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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]
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
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.
British women mathematicians (3 C, 83 P). Female fellows of the Royal Society (212 P) + Black British women scientists (4 P) B. ... British women medical doctors (8 C ...
She was awarded the Senior Anne Bennett Prize by the London Mathematical Society in 2017, [19] and was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to science. [20] The University of Edinburgh awarded her an honorary Doctor of Science degree in 2018/19. [21]
Charlotte Helen Watts, CMG, FMedSci (born 1962) is a British mathematician, epidemiologist, and academic.Since 2006, she has been Professor of Social and Mathematical Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
In the 2004 New Year Honours, Hoyles was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) 'for services to education'. [17] In the 2014 New Year Honours, she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in recognition of her service as director of the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics.
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 ...