillian Rosanoff Lieber, American mathematics professor and author of popular books on science and mathematics
- Magnhild Lien, Norwegian mathematician specializing in knot theory
- Elizaveta Litvinova, Russian mathematician and biographer, defied czar's order forbidding women to study abroad
- Marie Litzinger, American number theorist
- Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu, Taiwanese-American researcher in algebraic geometry and symplectic geometry
- Patti Frazer Lock, American mathematics and statistics educator and textbook author
- Deborah Frank Lockhart, administrator at the National Science Foundation
- Susan Loepp, American algebraist and cryptographer
- Marina Logares, Spanish geometer and LGBT+ activist
- Mayme Logsdon, American algebraic geometer and mathematics educator
- Ling Long, Chinese-American expert on modular forms, elliptic surfaces, and dessins d'enfants
- Lynette Long, American psychologist, mathematics educator, and textbook author
- Judith Q. Longyear, American researcher in graph theory and combinatorics
- Paola Loreti, Italian researcher in Fourier analysis, control theory, and non-integer bases
- Lisa Lorentzen, Norwegian mathematician and author, specializing in continued fractions
- Dawn Lott, African-American expert on numerical partial differential equations
- Ada Lovelace, wrote the first computer program as part of her work on Babbage's Analytical Engine
- María Teresa Lozano Imízcoz, Spanish low-dimensional topologist
- Sylvia Chin-Pi Lu, Chinese-American commutative algebraist
- Katarzyna Lubnauer, Polish probability theorist and politician
- Edith Hirsch Luchins, Polish-American mathematician, experimented on psychology of mathematical problem solving
- Malwina Łuczak, Polish-Australian probability theorist
- Monika Ludwig, Austrian researcher in convex geometry, member of Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Alessandra Lunardi, Italian mathematical analyst
- Élisabeth Lutz, French student of Weil, showed how to compute torsion subgroups of elliptic curves
- Julie Lutz, American astronomer and mathematician who studies planetary nebulae and symbiotic binary stars
- Sonja Lyttkens, Swedish mathematician, first Swedish woman to obtain a permanent academic position in mathematics
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- Odile Macchi, French mathematician and physicist
- Marta Macho Stadler, Basque expert on foliations and mathematical blogger
- Barbara MacCluer, American expert on operator theory and author on functional analysis
- Sheila Scott Macintyre, Scottish researcher on the Whittaker constant, co-author of German–English mathematics dictionary
- Diane Maclagan, expert on toric varieties, Hilbert schemes, and tropical geometry
- Chrystal Macmillan, Scottish Liberal politician, barrister, feminist and pacifist, first female honours graduate in mathematics from University of Edinburgh
- Jessie MacWilliams, English researcher on error-correcting codes
- Kathleen Madden, American expert on dynamical systems
- Isabel Maddison, British mathematician known for her work on differential equations
- Penelope Maddy, American philosopher of mathematics
- Dorothy Maharam, American mathematician who made important contributions to measure theory
- Carolyn A. Maher, American expert in mathematics education
- Carolyn Mahoney, African-American combinatorialist, president of Lincoln University of Missouri
- Apala Majumdar, British expert on liquid crystals
- Larisa Maksimova, Russian mathematical logician
- Maryanthe Malliaris, American mathematician specializing in model theory
- Vivienne Malone-Mayes, fifth African-American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics, researcher in functional analysis
- Eugenia Malinnikova, Russian-Norwegian expert in functional analysis and partial differential equations
- Claudia Malvenuto, Italian mathematician known for her work on the Hopf algebra of permutations
- Michelle Manes, American mathematician interested in number theory, algebraic geometry, and dynamical systems
- Kathryn Mann, geometric topologist and geometric group theorist
- Renata Mansini, Italian applied mathematician, uses mathematical optimization for portfolio balancing
- Elizabeth Mansfield, Australian expert on moving frames and conservation laws
- María Manzano, Spanish mathematical logician
- Elena Marchisotto, American mathematician, mathematics educator, and historian of mathematics
- Matilde Marcolli, Italian mathematical physicist
- Fotini Markopoulou-Kalamara, Greek theoretical physicist interested in foundational mathematics and quantum mechanics
- Hannah Markwig, German researcher in tropical geometry
- Alison Marr, American graph theorist and advocate of inquiry-based learning
- Karen Marrongelle, American mathematics educator and academic administrator
- Susan H. Marshall, American number theorist
- Maia Martcheva, Bulgarian-American mathematical biologist
- Laura Martignon, Colombian-Italian researcher in neuroscience and decision-making
- Emilie Martin, American group theorist
- Mireille Martin-Deschamps, French algebraic geometer, president of Société mathématique de France
- María del Carmen Martínez Sancho, first woman in Spain to gain a PhD in Mathematics
- Katalin Marton, Hungarian information and probability theorist
- Susan Martonosi, American mathematician, applies operations research to counter-terrorism, epidemiology, and sports analytics
- Roswitha März, German expert on differential-algebraic equations
- Verdiana Masanja, first Tanzanian woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics
- Vera Nikolaevna Maslennikova, Russian researcher on partial differential equations, hydrodynamics of rotating fluids, and function spaces
- Maura Mast, Irish-American differential geometer, mathematics educator, textbook author, and academic administrator
- Claire Mathieu, French algorithms researcher
- Gordana Matic, Croatian-American low-dimensional topologist, expert on contact topology
- Kaisa Matomäki, Finnish number theorist known for her work on multiplicative functions over short intervals
- Margaret Maxfield, American mathematician and mathematics book author
- Lola J. May, American mathematics educator and early proponent of new math
- Svitlana Mayboroda, Ukrainian-American expert on boundary value problems for elliptic partial differential equations
- Anna Mazzucato, American expert on fluid dynamics
- Shirley McBay, first African-American doctorate at the University of Georgia
- Mary McCammon, first woman to complete a doctoral degree in mathematics at Imperial College London
- Maeve McCarthy, Irish mathematician interested in inverse problems and biological modeling
- Lynne McClure, British mathematics educator
- Dorothy McCoy, American mathematician, first female doctorate in mathematics at University of Iowa
- Dusa McDuff FRS, English researcher on symplectic geometry, winner of Satter Prize, first female Hardy Lecturer
- Elizabeth McHarg, Scottish mathematician and translator, first female president of Edinburgh Mathematical Society
- Lois Curfman McInnes, American researcher on numerical solution of nonlinear partial differential equations for scientific applications
- Camille McKayle, Afro-Jamaican-American mathematician and academic administrator
- Danica McKellar, American actor, author, mathematician, and education advocate
- Joyce McLaughlin, American researcher in inverse problems
- Jeanette McLeod, New Zealand combinatorialist, popularizes mathematics through crochet and origami
- Jennifer McLoud-Mann, Cherokee mathematician who discovered the 15th and last class of convex pentagons that tile the plane
- Florence Marie Mears, American specialist in summation methods
- Catherine Meadows, American cryptographer who formally verifies cryptographic protocols
- Elizabeth Meckes, American probability theorist
- Nicole Megow, German discrete mathematician and theoretical computer scientist, researcher in scheduling algorithms
- Sylvie Méléard, French probability theorist
- Pauline Mellon, Irish functional analyst, president of Irish Mathematical Society
- Karin Melnick, American differential geometer
- Helen Abbot Merrill, American mathematician, educator and textbook author
- Winifred Edgerton Merrill, first woman with a degree from Columbia University and first American female doctorate in mathematics
- Uta Merzbach, German-American historian of mathematics, first Smithsonian curator of mathematical instruments
- Chikako Mese, American differential geometer
- Jill P. Mesirov, American mathematician, computer scientist, and computational biologist, president of AWM
- Ida Martha Metcalf, second American female doctorate in mathematics
- Catherine Meusburger, German mathematical physicist interested in string theory
- Marie-Louise Michelsohn, American researcher on complex geometry, spin manifolds, the Dirac operator, and algebraic cycles
- Ruth I. Michler, American commutative algebraist and algebraic geometer
- Kaisa Miettinen, Finnish industrial optimization researcher and academic administrator
- Alison Miller, first American female gold medalist in the International Mathematical Olympiad, three-time Elizabeth Lowell Putnam award winner
- Mirka Miller, Czech-Australian graph theorist, data security expert
- Margaret Millington, English expert on modular forms
- Eva Miranda, Spanish expert on symplectic dynamics
- Rosa M. Miró-Roig, Spanish algebraic geometer and commutative algebraist
- Maryam Mirzakhani, first female Fields medalist; researcher on the symmetry of curved surfaces
- Yuliya Mishura, Ukrainian probability theorist and mathematical finance expert
- Dorina Mitrea, Romanian-American functional analyst and mathematics educator
- Irina Mitrea, Romanian-American researcher in partial differential equations known for outreach to women and minorities
- Atsuko Miyaji, Japanese cryptographer and number theorist
- Reiko Miyaoka, Japanese geometer known for her research on hypersurfaces
- Fatma Moalla, first Tunisian woman to earn a French doctorate in mathematics
- Colette Moeglin, French expert on automorphic forms
- Joanne Moldenhauer, American high school mathematics teacher
- Susan Montgomery, American researcher in noncommutative algebra
- Helen Moore, American mathematician who applies control theory to combination therapy in the health industry
- Cathleen Synge Morawetz, Canadian-American researcher on the partial differential equations governing fluid flow
- Anne C. Morel, American logician, order theorist, and algebraist, first female full professor of mathematics at the University of Washington
- Sophie Morel, French number theorist and contributor to the Langlands program, first female tenured mathematics professor at Harvard
- Joy Morris, Canadian researcher on groups and graphs
- Rose Morton, American expert in the mathematical modeling of bubbles
- Joan Moschovakis, American intuitionistic logician
- Ruth Moufang, German researcher on non-associative algebraic structures, namesake of Moufang loops
- Magdalena Mouján, Argentine mathematician of Basque descent, operations researcher, computing pioneer, and science fiction author
- Jennifer Mueller, American applied mathematician, expert in inverse problems and electrical impedance tomography
- Edith Alice Müller, Swiss mathematician and astronomer, studied the group theory of Moorish tile designs
- Anna Mullikin, American mathematician, early investigator of point set theory
- Kieka Mynhardt, South African and Canadian expert on dominating sets in graph theory
- Emmy Murphy, American symplectic geometer
- Valerie Myerscough, British mathematician and astrophysicist
- Vera Myller, Russian mathematician and student of David Hilbert, first female professor in Romania
- Wendy Myrvold, Canadian graph theorist, combinatorist, and algorithms researcher
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- Anna Nagurney, Ukrainian-American mathematician, economist, educator and author in operations management
- Hasibun Naher, Pakistani applied mathematician who studies tsunamis
- Andrea R. Nahmod, American expert in nonlinear Fourier analysis, harmonic analysis, and partial differential equations
- Pia Nalli, Italian researcher in functional analysis and tensor calculus
- Seema Nanda, Indian researcher in applications of mathematics to biology, engineering and finance
- Mangala Narlikar, Indian number theorist, author of Marathi-language mathematics books for schoolchildren
- Sonia Natale, Argentine expert in abstract algebra
- Caryn Navy, blind American researcher in set-theoretic topology and Braille technology
- Vicky Neale, British number theorist and mathematics popularizer
- Gabriele Nebe, German researcher on sphere packings, lattices, and codes
- Deanna Needell, American applied mathematician, won 2016 IMA Prize in Mathematics and Applications
- Sara Negri, Italian-Finnish proof theorist
- Evelyn Nelson, Canadian researcher in universal algebra with applications to theoretical computer science
- Gail S. Nelson, American mathematician, textbook author, and editor-in-chief of the MAA "Problem Books"
- Nancy Neudauer, American matroid theorist known for her work in mathematical outreach in Africa and South America
- Claudia Neuhauser, German-American mathematical biologist whose research concerns spatial ecology
- Hanna Neumann, German-born mathematician who worked on group theory
- Adriana Neumann de Oliveira, Brazilian expert in interacting particle systems
- Mara Neusel, German-American invariant theorist and advocate for women in mathematics
- Monica Nevins, Canadian algebraist
- Mary Frances Winston Newson, first female American to receive a PhD in mathematics from a European university
- Purity Ngina, Kenyan biomathematician
- Giang Nguyen, Vietnamese-Australian applied mathematician and chess master
- Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin, Irish celebrity and mathematics lecturer
- Nancy K. Nichols, British applied mathematician and numerical analyst
- Olympia Nicodemi, American mathematician and mathematics educator interested in wavelets and the history of mathematics
- Phyllis Nicolson, British developer of the Crank–Nicolson method for solving partial differential equations
- Barbara Niethammer, German expert on the growth of particles in liquids
- Stanisława Nikodym, first Polish woman to earn PhD in mathematics, known for research in continuum theory
- Mila Nikolova, Bulgarian researcher in image processing, inverse problems, and compressed sensing
- Kumiko Nishioka, Japanese specialist on transcendental numbers and Mahler functions
- Wiesława Nizioł, Polish researcher in arithmetic algebraic geometry
- Emmy Noether, German researcher in abstract algebra and theoretical physics, named "the greatest woman mathematician of all time"
- Margarita Nolasco Santiago, Mathematics textbook author, member of Puerto Rico Senate
- Khalida Inayat Noor, Pakistani mathematical analyst
- Dorothée Normand-Cyrot, French control theorist
- Isabella Novik, Israeli-American expert on algebraic and geometric combinatorics
- Frieda Nugel, one of the first German women to obtain a doctorate in mathematics
- Helena J. Nussenzveig Lopes, Brazilian mathematician known for her research on incompressible Euler equations
- Kaisa Nyberg, Finnish cryptographer
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- Katharine Elizabeth O'Brien, American mathematician, musician and poet
- Vivian O'Brien, American applied mathematician and physicist, expert in fluid dynamics and visual perception
- Hilary Ockendon, British applied mathematician, expert in fluid dynamics
- Ortrud Oellermann, South African and Canadian graph theorist
- Frédérique Oggier, Swiss and Singaporean coding theorist
- Hee Oh, Korean-American dynamical systems theorist, expert on equidistribution in fractal structures
- Eve Oja, Estonian functional analyst
- Christine O'Keefe, Australian researcher in finite geometry and information security
- Kathleen Adebola Okikiolu, British-American researcher on differential operators, developed curricula for inner-city children
- Dianne P. O'Leary, American expert on scientific computing, computational linear algebra, and the history of scientific computing
- Olga Oleinik, Soviet researcher on partial differential equations, elastic media, and boundary layers
- Dorte Olesen, first Danish mathematician to be appointed full professor
- Gloria Olive, American-born New Zealand mathematician
- Kathleen Ollerenshaw, British mathematician and politician, mayor of Manchester, educational advisor to Margaret Thatcher
- Yewande Olubummo, Nigerian-American functional analyst
- Cathy O'Neil, American arithmetic algebraic geometer and author on the social hazards of machine learning
- Rosa Orellana, American mathematician specializing in algebraic combinatorics and representation theory
- Omayra Ortega, American mathematical epidemiologist
- Hinke Osinga, Dutch expert in dynamical systems, crocheted the Lorenz manifold
- Barbara L. Osofsky, American algebraist, first woman in 50 years to address a national AMS meeting, first female AMS journal editor
- Marie Françoise Ouedraogo, Burkinabé expert on pseudodifferential operators and superalgebras, president of African Women in Mathematics Association
- Helen Brewster Owens, American suffragette, associate editor of the American Mathematical Monthly
- Robyn Owens, Australian applied mathematician, studies computer vision including face recognition and the imaging of lactation
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- Ietje Paalman-de Miranda, Surinamese–Dutch mathematician, first female mathematics professor at University of Amsterdam
- Harriet Padberg, mathematician, music therapist, and pioneer of algorithmic music composition
- Christina Pagel, British German operations researcher, applies data analysis and mathematical modelling to health care
- Eleanor Pairman, Scottish mathematician, developed methods to teach mathematics to blind students
- Ilona Palásti, Hungarian researcher in discrete geometry, geometric probability, and random graphs
- Pandrosion, ancient Greek mathematician predating Hypatia, developed an approximation for cube roots
- Erika Pannwitz, German geometric topologist who proved that every knot has a quadrisecant
- Anna Panorska, Polish-American expert on extreme events in stochastic processes and on the effect of weather on baseball
- Greta Panova, Bulgarian-American algebraic combinatorist
- Raman Parimala, Indian mathematician known for her contributions to algebra
- Clare Parnell, British astrophysicist and applied mathematician, studies the mathematics of the sun and of magnetic fields
- Haesun Park, Korean-American researcher in numerical analysis and the data sciences
- Karen Parshall, American historian of mathematics
- Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, Polish-American control theorist and mathematics educator
- Maria Pastori, Italian mathematician, specialist in rational mechanics
- Christine Paulin-Mohring, French mathematical logician and computer scientist, developer of Coq theorem prover
- Barbara Paulson, American human computer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Nataša Pavlović, Serbian–American expert in fluid dynamics and nonlinear dispersive equations
- Sylvie Paycha, French mathematician working in operator theory
- Sandrine Péché, French expert on random matrices
- Jean Pedersen, American mathematician and author, expert on mathematical paper folding
- Irena Peeva, American researcher in commutative algebra and its applications
- Jeanne Peiffer, Luxembourgian historian of mathematics
- Magda Peligrad, Romanian probability theorist known for her work on stochastic processes
- Beatrice Pelloni, Italian expert on partial differential equations
- Rose Peltesohn, German-Israeli researcher in additive combinatorics
- Kirsi Peltonen, Finnish mathematician whose interests include differential geometry and the connections between mathematics and art
- Charlotte Elvira Pengra, Sixth American woman to receive a doctorate in mathematics
- Cristina Pereyra, Venezuelan mathematician, author of several books on wavelets and harmonic analysis
- Bernadette Perrin-Riou, French number theorist, winner of the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize
- Mary Perry Smith, American mathematics educator, founder of MESA program for under-privileged students
- Hazel Perfect, British combinatorialist, author, and translator, inventor of gammoids
- Laura Person, American low-dimensional topologist
- Rózsa Péter, recursion theorist, first woman elected to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- Stefanie Petermichl, German-French mathematical analyst, first female winner of the Salem Prize
- Louise Petrén-Overton, first Swedish woman with a doctorate in mathematics
- Guergana Petrova, Bulgarian applied mathematician, uses numerical methods to solve differential equations
- Linda Petzold, researcher in differential algebraic equations and simulation, member of National Academy of Engineering
- Julia Pevtsova, Russian-American representation theorist
- Flora Philip, first female member of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society
- Cynthia A. Phillips, American expert on combinatorial optimization
- Dominique Picard, French expert on the statistical applications of wavelets
- Sophie Piccard, Russian-Swiss mathematician, first female full professor in Switzerland
- Lisa Piccirillo, American low-dimensional topologist
- Ragni Piene, Norwegian algebraic geometer, member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
- Lillian Pierce, American mathematician whose research connects number theory with harmonic analysis
- Johanna Piesch, Austrian pioneer in switching algebra
- Marie Anne Victoire Pigeon, French mathematician, writer, and teacher
- Faustina Pignatelli, princess of Colubrano, second woman elected to the Academy of Sciences of Bologna
- Gabriella Pinzari, Italian expert on the -body problem
- Jill Pipher, researcher in harmonic analysis, Fourier analysis, differential equations, and cryptography, president of AWM
- Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian philosopher, musician, and mathematics lecturer, first woman to earn a doctorate
- Toniann Pitassi, American-Canadian computational complexity theorist, expert on proof complexity
- Vera Pless, American mathematician specializing in combinatorics and coding theory
- Kim Plofker, American historian of Indian mathematics, winner of the Brouwer Medal
- Gerlind Plonka, German mathematician known for her work on refinable functions and curvelets
- Eileen Poiani, American mathematician, first woman to teach mathematics at Saint Peter's University, first female president of Pi Mu Epsilon
- Claudia Polini, Italian expert on commutative algebra
- Harriet Pollatsek, Lie theorist who has applied difference sets to error correcting codes and coding theory
- Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina, Soviet researcher in fluid mechanics, hydrodynamics, and history of mathematics
- Elena Moldovan Popoviciu, Romanian functional analyst
- Marian Pour-El, American mathematical logician and computable analyst
- Victoria Powers, American algebraic geometer and election theorist
- Cheryl Praeger, Australian researcher in group theory, algebraic graph theory and combinatorial designs
- Malabika Pramanik, Indian-Canadian harmonic analyst
- Eleanor C. Pressly, American mathematician and sounding rocket engineer
- Emma Previato, researcher in algebraic geometry and partial differential equations
- Candice Renee Price, American mathematician, advocate for greater representation of women and people of color in STEM
- Rachel Justine Pries, American arithmetic geometer and Galois theorist
- Hilary Priestley, British mathematician who used topological methods to study distributive lattices
- Mileva Prvanović, Serbian differential geometer, first to earn a doctorate in geometry in Serbia
- Mary Pugh, American-Canadian expert on thin films
- Ulla Pursiheimo, Finnish control theorist who became the first female mathematics professor in Finland
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- Martine Queffélec, French expert in substitution dynamical systems and Diophantine approximation
- Jennifer Quinn, American combinatorialist
- Peregrina Quintela Estévez, Spanish applied mathematician
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- Ami Radunskaya, American mathematician, specializes in dynamical systems and applications to medical problems, president of AWM
- Virginia Ragsdale, American specialist in algebraic curves, formulated the Ragsdale conjecture
- Kavita Ramanan, Indian-American probability theorist
- Mythily Ramaswamy, Indian functional analyst and control theorist
- Susan Miller Rambo, second woman awarded a PhD from the University of Michigan, delegate to 1928 ICM
- Sujatha Ramdorai, Indian-Canadian algebraic number theorist, expert on Iwasawa theory
- Saly Ruth Ramler, first woman to earn a mathematics doctorate from Charles University
- Helena Rasiowa, Polish researcher in the foundations of mathematics and algebraic logic
- Marina Ratner, Russian-American ergodic theorist, member of National Academy of Sciences
- Cora Ratto de Sadosky, Argentine mathematician and human rights activist
- Geneviève Raugel, French numerical analyst and dynamical systems theorist
- Ethel Raybould, Australian mathematician and mathematics benefactor
- Michèle Raynaud, French algebraic geometer
- Margaret Rayner, British expert on isoperimetric inequalities, president of Mathematical Association
- Mary Lynn Reed, American mathematician, intelligence researcher, and short fiction writer
- Mary Rees, British specialist in complex dynamical systems
- Mina Rees, first female President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Sarah Rees, British group theorist
- Karin Reich, German historian of mathematics and biographer of mathematicians
- Anna Barbara Reinhart, Swiss mathematician, wrote commentary on Newton's Principia
- Kristina Reiss, German mathematics educator
- Idun Reiten, Norwegian representation theorist, member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
- Yuriko Renardy, Australian-American expert in fluid dynamics
- Barbara Reys, American mathematics educator known for her research in number sense and mental calculation
- Karen Rhea, American calculus educator and proponent of flipped classrooms
- Ida Rhodes, American pioneer in computer programming, designed the first computer used for Social Security
- Marjorie Rice, American amateur mathematician who discovered new pentagon tilings
- Christine Riedtmann, Swiss algebraist, president of Swiss Mathematical Society
- Eleanor Rieffel, American applied mathematician interested in quantum computing, computer vision, and cryptography
- Carol Jane Anger Rieke, American astronomer and mathematics educator
- Beatrice Rivière, French expert on numerical simulation of fluid flow through porous media
- Catherine A. Roberts, American applied mathematician and executive director of the American Mathematical Society
- Rachel Roberts, American low-dimensional topologist
- Siobhan Roberts, Canadian mathematical biographer
- Vanessa Robins, Australian computational topologist
- Julia Robinson, American researcher on diophantine equations, contributed to solution of Hilbert's Tenth Problem
- Margaret M. Robinson, American number theorist and expert on zeta functions
- Alvany Rocha, American specialist in Lie groups, computed characters of the Virasoro algebra
- Rubí Rodríguez, Chilean complex geometer, president of Chilean Mathematical Society
- Alice Rogers, English expert on supermanifolds
- Marie Rognes, Norwegian researcher in scientific computing and numerical methods
- Judith Roitman, American specialist in set theory, topology, Boolean algebra, and mathematics education
- Colva Roney-Dougal, British computational group theorist
- Anna Rönström, Swedish educator, school founder, and mathematician
- Marian P. Roque, Filipina expert on partial differential equations, president of the Mathematical Society of the Philippines
- Frances A. Rosamond, Australian researcher in parameterized complexity, advocate for women in computer science and mathematics
- Margit Rösler, German expert on harmonic analysis, special functions, and Dunkl operators
- Mary G. Ross, first Native American female engineer, studied mathematics for aeronautics and celestial mechanics
- Alice Roth, Swiss mathematician known for her invention of Swiss cheese spaces
- Linda Preiss Rothschild, president of AWM, vice-president of AMS, co-editor-in-chief of Mathematical Research Letters
- Christel Rotthaus, German-American researcher in commutative algebra
- Svetlana Roudenko, Russian-American functional analyst
- Christiane Rousseau, French-Canadian mathematician, president of the Canadian Mathematical Society
- Marie-Françoise Roy, French expert in real algebraic geometry, co-founder of two organizations for women in mathematics
- Jean E. Rubin, American expert on the axiom of choice
- Mary Ellen Rudin, constructed many counterexamples in topology
- Adela Ruiz de Royo, first lady of Panama
- Mari-Jo P. Ruiz, Filipina graph theorist and operations researcher
- Iris Runge, German applied mathematician, translator and biographer
- Mary Beth Ruskai, proved subadditivity of quantum entropy, bounded the electrons in an atom, advocate for women in mathematics
- Barbara Falkenbach Ryan, American mathematician, computer scientist, statistician and business executive
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- Flora Sadler, Scottish mathematician and astronomer
- Cora Sadosky, Argentine-American analyst, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics
- Claudia Sagastizábal, Argentine-Brazilian researcher in convex optimization and energy management
- Laure Saint-Raymond, French specialist in partial differential equations, member of the French Academy of Sciences
- Ayşe Şahin, Turkish-American expert on dynamical systems
- Graciela Salicrup, Mexican pioneer in categorical topology
- Judith D. Sally, American researcher in commutative algebra, Noether lecturer
- Sema Salur, Turkish-American differential geometer
- Jean E. Sammet, supervised the first scientific programming group, helped develop COBOL
- Mildred Sanderson, American mathematician, established a correspondence between modular and formal invariants
- Marta Sanz-Solé, Catalan researcher on stochastic processes, president of the European Mathematical Society
- Winifred Sargent, English researcher on integration theory and BK-spaces
- Ruth Lyttle Satter, American researcher on circadian rhythms, namesake of Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics
- Linda Gilbert Saucier, American mathematician, prolific textbook author
- Lisa Sauermann, German mathematician ranked third in the International Mathematical Olympiad Hall of Fame
- Bonita V. Saunders, American expert on mathematical visualization
- Carla Savage, American researcher on parallel algorithms and combinatorial generation, secretary of AMS
- Karen Saxe, American expert on functional analysis and social choice theory
- Jane Cronin Scanlon, American researcher in partial differential equations and mathematical biology
- Alice T. Schafer, American differential geometer, founding member of the Association for Women in Mathematics
- Sakura Schafer-Nameki, German mathematical physicist
- Mary Schaps, Israeli mathematician and academic administrator, researcher in deformation theory, group theory, and representation theory
- Doris Schattschneider, American mathematician known for writing about tessellations and the art of M. C. Escher
- Michelle Schatzman, French numerical analyst
- Katya Scheinberg, Russian-American expert on derivative-free continuous optimization
- Anne Schilling, American algebraic combinatorialist, representation theorist, and mathematical physicist
- Tamar Schlick, American applied mathematician who develops and applies tools for biomolecule modeling and simulation
- Karin Schnass, Austrian expert on sparse dictionary learning
- Leila Schneps, American-French analytic number theorist and arithmetic geometer, archivist of Grothendieck's works
- Anita Schöbel, German operations researcher, expert on optimization for public transportation
- Maria E. Schonbek, Argentine-American researcher in fluid dynamics and associated partial differential equations
- Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb, Austrian mathematician known for her research in image analysis
- Jennifer Schultens, American low-dimensional topologist and knot theorist
- Marie-Hélène Schwartz, French mathematician known for her work on characteristic numbers of spaces with singularities
- Jeanette Scissum, American mathematician known for her work on sunspot prediction
- Charlotte Scott, British mathematician who promoted mathematical education of American women
- Jennifer Scott, British numerical analyst
- Jennifer Seberry, Australian cryptographer, mathematician, and computer scientist, one of the founders of Asiacrypt
- Rose Whelan Sedgewick, first person to earn a PhD in mathematics from Brown University
- Esther Seiden, Polish-Israeli-American mathematical statistician known for her research on design of experiments and combinatorial design
- Annie Selden, American mathematics educator, one of the founders of the Association for Women in Mathematics
- Svetlana Selezneva, Russian expert on discrete functions
- Helaine Selin, American librarian, historian of science, and ethnomathematician
- Marjorie Senechal, American expert on quasicrystals, author on history of science, editor-in-chief of The Mathematical Intelligencer
- Seo Yeongsuhap, Korean poet and mathematician
- Sylvia Serfaty, French expert on superconductivity, winner of the European Mathematical Society Prize
- Vera Serganova, Russian-American researcher on superalgebras and their representations
- Caroline Series, English specialist in hyperbolic geometry, Kleinian groups and dynamical systems
- Lily Serna, Israeli-Australian arithmetical guru of the SBS game show Letters and Numbers
- Brigitte Servatius, Austrian-American expert on matroids and structural rigidity
- Nataša Šešum, expert in geometric flows
- Mamokgethi Setati, first black female South African to earn a PhD in mathematics education
- Jeanette Shakalli, promoter of mathematics in Panama
- Betty Shannon, mathematician and human computer, collaborator with husband Claude Shannon
- Tatyana Shaposhnikova, Russian-Swedish researcher on multipliers in function spaces, partial differential operators, and history of mathematics
- Mei-Chi Shaw, Taiwanese-American researcher on partial differential equations
- Mariya Shcherbina, Ukrainian expert on random matrices
- Amy Shell-Gellasch, American historian of mathematics and book author
- Diana Shelstad, Australian-American mathematician, formulated the fundamental lemma of the Langlands Program
- Irina Shevtsova, Russian probability theorist
- Brooke Shipley, American expert in homotopy theory and homological algebra
- Rebecca Shipley, British applied mathematician and healthcare engineer
- Patricia D. Shure, American mathematics educator and calculus reformer
- Lesley Sibner, American differential geometer and Hodge theorist, produced a constructive proof of the Riemann–Roch theorem
- Martha Siegel, American probability theorist and mathematics educator
- Mary Silber, American expert in bifurcation theory and pattern formation
- Alice Silverberg, American number theorist and cryptographer
- Ruth Silverman, American computational geometer, founder of Association for Women in Mathematics
- Evelyn Silvia, American functional analyst and mathematics educator
- Rodica Simion, Romanian-American pioneer in the study of permutation patterns
- Valeria Simoncini, Italian numerical analyst
- Lao Genevra Simons, American mathematician and historian of mathematics
- Hourya Benis Sinaceur, Moroccan expert in the theory and history of mathematics
- Nathalie Sinclair, Canadian researcher in mathematics education
- Sue Singer, British mathematics educator, president of Girls' Schools Association and Mathematical Association
- Ajit Iqbal Singh , Indian researcher in functional analysis and harmonic analysis
- Sylvia Skan, British applied mathematician known for the Falkner–Skan boundary layer in fluid mechanics
- Jessica Sklar, American mathematician interested in abstract algebra, recreational mathematics, and the popularization of mathematics
- Lucy Joan Slater, British expert on hypergeometric functions and the Rogers–Ramanujan identities
- Angela Slavova, Bulgarian expert on waves and cellular neural networks, chair of SIAM
- Marian Small, Canadian proponent of constructivist mathematical instruction
- Ionica Smeets, Dutch number theorist and science communicator
- Sonja Smets, Belgian and Dutch mathematical logician, works on quantum logic and belief revision
- Clara Eliza Smith, American mathematician specializing in complex analysis
- Daphne L. Smith, first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology
- Karen E. Smith, American specialist in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry, MAA Hedrick Lecturer, AWM-AMS Noether Lecturer
- Kate Smith-Miles, Australian applied mathematician, president of Australian Mathematical Society
- Leslie M. Smith, American applied mathematician and engineering physicist working in turbulence
- Agata Smoktunowicz, Polish-Scottish researcher in abstract algebra, constructed noncommutative nil rings
- Nina Snaith, British researcher in random matrix theory, quantum chaos, and zeta functions
- Vera Šnajder, Bosnian mathematician, first Bosnian to publish in mathematics, first female dean in Yugoslavia
- Priyanshi Somani, Indian mental calculator
- Mary Somerville, Scottish science writer and polymath, one of two first female members of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Christina Sormani, American researcher on Riemannian geometry, metric geometry, and Ricci curvature
- Vera T. Sós, Hungarian number theorist and combinatorialist
- Chris Soteros, Canadian applied mathematician, studies biomolecules and the knot theory of random space curves
- Marilda Sotomayor, Brazilian mathematician, economist, and game theorist
- Laila Soueif, Egyptian mathematics professor and women's rights activist
- Diane Souvaine, American computational geometer, advocate for women and minorities in mathematics and gender neutrality in teaching
- Ayşe Soysal, Turkish mathematician, president of Boğaziçi University
- Angela Spalsbury, American functional analyst and academic administrator
- Birgit Speh, American expert in Lie groups, namesake of Speh representations
- Domina Eberle Spencer, researcher on electrodynamics and field theory, founded fringe science organization Natural Philosophy Alliance
- M. Grazia Speranza, Italian operations researcher, president of EURO and IFORS
- Pauline Sperry, mathematician, musician, and astronomer, unconstitutionally fired from UC Berkeley for refusing to sign a loyalty oath
- Dolores Richard Spikes, African-American mathematician, first female university chancellor and first female president of a university system in the US
- Nicole Spillane, French and Irish applied mathematician
- Vera W. de Spinadel, Argentine-Austrian researcher on metallic means
- Jean Springer, Jamaican-Canadian specialist in abstract algebra and academic administrator
- Bhama Srinivasan, representation theorist, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics
- Hema Srinivasan, Indian-American mathematician specializing in abstract algebra and algebraic geometry
- Kaye Stacey, Australian mathematics educator
- Tanja Stadler, German mathematician, expert in phylogenetics
- Gigliola Staffilani, Italian-American researcher on harmonic analysis and partial differential equations
- Anna Stafford, one of the first postdoctoral researchers at the Institute for Advanced Study
- Helene Stähelin, Swiss mathematician, editor of Bernoulli family letters, and pacifist
- Gwyneth Stallard, British expert on complex dynamics and the iteration of meromorphic functions
- Zvezdelina Stankova, Bulgarian-American expert on permutation patterns, founder of the Berkeley Math Circle
- Nancy K. Stanton, American researcher on complex analysis, partial differential equations, and differential geometry
- Marion Elizabeth Stark, one of the first female American mathematicians to receive a doctorate
- Anastasia Stavrova, Russian expert in algebraic groups, non-associative algebra, and algebraic K-theory
- Jackie Stedall, British historian of mathematics
- Angelika Steger, German-Swiss expert on graph theory, randomized algorithms, and approximation algorithms
- Irene Stegun, American mathematician who edited a classic book of mathematical tables
- Mary Kay Stein, American mathematics educator
- Berit Stensønes, Norwegian mathematician specializing in complex analysis and complex dynamics
- Elizabeth Stephansen, first Norwegian woman to receive a mathematics doctorate
- Edith Stern, child prodigy in mathematics and IBM engineer
- T. Christine Stevens, American researcher on topological groups, history of mathematics, and mathematics education, associate executive director of AMS
- Alice Christine Stickland, British applied mathematician, expert on radio propagation
- Angeline Stickney, American suffragist, abolitionist, and mathematician, namesake of the largest crater on Phobos
- Doris Stockton, American mathematician and textbook author
- Yvonne Stokes, Australian expert on fluid mechanics, mathematical biology, and industrial applications of mathematics
- Anita Straker, British mathematics educator, president of the Mathematical Association
- Dona Strauss, British mathematician, founder of pointless topology and European Women in Mathematics
- Anne Penfold Street, Australian combinatorialist, third woman mathematics professor in Australia
- Ileana Streinu, Romanian-American computational geometer, expert on kinematics and structural rigidity
- Catharina Stroppel, German researcher on representation theory, low-dimensional topology, and category theory
- Marilyn Strutchens, African-American mathematics educator
- Tatjana Stykel, Russian-German expert on numerical linear algebra, control theory, and differential-algebraic equations
- Bella Subbotovskaya, Soviet founder of the Jewish People's University
- Indulata Sukla, Indian researcher on Fourier series, author of textbook on number theory and cryptography
- Catherine Sulem, Algerian-born Canadian mathematician and violinist, expert on singularities in wave propagation
- Nike Sun, American probability theorist studying phase transitions and counting complexity
- Rosamund Sutherland, British mathematics educator
- Louise Nixon Sutton, first African-American woman to earn a mathematics PhD at New York University
- Thyrsa Frazier Svager, African-American mathematician, donated entire salary to support African-American women in mathematics
- Márta Svéd, Hungarian-Australian mathematician, wrote about non-Euclidean geometry
- Marcia P. Sward, executive director of the Mathematical Association of America
- Lorna Swain, British fluid dynamics researcher, early female lecturer at Cambridge
- Irena Swanson, Yugoslav-born American commutative algebraist and mathematical quilter
- Henda Swart, South African geometer and graph theorist, editor-in-chief of Utilitas Mathematica
- Jennifer Switkes, American mathematics educator and volunteer prison mathematics instructor
- Polly Sy, Filipino functional analyst
- Ágnes Szendrei, Hungarian-American expert on universal algebra
- Esther Szekeres, Hungarian-Australian mathematician posed the happy ending problem in discrete geometry
- Wanda Szmielew, Polish logician who proved the decidability of the first-order theory of abelian groups
- Zofia Szmydt, Polish researcher on differential equations, potential theory and distributions
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- Laura Taalman, American mathematician known for work on the mathematics of Sudoku and mathematical 3D printing
- Daina Taimina, Latvian-American mathematician, crochets objects to illustrate hyperbolic space
- Christiane Tammer, German expert in set-valued optimization
- Tan Lei, Chinese-French specialist in complex dynamics and functions of complex numbers
- Betül Tanbay, first female president of the Turkish Mathematical Society
- Rosalind Tanner, English mathematician and a historian of mathematics
- Anne Taormina, Belgian mathematical physicist interested in string theory, moonshine, and the symmetry of virus capsids
- Gabriella Tarantello, Italian mathematician specializing in partial differential equations, differential geometry, and gauge theory
- Éva Tardos, Hungarian-American researcher in combinatorial optimization algorithms
- Olga Taussky-Todd, Austrian and later Czech-American advocate of matrix theory
- Jean Taylor, American mathematician known for her work on soap bubbles and crystals
- Mina Teicher, Israeli algebraic geometer
- Monique Teillaud, French computational geometer
- Montserrat Teixidor i Bigas, Spanish-American expert on moduli of vector bundles on curves
- Keti Tenenblat, Turkish-Brazilian differential geometer
- Katrin Tent, German mathematician, expert in group theory, the symmetries of groups, algebraic model theory, and finite geometry
- M. B. W. Tent, American mathematics educator, mathematical biographer
- Chuu-Lian Terng, Taiwanese-American differential geometer
- Susanna Terracini, Italian mathematician known for her research on chaos in Hamiltonian dynamical systems
- Audrey Terras, American number theorist specializing in quantum chaos and zeta functions
- Donna Testerman, expert in the representation theory of algebraic groups
- Ngamta Thamwattana, Thai-Australian expert in granular materials and nanotechnology
- Theano, one or possibly two different Pythagorean philosophers
- Diana Thomas, American mathematician who studies nutrition and body weight
- Janet Thomas, founder of the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute
- Rekha R. Thomas, American mathematician and operations researcher
- Abigail Thompson, American low-dimensional topologist, educational reformer
- Gillian Thornley, New Zealand differential geometer, first woman president of the New Zealand Mathematical Society
- Heidi Thornquist, American applied mathematician, expert on numerical linear algebra and circuit simulation
- Sister Mary Domitilla Thuener, American mathematician, founder of Thomas More College, Kentucky
- Ene-Margit Tiit, Estonian mathematician and statistician, founding president of Estonian Statistical Society
- Mary Tiles, writer on the philosophy and history of set theory
- Ulrike Tillmann FRS, German-English algebraic topologist
- Sheila Tinney, Irish mathematical physicist, first Irishwoman with a mathematical doctorate
- Maryanne Tipler, New Zealand mathematics textbook author
- Françoise Tisseur, French-English numerical analyst
- Jacqueline Naze Tjøtta, French-Norwegian researcher in kinetics, magnetohydrodynamics and theoretical acoustics
- Renate Tobies, German historian of mathematics
- Susan Tolman, American symplectic geometer
- Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann FRSC, Polish-Canadian geometric functional analyst
- Antoinette Tordesillas, Australian applied mathematician
- Anna-Karin Tornberg, Swedish computational mathematician
- Paula Tretkoff, Australian-American researcher in number theory, noncommutative geometry, and hypergeometric functions
- Christiane Tretter, German expert in spectral theory and differential operators
- Věra Trnková Czech category theorist
- Mary Esther Trueblood, American mathematician, studied with Felix Klein
- Olga Tsuberbiller, Russian analytical geometer and textbook author
- Virginia Tucker, American human computer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
- Laurette Tuckerman, American and French researcher in computational fluid dynamics
- Reidun Twarock, German-born mathematical biologist
- Julianna Tymoczko, American algebraic geometer and algebraic combinatorist
- Regina Tyshkevich, Belarussian graph theorist, co-invented split graphs
- Galina Tyurina, Soviet algebraic geometer
U
- Olabisi Ugbebor, first female mathematics professor in Nigeria
- Karen Uhlenbeck, American mathematician, MacArthur Fellow, National Medal of Science, Leroy P. Steele Prize, Abel Prize
- Corinna Ulcigrai, Italian researcher on dynamical systems, won European Mathematical Society Prize and Whitehead Prize
- Nina Uraltseva, Russian mathematical physicist, specialist in nonlinear partial differential equations
V
- Brigitte Vallée, French mathematician and computer scientist, expert in lattice basis reduction algorithms
- Clàudia Valls, Spanish and Portuguese mathematician specializing in dynamical systems
- Pauline van den Driessche, British-Canadian pioneer in combinatorial matrix theory and mathematical biology
- Monica VanDieren, American model theorist and academic administrator
- Maria Eulália Vares, Brazilian expert in stochastic processes
- Dorothy Vaughan, African-American mathematician at NASA
- Mariel Vázquez, Mexican mathematical biologist specializing in DNA topology
- Argelia Velez-Rodriguez, Black Cuban-American differential geometer
- Tatyana Velikanova, Soviet mathematician, computer programmer, dissident, and political prisoner
- Michèle Vergne, French specialist in analysis and representation theory, member of French Academy of Sciences
- Siobhán Vernon, first Irish-born woman to get a PhD in pure mathematics in Ireland
- Luminița Vese, Romanian specialist in image processing
- Katalin Vesztergombi, Hungarian graph theorist and discrete geometer
- Maryna Viazovska, Ukrainian mathematician, solved the sphere packing problems in dimensions 8 and 24
- Eva Viehmann, German arithmetic geometer
- Marie-France Vignéras, French mathematician who proved that one cannot hear the shape of a hyperbolic drum
- Monica Vișan, Romanian expert on the nonlinear Schrödinger equation
- Marie A. Vitulli, American algebraic geometer, union organizer, and proponent for women in mathematics on Wikipedia
- Roxana Vivian, first female mathematics doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania
- Karen Vogtmann, American geometric group theorist, namesake of Culler–Vogtmann outer space
- Margit Voigt, German expert on graph coloring
- Claire Voisin , French expert on Hodge structures and mirror symmetry, member of French Academy of Sciences
- Elisabeth Vreede, Dutch mathematician, astronomer and Anthroposophist
W
- Michelle L. Wachs, American specialist in algebraic combinatorics
- Aissa Wade, Senegalese symplectic geometer, president of African Institute for Mathematical Sciences
- Grace Wahba, American pioneer in methods for smoothing noisy data, member of National Academy of Sciences
- Nathalie Wahl, Belgian topologist
- Erica N. Walker, American mathematician, studies racial and gender equity in mathematics education
- Muriel Kennett Wales, Irish-Canadian mathematician
- Judy L. Walker, American algebraic coding theorist
- Mary Shore Walker, American mathematician, first woman faculty member at the University of Missouri
- Dorothy Wallace, American number theorist, mathematical biologist, and mathematics educator
- Lynne H. Walling, British number theorist
- Joan E. Walsh, British numerical analyst, founder of the Numerical Algorithms Group
- Marion Walter, German-born mathematician who wrote about using mirrors to explore symmetry
- Chelsea Walton, African-American researcher in noncommutative algebra
- Yusu Wang, Chinese computational geometer and computational topologist
- Wang Zhenyi, Qing dynasty mathematician and astronomer
- Lesley Ward, Australian harmonic and complex analyst
- Rachel Ward, American applied mathematician who researches machine learning and signal processing
- Virginia Warfield, American mathematics educator
- Mary Wynne Warner, British pioneer in fuzzy topology
- Simone Warzel, German mathematical physicist, expert on the many-body problem
- Talitha Washington, American applied mathematician and mathematics educator
- Sarah L. Waters, British expert in fluid mechanics and tissue engineering
- Ann E. Watkins, American statistics educator, president of the Mathematical Association of America
- Anne Watson, British mathematics educator
- Charlotte Watts, British mathematical epidemiologist
- Johanna Weber, German-British mathematician and aerodynamicist, contributed to supersonic aircraft design
- Charlotte Wedell, one of four women at the first International Congress of Mathematicians
- Suzanne Weekes, American mathematician, cofounder of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Undergraduate Program
- Katrin Wehrheim, American symplectic topologist and gauge theorist
- Guofang Wei, Chinese-American differential geometer, found new positively-curved manifolds
- Tilla Weinstein, American differential geometer
- Katrin Wendland, German mathematical physicist, expert on singularities in quantum field theories
- Annette Werner, German expert on diophantine geometry and non-Archimedean algebraic geometry
- Elisabeth M. Werner, researcher on convex geometry, functional analysis, and probability theory
- Eléna Wexler-Kreindler, Romanian-French algebraist
- Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler, American researcher on infinite-dimensional linear algebra
- Mary Wheeler, American expert on domain decomposition methods for partial differential equations
- Sue Whitesides, Canadian mathematician and computer scientist, expert in computational geometry and graph drawing
- Alice S. Whittemore, American group theorist, biostatistician, and epidemiologist who studies the effects of genetics and lifestyle on cancer
- Margaret Wiecek, Polish-American operations researcher, expert on multi-objective optimization
- Sylvia Wiegand, American algebraist, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics
- Anna Wienhard, German differential geometer
- Amie Wilkinson, American researcher in ergodic theory and smooth dynamical systems
- Emily Willbanks, American mathematician who contributed to defense weapons applications and high performance storage
- Karen Willcox, New Zealand applied mathematician, expert on reduced-order modeling and multi-fidelity methods
- Elizabeth Williams, British mathematician and educationist
- Kim Williams, scholar of connections between mathematics and architecture
- Lauren Williams, American expert on cluster algebras and tropical geometry
- Roselyn E. Williams, American mathematician, founder of National Math Alliance
- Ruth J. Williams, American probability theorist, president of Institute of Mathematical Statistics, member of National Academy of Sciences
- Talithia Williams, American statistician and mathematician who researches the spatiotemporal structure of data
- Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Bulgarian-American researcher on graph algorithms and fast matrix multiplication
- Stephanie van Willigenburg, Canadian researcher in algebraic combinatorics and quasisymmetric functions
- Elizabeth Wilmer, American expert on Markov chain mixing times
- Helen Wilson , British expert on non-Newtonian fluids, president of British Society of Rheology
- Ulrica Wilson, African-American mathematician specializing in noncommutative rings and the combinatorics of matrices
- Helen Wily, New Zealand mathematician and statistician
- Sarah Witherspoon, American mathematician interested in abstract algebra
- Barbara Wohlmuth, German expert on the numerical solution of partial differential equations
- Julia Wolf, British mathematician specialising in arithmetic combinatorics
- Gail Wolkowicz, Canadian mathematical biologist known for her work on the competitive exclusion principle
- Maria Wonenburger, Galician-American group theorist, first Spanish Fulbright scholar in mathematics
- Carol Wood, American expert in model-theoretic algebra, president of AWM
- Melanie Wood, first female American to compete in the International Mathematical Olympiad
- Ruth Goulding Wood, American non-Euclidean geometer
- Sarah Woodhead, first woman to pass the Cambridge University mathematical Tripos examination
- Mary Lee Woods, British mathematician and computer programmer
- Carol S. Woodward, American expert in numerical algorithms and software
- Margaret H. Wright, American researcher in optimization, linear algebra, and scientific computing
- Dorothy Maud Wrinch, Argentine-English mathematician and biochemical theorist, expert in protein structure
- Jang-Mei Wu, Taiwanese-American complex analyst
- Sijue Wu, Chinese-American expert in the mathematics of water waves
- Emily Kathryn Wyant, American mathematician, founder of honor society Kappa Mu Epsilon
- Lucy R. Wyatt, British mathematician and oceanographer, studies high frequency radar oceanography and ocean surface waves
- Cynthia Wyels, American mathematician known for her mentorship of Latino students
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- Dianna Xu, American mathematician and computer scientist who studies computational problems on curves and surfaces
Y
- Catherine Yan, Chinese-American mathematician interested in algebraic combinatorics
- Grace Yang, Chinese-American expert on stochastic processes in the physical sciences, asymptotic theory, and survival analysis
- Sofya Yanovskaya, restored mathematical logic research in Soviet Union, edited mathematical works of Karl Marx
- Jane Ye, Chinese-Canadian researcher in variational analysis
- Karen Yeats, Canadian mathematician whose research connects combinatorics to quantum field theory
- Florence Yeldham, British school teacher and historian of arithmetic
- Yiqun Lisa Yin, Chinese-American cryptographer, broke the SHA-1 hash scheme and helped develop the RC6 block cipher
- Anna Irwin Young, charter member of the Mathematical Association of America
- Lai-Sang Young, Hong Kong born dynamical systems theorist
- Mabel Minerva Young, American geometer
- Virginia R. Young, American expert on the mathematics of insurance
- Noriko Yui, Japanese-Canadian researcher on arithmetic geometry, mathematical physics, and mirror symmetry
- Mariette Yvinec, French computational geometer
Z
- Sara Zahedi, Iranian-Swedish researcher in computational fluid dynamics, former child refugee, and winner of EMS Prize
- Martina Zähle, German stochastic geometer and geometric measure theorist
- Antonella Zanna, Italian-Norwegian numerical analyst
- Thaleia Zariphopoulou, Greek-American expert in mathematical finance
- Claudia Zaslavsky, American mathematics educator and ethnomathematician
- Mary Lou Zeeman, British expert on dynamical systems and their application to mathematical biology
- Sarah Zerbes, German and British algebraic number theorist
- Ping Zhang, graph theorist and textbook author
- Rozetta Zhilina, Soviet expert in computational problems for nuclear weapons
- Tamar Ziegler, Israeli researcher in ergodic theory and arithmetic combinatorics, won Erdős Prize
- Magdolna Zimányi, pioneer of Hungarian computing