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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
1981: American mathematician Doris Schattschneider became the first female editor of Mathematics Magazine, a refereed bimonthly publication of the Mathematical Association of America. [66] [67] 1982: Rebecca Walo Omana became the first female mathematics professor in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [68] [69]
However, Hypatia is the first female mathematician whose life is reasonably well recorded. [7] She wrote a commentary on Diophantus 's thirteen-volume Arithmetica , which may survive in part, having been interpolated into Diophantus's original text, and another commentary on Apollonius of Perga 's treatise on conic sections , which has not ...
Johnson decided on a career as a research mathematician, although this was a difficult field for African Americans and women to enter. The first jobs she found were in teaching. At a family gathering in 1952, a relative mentioned that the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was hiring mathematicians. [16]
1981: Doris Schattschneider became the first female editor of Mathematics Magazine, a refereed bimonthly publication of the Mathematical Association of America. [24] [25] 1983: Julia Robinson became the first female president of the American Mathematical Society, [19] and the first female mathematician to be awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. [6]
She was a pioneer for women in mathematics around the world – the first woman to earn a doctorate (in the modern sense) in mathematics, the first woman appointed to a full professorship in northern Europe and one of the first women to work for a scientific journal as an editor. [1]
She was the first woman to write a mathematics handbook and the first woman appointed as a mathematics professor at a university. [5] She is credited with writing the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus and was a member of the faculty at the University of Bologna, although she never served.
Elena Cornaro Piscopia (1646–1684), Italian mathematician and the first female PhD Marguerite de la Sablière (c. 1640–1693), French natural philosopher Jane Sharp (fl. 1671), British obstetrician