This is a list of women who have made noteworthy contributions to or achievements in mathematics. These include mathematical research, mathematics education, the history and philosophy of mathematics, public outreach, and mathematics contests.
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Karen Aardal (born 1961), Norwegian and Dutch applied mathematician, theoretical computer scientist, and operations researcher Hanan Mohamed Abdelrahman, Egyptian and Norwegian mathematics educator Izabela Abramowicz (1889–1973), Polish mathematician and mathematics educator Louise Doris Adams (1889–1965), British mathematics reformer, president of the Mathematical Association Rachel Blodgett Adams (1894–1982), American mathematician, one of the earliest mathematics doctorates from Radcliffe College Tatyana Afanasyeva (1876–1964), Russian-Dutch researcher in statistical mechanics, randomness, and geometry education Amandine Aftalion (born 1973), French applied mathematician, studies superfluids and the mathematics of footracing Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718–1799), Italian mathematician and philosopher, possibly the first female mathematics professor Ilka Agricola (born 1973), German expert on differential geometry and its applications in mathematical physics Nkechi Agwu (born 1962), African American ethnomathematician Dorit Aharonov (born 1970), Israeli specialist in quantum computing Beatrice Aitchison (1908–1997), American topologist who became a transportation economist in the US civil service Noreen Sher Akbar, Pakistani fluid dynamicist Shabnam Akhtari, Iranian number theorist Jacqueline Akinpelu (born 1953), American applied mathematician and operations researcher Asuman Aksoy, Turkish-American functional analyst Meike Akveld, Swiss knot theorist and mathematics educator Fatiha Alabau (born 1961), French expert in control of partial differential equations, president of French applied mathematics society Mara Alagic, Serbian mathematics educator, editor-in-chief of Journal of Mathematics and the Arts Ofelia Teresa Alas (born 1943), second woman to receive mathematics Ph.D. in Brazil from a Brazilian institution Lara Alcock, British mathematics educator and author Helen Popova Alderson (1924–1972), Russian and British mathematician and translator, wrote on quasigroups and reciprocity laws Grace Alele-Williams (1932–2022), first woman to lead a Nigerian university Aldona Aleškevičienė-Statulevičienė (1936–2017), Lithuanian probability theorist Stephanie B. Alexander, American differential geometer Florence Eliza Allen (1876–1960), second female and fourth overall mathematics PhD from the University of Wisconsin Linda J. S. Allen, American mathematician and mathematical biologist Elizabeth S. Allman (born 1965), American mathematical biologist Ann S. Almgren, American applied mathematician who works on computational simulations of supernovae and white dwarfs Melania Alvarez, Mexican-Canadian mathematics educator, organizer of summer mathematics camps for indigenous students Yvette Amice (1936–1993), French expert on p-adic analysis who became president of the French mathematical society Divsha Amirà (1899–1966), Israeli geometer and mathematics educator T. A. Sarasvati Amma (1918–2000), Historian of ancient Indian mathematics Astrid an Huef, New Zealand expert on functional analysis, president of New Zealand Mathematical Society Nalini Anantharaman (born 1976), French mathematical physicist, winner of the Henri Poincaré Prize Beverly Anderson (born 1943), American mathematician, director of minority programs for Mathematical Sciences Education Board Kirsti Andersen (born 1941), Danish historian of mathematics Cabiria Andreian Cazacu (1928–2018), Romanian complex analyst Hajnal Andréka (born 1947), Hungarian researcher in algebraic logic Annie Dale Biddle Andrews (1885–1940), algebraic geometer, first female PhD from the University of California, Berkeley Grace Andrews (mathematician) (1869–1951), one of only two women listed in the first edition of American Men of Science Lidia Angeleri Hügel (born 1960), Italian expert on tilting theory and silting theory Guacolda Antoine Lazzerini (1908–2015), Chilean mathematician and mathematics educator Kathleen Antonelli (1921–2006), Irish-American programmer of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer Paola Antonietti (born 1980), Italian numerical analyst, applies domain decomposition methods to geophysical simulation Noriko H. Arai (born 1962), Japanese mathematical logician and artificial intelligence researcher Crista Arangala, American numerical analyst, textbook author, and international educator Carolina Araujo, Brazilian algebraic geometer Gabriela Araujo-Pardo, Mexican graph theorist, president of Mexican Mathematical Society Maria Angela Ardinghelli (1730–1825), Italian translator of Stephen Hales, mathematician, physicist and noble Esther Arkin, Israeli-American researcher in operations research and computational geometry Sandra Arlinghaus, founder of the Institute of Mathematical Geography Beulah Armstrong (1895–1965), American mathematician, University of Illinois Marie-Claude Arnaud, French expert in dynamical systems Mary Nicholas Arnoldy (1893–1985), American nun and mathematician Fuensanta Aroca, Spanish-Mexican tropical geometer Elayne Arrington, American aerospace engineer, expert on Soviet aircraft Sharon Arroyo, American operations researcher in aircraft manufacture Michèle Artigue (born 1946), French expert in mathematics education Natascha Artin Brunswick (1909–2003), German-American mathematician, photographer, and journal editor Shiri Artstein (born 1978), Israeli mathematician specializing in convex geometry and asymptotic geometric analysis Marcia Ascher (1935–2013), American ethnomathematician Winifred Asprey (1917–2007), helped establish the first computer science lab at Vassar Hilda Assiyatun, Indonesian graph theorist, president of Indonesian Combinatorial Society Susan Assmann (1956–2020), American discrete mathematician and biostatistician Michèle Audin (born 1954), French researcher in symplectic geometry Bonnie Averbach (1933–2019), American mathematics and actuarial educator and author Tamara Awerbuch-Friedlander (died 2021), American biomathematician and public health scientist Christine Ayoub (1922–2024), Canadian-American algebraist Hertha Ayrton (1854–1923), English engineer, mathematician, physicist, and inventor, winner of the Hughes Medal
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Ellen Baake (born 1961), German mathematical biologist Wealthy Babcock (1895–1990), American mathematician, namesake of Kansas University mathematics library Christine Bachoc (born 1964), French expert on coding theory and kissing numbers Clara Latimer Bacon (1866–1948), first woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics from Johns Hopkins University Jenny Baglivo (born 1948), American mathematician, statistician, and book author Hajer Bahouri (born 1958), Franco-Tunisian mathematician interested in partial differential equations Ann E. Bailie (born 1935), American mathematician and space scientist, discovered that the earth is pear-shaped Frances Ellen Baker (1902–1995), American mathematician and number theorist Kitty Baker (1912–2014), American mathematics educator, artist and weaver, and author Rose Baker, British physicist, mathematician, and statistician Ruth Baker, British mathematical biologist interested in pattern formation and morphogenesis Rena Bakhshi (born 1981), Dutch complex network theorist Viviane Baladi (born 1963), Swiss-French expert on dynamical systems Jennifer Balakrishnan, American number theorist who solved the "cursed curve" Deborah Loewenberg Ball, American mathematics education researcher Cristina Ballantine, Romanian-born American algebraic combinatorist and number theorist Catherine Bandle (born 1943), Swiss expert on differential equations and isoperimetric inequalities Selenne Bañuelos (born 1985), Mexican-American mathematician and mathematical biologist Hélène Barcelo (born 1954), mathematician from Québec, former editor-in-chief of Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A Grace Marie Bareis (1875–1962), American group theorist, first mathematics Ph.D. at Ohio State, and founding member of the MAA Nina Bari (1901–1961), Soviet mathematician known for her work on trigonometric series Ruth Aaronson Bari (1917–2005), American mathematician known for her work in graph theory and homomorphisms Mildred Barnard (1908–2000), Australian biometrician, mathematician and statistician Janet Barnett, American mathematician known for integrating the history of mathematics into her teaching Ida Barney (1886–1982), American mathematics professor and astronomer Charlotte Barnum (1860–1934), mathematician and social activist, first female mathematics PhD from Yale Margaret Baron (1915–1996), British mathematics educator and historian of mathematics Lida Barrett (1927–2021), second female president of the MAA Katrina Barron (born 1965), American expert on vertex operator algebra June Barrow-Green (born 1953), British historian of mathematics Jean Bartik (1924–2011), one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer Martha Helen Barton (1891–1971), American mathematician and professor Estelle Basor (born 1947), American mathematician interested in operator theory and the theory of random matrices Marjorie Batchelor, American mathematician known for Batchelor's theorem on supermanifolds Grace Bates (1914–1996), one of few women in the United States to be granted a PhD in mathematics in the 1940s Lynn Batten (born 1948), Canadian immigrant to Australia, researcher in finite geometries and cryptography Helga Baum (born 1954), German differential geometer Patricia E. Bauman, studies the mathematics of liquid crystals and superconductors Karin Baur, Swiss combinatorial representation theorist Agnes Sime Baxter (1870–1917), second Canadian and fourth North American woman to earn a mathematics PhD Margaret Bayer, American mathematician working in polyhedral combinatorics Pilar Bayer (born 1946), Spanish number theorist Eva Bayer-Fluckiger (born 1951), Hungarian-Swiss mathematician, proved Serre's conjecture on Galois cohomology of classical groups Jillian Beardwood (1934–2019), British mathematician, contributed to the traveling salesperson problem Karine Beauchard (born 1978), French control theorist Agnès Beaudry, Canadian-American stable homotopy theorist Miriam Becker (1909–2000), American mathematician whose career became a test case for unionization and academic tenure Astrid Beckmann (born 1957), German mathematician, mathematics educator, physicist, and academic administrator May Beenken (1901–1988), American mathematician Janet Beery, American mathematician and historian of mathematics Mary Beisiegel, American mathematics educator Marion Beiter (1907–1982), American mathematician, expert on cyclotomic polynomials sarah-marie belcastro, American algebraic geometer, editor of books on mathematics and fiber arts Hélène Bellosta (1946–2011), French historian of mathematics in medieval Islam Alexandra Bellow (1935–2025), Romanian researcher in ergodic theory, probability and analysis Margherita Piazzola Beloch (1879–1976), Italian researcher in algebraic geometry, algebraic topology and photogrammetry Amel Ben Abda, Tunisian applied mathematician Carolina Benedetti, Colombian combinatorist, co-executive director of Mathematical Circles Colombia Suzan Rose Benedict (1873–1942), first woman to earn a PhD from the University of Michigan Georgia Benkart (1947–2022), American mathematician, expert on Lie algebras Alona Ben-Tal, Israeli and New Zealand applied mathematician, models human and bird breathing Deborah J. Bennett (born 1950), American mathematics educator and popular mathematics book author Sylvie Benzoni (born 1967), French expert in fluid dynamics and partial differential equations, director of the Institut Henri Poincaré Bonnie Berger, American mathematician and computer scientist, researcher in computational molecular biology Marsha Berger (born 1953), American researcher in numerical analysis, computational fluid dynamics, and parallel computing Tanja Bergkvist (born 1974), Swedish mathematician and anti-feminist activist Julie Bergner, American expert on algebraic topology, homotopy theory, and higher category theory Nicole Berline (born 1944), French researcher on index theory of elliptic differential operators Natalia Berloff, professor of applied mathematics at the University of Cambridge Leah Berman (born 1976), American discrete geometer Christine Bernardi (1955–2018), French expert on numerical analysis of partial differential equations Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (1914–1988), applied mathematician, first female president of the MAA Inga Berre (born 1978), Norwegian applied mathematician, models porous media and geothermal systems Valérie Berthé (born 1968), French researcher in symbolic dynamics, combinatorics on words, and discrete geometry Andrea Bertozzi (born 1965), American researcher in partial differential equations, studies mathematics of urban crime Nadine Bezuk, American mathematics educator, president and executive director of Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak (1938–2009), professor of combinatorics and head of mathematics at the University of Mumbai Ushadevi Bhosle (born 1949), Indian expert on vector bundles Francesca Biagini (born 1973), Italian-German probability theorist and financial mathematician Ginestra Bianconi, Italian network scientist Lydia Bieri (born 1972), Swiss-American expert on general relativity, gravity waves, and the history of cosmology Anna Maria Bigatti, Italian algebraist, developer of CoCoA Hester Bijl, Dutch professor of numerical mathematics and academic administrator Miggy Biller, British mathematician and mathematics educator Sara Billey (born 1968), American algebraic combinatorialist Katalin Bimbó (born 1963), Canadian mathematical logician and proof theorist Christina Birkenhake (born 1961), German algebraic geometer Joan Birman (born 1927), American braid and knot theorist Laure Blanc-Féraud (born 1963), French applied mathematician and image processing researcher Gertrude Blanch (1897–1996), American numerical analyst Roswitha Blind, German convex geometer and politician Karen M. Bliss, American applied mathematician specializing in biomedical applications and materials science Lenore Blum (born 1942), distinguished professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University Jo Boaler (born 1964), British-American promoter of mathematics education reform and equitable mathematics classrooms Mary L. Boas (1917–2010), author of Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences Christine Böckmann (born 1955), German numerical analyst, expert in atmospheric lidar Graciela Boente, Argentine mathematical statistician known for her research in robust statistics Sabine Bögli, Swiss mathematical analyst Neda Bokan (born 1947), Serbian differential geometer Vrushali Bokil, Indian-American applied mathematician Natashia Boland (born 1967), Australian mathematician and operations researcher Sylvie Boldo, French expert in formal verification of numerical computation Aline Bonami, French mathematical analyst, president of the Société mathématique de France Petra Bonfert-Taylor, German-American complex analyst and engineering educator Virginie Bonnaillie-Noël (born 1976), French numerical analyst Alicia Boole Stott (1860–1940), Irish-English four-dimensional geometer Mary Everest Boole (1832–1916), self-taught author of didactic works on mathematics Kathleen Booth (1922–2022), British mathematician and pioneer of assembly language computer programming Liliana Borcea, Romanian-American applied mathematician, expert on wave propagation Valentina Borok (1931–2004), Soviet Ukrainian mathematician who studied partial differential equations Celia Grillo Borromeo (1684–1777), Genovese mathematician and scientist, discovered Clélie curve Liouba Bortniker (1860 – after 1903), Russian-French mathematician, first woman agrégée in mathematics, first winner of Peccot prize Fernanda Botelho (born 1957), Portuguese-American functional analyst Julia Böttcher, German graph theorist Mary Michel Boulus (1926–2012), American Catholic nun, mathematics teacher, and college president Ludmila Bourchtein, Soviet and Brazilian mathematical analyst and textbook author Anne Bourlioux, Canadian expert in turbulent combustion and world record holder in indoor rowing Élisabeth Bouscaren (born 1956), French mathematician who studies the connections between algebraic geometry and model theory Mireille Bousquet-Mélou (born 1967), French combinatorialist Anne Boutet de Monvel (born 1948), French applied mathematician and mathematical physicist Debra Boutin (1957–2025), American mathematician, expert on the symmetries of graphs Sylvia Bozeman (born 1947), African-American mathematician and academic administrator Lis Brack-Bernsen (born 1946), Danish and Swiss mathematician, historian of science, and historian of mathematics Mary Bradburn (1923–2000), British mathematics educator, president of the Mathematical Association Elizabeth Bradley (born 1961), American expert in nonlinear dynamical systems, competed in 1988 Olympics Lillian K. Bradley (1921–1995), first African-American woman to earn a doctorate in any subject at the University of Texas Dorothy Brady (1903–1977), American mathematician and economist Priscilla Braislin (1838–1888), first professor of mathematics at Vassar College Leila Bram (1927–1979), head of mathematics for Office of Naval Research Leticia Brambila Paz (born 1953), Mexican algebraic geometer Bodil Branner (born 1943), founder of European Women in Mathematics, chair of the Danish Mathematical Society Hel Braun (1914–1986), German number theorist Elena Braverman, Russian, Israeli, and Canadian researcher in delay differential equations and difference equations Loretta Braxton (1934–2019), American mathematician Marilyn Breen (born 1944), American geometer Tara E. Brendle, American low-dimensional topologist and combinatorial group theorist Susanne Brenner, expert in the numerical solution of differential equations Sonja Brentjes (born 1951), German historian of Islamic mathematics and cartography Diane Briars (born 1951), American mathematics educator, advocate for education reform, president of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Kathrin Bringmann (born 1977), German number theorist, expert on mock theta functions, winner of SASTRA Ramanujan Prize Ruth Britto, American mathematical physicist Jill Britton (1944–2016), Canadian mathematics educator, author of educational books on mathematics Bárbara M. Brizuela, American researcher on mathematics education in early childhood and elementary school Anne Broadbent, Canadian researcher on quantum computing, quantum cryptography, and quantum information Tamara Broderick, American mathematician and computer scientist who works in machine learning and Bayesian inference Lia Bronsard (born 1963), Canadian expert on interface dynamics, president of Canadian Mathematical Society Margaret Brown, British mathematics educator Susan Brown (1937–2017), English fluid mechanics researcher, possibly second female mathematics professor in UK Marjorie Lee Browne (1914–1979), one of the first African-American women to receive a doctorate in mathematics Laurence Broze (born 1960), Belgian applied mathematician, statistician, and economist, president of l'association femmes et mathématiques Karen Brucks (1957–2017), American mathematician, expert on one-dimensional dynamical systems Maria Bruna (born 1984), Spanish applied mathematician known for stochastic modelling of multiscale phenomena Sophie Bryant (1850–1922), Anglo-Irish mathematician, educator, feminist and activist Ranee Brylinski (born 1957), American mathematician known for her research in representation theory and quantum logic gates Evelyn Buckwar, German-Austrian expert on stochastic differential equations Alina Bucur, American analytic number theorist and arithmetic statistician Lilya Budaghyan, Armenian-Norwegian cryptographer Annalisa Buffa (born 1973), Italian specialist in numerical analysis for partial differential equations Marta Bunge (1938–2022), Argentine-Canadian category theorist Angelika Bunse-Gerstner (born 1951), German expert on numerical linear algebra Regina S. Burachik, Argentine-Australian researcher in convex analysis, functional analysis and non-smooth analysis Almut Burchard, German-Canadian functional analyst, probability theorist, and communication network analyst Marilyn Burns (born 1941), American mathematics educator and author of children's books on mathematics Ellen Burrell (1850–1938), American mathematician Gail F. Burrill, American mathematics educator, president of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Leone Burton (1936–2007), British researcher in ethnomathematics, founded book series on women in mathematics Edith Bush (1882–1977), American mathematician, first female engineering professor at Tufts University Ida Busbridge (1908–1988), studied integral equations and radiative transfer, first female mathematics fellow at Oxford Marjorie V. Butcher (1925–2016), American actuarial mathematician, first woman mathematics instructor at Michigan, first woman professor at Trinity College Connecticut Lynne Butler (born 1955), American combinatorialist and mathematical statistician Margaret K. Butler (1924–2013), computer programmer, director of the National Energy Software Center at Argonne Helen Byrne, British applied mathematician and mathematical biologist
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María Emilia Caballero, Mexican probability theorist Angelina Cabras (1898–1993), Italian mathematician, physicist, and theoretical mechanics professor Hannah Cairo, American harmonic analyst Fioralba Cakoni, Albanian expert on inverse scattering theory Maria-Carme Calderer, Spanish-American researcher in applied mathematics Nora Calderwood (1896–1985), Scottish mathematician, namesake of Birmingham University's Calderwood Prize Helen Calkins (1893–1970), American mathematician and professor Daniela Calvetti, Italian-American mathematician whose work connects Bayesian statistics with numerical analysis Erika Tatiana Camacho (born 1974), Mexican-American mathematical biologist Lucy Campbell, geophysical fluid dynamics researcher from Barbados, Jamaica, Ghana, and Canada Sue Ann Campbell, Canadian applied mathematician and computational neuroscientist, president of Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematical Society Jessie Forbes Cameron (1883–1968), British mathematician, first woman to complete her PhD in mathematics at the University of Marburg Naiomi Cameron, American combinatorist, vice president of National Association of Mathematicians Patricia Campbell, American mathematics educator María Antònia Canals (1930–2022), Spanish mathematics educator and recreational mathematician Sunčica Čanić, Croatian-American expert in modeling the cardiovascular system and devices for treating it Ana Cannas da Silva (born 1968), Portuguese mathematician specializing in symplectic geometry and geometric topology Barbara Canright (1920–1997), American human computer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Yaiza Canzani, Spanish and Uruguayan mathematical analysis, known for work in spectral geometry and microlocal analysis Mireille Capitaine, French researcher on random matrices and free probability theory Lucia Caporaso, Italian algebraic geometer Marian Palmer Capps (1901–2001), American mathematician and leader of prominent African-American women's societies Ana Caraiani, Romanian-American IMO medalist, Putnam fellow, expert in algebraic number theory and the Langlands program Olivia Caramello (born 1984), Italian topos theorist Alessandra Carbone, Italian mathematician and computer scientist, studies protein interactions in muscular dystrophy Marilyn Carlson, American mathematics education scholar focusing on the teaching of precalculus Sally Elizabeth Carlson (1896–2000), first woman to obtain a doctorate in mathematics at the University of Minnesota Debra Carney, American mathematics educator Ana Carpio, Spanish applied mathematician María J. Carro (born 1961), Spanish mathematical analyst Anna Cartan (1878–1923), French mathematician, teacher and textbook author, student of Marie Curie Coralia Cartis, Romanian expert on compressed sensing, numerical analysis, and regularization methods in optimization Mary Cartwright (1900–1998), British mathematician, one of the first to analyze a dynamical system with chaos María Andrea Casamayor (1700–1780), only 18th-century Spanish scientist whose work is still extant Bettye Anne Case, American mathematician and historian of mathematics Emma Castelnuovo (1913–2014), Italian mathematics educator and textbook author Eleonora Catsigeras (born 1956), Uruguayan mathematician, applies dynamical systems in neuroscience Catherine Cavagnaro (born 1965), American low-dimensional topologist and aerobatic aviator Beatrice Mabel Cave-Browne-Cave (1874–1947), English pioneer in the mathematics of aeronautics Frances Cave-Browne-Cave (1876–1965), English mathematician and computer scientist, taught at Girton College, Cambridge Anny Cazenave (born 1944), French space geodesist, pioneer in satellite altimetry Zoia Ceaușescu (1949–2006), Romanian functional analyst, daughter of Communist leader Elena Celledoni (born 1967), Italian-Norwegian expert on numerical analysis, Lie groups, and structure-preserving algorithms Isabelle Chalendar, French functional analyst Vivien Challis, Australian Applied mathematician, expert in topology optimization Sue Chandler, author of English secondary-school mathematics textbooks Melody Chan, American expert in combinatorial commutative algebra, graph theory, and tropical geometry Sun-Yung Alice Chang (born 1948), Chinese-American mathematical analyst, member of National Academy of Sciences Josephine Chanler (1906–1992), American mathematician Mei-Chu Chang, Taiwanese-American expert in algebraic geometry and combinatorial number theory Vyjayanthi Chari (born 1958), Indian-American expert in quantum algebra Ruth Charney (born 1950), American expert on geometric group theory and Artin groups, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) Marie Charpentier (1903–1994), first woman to earn a doctorate in pure mathematics in France and second to obtain a faculty position there Émilie du Châtelet (1706–1749), French translator and commentator of Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica Françoise Chatelin (1941–2020), French applied mathematician and numerical analyst Indira Chatterji (born 1973), Swiss-Indian low-dimensional geometer Zoé Chatzidakis, French researcher in model theory and differential algebra Laura Chaubard, French mathematician, Director General of the École Polytechnique Madeleine Chaumont (1896–1973), French mathematician, one of first women at École normale supérieure Jennifer Tour Chayes (born 1956), expert on phase transitions in networks, founder of the theory group at Microsoft Research Karine Chemla (born 1958), French historian of Chinese mathematics Jacqueline Chen, American applied mathematician and mechanical engineer, applies massively parallel computing to simulate combustion Jing (Maggie) Chen, Chinese-British financial mathematician, expert on Hawkes processes Xiaojun Chen, Chinese applied mathematician, expert on nonconvex optimization Margaret Cheney (born 1955), American expert on inverse problems Eugenia Cheng, English category theorist and pianist, uses analogies with food and baking to teach mathematics to non-mathematicians Leslie Cheng, American harmonic analyst Maggie Cheng, Chinese-American applied mathematician, computer scientist, and network scientist Miranda Cheng (born 1979), Taiwanese-Dutch mathematician and theoretical physicist, formulated umbral moonshine Yingda Cheng (born 1983), Chinese-American applied mathematician, expert in Galerkin methods Alina Chertock, mathematician specializing in the numerical solution of partial differential equations modeling flow and chemotaxis Amanda Chetwynd, British combinatorist and spatial statistician Elaine Chew, Singaporean-American expert in the mathematics and visualization of concepts in music theory Tanya Christiansen, American expert on scattering theory and partial differential equations Graciela Chichilnisky (born 1944), Argentine-American mathematical economist and authority on climate change Lauren M. Childs, American mathematician, expert on modeling disease spread Phyllis Chinn (born 1941), American graph theorist and historian of mathematics Grace Chisholm Young (1868–1944), English mathematician, first woman to receive a German doctorate Sonya Christian, Indian mathematician and American community college administrator YoungJu Choie (born 1959), Korean number theorist Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923–2025), French mathematician and physicist, first woman elected to the French Academy Maria Chudnovsky (born 1977), Israeli-American graph theorist, MacArthur Fellow Fan Chung (born 1949), Taiwanese-American researcher in random graphs Julia Chuzhoy, Israeli expert in approximation algorithms and graph minor theory Monique Chyba, applied control theory to autonomous underwater vehicles Agata Ciabattoni, Italian non-classical mathematical logician Maria Cibrario (1905–1992), Italian specialist in partial differential equations Marta Civil, American mathematics educator Mónica Clapp, Mexican researcher in nonlinear partial differential equations and algebraic topology Cathy Ann Clark, American applied mathematician known for computational modeling of undersea acoustics Lisa Orloff Clark, professor of mathematics at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand Joan Clarke (1917–1996), English code-breaker at Bletchley Park, numismatist Jeanne N. Clelland (born 1970), American expert on differential geometry and its applications to differential equations Mary Clem (1905–1979), American mathematician and human computer, invented zero check error detection Harriet Redfield Cobb (1866–1958), American mathematician Anne Cobbe (1920–1971), British algebraist Sally Cockburn (born 1960), Canadian-American mathematician Jane Purcell Coffee (1944–2023), one of the first women to earn a mathematics PhD at U. Penn.; founded a teaching academy Judita Cofman (1936–2001), Yugoslav-German finite geometer and mathematics educator, first mathematics doctorate from Novi Sad Doris Cohen, American mathematician, first female author in the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Elaine Cohen, American pioneer in the use of splines for geometric modeling Marion Cohen (born 1943), American poet and mathematician, teaches the relationship between art and mathematics Miriam Cohen (born 1941), Israeli researcher in Hopf algebras, quantum groups and non-commutative rings Amy Cohen-Corwin, American expert in the Korteweg–de Vries equation and cubic Schrödinger equation Alina Carmen Cojocaru, Romanian number theorist Margaret Buchanan Cole, American mathematician at West Virginia University Nancy Cole (1902–1991), American mathematician, made pioneering contributions to Morse theory Caroline Colijn, Canadian mathematical epidemiologist Susan Jane Colley (born 1959), first female editor-in-chief of the American Mathematical Monthly Agnes Bell Collier (1860–1930), British mathematician Karen L. Collins, American graph theorist and combinatorist Sandra Collins (born 1970), Irish fluid dynamicist and librarian Coralie Colmez, French writer on legal mathematics Maria Colombo (born 1989), Italian mathematical analyst Caterina Consani (born 1963), Italian mathematician specializing in arithmetic geometry Keisha Cook, American mathematical biologist Pamela Cook, American expert in fluid dynamics, president of SIAM Frances Cope (1902–1983), American researcher on differential equations, namesake of the Thorndike nomogram Lennie Copeland (1881–1951), American mathematician and professor at Wellesley College Minerva Cordero, Puerto Rican expert on finite geometry Lesley Cormack (born 1957), Canadian historian of mathematics and historian of geography Leticia Corral (born 1959), Mexican mathematician, astrophysicist and materials scientist Sylvie Corteel, French combinatorialist, former editor-in-chief of Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A Véronique Cortier, French mathematician and computer scientist, uses mathematical logic to verify cryptographic protocols Carla Cotwright-Williams (born 1973), African-American data scientist for the US government Pamela G. Coxson, American applied mathematician specializing in disease modeling Collette Coullard, American matroid theorist and operations researcher Judith Covington, American mathematics educator Lenore Cowen, American discrete mathematician, computer scientist, and computational biologist Elizabeth Buchanan Cowley (1874–1945), American mathematician, advocated high school teaching of solid geometry Annalisa Crannell, American expert on water waves and geometric perspective Alissa Crans, American mathematician specializing in higher-dimensional algebra Mary Croarken, British historian of mathematics and of computing Marie Crous, 17th-century mathematician who introduced the decimal system to France Ana Bela Cruzeiro (born 1957), Portuguese and Swiss stochastic analyst Barbara Csima, Canadian computability theorist, president of Canadian Mathematical Society Marianna Csörnyei (born 1975), Hungarian researcher in real analysis, geometric measure theory, and functional analysis Helen F. Cullen (1919–2007), American topologist Jane Cullum (born 1938), American applied mathematician known for her work in numerical algorithms and control theory Linda Cummings, British-American computational complex fluid dynamicist Louise Duffield Cummings (1870–1947), Canadian-American expert on Steiner triple systems María Cumplido (born 1992), Spanish geometric group theorist Susan Jane Cunningham (1842–1921), founded the mathematics and astronomy departments at Swarthmore College Serafina Cuomo (born 1966), Italian historian of ancient mathematics Antonella Cupillari (born 1955), Italian-American mathematics educator, historian of mathematics, and biographer of Agnesi Ruth F. Curtain (1941–2018), Australian-Dutch expert in infinite-dimensional linear systems Carina Curto (born 1978), American mathematical neuroscientist Eleanor P. Cushing (1856–1925), American mathematician Elizabeth Cuthill (1923–2011), American applied mathematician and Navy researcher known for sparse matrix ordering Annie Cuyt (born 1956), Belgian expert on approximation
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Sophie Dabo-Niang, Senegalese-French mathematician and statistician Susan D'Agostino, American mathematician and science writer Amy Dahan, French mathematician, historian of mathematics, and historian of the politics of climate change Mimi Dai, American expert in partial differential equations Karma Dajani, Lebanese-Dutch mathematician, applies ergodic theory to number theory Anne-Laure Dalibard, French mathematician, expert on fluid dynamics in oceanography Ewa Damek (born 1958), Polish mathematical analyst, namesake of Damek–Ricci spaces Pallavi Dani, Indian-American geometric group theorist Donatella Danielli (born 1966), Italian-American specialist in partial differential equations Sofia Danova (1879–1946), Bulgarian teacher and philanthropist, first Bulgarian woman to graduate in mathematics Christine Darden (born 1942), American aeronautical engineer who researches sonic booms Geraldine Claudette Darden (born 1936), one of the first African-American women to earn a PhD in mathematics Panagiota Daskalopoulos, Greek-American differential geometer Nilanjana Datta, Indian-born British quantum information theorist Ingrid Daubechies (born 1954), Belgian physicist and mathematician, known for wavelets Monique Dauge (born 1956), French mathematician and numerical analyst Chantal David (born 1964), Canadian analytic number theorist and arithmetic statistician Giuliana Davidoff, American number theorist and expert on expander graphs Penny J. Davies, Scottish expert on wave scattering, president of Edinburgh Mathematical Society Cristiana De Filippis (born 1992), Italian expert in regularity theory for partial differential equations Nicole De Grande-De Kimpe (1936–2008), Belgian pioneer in p {\displaystyle p} -adic functional analysis Christine De Mol (born 1954), Belgian applied mathematician and mathematical physicist Ineke De Moortel, Belgian mathematician who studies the Sun's corona; president of Edinburgh Mathematical Society Valeria de Paiva, Brazilian researcher in categorical logic Lisette de Pillis, American researcher on the mathematics of cancer growth Kaye A. de Ruiz, American mathematics educator Daniela De Silva, Italian mathematician known for her expertise in partial differential equations Luz de Teresa (born 1965), Mexican control theorist, president of Mexican Mathematical Society Gerda de Vries, Canadian mathematician who studies dynamical systems and mathematical physiology Winifred Margaret Deans (1901–1990), British translator of German mathematics and physics texts into English Mary Deconge (1933–2025), one of the first African-American women to earn a PhD in mathematics Maria Deijfen (born 1975), Swedish graph theorist and probability theorist Huguette Delavault (1924–2003), French mathematical physicist, activist for women in mathematics Ermelinda DeLaViña, Hispanic American graph theorist Laura DeMarco, American researcher in dynamical systems and complex analysis Beryl May Dent (1900–1977), British mathematical physicist, researcher in molecular forces and computer-aided design Darinka Dentcheva, Bulgarian-American convex analyst Alicja Derkowska (born 1940), Polish social activist, mathematician and educator. Marjorie Devaney (1931–2007), mathematician, electrical engineer, and pioneering computer programmer Shakuntala Devi (1939–2013), Indian child prodigy, writer, and mental calculator Cécile DeWitt-Morette (1922–2017), French founder of l'École de physique des Houches Elena Deza (born 1961), French-Russian mathematician, author of books on figurate numbers and metric spaces Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini (born 1946), Italian expert on type theory, lambda calculus, and programming language semantics Eleonora Di Nezza, Italian Kahler geometer Giulia Di Nunno (born 1973), Italian expert in stochastic analysis and financial mathematics, promoter of mathematics in Africa Sandra Di Rocco (born 1967), Italian-Swedish algebraic geometer Daniela di Serafino (1966–2022), Italian applied mathematician and numerical analyst Carrie Diaz Eaton, American mathematical biologist Auguste Dick (1910–1993), Austrian historian of mathematics and biographer of Emmy Noether Alicia Dickenstein (born 1955), Argentine algebraic geometer, vice-president of the International Mathematical Union Caren Diefenderfer (1952–2017), American mathematician, president of National Numeracy Network Susanne Dierolf (1942–2009), German expert on topological vector spaces Ada Dietz (1882–1950), American weaver who used algebraic expressions to design textiles Alice M. Dimick (1878–1956), American mathematician PhD Ulla Dinger (born 1955), Swedish mathematical analyst, first female doctorate in mathematics at University of Gothenburg Irit Dinur, Israeli researcher in probabilistically checkable proofs and hardness of approximation Serena Dipierro, Italian expert on partial differential equations Susanne Ditlevsen, Danish mathematical biologist and biostatistician Natasha Dobrinen, American set theorist and infinitary combinatorist Mary P. Dolciani (1923–1985), developed modern method for teaching high school algebra in the United States Yvonne Dold-Samplonius (1937–2014), Dutch historian of Islamic mathematics Valéria Neves Domingos Cavalcanti (born 1965), Brazilian expert on the control and stabilization of viscoelastic systems Rosa Donat (born 1960), Spanish math