2006-07-03 02:38:38 · 9 answers · asked by klmno 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
Hypatia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia
2006-07-03 02:46:36 · answer #1 · answered by Dr. Brian 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dusa McDuff
In 1994, Dusa was elected to the Royal Society of London, an organization chartered in 1662 by King Charles II of England. Of forty new fellows, Dr. McDuff was the only woman, and of the Royal Society's 1,124 members who are scientists (including mathematicians), two are female mathematicians. Only 3% of all the scientists in the Royal Society are female.
2006-07-03 09:47:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics
[Description from the Notices of the American Mathematical Society]
The Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics was established in 1990 using funds donated to the American Mathematical Society by Joan S. Birman of Columbia University in memory of her sister, Ruth Lyttle Satter. Professor Satter earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics and then joined the research staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories during World War II. After raising a family, she received a Ph.D. in botany at the age of forty-three from the University of Connecticut at Storrs, where she later became a faculty member. Her research on the biological clocks in plants earned her recognition in the U.S. and abroad. Professor Birman requested that the prize be established to homor her sister's commitment to research and to encouraging women in science. The prize is awarded every two years to recognize an outstanding contribution to mathematics research by a woman in the previous five years.
1991 Dussa McDuff
1993 Lai-Sang Young
1995 Sun-Yung Alice Chang
1997 Ingrid Daubechies
1999 Bernadette Perrin-Riou
2001 Karen E. Smith and Sijue Wu
2003 Abigail Thompson
2005 Sveltana Jitomirskaya
2006-07-03 09:46:31 · answer #3 · answered by shoppingontherun 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So many to choose from but I'll go with the first female mathematician out there...Hypatia!!!!
2006-07-03 11:08:35 · answer #4 · answered by Dukie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Emmy Noether
2006-07-03 09:42:30 · answer #5 · answered by mom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sofia Kovalevskaya.
2006-07-03 09:43:00 · answer #6 · answered by alakit013 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why narrow it down to just one, when so many women have made incredible contributions to mathematics? Check out the link below for information and full profiles on important female mathematicians:
http://www.agnesscott.edu/Lriddle/WOMEN/women.htm
2006-07-03 09:42:13 · answer #7 · answered by wanderklutz 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Female mathematician? What is that?
2006-07-03 09:46:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
m curie.
2006-07-03 09:42:02 · answer #9 · answered by paul67337 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋