Timeline of women in mathematics

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This is a timeline of women in mathematics.

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18th Century

19th Century

20th Century

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1980s

1990s

21st Century

2000s

2010s

2020s

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mary Cartwright</span> British mathematician (1900–1998)

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gertrude Mary Cox</span> American statistician (1900–1978)

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Maryam Mirzakhani</span> Iranian mathematician (1977–2017)

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cheryl Praeger</span> Australian mathematician

Cheryl Elisabeth Praeger is an Australian mathematician. Praeger received BSc (1969) and MSc degrees from the University of Queensland (1974), and a doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1973 under direction of Peter M. Neumann. She has published widely and has advised 27 PhD students. She is currently Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Western Australia. She is best known for her works in group theory, algebraic graph theory and combinatorial designs.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Margaret H. Wright</span> American computer scientist and applied mathematician (b. 1944)

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Doris J. Schattschneider is an American mathematician, a retired professor of mathematics at Moravian College. She is known for writing about tessellations and about the art of M. C. Escher, for helping Martin Gardner validate and popularize the pentagon tiling discoveries of amateur mathematician Marjorie Rice, and for co-directing with Eugene Klotz the project that developed The Geometer's Sketchpad.

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Nadeschda Gernet, also Nadezhda, Russian: Надежда Николаевна Гернет,, was a Russian mathematician. Gernet was the second woman in Russia to earn a doctorate. She extended the calculus of variations to further functions on the basis developed by her instructor, David Hilbert, and was one of the first to include inequalities in the calculus of variations.

The AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture is an award and lecture series that "highlights significant contributions of women to applied or computational mathematics." The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) planned the award and lecture series in 2002 and first awarded it in 2003. The lecture is normally given each year at the SIAM Annual Meeting. Award winners receive a signed certificate from the AWM and SIAM presidents.

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