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Hannah M. Fry HonFREng FIMA FIET (born 21 February 1984) is a British mathematician, author and broadcaster. As of 2025 she is the Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge [3] and president of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA). [4]
Also: United Kingdom: People: By occupation: Mathematicians / Women scientists: Women mathematicians This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:British mathematicians . It includes mathematicians that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
Dona Strauss (born 1934), British mathematician, founder of pointless topology and European Women in Mathematics; Anne Penfold Street (1932–2016), Australian combinatorialist, third woman mathematics professor in Australia; Ileana Streinu, Romanian-American computational geometer, expert on kinematics and structural rigidity
1858: Florence Nightingale became the first female member of the Royal Statistical Society. [10] 1873: Sarah Woodhead of Britain became the first woman to take the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos Exam, which she passed. [11] 1874: Russian mathematician Sofya Kovalevskaya became the first woman to earn a doctorate (in the modern sense) in ...
Ruth Elke Lawrence-Neimark (Hebrew: רות אלקה לורנס-נאימרק, born 2 August 1971) is a British–Israeli mathematician and a professor of mathematics at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a researcher in knot theory and algebraic topology.
Dame Frances Clare Kirwan, DBE FRS (born 21 August 1959) [2] is a British mathematician, currently Savilian Professor of Geometry at the University of Oxford. Her fields of specialisation are algebraic and symplectic geometry. [3] [4]
Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright DBE FRS FRSE (17 December 1900 – 3 April 1998) [1] was a British mathematician. She was one of the pioneers of what would later become known as chaos theory. [2] Along with J. E. Littlewood, Cartwright saw many solutions to a problem which would later be seen as an example of the butterfly effect.
Susan Mary Rees (born 31 July 1953 [1]) is a British mathematician and an emeritus professor of mathematics at the University of Liverpool since 2018, specialising in research in complex dynamical systems. [2] [3]