List of women in mathematics

A

• Karen Aardal, Norwegian and Dutch applied mathematician, theoretical computer scientist, and operations researcher
• Hanan Mohamed Abdelrahman, Egyptian and Norwegian mathematics educator
• Izabela Abramowicz, Polish mathematician and mathematics educator
• L. D. Adams, British mathematics reformer, president of the Mathematical Association
• Rachel Blodgett Adams, American mathematician, one of the earliest mathematics doctorates from Radcliffe College
• Tatyana Afanasyeva, Russian-Dutch researcher in statistical mechanics, randomness, and geometry education
• Amandine Aftalion, French applied mathematician, studies superfluids and the mathematics of footracing
• Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician and philosopher, possibly the first female mathematics professor
• Ilka Agricola, German expert on differential geometry and its applications in mathematical physics
• Nkechi Agwu, African American ethnomathematician
• Dorit Aharonov, Israeli specialist in quantum computing
• Beatrice Aitchison, American topologist who became a transportation economist in the US civil service
• Asuman Aksoy, Turkish-American functional analyst
• Mara Alagic, Serbian mathematics educator, editor-in-chief of Journal of Mathematics and the Arts
• Lara Alcock, British mathematics educator and author
• Helen Popova Alderson, Russian and British mathematician and translator, wrote on quasigroups and reciprocity laws
• Grace Alele-Williams, first woman to lead a Nigerian university
• Aldona Aleškevičienė-Statulevičienė, Lithuanian probability theorist
• Stephanie B. Alexander, American differential geometer
• Florence Eliza Allen, second female and fourth overall mathematics PhD from the University of Wisconsin
• Linda J. S. Allen, American mathematician and mathematical biologist
• Elizabeth S. Allman, American mathematical biologist
• Ann S. Almgren, American applied mathematician who works on computational simulations of supernovae and white dwarfs
• Melania Alvarez, Mexican-Canadian mathematics educator, organizer of summer mathematics camps for indigenous students
• Yvette Amice, French expert on p-adic analysis who became president of the French mathematical society
• Divsha Amirà, Israeli geometer and mathematics educator
• T. A. Sarasvati Amma, Historian of ancient Indian mathematics
• Astrid an Huef, New Zealand expert on functional analysis, president of New Zealand Mathematical Society
• Nalini Anantharaman, French mathematical physicist, winner of the Henri Poincaré Prize
• Beverly Anderson, American mathematician, director of minority programs for Mathematical Sciences Education Board
• Kirsti Andersen, Danish historian of mathematics
• Cabiria Andreian Cazacu, Romanian complex analyst
• Hajnal Andréka, Hungarian researcher in algebraic logic
• Annie Dale Biddle Andrews, algebraic geometer, first female PhD from the University of California, Berkeley
• Grace Andrews , one of only two women listed in the first edition of American Men of Science
• Kathleen Antonelli, Irish-American programmer of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer
• Noriko H. Arai, Japanese mathematical logician and artificial intelligence researcher
• Crista Arangala, American numerical analyst, textbook author, and international educator
• Carolina Araujo, Brazilian algebraic geometer
• Maria Angela Ardinghelli, Italian translator of Stephen Hales, mathematician, physicist and noble
• Esther Arkin, Israeli-American researcher in operations research and computational geometry
• Sandra Arlinghaus, founder of the Institute of Mathematical Geography
• Marie-Claude Arnaud, French expert in dynamical systems
• Elayne Arrington, American aerospace engineer, expert on Soviet aircraft
• Michèle Artigue, French expert in mathematics education
• Natascha Artin Brunswick, German-American mathematician, photographer, and journal editor
• Shiri Artstein, Israeli mathematician specializing in convex geometry and asymptotic geometric analysis
• Marcia Ascher, American ethnomathematician
• Winifred Asprey, helped establish the first computer science lab at Vassar
• Michèle Audin, French researcher in symplectic geometry
• Tamara Awerbuch-Friedlander, American biomathematician and public health scientist
• Hertha Ayrton, English engineer, mathematician, physicist, and inventor, winner of the Hughes Medal

  B

• Ellen Baake, German mathematical biologist
• Wealthy Babcock, American mathematician, namesake of Kansas University mathematics library
• Christine Bachoc, French expert on coding theory and kissing numbers
• Clara Latimer Bacon, first woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics from Johns Hopkins University
• Hajer Bahouri, Franco-Tunisian mathematician interested in partial differential equations
• Rose Baker, British physicist, mathematician, and statistician
• Ruth Baker, British mathematical biologist interested in pattern formation and morphogenesis
• Viviane Baladi, Swiss-French expert on dynamical systems
• Jennifer Balakrishnan, American number theorist who solved the "cursed curve"
• Deborah Loewenberg Ball, American mathematics education researcher
• Catherine Bandle, Swiss expert on differential equations and isoperimetric inequalities
• Hélène Barcelo, mathematician from Québec, editor-in-chief of Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A
• Grace Marie Bareis, American group theorist, first mathematics Ph.D. at Ohio State, and founding member of the MAA
• Nina Bari, Soviet mathematician known for her work on trigonometric series
• Ruth Aaronson Bari, American mathematician known for her work in graph theory and homomorphisms
• Mildred Barnard, Australian biometrician, mathematician and statistician
• Janet Barnett, American mathematician known for integrating the history of mathematics into her teaching
• Ida Barney, American mathematics professor and astronomer
• Charlotte Barnum, mathematician and social activist, first female mathematics PhD from Yale
• Lida Barrett, second female president of the MAA
• June Barrow-Green, British historian of mathematics
• Jean Bartik, one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer
• Estelle Basor, American mathematician interested in operator theory and the theory of random matrices
• Grace Bates, one of few women in the United States to be granted a PhD in mathematics in the 1940s
• Lynn Batten, Canadian immigrant to Australia, researcher in finite geometries and cryptography
• Helga Baum, German differential geometer
• Patricia E. Bauman, studies the mathematics of liquid crystals and superconductors
• Agnes Sime Baxter, second Canadian and fourth North American woman to earn a mathematics PhD
• Margaret Bayer, American mathematician working in polyhedral combinatorics
• Pilar Bayer, Spanish number theorist
• Eva Bayer-Fluckiger, Hungarian-Swiss mathematician, proved Serre's conjecture on Galois cohomology of classical groups
• Jillian Beardwood, British mathematician, contributed to the traveling salesperson problem
• Karine Beauchard, French control theorist
• Astrid Beckmann, German mathematician, mathematics educator, physicist, and academic administrator
• May Beenken, American mathematician
• Janet Beery, American mathematician and historian of mathematics
• Alexandra Bellow, Romanian researcher in ergodic theory, probability and analysis
• Margherita Piazzola Beloch, Italian researcher in algebraic geometry, algebraic topology and photogrammetry
• Suzan Rose Benedict, first woman to earn a PhD from the University of Michigan
• Georgia Benkart, American expert on Lie algebras
• Sylvie Benzoni, French expert in fluid dynamics and partial differential equations, director of the Institut Henri Poincaré
• Bonnie Berger, American mathematician and computer scientist, researcher in computational molecular biology
• Marsha Berger, American researcher in numerical analysis, computational fluid dynamics, and parallel computing
• Julie Bergner, American expert on algebraic topology, homotopy theory, and higher category theory
• Nicole Berline, French researcher on index theory of elliptic differential operators
• Natalia Berloff, professor of applied mathematics at the University of Cambridge
• Leah Berman, American discrete geometer
• Christine Bernardi, French expert on numerical analysis of partial differential equations
• Dorothy Lewis Bernstein, applied mathematician, first female president of the MAA
• Inga Berre, Norwegian applied mathematician, models porous media and geothermal systems
• Valérie Berthé, French researcher in symbolic dynamics, combinatorics on words, and discrete geometry
• Andrea Bertozzi, American researcher in partial differential equations, studies mathematics of urban crime
• Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak, professor of combinatorics and head of mathematics at the University of Mumbai
• Ushadevi Bhosle, Indian expert on vector bundles
• Anna Maria Bigatti, Italian algebraist, developer of CoCoA
• Miggy Biller, British mathematician and mathematics educator
• Sara Billey, American algebraic combinatorialist
• Christina Birkenhake, German algebraic geometer
• Joan Birman, American braid and knot theorist
• Gertrude Blanch, American numerical analyst
• Karen M. Bliss, American applied mathematician specializing in biomedical applications and materials science
• Lenore Blum, distinguished professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University
• Jo Boaler, British-American promoter of mathematics education reform and equitable mathematics classrooms
• Mary L. Boas, author of Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences
• Christine Böckmann, German numerical analyst, expert in atmospheric lidar
• Graciela Boente, Argentine mathematical statistician known for her research in robust statistics
• Natashia Boland, Australian mathematician and operations researcher
• Aline Bonami, French mathematical analyst, president of the Société mathématique de France
• Alicia Boole Stott, Irish-English four-dimensional geometer
• Mary Everest Boole, self-taught author of didactic works on mathematics
• Kathleen Booth, English mathematician and pioneer of assembly language computer programming
• Liliana Borcea, Romanian-American applied mathematician, expert on wave propagation
• Valentina Borok, Soviet Ukrainian mathematician who studied partial differential equations
• Celia Grillo Borromeo, Genovese mathematician and scientist, discovered Clélie curve
• Fernanda Botelho, Portuguese-American functional analyst
• Anne Bourlioux, Canadian expert in turbulent combustion and world record holder in indoor rowing
• Élisabeth Bouscaren, French mathematician who studies the connections between algebraic geometry and model theory
• Mireille Bousquet-Mélou, French combinatorialist
• Sylvia Bozeman, African-American mathematician and academic administrator
• Lis Brack-Bernsen, Danish and Swiss mathematician, historian of science, and historian of mathematics
• Mary Bradburn, British mathematics educator, president of the Mathematical Association
• Lillian K. Bradley, first African-American woman to earn a doctorate in any subject at the University of Texas
• Dorothy Brady, American mathematician and economist
• Priscilla Braislin, first professor of mathematics at Vassar College
• Bodil Branner, founder of European Women in Mathematics, chair of the Danish Mathematical Society
• Hel Braun, German number theorist
• Elena Braverman, Russian, Israeli, and Canadian researcher in delay differential equations and difference equations
• Marilyn Breen, American geometer
• Tara E. Brendle, American low-dimensional topologist and combinatorial group theorist
• Susanne Brenner, expert in the numerical solution of differential equations
• Kathrin Bringmann, German number theorist, expert on mock theta functions, winner of SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
• Jill Britton, Canadian mathematics educator, author of educational books on mathematics
• Bárbara M. Brizuela, American researcher on mathematics education in early childhood and elementary school
• Anne Broadbent, Canadian researcher on quantum computing, quantum cryptography, and quantum information
• Tamara Broderick, American mathematician and computer scientist who works in machine learning and Bayesian inference
• Lia Bronsard, Canadian expert on interface dynamics, president of Canadian Mathematical Society
• Margaret Brown, British mathematics educator
• Susan Brown, English fluid mechanics researcher, possibly first female applied mathematics professor in UK
• Marjorie Lee Browne, one of the first African-American women to receive a doctorate in mathematics
• Laurence Broze, Belgian applied mathematician, statistician, and economist, president of l'association femmes et mathématiques
• Maria Bruna, Spanish applied mathematician known for stochastic modelling of multiscale phenomena
• Sophie Bryant, Anglo-Irish mathematician, educator, feminist and activist
• Ranee Brylinski, American mathematician known for her research in representation theory and quantum logic gates
• Evelyn Buckwar, German-Austrian expert on stochastic differential equations
• Lilya Budaghyan, Armenian-Norwegian cryptographer
• Annalisa Buffa, Italian specialist in numerical analysis for partial differential equations
• Marta Bunge, Argentine-Canadian category theorist
• Angelika Bunse-Gerstner, German expert on numerical linear algebra
• Regina S. Burachik, Argentine-Australian researcher in convex analysis, functional analysis and non-smooth analysis
• Gail F. Burrill, American mathematics educator, president of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
• Leone Burton, British researcher in ethnomathematics, founded book series on women in mathematics
• Ida Busbridge, studied integral equations and radiative transfer, first female mathematics fellow at Oxford
• Lynne Butler, American combinatorialist and mathematical statistician
• Margaret K. Butler, computer programmer, director of the National Energy Software Center at Argonne
• Helen Byrne, British applied mathematician and mathematical biologist

  C

• Angelina Cabras, Italian mathematician, physicist, and theoretical mechanics professor
• Fioralba Cakoni, Albanian expert on inverse scattering theory
• Maria-Carme Calderer, Spanish-American researcher in applied mathematics
• Nora Calderwood, Scottish mathematician, namesake of Birmingham University's Calderwood Prize
• Daniela Calvetti, Italian-American mathematician whose work connects Bayesian statistics with numerical analysis
• Erika Tatiana Camacho, Mexican-American mathematical biologist
• Lucy Campbell, geophysical fluid dynamics researcher from Barbados, Jamaica, Ghana, and Canada
• Jessie Forbes Cameron, British mathematician, first woman to complete her PhD in mathematics at the University of Marburg
• Naiomi Cameron, American combinatorist, vice president of National Association of Mathematicians
• Patricia Campbell, American mathematics educator
• María Antònia Canals, Spanish mathematics educator and recreational mathematician
• Sunčica Čanić, Croatian-American expert in modeling the cardiovascular system and devices for treating it
• Ana Cannas da Silva, Portuguese mathematician specializing in symplectic geometry and geometric topology
• Barbara Canright, American human computer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Mireille Capitaine, French researcher on random matrices and free probability theory
• Lucia Caporaso, Italian algebraic geometer
• Ana Caraiani, Romanian-American IMO medalist, Putnam fellow, expert in algebraic number theory and the Langlands program
• Alessandra Carbone, Italian mathematician and computer scientist, studies protein interactions in muscular dystrophy
• Sally Elizabeth Carlson, first woman to obtain a doctorate in mathematics at the University of Minnesota
• Anna Cartan, French mathematician, teacher and textbook author, student of Marie Curie
• Coralia Cartis, Romanian expert on compressed sensing, numerical analysis, and regularization methods in optimization
• Mary Cartwright, British mathematician, one of the first to analyze a dynamical system with chaos
• María Andrea Casamayor, only 18th-century Spanish scientist whose work is still extant
• Bettye Anne Case, American mathematician and historian of mathematics
• Emma Castelnuovo, Italian mathematics educator and textbook author
• Beatrice Mabel Cave-Browne-Cave, English pioneer in the mathematics of aeronautics
• Frances Cave-Browne-Cave, English mathematician and computer, taught at Girton College, Cambridge
• Anny Cazenave, French space geodesist, pioneer in satellite altimetry
• Zoia Ceaușescu, Romanian functional analyst, daughter of Communist leader
• Elena Celledoni, Italian-Norwegian expert on numerical analysis, Lie groups, and structure-preserving algorithms
• Sue Chandler, author of English secondary-school mathematics textbooks
• Melody Chan, American expert in combinatorial commutative algebra, graph theory, and tropical geometry
• Sun-Yung Alice Chang, Chinese-American mathematical analyst, member of National Academy of Sciences
• Josephine Chanler, American mathematician
• Mei-Chu Chang, Taiwanese-American expert in algebraic geometry and combinatorial number theory
• Vyjayanthi Chari, Indian-American expert in quantum algebra
• Ruth Charney, American expert on geometric group theory and Artin groups, president of AWM
• Marie Charpentier, first woman to earn a doctorate in pure mathematics in France and second to obtain a faculty position there
• Émilie du Châtelet, French translator and commentator of Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica
• Zoé Chatzidakis, French researcher in model theory and differential algebra
• Jennifer Tour Chayes, expert on phase transitions in networks, founder of the theory group at Microsoft Research
• Karine Chemla, French historian of Chinese mathematics
• Jacqueline Chen, American applied mathematician and mechanical engineer, applies massively parallel computing to simulate combustion
• Margaret Cheney, American expert on inverse problems
• Leslie Cheng, American harmonic analyst
• Miranda Cheng, Taiwanese-Dutch mathematician and theoretical physicist, formulated umbral moonshine
• Eugenia Cheng, English category theorist and pianist, uses analogies with food and baking to teach mathematics to non-mathematicians
• Amanda Chetwynd, British combinatorist and spatial statistician
• Elaine Chew, Singaporean-American expert in the mathematics and visualization of concepts in music theory
• Tanya Christiansen, American expert on scattering theory and partial differential equations
• Graciela Chichilnisky, Argentine-American mathematical economist and authority on climate change
• Phyllis Chinn, American graph theorist and historian of mathematics
• Grace Chisholm Young, English mathematician, first woman to receive a German doctorate
• YoungJu Choie, Korean number theorist
• Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, French mathematician and physicist, first woman elected to the French Academy
• Maria Chudnovsky, Israeli-American graph theorist, MacArthur Fellow
• Fan Chung, Taiwanese-American researcher in random graphs
• Julia Chuzhoy, Israeli expert in approximation algorithms and graph minor theory
• Agata Ciabattoni, Italian non-classical mathematical logician
• Marta Civil, American mathematics educator
• Mónica Clapp, Mexican researcher in nonlinear partial differential equations and algebraic topology
• Joan Clarke, English code-breaker at Bletchley Park, numismatist
• Jeanne N. Clelland, American expert on differential geometry and its applications to differential equations
• Anne Cobbe, British algebraist
• Sally Cockburn, Canadian-American mathematician
• Judita Cofman, Yugoslav-German finite geometer and mathematics educator, first mathematics doctorate from Novi Sad
• Doris Cohen, American mathematician, first female author in the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
• Elaine Cohen, American pioneer in the use of splines for geometric modeling
• Marion Cohen, American poet and mathematician, teaches the relationship between art and mathematics
• Miriam Cohen, Israeli researcher in Hopf algebras, quantum groups and non-commutative rings
• Amy Cohen-Corwin, American expert in the Korteweg–de Vries equation and cubic Schrödinger equation
• Alina Carmen Cojocaru, Romanian number theorist
• Caroline Colijn, Canadian mathematical epidemiologist
• Susan Jane Colley, first female editor-in-chief of the American Mathematical Monthly
• Agnes Bell Collier, British mathematician
• Karen L. Collins, American graph theorist and combinatorist
• Coralie Colmez, French writer on legal mathematics
• Caterina Consani, Italian mathematician specializing in arithmetic geometry
• Pamela Cook, American expert in fluid dynamics, president of SIAM
• Frances Cope, American researcher on differential equations, namesake of the Thorndike nomogram
• Minerva Cordero, Puerto Rican expert on finite geometry
• Sylvie Corteel, French combinatorialist, editor-in-chief of Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A
• Véronique Cortier, French mathematician and computer scientist, uses mathematical logic to verify cryptographic protocols
• Carla Cotwright-Williams, African-American data scientist for the US government
• Collette Coullard, American matroid theorist and operations researcher
• Judith Covington, American mathematics educator
• Lenore Cowen, American discrete mathematician, computer scientist, and computational biologist
• Elizabeth Buchanan Cowley, American mathematician, advocated high school teaching of solid geometry
• Annalisa Crannell, American expert on water waves and geometric perspective
• Alissa Crans, American mathematician specializing in higher-dimensional algebra
• Marie Crous, 17th-century mathematician who introduced the decimal system to France
• Marianna Csörnyei, Hungarian researcher in real analysis, geometric measure theory, and functional analysis
• Helen F. Cullen, American topologist
• Jane Cullum, American applied mathematician known for her work in numerical algorithms and control theory
• Louise Duffield Cummings, Canadian-American expert on Steiner triple systems
• Susan Jane Cunningham, founded the mathematics and astronomy departments at Swarthmore College
• Serafina Cuomo, Italian historian of ancient mathematics
• Ruth F. Curtain, Australian-Dutch expert in infinite-dimensional linear systems
• Carina Curto, American mathematical neuroscientist

  D

• Amy Dahan, French mathematician, historian of mathematics, and historian of the politics of climate change
• Karma Dajani, Lebanese-Dutch mathematician, applies ergodic theory to number theory
• Ewa Damek, Polish mathematical analyst, namesake of Damek–Ricci spaces
• Donatella Danielli, Italian-American specialist in partial differential equations
• Sofia Danova, Bulgarian teacher and philanthropist, first Bulgarian woman to graduate in mathematics
• Christine Darden, American aeronautical engineer who researches sonic booms
• Geraldine Claudette Darden, one of the first African-American women to earn a PhD in mathematics
• Panagiota Daskalopoulos, Greek-American differential geometer
• Ingrid Daubechies, Belgian physicist and mathematician, known for wavelets
• Chantal David, Canadian analytic number theorist and arithmetic statistician
• Giuliana Davidoff, American number theorist and expert on expander graphs
• Penny J. Davies, Scottish expert on wave scattering, president of Edinburgh Mathematical Society
• Ineke De Moortel, Belgian mathematician who studies the sun's corona; president of Edinburgh Mathematical Society
• Valeria de Paiva, Brazilian researcher in categorical logic
• Lisette de Pillis, American researcher on the mathematics of cancer growth
• Daniela De Silva, Italian mathematician known for her expertise in partial differential equations
• Gerda de Vries, Canadian mathematician who studies dynamical systems and mathematical physiology
• Winifred Margaret Deans, British translator of German mathematics and physics texts into English
• Mary Deconge, one of the first African-American women to earn a PhD in mathematics
• Huguette Delavault, French mathematical physicist, activist for women in mathematics
• Ermelinda DeLaViña, Hispanic American graph theorist
• Laura DeMarco, American researcher in dynamical systems and complex analysis
• Beryl May Dent, British mathematical physicist, researcher in molecular forces and compuer-aided design
• Marjorie Devaney, mathematician, electrical engineer, and pioneering computer programmer
• Shakuntala Devi , Indian child prodigy, writer, and mental calculator
• Cécile DeWitt-Morette, French founder of l'École de physique des Houches
• Giulia Di Nunno, Italian expert in stochastic analysis and financial mathematics, promoter of mathematics in Africa
• Carrie Diaz Eaton, American mathematical biologist
• Auguste Dick, Austrian historian of mathematics and biographer of Emmy Noether
• Alicia Dickenstein, Argentine algebraic geometer, vice-president of the International Mathematical Union
• Caren Diefenderfer, American mathematician, president of National Numeracy Network
• Ada Dietz, American weaver who used algebraic expressions to design textiles
• Ulla Dinger, Swedish mathematical analyst, first female doctorate in mathematics at University of Gothenburg
• Irit Dinur, Israeli researcher in probabilistically checkable proofs and hardness of approximation
• Susanne Ditlevsen, Danish mathematical biologist and biostatistician
• Mary P. Dolciani, developed modern method for teaching high school algebra in the United States
• Yvonne Dold-Samplonius, Dutch historian of Islamic mathematics
• Suzanne Dorée, American group theorist and mathematics educator
• Yael Dowker, Israeli researcher in measure theory and ergodic theory
• Agnes Meyer Driscoll, American cryptanalyst during both World War I and World War II
• Cornelia Druțu Romanian mathematician, won Whitehead Prize for research in geometric group theory
• Malgorzata Dubiel, Polish and Canadian mathematics educator
• Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin, first woman full professor of mathematics in France, expert in fluid mechanics and abstract algebra
• Moon Duchin, American expert in geometric topology, geometric group theory, and Teichmüller theory
• Ioana Dumitriu, Romanian-American numerical analyst
• Julena Steinheider Duncombe, American mathematics teacher and astronomer
• Elizabeth B. Dussan V., American expert on the behavior of fluids
• Nira Dyn, Israeli expert on subdivision surfaces

  E

• Annie Easley, African-American computer scientist, mathematician, and rocket scientist
• Sheila May Edmonds, British mathematician, Vice-Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge
• Josephine D. Edwards, Australian mathematician, founded Australian Mathematics Competition
• Mary Edwards, human computer for the British Nautical Almanac
• Constance van Eeden, Dutch nonparameteric statistician who contributed to the development of statistics in Canada
• Hettie Belle Ege, American mathematician, acting president of Mills College
• Tatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest, Dutch researcher in combinatorics and graph theory
• Andrée Ehresmann, French category theorist
• Thyra Eibe, first woman to earn a mathematics degree from the University of Copenhagen, translator of Euclid
• Carolyn Eisele, American mathematician, historian of mathematics, expert on Charles Sanders Peirce
• Nathalie Eisenbaum, French probability theorist
• Kirsten Eisenträger, German-American researcher in computational number theory
• Tanja Eisner, Ukrainian-German expert on operator theory
• Nicole El Karoui, Tunisian-French pioneer in mathematical finance
• Amèle El Mahdi, Algerian mathematics professor and writer
• Joanne Elliott, American mathematician specializing in potential theory
• Jo Ellis-Monaghan, American mathematician interested in graph polynomials and topological graph theory
• Maria Emelianenko, Russian-American expert on centroidal Voronoi tessellation
• Gisela Engeln-Müllges, escapee from East Germany, expert in numerical algorithms, and abstract artist
• Susanna S. Epp, American researcher in discrete mathematics and mathematical logic
• Karin Erdmann, German researcher in modular representation theory and homological algebra
• Anna Erschler, Russian-French expert on random walks on groups
• Hélène Esnault, French algebraic geometer, winner of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
• Maria J. Esteban, Basque-French applied mathematician, president of International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• Alison Etheridge FRS, English researcher in theoretical population genetics and mathematical ecology
• Christina Eubanks-Turner, American mathematics educator, graph theorist, and commutative algebraist

  F

• Vera Faddeeva, Russian expert on numerical linear algebra
• Fariba Fahroo, Persian-American expert in pseudospectral optimal control, winner of AIAA Mechanics and Control of Flight Award
• Barbara Trader Faires, American mathematician and textbook author, secretary of MAA
• Etta Zuber Falconer, one of the first African-American women to receive a PhD in mathematics
• María Falk de Losada, American-born Colombian mathematician, co-founded Colombian Mathematical Olympiad, rector of Antonio Nariño University
• Martha Isabel Fandiño Pinilla, Colombian and Italian mathematics educator
• Barbara Fantechi, Italian algebraic geometer
• Marie Farge, French mathematician and physicist known for her research on wavelets and turbulence in fluid mechanics
• Mary Celine Fasenmyer, Catholic nun whose research on hypergeometric functions prefigured WZ theory
• Heike Fassbender, German expert in numerical linear algebra, first woman to lead a German mathematical society
• Lisa Fauci, American applied mathematician who applies computational fluid dynamics to biological processes
• Patricia Fauring, Argentine mathematician, coach of the Argentine mathematical olympiad team
• Odile Favaron, French graph theorist
• Philippa Fawcett, English educationalist, first woman to obtain the top score in the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos
• Anita Burdman Feferman, American historian of mathematics and mathematical biographer
• Joan Feigenbaum, theoretical computer scientist, co-inventor of trust management
• Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein, helped decipher Japanese Purple cryptography, worked on Venona counter-intelligence
• Käte Fenchel, Jewish German researcher on non-abelian groups
• Elizabeth Fennema, researched attitudes of young women towards mathematics and their classroom interactions
• Anuška Ferligoj, Slovenian mathematical sociologist and researcher in network analysis
• Jacqueline Ferrand, French researcher on conformal representation theory, potential theory, and Riemannian manifolds
• Antonia Ferrín Moreiras, Spanish mathematician and first Galician woman astronomer
• Joan Ferrini-Mundy, American researcher in mathematics education
• Farideh Firoozbakht, Iranian number theorist
• Ilse Fischer, Austrian combinatorialist
• Irene Fischer, Austrian-American geodesist for Mercury and Apollo spaceflights, member of National Academy of Engineering
• Vera Fischer, Austrian set theorist and mathematical logician
• Mary Flahive, American mathematician, author of books on difference equations and diophantine approximation
• Sarah Flannery, winner of the EU Young Scientist of the Year Award for her teenage research on cryptography
• Erica Flapan, American researcher in low-dimensional topology and knot theory
• Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, German aerodynamics researcher, first female engineering professor at Stanford
• Natasha Flyer, American earth scientist and applied mathematician, expert on radial basis functions
• Anne Bosworth Focke, first mathematics professor at what is now University of Rhode Island; student of David Hilbert
• Amanda Folsom, American number theorist
• Irene Fonseca , Portuguese-American director of the Center for Nonlinear Analysis at Carnegie Mellon University
• Phyllis Fox, American mathematician and computer scientist, collaborator on the first LISP interpreter
• Marguerite Frank, French-American pioneer in convex optimization theory and mathematical programming
• Hélène Frankowska, Polish-French control theorist and set-valued analyst
• Ailana Fraser, Canadian researcher on geometric analysis and the theory of minimal surfaces
• Haya Freedman, Israeli-British mathematician who studied the Tamari lattice and ring theory
• Herta Freitag, Austrian-American expert on Fibonacci numbers
• Susan Friedlander, English-American researcher in fluid dynamics, first female editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of the AMS
• Charlotte Froese Fischer, Canadian-American expert on atomic-structure calculations who predicted negative calcium ions
• Hannah Fry, English complex systems theorist and public speaker
• Shirley M. Frye, American mathematics educator, president of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
• Elza Furtado Gomide, Brazilian mathematician, first female doctorate in mathematics at University of São Paulo

  G

• Lisl Gaal, Austrian-born American set theorist and Galois theorist
• Isabelle Gallagher, French researcher in partial differential equations
• Irene M. Gamba, Argentine-American applied mathematician
• Svetlana Gannushkina, Russian mathematician and human rights activist
• Nina Gantert, Swiss and German probability theorist
• Pascale Garaud, French-American applied mathematician interested in fluid dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, and their applications to astrophysics
• Mary Cleophas Garvin, American mathematician
• Mai Gehrke, Danish lattice theorist and mathematical logician
• Hilda Geiringer, Austrian researcher on Fourier series, statistics, probability, and plasticity, refugee from Nazi Germany
• Anne Gelb, American mathematician interested in numerical analysis, partial differential equations, and Fourier analysis of images
• Sue Geller, American mathematician with interdisciplinary interests in algebraic K-theory, bioinformatics, and biostatistics
• Ruth Gentry, American geometer
• Sommer Gentry, American mathematician, applies dance notation to haptic interaction and operations research to organ transplants
• Maria-Pia Geppert, German mathematician and biostatistician who founded the Biometrical Journal
• Sophie Germain, French number theorist, physicist, and philosopher, correspondent of Gauss
• Marie Gernet, first German woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics
• Nadeschda Gernet, Russian mathematician, student of David Hilbert, worked in the calculus of variations
• Ellen Gethner, American graph theorist
• Danuta Gierulanka, Polish mathematics educator and philosopher of mathematics
• Irène Gijbels, Belgian mathematical statistician and expert in nonparametric statistics
• Olga Gil Medrano, Spanish geometric analyst, first female president of the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society
• Anna C. Gilbert, American expert in streaming algorithms and matching pursuit
• Jane Piore Gilman, topologist and group theorist, distinguished professor of mathematics at Rutgers University
• Gloria Ford Gilmer, American ethnomathematician
• Vivette Girault, French expert on numerical analysis, finite element methods, and computational fluid dynamics
• Josephine Burns Glasgow, American group theorist, active in American Association of University Women
• Sarah Glaz, Romanian-Israeli-American commutative algebraist and mathematical poet
• Heide Gluesing-Luerssen, German mathematician specializing in algebraic coding theory
• Julia Gog, English mathematical biologist, uses mathematics to study the spread of infectious diseases
• Bonnie Gold, American mathematician, mathematical logician, philosopher of mathematics, and mathematics educator
• Lisa Goldberg, American mathematical finance scholar and statistician
• Rebecca Goldin, American expert in symplectic geometry
• Christina Goldschmidt, British probability theorist
• Catherine Goldstein, French number theorist and historian of mathematics
• Susan Goldstine, American mathematician active in mathematics and fiber arts
• Shafi Goldwasser, American-born Israeli theoretical cryptographer
• Concha Gómez, Italian and Cuban-American mathematician and advocate for diversity in STEM
• Sherry Gong, second American gold medal winner at International Mathematical Olympiad
• Enriqueta González Baz, first woman to earn a mathematics degree in Mexico, founder of the Mexican Mathematical Society
• Maria Gordina, Russian-American mathematical analyst
• Carolyn S. Gordon, isospectral geometer who proved that you can't hear the shape of a drum
• Julia Gordon, Canadian representation theorist, winner of Michler and Krieger–Nelson prizes
• Pamela Gorkin, American complex analyst and textbook author
• Sigal Gottlieb, American expert in numerical simulation of the partial differential equations used in aerodynamics
• Aline Gouget, French cryptographer
• Mary de Lellis Gough, American mathematician
• Alice Bache Gould, American mathematician and historian
• Gene Grabeel, American mathematician and cryptanalyst who founded the Venona project
• Judith Grabiner, American historian of 18th- and 19th-century mathematics
• Eva-Maria Graefe, German-English mathematical physicist, expert in ultracold atoms and Non-Hermitian quantum mechanics
• Evelyn Boyd Granville, one of the first African-American women to receive a PhD in mathematics
• Antonella Grassi, mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry and string theory
• Mary Graustein, American mathematician, first mathematical doctorate from Radcliffe College
• Marion Cameron Gray, Scottish telephone engineer, discoverer of the Gray graph
• Mary W. Gray, author on mathematics, mathematics education, economic equity, discrimination law, and academic freedom
• Judy Green, logician and historian of women in mathematics
• Anne Greenbaum, American expert in theoretical and numerical linear algebra
• Catherine Greenhill, Australian graph theorist
• Sarah J. Greenwald, American mathematician, studies connections between mathematics and society
• Cindy Greenwood, Canadian statistician, winner of Krieger-Nelson Prize
• Ruth Gregory, British mathematical physicist specializing in general relativity and cosmology
• Margaret Greig, English applied mathematician, developed theory for worsted spinning
• Lois Wilfred Griffiths, American expert on polygonal numbers
• Laura Grigori, French applied mathematician, known for communication-avoiding algorithms for numerical linear algebra
• Ellina Grigorieva, Russian expert on mathematical problem solving
• Elisenda Grigsby, American low-dimensional topologist
• Clara Grima, Spanish computational geometer, co-discoverer of scutoids, mathematics popularizer
• Margaret Grimshaw, English mathematician at Cambridge and author on Hilbert spaces
• Birgit Grodal, Danish mathematical economist, studied atomless economies
• Edna Grossman, German-born American designer of the Data Encryption Standard and of the slide attack in cryptography
• Marcia Groszek, American mathematician whose research concerns mathematical logic, set theory, forcing, and recursion theory
• Gerd Grubb, Danish expert on pseudodifferential operators
• Helen G. Grundman, American number theorist
• Weiqing Gu, Chinese-American researcher on differential geometry and the mathematics of cancer growth
• Rebeca Guber, Argentine mathematician, founder of Argentine Calculation Society
• Christine Guenther, American expert on the Ricci flow
• Laura Guggenbühl, American mathematician known for her work in triangle geometry and the history of mathematics
• Colette Guillopé, French researcher in partial differential equations and fluid dynamics, former president of femmes et mathématiques
• Joséphine Guidy Wandja, Ivorian mathematician
• Alice Guionnet, French probability theorist
• Geneviève Guitel, French mathematician who studied natural-language numbering systems
• Kanta Gupta, Indian-Canadian researcher on abstract algebra and group theory
• Neena Gupta, Indian mathematician who solved the Zariski cancellation problem
• Margaret Gurney, American mathematician, survey statistician, and pioneering computer programmer
• Rochelle Gutierrez, American education theorist who studies the impacts of race, class and language on mathematics education
• Simone Gutt, Belgian differential geometer

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• Ruth Haas, American mathematician known for mentorship of other women mathematicians
• Dörte Haftendorn, German mathematician, mathematics educator, and textbook author
• Kari Hag, Norwegian expert on quasiconformal mappings
• Marjorie Hahn, American probability theorist and tennis player
• Deborah Tepper Haimo, Ukrainian-Palestinian-American classical analyst, third female president of the Mathematical Association of America
• Susie W. Håkansson, mathematics educator, director of the California Mathematics Project
• Ursula Hamenstädt, German differential geometry
• Christine Hamill, English mathematician specializing in group theory and finite geometry
• Mary-Elizabeth Hamstrom, American topologist
• Xiaoying Han, Chinese mathematician who studies random dynamical systems and stochastic differential equations
• Anita Hansbo, Swedish mathematician, rector of Jönköping University
• Megumi Harada, Canadian expert on equivariant symplectic and algebraic geometry
• Alison Harcourt, Australian mathematician and statistician known for branch and bound algorithms and quantification of poverty in Australia
• Frances Hardcastle, group theorist, one of the founders of the American Mathematical Society
• Kathryn E. Hare, Canadian expert in harmonic analysis
• Valentina Harizanov, Serbian-American researcher in computability and model theory
• Dorothee Haroske, German expert on function spaces
• Heather Harrington, applied mathematician and algebraic systems biologist
• Pamela E. Harris, Mexican combinatorist and mathematics blogger
• Jenny Harrison, American expert on generalized functions and minimal surfaces
• Frances Harshbarger, one of the first female American mathematicians to receive a doctorate
• Sarah B. Hart, British group theorist
• Shelly Harvey, American researcher in knot theory, low-dimensional topology, and group theory
• Maria Hasse, German graph theorist, set theorist, and category theorist, first female professor in science at TU Dresden
• Rhonda Hatcher, American number theorist, winner of Haimo teaching award
• Deanna Haunsperger, American mathematician, president of the Mathematical Association of America
• Jane M. Hawkins, American researcher in dynamic systems, complex dynamics, cellular automata, and Julia sets
• Louise Hay, founding member of the Association for Women in Mathematics
• Linda B. Hayden, African-American mathematics educator and mathematical geoscientist known for mentorship of women and minorities
• Ellen Hayes, American mathematician, astronomer, and political radical
• Margaret Hayman, British mathematics educator, co-founder of British Mathematical Olympiad
• Euphemia Lofton Haynes, first African-American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics
• Teresa W. Haynes, American expert on domination in graphs
• Emilie Virginia Haynsworth, American linear algebraist known for Schur complements and Haynsworth inertia additivity formula
• Olive Hazlett, American algebraist at the University of Illinois
• Maria Heep-Altiner, German mathematician and actuary
• Jane Heffernan, Canadian mathematician who studies mathematical models for the spread of infectious disease
• Katherine Heinrich, Canadian combinatorialist, first female president of Canadian Mathematical Society
• Christine Heitsch, American expert on the mathematics of RNA structure
• Diane Henderson, American applied mathematician and experimental fluid dynamics researcher
• Nadia Heninger, American cryptographer, computer security expert, and computational number theorist
• Cora Barbara Hennel, American mathematician, first woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics at the Indiana University
• Dagmar R. Henney, German-American expert on additive set-values and Banach spaces
• Inge Henningsen, statistician, writer and feminist
• Allison Henrich, American knot theorist
• Shandelle Henson, American mathematician and mathematical biologist, expert on population dynamics
• Rebecca A. Herb, American researcher in abstract algebra and Lie groups
• Raphaèle Herbin, French expert on the finite volume method
• Grete Hermann, German mathematician and philosopher also noted for her work in physics and education
• Susan Hermiller, American group theorist
• Constance Anne Herschel, British lecturer in natural sciences and mathematics
• Patricia Hersh, American expert on algebraic and topological combinatorics
• Bobby Hersom, British mathematician and computer scientist
• Kathryn Hess, American mathematician who uses algebraic topology to understand structures in neurology and materials science
• Silvia Heubach, German-American mathematician specializing in enumerative combinatorics, combinatorial game theory, and bioinformatics
• Gloria Conyers Hewitt, early African-American female mathematics PhD, MAA governor
• Laurie Heyer, American mathematician specializing in genomics and bioinformatics
• Patricia Hiddleston, Scottish and Rhodesian mathematician
• Aparna Higgins, Indian-American graph theorist known for encouraging undergraduate research
• Raegan Higgins, American mathematician, co-director of the EDGE program for Women
• Nancy Hingston, American differential geometer
• Hoàng Xuân Sính, first female Vietnamese mathematician, student of Grothendieck, founder of Thang Long University
• Catherine Hobbs, British singularity theorist, applies geometry to robotics
• Dorit S. Hochbaum, American expert on approximation algorithms for facility location, covering and packing, and scheduling
• Marlis Hochbruck, German expert on matrix exponentials and their applications to differential equations
• Maria Hoffmann-Ostenhof, Austrian expert on the Schrödinger equation
• Leslie Hogben, American mathematician specializing in graph theory and linear algebra, known for graduate mentorship
• Judy A. Holdener, American number theorist who simplified the proof of Touchard's theorem on perfect numbers
• Barbara R. Holland, New Zealand born Australian phylogeneticist
• Lotte Hollands, Dutch mathematical physicist
• Tara S. Holm, American algebraic geometer and symplectic geometer
• Olga Holtz, Russian numerical analyst, winner of the European Mathematical Society Prize
• Dorothy McFadden Hoover, American human computer involved in the design of swept-wing aircraft
• Grace Hopper, American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral
• Eleanor Mollie Horadam, English-Australian mathematician, studied generalized integers, mother of Kathy
• Kathy Horadam, Australian mathematician, studies Hadamard matrices, daughter of Eleanor Mollie
• Annick Horiuchi, French historian of Japanese mathematics
• Anette Hosoi, American mechanical engineer, biophysicist, and mathematician, studies fluid dynamics, robotics, and bio-inspired design
• Victoria Howle, American expert in numerical linear algebra, founded AWM essay contest
• Susan Howson, British mathematician known for work on algebraic number theory and arithmetic geometry
• Rebecca Hoyle, British applied mathematician, expert on pattern formation
• Celia Hoyles, British mathematician, president of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
• Hu Hesheng, differential geometer, president of Shanghai Mathematical Society, member of Chinese Academy of Science
• Verena Huber-Dyson, Swiss-American group theorist and logician, expert on undecidability in group theory
• Annette Huber-Klawitter, German algebraic geometer, expert in the Bloch–Kato conjectures
• Anne Lester Hudson, American expert in topological semigroups, mathematics educator, and mathematics competition coach
• Hilda Phoebe Hudson, English researcher on Cremona transformations in algebraic geometry
• Sabine Van Huffel, Belgian applied mathematician, expert on total least squares and applications to medical diagnostics
• Rhonda Hughes, American wavelet researcher, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics
• Deborah Hughes Hallett, mathematics education reformer
• Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann, German-American representation theorist and ring theorist
• Mabel Gweneth Humphreys, Canadian-American number theorist and namesake of the M. Gweneth Humphreys Award
• Eugénie Hunsicker, American mathematician who works at the intersection of analysis, geometry and topology
• Fern Hunt, American mathematician known for her work in applied mathematics and mathematical biology
• Roberta Hunter, New Zealand educational theorist and mathematics educator
• Joan Hutchinson, American graph theorist who extended the planar separator theorem to graphs of higher genus
• Marie Hušková, Czech mathematician who worked in theoretical statistics and change-point problems
• Hypatia, head of the Neoplatonic school at Alexandria, murdered by a Christian mob

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• Milagros D. Ibe, Filipino mathematics educator, vice chancellor of the University of the Philippines Diliman
• Mihaela Ignatova, Bulgarian mathematical analyst
• Annette Imhausen, German historian of ancient Egyptian mathematics
• Tasha Inniss, first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, director of education for INFORMS
• Eleny Ionel, Romanian-American symplectic geometer
• Ilse Ipsen, German-American expert in numerical linear algebra
• Valerie Isham, British applied probabilist, president of Royal Statistical Society
• Shihoko Ishii, Japanese mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry
• Vanaja Iyengar, founding vice chancellor of Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam, a women's university in Andhra Pradesh, India

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• Trachette Jackson, researcher in mathematical oncology, second African-American woman to become a Sloan Fellow in mathematics
• Jessie Marie Jacobs, fired from mathematics instructorship for having a child, aided husband Hermann Muller's Nobel-winning genetic research
• Monique Jeanblanc, French financial mathematician
• Lisa Jeffrey FRSC, Canadian expert in symplectic geometry and quantum field theory
• Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins, Canadian philosopher of mathematics
• Jacqueline Jensen-Vallin, American low-dimensional topologist, editor of MAA FOCUS
• Svetlana Jitomirskaya, Ukrainian mathematician working on dynamical systems and mathematical physics
• Naomi Jochnowitz, American algebraic number theorist known for her mentorship of women in mathematics
• Aimee Johnson, American expert on dynamical systems
• Katherine Johnson, calculated the trajectory for Project Mercury and the 1969 Apollo 11 flight to the Moon
• Marion Lee Johnson, African-American mathematician, helped calculate trajectories for the Apollo 11 moon landing
• Eleanor Jones, one of the first African American women to receive a PhD in mathematics
• Shelly M. Jones, American mathematics educator
• Nataša Jonoska, Macedonian-American expert in DNA computing
• Artishia Wilkerson Jordan, African-American mathematics educator and clubwoman
• Nalini Joshi, researcher in differential equations, Australian Laureate Fellow, Hardy Lecturer, president of Australian Mathematical Society
• Josephine Jue, Chinese-American mathematician, compiler, and programmer, first Asian-American woman at NASA

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• Margarete Kahn, one of the first female German doctorates, contributed to Hilbert's sixteenth problem
• Suzan Kahramaner, one of the first female mathematicians in Turkish academia
• Gabriele Kaiser, German mathematics educator
• Efstratia Kalfagianni, Greek knot theorist
• Eva Kallin, American researcher in geometric axiom systems, functional algebra, and polynomial convexity
• Gudrun Kalmbach, German quantum logician
• Barbara Kaltenbacher, Austrian applied analyst, president of Austrian Mathematical Society
• Hermine Agavni Kalustyan, Armenian-Turkish mathematician and politician
• Shoshana Kamin, Soviet-Israeli mathematical physicist, wrote about parabolic partial differential equations
• Chiu-Yen Kao, Taiwanese-American expert in image processing and mathematical biology
• Gizem Karaali, Turkish representation theorist, founding editor of Journal of Humanistic Mathematics
• Mary Cordia Karl, American geometer
• Carol Karp, American researcher on infinitary logic, viola player
• Yael Karshon, Israeli-Canadian expert on symplectic geometry
• Haya Kaspi, Israeli probability theorist
• Fanny Kassel, French expert on Lie groups
• Svetlana Katok, Jewish Russian-American founder of Electronic Research Announcements of the AMS
• Bruria Kaufman, Israeli theoretical physicist who collaborated with Einstein on general relativity
• Kathleen Kavanagh, American mathematician, applies simulation-based engineering to water quality and sustainability
• Elham Kazemi, Iranian-American mathematics educator
• Rinat Kedem, American mathematician and mathematical physicist
• Linda Keen, American mathematician and computer scientist, president of AWM
• Lyudmila Keldysh, Russian set theorist and geometric topologist
• Ruth Kellerhals, Swiss expert on hyperbolic geometry, geometric group theory and polylogarithm identities
• Julia Kempe, French, German, and Israeli researcher in quantum computing
• Claribel Kendall, one of the founders of the Rocky Mountain Section of the MAA
• Juliette Kennedy, mathematical logician in Finland
• Patricia Clark Kenschaft, American mathematician, prolific book author, and activist for equity and diversity
• Autumn Kent, American mathematician specializing in topology and geometry, promoter of transgender rights
• Leah Keshet, Israeli-Canadian mathematical biologist, first female president of the Society for Mathematical Biology
• Radha Kessar, Indian mathematician known for her research in the representation theory of finite groups
• Barbara Keyfitz, Canadian-American researcher on nonlinear partial differential equations, president of AWM and ICIAM
• 'Mamphono Khaketla, Lesotho mathematician, senator, and finance minister
• Olga Kharlampovich, Russian-Canadian group theorist who solved the Tarski conjecture on first-order theories of free groups
• Carolyn Kieran, Canadian mathematics educator
• Misha Kilmer, American applied mathematician known for research in numerical linear algebra and scientific computing
• Ju-Lee Kim, Korean-American expert on the representation theory of p-adic groups
• Chawne Kimber, African-American mathematician and quilter, incorporates social justice into mathematics teaching
• Angie Turner King, American mathematics and chemistry educator
• Karen D. King, African-American mathematics educator and Falconer Lecturer
• L. Christine Kinsey, American topologist and textbook author
• Faina Mihajlovna Kirillova, Belarusian optimal control theorist
• Vivien Kirk, New Zealand dynamical systems theorist, president of New Zealand Mathematical Society
• Ellen Kirkman, American algebraist
• Frances Kirwan, British specialist in algebraic and symplectic geometry
• Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen, Danish researcher in mathematics education and the philosophy and history of mathematics
• Kathrin Klamroth, German expert on combinatorial optimization and facility location
• Erica Klarreich, American geometer and writer
• Maria Klawe, Canadian-American theoretical computer scientist, president of Harvey Mudd College
• Caroline Klivans, American algebraic combinatorist, expert on chip-firing games
• Genevieve M. Knight, African-American mathematics educator
• Julia F. Knight, American specialist in model theory and computability theory
• Tamara G. Kolda, American applied mathematician at Sandia National Laboratories
• Natalia Komarova, Russian-American mathematician, studies cancer, language, gun control, pop music, and other complex systems
• Nancy Kopell, American researcher in the dynamics of the nervous system
• Elaine Koppelman, American mathematician
• Maria Korovina, Russian research on functional spaces and differential equations
• Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach, French differential geometer, namesake of the Kosmann lift
• Sofia Kovalevskaya, first major Russian female mathematician, worked in analysis, differential equations and mechanics
• Bryna Kra, American mathematician who applies dynamical systems in number theory and combinatorics
• Edna Kramer, American mathematician and author of mathematics books
• Cecilia Krieger, third person and first woman to earn a Canadian mathematics PhD, translator of Sierpiński
• Holly Krieger, American dynamical systems theorist
• Anna Zofia Krygowska, Polish mathematician known for her work in mathematics education
• Ewa Kubicka, Polish-American graph theorist and actuarial scientist
• Vera Kublanovskaya, Russian inventor of the QR algorithm for computing eigenvalues and eigenvectors
• Daniela Kühn, German-English combinatorialist, expert on infinite graphs, winner of the Whitehead Prize
• Angela Kunoth, German numerical analyst
• Frances Kuo, Taiwanese-Australian applied mathematician, expert on quasi-Monte Carlo methods
• Krystyna Kuperberg, Polish-American topologist who found a smooth counterexample to the Seifert conjecture
• Věra Kůrková, Czech expert in neural networks and approximation theory
• Rachel Kuske, American-Canadian expert on stochastic and nonlinear dynamics, asymptotic methods, and industrial mathematics
• Klavdija Kutnar, Slovenian algebraic graph theorist and academic administrator
• Gitta Kutyniok, German researcher in harmonic analysis, compressed sensing, and image processing

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• Izabella Łaba, Polish-Canadian specialist in harmonic analysis, geometric measure theory, and additive combinatorics
• Carole Lacampagne, American mathematician known for her work in mathematics education and gender equality
• Christine Ladd-Franklin, American psychologist, logician, and mathematician
• Jeanne LaDuke, American child actress, mathematical analyst, and historian of mathematics
• Olga Ladyzhenskaya, Soviet mathematician, proved convergence of a finite difference method for Navier–Stokes
• V. Lakshmibai, Indian-American expert on flag varieties and Schubert varieties
• Ailsa Land, British operations researcher known for developing branch and bound algorithms
• Susan Landau, American mathematician and computer scientist, known for internet security and denesting radicals
• Tanja Lange, German number theorist and cryptographer
• Amy Langville, American college basketball star and expert on ranking systems
• Glenda Lappan, developed Connected Mathematics curriculum, led National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
• Gillie Larew, American mathematician, first alumna of Randolph–Macon Woman's College to become full professor there
• Jean Ann Larson, American set theorist and historian of mathematical logic
• Elisabeth Larsson, Swedish researcher in scientific computing
• Irena Lasiecka, Polish-American expert in control theory of partial differential equations
• Renu C. Laskar, Indian-American graph theorist, specialist in domination numbers and circular arc graphs
• Klavdiya Latysheva, Soviet mathematician, contributed to differential equations, electrodynamics and probability
• Monique Laurent, French-Dutch expert in mathematical optimization
• Kristin Lauter, American researcher in elliptic curve cryptography, president of AWM
• Ruth Lawrence, child prodigy, British-Israeli researcher in knot theory and algebraic topology
• Anneli Cahn Lax, American mathematician, winner of the George Pólya Award
• Anita Layton, Hong Kong-American applied mathematician who studies mathematical models of kidney function
• Lê Thị Thanh Nhàn, Vietnamese mathematician, vice rector for Science at Thái Nguyên University, won Kovalevskaya Prize
• Alice Lee, helped discredit craniology
• Hollylynne Lee, American mathematics and statistics educator
• Joceline Lega, French applied mathematician interested in nonlinear dynamics
• Anne M. Leggett, American mathematical logician, editor of AWM Newsletter
• Emma Lehmer, Russian-American mathematician known for work on reciprocity laws in algebraic number theory
• Marguerite Lehr, pioneer in the use of television to teach mathematics
• Tanya Leise, American biomathematician, expert in circadian rhythms
• Joan Leitzel, American mathematics educator and university administrator
• Miriam Leiva, Cuban-American mathematics educator
• Mary Leng, British philosopher of mathematics
• Frédérique Lenger, Belgian mathematics educator and leader of the New Math movement
• Suzanne Lenhart, American researcher in partial differential equations, president of AWM
• Annie Leuch-Reineck, Swiss mathematician and women's rights activist
• Debbie Leung, Canadian expert in quantum communications
• Rachel Levy, American applied mathematician, mathematics educator, and blogger
• Marta Lewicka, Polish expert in nonlinear elasticity
• Florence Lewis, American mathematician and astronomer
• Jing-Rebecca Li, applied mathematician in France, studies magnetic resonance imaging and Lyapunov equations
• Sherry Li, Chinese-American developer of sparse parallel solvers for systems of linear equations
• Winnie Li, Chinese-American researcher in number theory, coding theory, automorphic forms, and spectral graph theory
• Paulette Libermann, French specialist in differential geometry
• Pamela Liebeck, British mathematician and mathematics educator
• Lillian Rosanoff Lieber, American mathematics professor and author of popular books on science and mathematics
• Magnhild Lien, Norwegian mathematician specializing in knot theory
• Elizaveta Litvinova, Russian mathematician and biographer, defied czar's order forbidding women to study abroad
• Marie Litzinger, American number theorist
• Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu, Taiwanese-American researcher in algebraic geometry and symplectic geometry
• Patti Frazer Lock, American mathematics and statistics educator and textbook author
• Deborah Frank Lockhart, administrator at the National Science Foundation
• Susan Loepp, American algebraist and cryptographer
• Marina Logares, Spanish geometer and LGBT+ activist
• Mayme Logsdon, American algebraic geometer and mathematics educator
• Ling Long, Chinese-American expert on modular forms, elliptic surfaces, and dessins d'enfants
• Lynette Long, American psychologist, mathematics educator, and textbook author
• Judith Q. Longyear, American researcher in graph theory and combinatorics
• Paola Loreti, Italian researcher in Fourier analysis, control theory, and non-integer bases
• Lisa Lorentzen, Norwegian mathematician and author, specializing in continued fractions
• Dawn Lott, African-American expert on numerical partial differential equations
• Ada Lovelace, wrote the first computer program as part of her work on Babbage's Analytical Engine
• María Teresa Lozano Imízcoz, Spanish low-dimensional topologist
• Sylvia Chin-Pi Lu, Chinese-American commutative algebraist
• Katarzyna Lubnauer, Polish probability theorist and politician
• Edith Hirsch Luchins, Polish-American mathematician, experimented on psychology of mathematical problem solving
• Malwina Łuczak, Polish-Australian probability theorist
• Monika Ludwig, Austrian researcher in convex geometry, member of Austrian Academy of Sciences
• Alessandra Lunardi, Italian mathematical analyst
• Élisabeth Lutz, French student of Weil, showed how to compute torsion subgroups of elliptic curves
• Julie Lutz, American astronomer and mathematician who studies planetary nebulae and symbiotic binary stars
• Sonja Lyttkens, Swedish mathematician, first Swedish woman to obtain a permanent academic position in mathematics

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• Odile Macchi, French mathematician and physicist
• Marta Macho Stadler, Basque expert on foliations and mathematical blogger
• Barbara MacCluer, American expert on operator theory and author on functional analysis
• Sheila Scott Macintyre, Scottish researcher on the Whittaker constant, co-author of German–English mathematics dictionary
• Diane Maclagan, expert on toric varieties, Hilbert schemes, and tropical geometry
• Chrystal Macmillan, Scottish Liberal politician, barrister, feminist and pacifist, first female honours graduate in mathematics from University of Edinburgh
• Jessie MacWilliams, English researcher on error-correcting codes
• Kathleen Madden, American expert on dynamical systems
• Isabel Maddison, British mathematician known for her work on differential equations
• Penelope Maddy, American philosopher of mathematics
• Dorothy Maharam, American mathematician who made important contributions to measure theory
• Carolyn A. Maher, American expert in mathematics education
• Carolyn Mahoney, African-American combinatorialist, president of Lincoln University of Missouri
• Apala Majumdar, British expert on liquid crystals
• Larisa Maksimova, Russian mathematical logician
• Maryanthe Malliaris, American mathematician specializing in model theory
• Vivienne Malone-Mayes, fifth African-American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics, researcher in functional analysis
• Eugenia Malinnikova, Russian-Norwegian expert in functional analysis and partial differential equations
• Claudia Malvenuto, Italian mathematician known for her work on the Hopf algebra of permutations
• Michelle Manes, American mathematician interested in number theory, algebraic geometry, and dynamical systems
• Kathryn Mann, geometric topologist and geometric group theorist
• Renata Mansini, Italian applied mathematician, uses mathematical optimization for portfolio balancing
• Elizabeth Mansfield, Australian expert on moving frames and conservation laws
• María Manzano, Spanish mathematical logician
• Elena Marchisotto, American mathematician, mathematics educator, and historian of mathematics
• Matilde Marcolli, Italian mathematical physicist
• Fotini Markopoulou-Kalamara, Greek theoretical physicist interested in foundational mathematics and quantum mechanics
• Hannah Markwig, German researcher in tropical geometry
• Alison Marr, American graph theorist and advocate of inquiry-based learning
• Karen Marrongelle, American mathematics educator and academic administrator
• Susan H. Marshall, American number theorist
• Maia Martcheva, Bulgarian-American mathematical biologist
• Laura Martignon, Colombian-Italian researcher in neuroscience and decision-making
• Emilie Martin, American group theorist
• Mireille Martin-Deschamps, French algebraic geometer, president of Société mathématique de France
• María del Carmen Martínez Sancho, first woman in Spain to gain a PhD in Mathematics
• Katalin Marton, Hungarian information and probability theorist
• Susan Martonosi, American mathematician, applies operations research to counter-terrorism, epidemiology, and sports analytics
• Roswitha März, German expert on differential-algebraic equations
• Verdiana Masanja, first Tanzanian woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics
• Vera Nikolaevna Maslennikova, Russian researcher on partial differential equations, hydrodynamics of rotating fluids, and function spaces
• Maura Mast, Irish-American differential geometer, mathematics educator, textbook author, and academic administrator
• Claire Mathieu, French algorithms researcher
• Gordana Matic, Croatian-American low-dimensional topologist, expert on contact topology
• Kaisa Matomäki, Finnish number theorist known for her work on multiplicative functions over short intervals
• Margaret Maxfield, American mathematician and mathematics book author
• Lola J. May, American mathematics educator and early proponent of new math
• Svitlana Mayboroda, Ukrainian-American expert on boundary value problems for elliptic partial differential equations
• Anna Mazzucato, American expert on fluid dynamics
• Shirley McBay, first African-American doctorate at the University of Georgia
• Mary McCammon, first woman to complete a doctoral degree in mathematics at Imperial College London
• Maeve McCarthy, Irish mathematician interested in inverse problems and biological modeling
• Lynne McClure, British mathematics educator
• Dorothy McCoy, American mathematician, first female doctorate in mathematics at University of Iowa
• Dusa McDuff FRS, English researcher on symplectic geometry, winner of Satter Prize, first female Hardy Lecturer
• Elizabeth McHarg, Scottish mathematician and translator, first female president of Edinburgh Mathematical Society
• Lois Curfman McInnes, American researcher on numerical solution of nonlinear partial differential equations for scientific applications
• Camille McKayle, Afro-Jamaican-American mathematician and academic administrator
• Danica McKellar, American actor, author, mathematician, and education advocate
• Joyce McLaughlin, American researcher in inverse problems
• Jeanette McLeod, New Zealand combinatorialist, popularizes mathematics through crochet and origami
• Jennifer McLoud-Mann, Cherokee mathematician who discovered the 15th and last class of convex pentagons that tile the plane
• Florence Marie Mears, American specialist in summation methods
• Catherine Meadows, American cryptographer who formally verifies cryptographic protocols
• Elizabeth Meckes, American probability theorist
• Nicole Megow, German discrete mathematician and theoretical computer scientist, researcher in scheduling algorithms
• Sylvie Méléard, French probability theorist
• Pauline Mellon, Irish functional analyst, president of Irish Mathematical Society
• Karin Melnick, American differential geometer
• Helen Abbot Merrill, American mathematician, educator and textbook author
• Winifred Edgerton Merrill, first woman with a degree from Columbia University and first American female doctorate in mathematics
• Uta Merzbach, German-American historian of mathematics, first Smithsonian curator of mathematical instruments
• Chikako Mese, American differential geometer
• Jill P. Mesirov, American mathematician, computer scientist, and computational biologist, president of AWM
• Ida Martha Metcalf, second American female doctorate in mathematics
• Catherine Meusburger, German mathematical physicist interested in string theory
• Marie-Louise Michelsohn, American researcher on complex geometry, spin manifolds, the Dirac operator, and algebraic cycles
• Ruth I. Michler, American commutative algebraist and algebraic geometer
• Kaisa Miettinen, Finnish industrial optimization researcher and academic administrator
• Alison Miller, first American female gold medalist in the International Mathematical Olympiad, three-time Elizabeth Lowell Putnam award winner
• Mirka Miller, Czech-Australian graph theorist, data security expert
• Margaret Millington, English expert on modular forms
• Eva Miranda, Spanish expert on symplectic dynamics
• Rosa M. Miró-Roig, Spanish algebraic geometer and commutative algebraist
• Maryam Mirzakhani, first female Fields medalist; researcher on the symmetry of curved surfaces
• Yuliya Mishura, Ukrainian probability theorist and mathematical finance expert
• Dorina Mitrea, Romanian-American functional analyst and mathematics educator
• Irina Mitrea, Romanian-American researcher in partial differential equations known for outreach to women and minorities
• Atsuko Miyaji, Japanese cryptographer and number theorist
• Reiko Miyaoka, Japanese geometer known for her research on hypersurfaces
• Fatma Moalla, first Tunisian woman to earn a French doctorate in mathematics
• Colette Moeglin, French expert on automorphic forms
• Joanne Moldenhauer, American high school mathematics teacher
• Susan Montgomery, American researcher in noncommutative algebra
• Helen Moore, American mathematician who applies control theory to combination therapy in the health industry
• Cathleen Synge Morawetz, Canadian-American researcher on the partial differential equations governing fluid flow
• Anne C. Morel, American logician, order theorist, and algebraist, first female full professor of mathematics at the University of Washington
• Sophie Morel, French number theorist and contributor to the Langlands program, first female tenured mathematics professor at Harvard
• Joy Morris, Canadian researcher on groups and graphs
• Rose Morton, American expert in the mathematical modeling of bubbles
• Joan Moschovakis, American intuitionistic logician
• Ruth Moufang, German researcher on non-associative algebraic structures, namesake of Moufang loops
• Magdalena Mouján, Argentine mathematician of Basque descent, operations researcher, computing pioneer, and science fiction author
• Jennifer Mueller, American applied mathematician, expert in inverse problems and electrical impedance tomography
• Edith Alice Müller, Swiss mathematician and astronomer, studied the group theory of Moorish tile designs
• Anna Mullikin, American mathematician, early investigator of point set theory
• Kieka Mynhardt, South African and Canadian expert on dominating sets in graph theory
• Emmy Murphy, American symplectic geometer
• Valerie Myerscough, British mathematician and astrophysicist
• Vera Myller, Russian mathematician and student of David Hilbert, first female professor in Romania
• Wendy Myrvold, Canadian graph theorist, combinatorist, and algorithms researcher

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• Anna Nagurney, Ukrainian-American mathematician, economist, educator and author in operations management
• Hasibun Naher, Pakistani applied mathematician who studies tsunamis
• Andrea R. Nahmod, American expert in nonlinear Fourier analysis, harmonic analysis, and partial differential equations
• Pia Nalli, Italian researcher in functional analysis and tensor calculus
• Seema Nanda, Indian researcher in applications of mathematics to biology, engineering and finance
• Mangala Narlikar, Indian number theorist, author of Marathi-language mathematics books for schoolchildren
• Sonia Natale, Argentine expert in abstract algebra
• Caryn Navy, blind American researcher in set-theoretic topology and Braille technology
• Vicky Neale, British number theorist and mathematics popularizer
• Gabriele Nebe, German researcher on sphere packings, lattices, and codes
• Deanna Needell, American applied mathematician, won 2016 IMA Prize in Mathematics and Applications
• Sara Negri, Italian-Finnish proof theorist
• Evelyn Nelson, Canadian researcher in universal algebra with applications to theoretical computer science
• Gail S. Nelson, American mathematician, textbook author, and editor-in-chief of the MAA "Problem Books"
• Nancy Neudauer, American matroid theorist known for her work in mathematical outreach in Africa and South America
• Claudia Neuhauser, German-American mathematical biologist whose research concerns spatial ecology
• Hanna Neumann, German-born mathematician who worked on group theory
• Adriana Neumann de Oliveira, Brazilian expert in interacting particle systems
• Mara Neusel, German-American invariant theorist and advocate for women in mathematics
• Monica Nevins, Canadian algebraist
• Mary Frances Winston Newson, first female American to receive a PhD in mathematics from a European university
• Purity Ngina, Kenyan biomathematician
• Giang Nguyen, Vietnamese-Australian applied mathematician and chess master
• Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin, Irish celebrity and mathematics lecturer
• Nancy K. Nichols, British applied mathematician and numerical analyst
• Olympia Nicodemi, American mathematician and mathematics educator interested in wavelets and the history of mathematics
• Phyllis Nicolson, British developer of the Crank–Nicolson method for solving partial differential equations
• Barbara Niethammer, German expert on the growth of particles in liquids
• Stanisława Nikodym, first Polish woman to earn PhD in mathematics, known for research in continuum theory
• Mila Nikolova, Bulgarian researcher in image processing, inverse problems, and compressed sensing
• Kumiko Nishioka, Japanese specialist on transcendental numbers and Mahler functions
• Wiesława Nizioł, Polish researcher in arithmetic algebraic geometry
• Emmy Noether, German researcher in abstract algebra and theoretical physics, named "the greatest woman mathematician of all time"
• Margarita Nolasco Santiago, Mathematics textbook author, member of Puerto Rico Senate
• Khalida Inayat Noor, Pakistani mathematical analyst
• Dorothée Normand-Cyrot, French control theorist
• Isabella Novik, Israeli-American expert on algebraic and geometric combinatorics
• Frieda Nugel, one of the first German women to obtain a doctorate in mathematics
• Helena J. Nussenzveig Lopes, Brazilian mathematician known for her research on incompressible Euler equations
• Kaisa Nyberg, Finnish cryptographer

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• Katharine Elizabeth O'Brien, American mathematician, musician and poet
• Vivian O'Brien, American applied mathematician and physicist, expert in fluid dynamics and visual perception
• Hilary Ockendon, British applied mathematician, expert in fluid dynamics
• Ortrud Oellermann, South African and Canadian graph theorist
• Frédérique Oggier, Swiss and Singaporean coding theorist
• Hee Oh, Korean-American dynamical systems theorist, expert on equidistribution in fractal structures
• Eve Oja, Estonian functional analyst
• Christine O'Keefe, Australian researcher in finite geometry and information security
• Kathleen Adebola Okikiolu, British-American researcher on differential operators, developed curricula for inner-city children
• Dianne P. O'Leary, American expert on scientific computing, computational linear algebra, and the history of scientific computing
• Olga Oleinik, Soviet researcher on partial differential equations, elastic media, and boundary layers
• Dorte Olesen, first Danish mathematician to be appointed full professor
• Gloria Olive, American-born New Zealand mathematician
• Kathleen Ollerenshaw, British mathematician and politician, mayor of Manchester, educational advisor to Margaret Thatcher
• Yewande Olubummo, Nigerian-American functional analyst
• Cathy O'Neil, American arithmetic algebraic geometer and author on the social hazards of machine learning
• Rosa Orellana, American mathematician specializing in algebraic combinatorics and representation theory
• Omayra Ortega, American mathematical epidemiologist
• Hinke Osinga, Dutch expert in dynamical systems, crocheted the Lorenz manifold
• Barbara L. Osofsky, American algebraist, first woman in 50 years to address a national AMS meeting, first female AMS journal editor
• Marie Françoise Ouedraogo, Burkinabé expert on pseudodifferential operators and superalgebras, president of African Women in Mathematics Association
• Helen Brewster Owens, American suffragette, associate editor of the American Mathematical Monthly
• Robyn Owens, Australian applied mathematician, studies computer vision including face recognition and the imaging of lactation

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• Ietje Paalman-de Miranda, Surinamese–Dutch mathematician, first female mathematics professor at University of Amsterdam
• Harriet Padberg, mathematician, music therapist, and pioneer of algorithmic music composition
• Christina Pagel, British German operations researcher, applies data analysis and mathematical modelling to health care
• Eleanor Pairman, Scottish mathematician, developed methods to teach mathematics to blind students
• Ilona Palásti, Hungarian researcher in discrete geometry, geometric probability, and random graphs
• Pandrosion, ancient Greek mathematician predating Hypatia, developed an approximation for cube roots
• Erika Pannwitz, German geometric topologist who proved that every knot has a quadrisecant
• Anna Panorska, Polish-American expert on extreme events in stochastic processes and on the effect of weather on baseball
• Greta Panova, Bulgarian-American algebraic combinatorist
• Raman Parimala, Indian mathematician known for her contributions to algebra
• Clare Parnell, British astrophysicist and applied mathematician, studies the mathematics of the sun and of magnetic fields
• Haesun Park, Korean-American researcher in numerical analysis and the data sciences
• Karen Parshall, American historian of mathematics
• Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, Polish-American control theorist and mathematics educator
• Maria Pastori, Italian mathematician, specialist in rational mechanics
• Christine Paulin-Mohring, French mathematical logician and computer scientist, developer of Coq theorem prover
• Barbara Paulson, American human computer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Nataša Pavlović, Serbian–American expert in fluid dynamics and nonlinear dispersive equations
• Sylvie Paycha, French mathematician working in operator theory
• Sandrine Péché, French expert on random matrices
• Jean Pedersen, American mathematician and author, expert on mathematical paper folding
• Irena Peeva, American researcher in commutative algebra and its applications
• Jeanne Peiffer, Luxembourgian historian of mathematics
• Magda Peligrad, Romanian probability theorist known for her work on stochastic processes
• Beatrice Pelloni, Italian expert on partial differential equations
• Rose Peltesohn, German-Israeli researcher in additive combinatorics
• Kirsi Peltonen, Finnish mathematician whose interests include differential geometry and the connections between mathematics and art
• Charlotte Elvira Pengra, Sixth American woman to receive a doctorate in mathematics
• Cristina Pereyra, Venezuelan mathematician, author of several books on wavelets and harmonic analysis
• Bernadette Perrin-Riou, French number theorist, winner of the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize
• Mary Perry Smith, American mathematics educator, founder of MESA program for under-privileged students
• Hazel Perfect, British combinatorialist, author, and translator, inventor of gammoids
• Laura Person, American low-dimensional topologist
• Rózsa Péter, recursion theorist, first woman elected to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Stefanie Petermichl, German-French mathematical analyst, first female winner of the Salem Prize
• Louise Petrén-Overton, first Swedish woman with a doctorate in mathematics
• Guergana Petrova, Bulgarian applied mathematician, uses numerical methods to solve differential equations
• Linda Petzold, researcher in differential algebraic equations and simulation, member of National Academy of Engineering
• Julia Pevtsova, Russian-American representation theorist
• Flora Philip, first female member of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society
• Cynthia A. Phillips, American expert on combinatorial optimization
• Dominique Picard, French expert on the statistical applications of wavelets
• Sophie Piccard, Russian-Swiss mathematician, first female full professor in Switzerland
• Lisa Piccirillo, American low-dimensional topologist
• Ragni Piene, Norwegian algebraic geometer, member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
• Lillian Pierce, American mathematician whose research connects number theory with harmonic analysis
• Johanna Piesch, Austrian pioneer in switching algebra
• Marie Anne Victoire Pigeon, French mathematician, writer, and teacher
• Faustina Pignatelli, princess of Colubrano, second woman elected to the Academy of Sciences of Bologna
• Gabriella Pinzari, Italian expert on the -body problem
• Jill Pipher, researcher in harmonic analysis, Fourier analysis, differential equations, and cryptography, president of AWM
• Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian philosopher, musician, and mathematics lecturer, first woman to earn a doctorate
• Toniann Pitassi, American-Canadian computational complexity theorist, expert on proof complexity
• Vera Pless, American mathematician specializing in combinatorics and coding theory
• Kim Plofker, American historian of Indian mathematics, winner of the Brouwer Medal
• Gerlind Plonka, German mathematician known for her work on refinable functions and curvelets
• Eileen Poiani, American mathematician, first woman to teach mathematics at Saint Peter's University, first female president of Pi Mu Epsilon
• Claudia Polini, Italian expert on commutative algebra
• Harriet Pollatsek, Lie theorist who has applied difference sets to error correcting codes and coding theory
• Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina, Soviet researcher in fluid mechanics, hydrodynamics, and history of mathematics
• Elena Moldovan Popoviciu, Romanian functional analyst
• Marian Pour-El, American mathematical logician and computable analyst
• Victoria Powers, American algebraic geometer and election theorist
• Cheryl Praeger, Australian researcher in group theory, algebraic graph theory and combinatorial designs
• Malabika Pramanik, Indian-Canadian harmonic analyst
• Eleanor C. Pressly, American mathematician and sounding rocket engineer
• Emma Previato, researcher in algebraic geometry and partial differential equations
• Candice Renee Price, American mathematician, advocate for greater representation of women and people of color in STEM
• Rachel Justine Pries, American arithmetic geometer and Galois theorist
• Hilary Priestley, British mathematician who used topological methods to study distributive lattices
• Mileva Prvanović, Serbian differential geometer, first to earn a doctorate in geometry in Serbia
• Mary Pugh, American-Canadian expert on thin films
• Ulla Pursiheimo, Finnish control theorist who became the first female mathematics professor in Finland

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• Martine Queffélec, French expert in substitution dynamical systems and Diophantine approximation
• Jennifer Quinn, American combinatorialist
• Peregrina Quintela Estévez, Spanish applied mathematician

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• Ami Radunskaya, American mathematician, specializes in dynamical systems and applications to medical problems, president of AWM
• Virginia Ragsdale, American specialist in algebraic curves, formulated the Ragsdale conjecture
• Kavita Ramanan, Indian-American probability theorist
• Mythily Ramaswamy, Indian functional analyst and control theorist
• Susan Miller Rambo, second woman awarded a PhD from the University of Michigan, delegate to 1928 ICM
• Sujatha Ramdorai, Indian-Canadian algebraic number theorist, expert on Iwasawa theory
• Saly Ruth Ramler, first woman to earn a mathematics doctorate from Charles University
• Helena Rasiowa, Polish researcher in the foundations of mathematics and algebraic logic
• Marina Ratner, Russian-American ergodic theorist, member of National Academy of Sciences
• Cora Ratto de Sadosky, Argentine mathematician and human rights activist
• Geneviève Raugel, French numerical analyst and dynamical systems theorist
• Ethel Raybould, Australian mathematician and mathematics benefactor
• Michèle Raynaud, French algebraic geometer
• Margaret Rayner, British expert on isoperimetric inequalities, president of Mathematical Association
• Mary Lynn Reed, American mathematician, intelligence researcher, and short fiction writer
• Mary Rees, British specialist in complex dynamical systems
• Mina Rees, first female President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Sarah Rees, British group theorist
• Karin Reich, German historian of mathematics and biographer of mathematicians
• Anna Barbara Reinhart, Swiss mathematician, wrote commentary on Newton's Principia
• Kristina Reiss, German mathematics educator
• Idun Reiten, Norwegian representation theorist, member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
• Yuriko Renardy, Australian-American expert in fluid dynamics
• Barbara Reys, American mathematics educator known for her research in number sense and mental calculation
• Karen Rhea, American calculus educator and proponent of flipped classrooms
• Ida Rhodes, American pioneer in computer programming, designed the first computer used for Social Security
• Marjorie Rice, American amateur mathematician who discovered new pentagon tilings
• Christine Riedtmann, Swiss algebraist, president of Swiss Mathematical Society
• Eleanor Rieffel, American applied mathematician interested in quantum computing, computer vision, and cryptography
• Carol Jane Anger Rieke, American astronomer and mathematics educator
• Beatrice Rivière, French expert on numerical simulation of fluid flow through porous media
• Catherine A. Roberts, American applied mathematician and executive director of the American Mathematical Society
• Rachel Roberts, American low-dimensional topologist
• Siobhan Roberts, Canadian mathematical biographer
• Vanessa Robins, Australian computational topologist
• Julia Robinson, American researcher on diophantine equations, contributed to solution of Hilbert's Tenth Problem
• Margaret M. Robinson, American number theorist and expert on zeta functions
• Alvany Rocha, American specialist in Lie groups, computed characters of the Virasoro algebra
• Rubí Rodríguez, Chilean complex geometer, president of Chilean Mathematical Society
• Alice Rogers, English expert on supermanifolds
• Marie Rognes, Norwegian researcher in scientific computing and numerical methods
• Judith Roitman, American specialist in set theory, topology, Boolean algebra, and mathematics education
• Colva Roney-Dougal, British computational group theorist
• Anna Rönström, Swedish educator, school founder, and mathematician
• Marian P. Roque, Filipina expert on partial differential equations, president of the Mathematical Society of the Philippines
• Frances A. Rosamond, Australian researcher in parameterized complexity, advocate for women in computer science and mathematics
• Margit Rösler, German expert on harmonic analysis, special functions, and Dunkl operators
• Mary G. Ross, first Native American female engineer, studied mathematics for aeronautics and celestial mechanics
• Alice Roth, Swiss mathematician known for her invention of Swiss cheese spaces
• Linda Preiss Rothschild, president of AWM, vice-president of AMS, co-editor-in-chief of Mathematical Research Letters
• Christel Rotthaus, German-American researcher in commutative algebra
• Svetlana Roudenko, Russian-American functional analyst
• Christiane Rousseau, French-Canadian mathematician, president of the Canadian Mathematical Society
• Marie-Françoise Roy, French expert in real algebraic geometry, co-founder of two organizations for women in mathematics
• Jean E. Rubin, American expert on the axiom of choice
• Mary Ellen Rudin, constructed many counterexamples in topology
• Adela Ruiz de Royo, first lady of Panama
• Mari-Jo P. Ruiz, Filipina graph theorist and operations researcher
• Iris Runge, German applied mathematician, translator and biographer
• Mary Beth Ruskai, proved subadditivity of quantum entropy, bounded the electrons in an atom, advocate for women in mathematics
• Barbara Falkenbach Ryan, American mathematician, computer scientist, statistician and business executive

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• Flora Sadler, Scottish mathematician and astronomer
• Cora Sadosky, Argentine-American analyst, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics
• Claudia Sagastizábal, Argentine-Brazilian researcher in convex optimization and energy management
• Laure Saint-Raymond, French specialist in partial differential equations, member of the French Academy of Sciences
• Ayşe Şahin, Turkish-American expert on dynamical systems
• Graciela Salicrup, Mexican pioneer in categorical topology
• Judith D. Sally, American researcher in commutative algebra, Noether lecturer
• Sema Salur, Turkish-American differential geometer
• Jean E. Sammet, supervised the first scientific programming group, helped develop COBOL
• Mildred Sanderson, American mathematician, established a correspondence between modular and formal invariants
• Marta Sanz-Solé, Catalan researcher on stochastic processes, president of the European Mathematical Society
• Winifred Sargent, English researcher on integration theory and BK-spaces
• Ruth Lyttle Satter, American researcher on circadian rhythms, namesake of Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics
• Linda Gilbert Saucier, American mathematician, prolific textbook author
• Lisa Sauermann, German mathematician ranked third in the International Mathematical Olympiad Hall of Fame
• Bonita V. Saunders, American expert on mathematical visualization
• Carla Savage, American researcher on parallel algorithms and combinatorial generation, secretary of AMS
• Karen Saxe, American expert on functional analysis and social choice theory
• Jane Cronin Scanlon, American researcher in partial differential equations and mathematical biology
• Alice T. Schafer, American differential geometer, founding member of the Association for Women in Mathematics
• Sakura Schafer-Nameki, German mathematical physicist
• Mary Schaps, Israeli mathematician and academic administrator, researcher in deformation theory, group theory, and representation theory
• Doris Schattschneider, American mathematician known for writing about tessellations and the art of M. C. Escher
• Michelle Schatzman, French numerical analyst
• Katya Scheinberg, Russian-American expert on derivative-free continuous optimization
• Anne Schilling, American algebraic combinatorialist, representation theorist, and mathematical physicist
• Tamar Schlick, American applied mathematician who develops and applies tools for biomolecule modeling and simulation
• Karin Schnass, Austrian expert on sparse dictionary learning
• Leila Schneps, American-French analytic number theorist and arithmetic geometer, archivist of Grothendieck's works
• Anita Schöbel, German operations researcher, expert on optimization for public transportation
• Maria E. Schonbek, Argentine-American researcher in fluid dynamics and associated partial differential equations
• Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb, Austrian mathematician known for her research in image analysis
• Jennifer Schultens, American low-dimensional topologist and knot theorist
• Marie-Hélène Schwartz, French mathematician known for her work on characteristic numbers of spaces with singularities
• Jeanette Scissum, American mathematician known for her work on sunspot prediction
• Charlotte Scott, British mathematician who promoted mathematical education of American women
• Jennifer Scott, British numerical analyst
• Jennifer Seberry, Australian cryptographer, mathematician, and computer scientist, one of the founders of Asiacrypt
• Rose Whelan Sedgewick, first person to earn a PhD in mathematics from Brown University
• Esther Seiden, Polish-Israeli-American mathematical statistician known for her research on design of experiments and combinatorial design
• Annie Selden, American mathematics educator, one of the founders of the Association for Women in Mathematics
• Svetlana Selezneva, Russian expert on discrete functions
• Helaine Selin, American librarian, historian of science, and ethnomathematician
• Marjorie Senechal, American expert on quasicrystals, author on history of science, editor-in-chief of The Mathematical Intelligencer
• Seo Yeongsuhap, Korean poet and mathematician
• Sylvia Serfaty, French expert on superconductivity, winner of the European Mathematical Society Prize
• Vera Serganova, Russian-American researcher on superalgebras and their representations
• Caroline Series, English specialist in hyperbolic geometry, Kleinian groups and dynamical systems
• Lily Serna, Israeli-Australian arithmetical guru of the SBS game show Letters and Numbers
• Brigitte Servatius, Austrian-American expert on matroids and structural rigidity
• Nataša Šešum, expert in geometric flows
• Mamokgethi Setati, first black female South African to earn a PhD in mathematics education
• Jeanette Shakalli, promoter of mathematics in Panama
• Betty Shannon, mathematician and human computer, collaborator with husband Claude Shannon
• Tatyana Shaposhnikova, Russian-Swedish researcher on multipliers in function spaces, partial differential operators, and history of mathematics
• Mei-Chi Shaw, Taiwanese-American researcher on partial differential equations
• Mariya Shcherbina, Ukrainian expert on random matrices
• Amy Shell-Gellasch, American historian of mathematics and book author
• Diana Shelstad, Australian-American mathematician, formulated the fundamental lemma of the Langlands Program
• Irina Shevtsova, Russian probability theorist
• Brooke Shipley, American expert in homotopy theory and homological algebra
• Rebecca Shipley, British applied mathematician and healthcare engineer
• Patricia D. Shure, American mathematics educator and calculus reformer
• Lesley Sibner, American differential geometer and Hodge theorist, produced a constructive proof of the Riemann–Roch theorem
• Martha Siegel, American probability theorist and mathematics educator
• Mary Silber, American expert in bifurcation theory and pattern formation
• Alice Silverberg, American number theorist and cryptographer
• Ruth Silverman, American computational geometer, founder of Association for Women in Mathematics
• Evelyn Silvia, American functional analyst and mathematics educator
• Rodica Simion, Romanian-American pioneer in the study of permutation patterns
• Valeria Simoncini, Italian numerical analyst
• Lao Genevra Simons, American mathematician and historian of mathematics
• Hourya Benis Sinaceur, Moroccan expert in the theory and history of mathematics
• Nathalie Sinclair, Canadian researcher in mathematics education
• Sue Singer, British mathematics educator, president of Girls' Schools Association and Mathematical Association
• Ajit Iqbal Singh , Indian researcher in functional analysis and harmonic analysis
• Sylvia Skan, British applied mathematician known for the Falkner–Skan boundary layer in fluid mechanics
• Jessica Sklar, American mathematician interested in abstract algebra, recreational mathematics, and the popularization of mathematics
• Lucy Joan Slater, British expert on hypergeometric functions and the Rogers–Ramanujan identities
• Angela Slavova, Bulgarian expert on waves and cellular neural networks, chair of SIAM
• Marian Small, Canadian proponent of constructivist mathematical instruction
• Ionica Smeets, Dutch number theorist and science communicator
• Sonja Smets, Belgian and Dutch mathematical logician, works on quantum logic and belief revision
• Clara Eliza Smith, American mathematician specializing in complex analysis
• Daphne L. Smith, first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology
• Karen E. Smith, American specialist in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry, MAA Hedrick Lecturer, AWM-AMS Noether Lecturer
• Kate Smith-Miles, Australian applied mathematician, president of Australian Mathematical Society
• Leslie M. Smith, American applied mathematician and engineering physicist working in turbulence
• Agata Smoktunowicz, Polish-Scottish researcher in abstract algebra, constructed noncommutative nil rings
• Nina Snaith, British researcher in random matrix theory, quantum chaos, and zeta functions
• Vera Šnajder, Bosnian mathematician, first Bosnian to publish in mathematics, first female dean in Yugoslavia
• Priyanshi Somani, Indian mental calculator
• Mary Somerville, Scottish science writer and polymath, one of two first female members of the Royal Astronomical Society
• Christina Sormani, American researcher on Riemannian geometry, metric geometry, and Ricci curvature
• Vera T. Sós, Hungarian number theorist and combinatorialist
• Chris Soteros, Canadian applied mathematician, studies biomolecules and the knot theory of random space curves
• Marilda Sotomayor, Brazilian mathematician, economist, and game theorist
• Laila Soueif, Egyptian mathematics professor and women's rights activist
• Diane Souvaine, American computational geometer, advocate for women and minorities in mathematics and gender neutrality in teaching
• Ayşe Soysal, Turkish mathematician, president of Boğaziçi University
• Angela Spalsbury, American functional analyst and academic administrator
• Birgit Speh, American expert in Lie groups, namesake of Speh representations
• Domina Eberle Spencer, researcher on electrodynamics and field theory, founded fringe science organization Natural Philosophy Alliance
• M. Grazia Speranza, Italian operations researcher, president of EURO and IFORS
• Pauline Sperry, mathematician, musician, and astronomer, unconstitutionally fired from UC Berkeley for refusing to sign a loyalty oath
• Dolores Richard Spikes, African-American mathematician, first female university chancellor and first female president of a university system in the US
• Nicole Spillane, French and Irish applied mathematician
• Vera W. de Spinadel, Argentine-Austrian researcher on metallic means
• Jean Springer, Jamaican-Canadian specialist in abstract algebra and academic administrator
• Bhama Srinivasan, representation theorist, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics
• Hema Srinivasan, Indian-American mathematician specializing in abstract algebra and algebraic geometry
• Kaye Stacey, Australian mathematics educator
• Tanja Stadler, German mathematician, expert in phylogenetics
• Gigliola Staffilani, Italian-American researcher on harmonic analysis and partial differential equations
• Anna Stafford, one of the first postdoctoral researchers at the Institute for Advanced Study
• Helene Stähelin, Swiss mathematician, editor of Bernoulli family letters, and pacifist
• Gwyneth Stallard, British expert on complex dynamics and the iteration of meromorphic functions
• Zvezdelina Stankova, Bulgarian-American expert on permutation patterns, founder of the Berkeley Math Circle
• Nancy K. Stanton, American researcher on complex analysis, partial differential equations, and differential geometry
• Marion Elizabeth Stark, one of the first female American mathematicians to receive a doctorate
• Anastasia Stavrova, Russian expert in algebraic groups, non-associative algebra, and algebraic K-theory
• Jackie Stedall, British historian of mathematics
• Angelika Steger, German-Swiss expert on graph theory, randomized algorithms, and approximation algorithms
• Irene Stegun, American mathematician who edited a classic book of mathematical tables
• Mary Kay Stein, American mathematics educator
• Berit Stensønes, Norwegian mathematician specializing in complex analysis and complex dynamics
• Elizabeth Stephansen, first Norwegian woman to receive a mathematics doctorate
• Edith Stern, child prodigy in mathematics and IBM engineer
• T. Christine Stevens, American researcher on topological groups, history of mathematics, and mathematics education, associate executive director of AMS
• Alice Christine Stickland, British applied mathematician, expert on radio propagation
• Angeline Stickney, American suffragist, abolitionist, and mathematician, namesake of the largest crater on Phobos
• Doris Stockton, American mathematician and textbook author
• Yvonne Stokes, Australian expert on fluid mechanics, mathematical biology, and industrial applications of mathematics
• Anita Straker, British mathematics educator, president of the Mathematical Association
• Dona Strauss, British mathematician, founder of pointless topology and European Women in Mathematics
• Anne Penfold Street, Australian combinatorialist, third woman mathematics professor in Australia
• Ileana Streinu, Romanian-American computational geometer, expert on kinematics and structural rigidity
• Catharina Stroppel, German researcher on representation theory, low-dimensional topology, and category theory
• Marilyn Strutchens, African-American mathematics educator
• Tatjana Stykel, Russian-German expert on numerical linear algebra, control theory, and differential-algebraic equations
• Bella Subbotovskaya, Soviet founder of the Jewish People's University
• Indulata Sukla, Indian researcher on Fourier series, author of textbook on number theory and cryptography
• Catherine Sulem, Algerian-born Canadian mathematician and violinist, expert on singularities in wave propagation
• Nike Sun, American probability theorist studying phase transitions and counting complexity
• Rosamund Sutherland, British mathematics educator
• Louise Nixon Sutton, first African-American woman to earn a mathematics PhD at New York University
• Thyrsa Frazier Svager, African-American mathematician, donated entire salary to support African-American women in mathematics
• Márta Svéd, Hungarian-Australian mathematician, wrote about non-Euclidean geometry
• Marcia P. Sward, executive director of the Mathematical Association of America
• Lorna Swain, British fluid dynamics researcher, early female lecturer at Cambridge
• Irena Swanson, Yugoslav-born American commutative algebraist and mathematical quilter
• Henda Swart, South African geometer and graph theorist, editor-in-chief of Utilitas Mathematica
• Jennifer Switkes, American mathematics educator and volunteer prison mathematics instructor
• Polly Sy, Filipino functional analyst
• Ágnes Szendrei, Hungarian-American expert on universal algebra
• Esther Szekeres, Hungarian-Australian mathematician posed the happy ending problem in discrete geometry
• Wanda Szmielew, Polish logician who proved the decidability of the first-order theory of abelian groups
• Zofia Szmydt, Polish researcher on differential equations, potential theory and distributions

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• Laura Taalman, American mathematician known for work on the mathematics of Sudoku and mathematical 3D printing
• Daina Taimina, Latvian-American mathematician, crochets objects to illustrate hyperbolic space
• Christiane Tammer, German expert in set-valued optimization
• Tan Lei, Chinese-French specialist in complex dynamics and functions of complex numbers
• Betül Tanbay, first female president of the Turkish Mathematical Society
• Rosalind Tanner, English mathematician and a historian of mathematics
• Anne Taormina, Belgian mathematical physicist interested in string theory, moonshine, and the symmetry of virus capsids
• Gabriella Tarantello, Italian mathematician specializing in partial differential equations, differential geometry, and gauge theory
• Éva Tardos, Hungarian-American researcher in combinatorial optimization algorithms
• Olga Taussky-Todd, Austrian and later Czech-American advocate of matrix theory
• Jean Taylor, American mathematician known for her work on soap bubbles and crystals
• Mina Teicher, Israeli algebraic geometer
• Monique Teillaud, French computational geometer
• Montserrat Teixidor i Bigas, Spanish-American expert on moduli of vector bundles on curves
• Keti Tenenblat, Turkish-Brazilian differential geometer
• Katrin Tent, German mathematician, expert in group theory, the symmetries of groups, algebraic model theory, and finite geometry
• M. B. W. Tent, American mathematics educator, mathematical biographer
• Chuu-Lian Terng, Taiwanese-American differential geometer
• Susanna Terracini, Italian mathematician known for her research on chaos in Hamiltonian dynamical systems
• Audrey Terras, American number theorist specializing in quantum chaos and zeta functions
• Donna Testerman, expert in the representation theory of algebraic groups
• Ngamta Thamwattana, Thai-Australian expert in granular materials and nanotechnology
• Theano, one or possibly two different Pythagorean philosophers
• Diana Thomas, American mathematician who studies nutrition and body weight
• Janet Thomas, founder of the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute
• Rekha R. Thomas, American mathematician and operations researcher
• Abigail Thompson, American low-dimensional topologist, educational reformer
• Gillian Thornley, New Zealand differential geometer, first woman president of the New Zealand Mathematical Society
• Heidi Thornquist, American applied mathematician, expert on numerical linear algebra and circuit simulation
• Sister Mary Domitilla Thuener, American mathematician, founder of Thomas More College, Kentucky
• Ene-Margit Tiit, Estonian mathematician and statistician, founding president of Estonian Statistical Society
• Mary Tiles, writer on the philosophy and history of set theory
• Ulrike Tillmann FRS, German-English algebraic topologist
• Sheila Tinney, Irish mathematical physicist, first Irishwoman with a mathematical doctorate
• Maryanne Tipler, New Zealand mathematics textbook author
• Françoise Tisseur, French-English numerical analyst
• Jacqueline Naze Tjøtta, French-Norwegian researcher in kinetics, magnetohydrodynamics and theoretical acoustics
• Renate Tobies, German historian of mathematics
• Susan Tolman, American symplectic geometer
• Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann FRSC, Polish-Canadian geometric functional analyst
• Antoinette Tordesillas, Australian applied mathematician
• Anna-Karin Tornberg, Swedish computational mathematician
• Paula Tretkoff, Australian-American researcher in number theory, noncommutative geometry, and hypergeometric functions
• Christiane Tretter, German expert in spectral theory and differential operators
• Věra Trnková Czech category theorist
• Mary Esther Trueblood, American mathematician, studied with Felix Klein
• Olga Tsuberbiller, Russian analytical geometer and textbook author
• Virginia Tucker, American human computer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
• Laurette Tuckerman, American and French researcher in computational fluid dynamics
• Reidun Twarock, German-born mathematical biologist
• Julianna Tymoczko, American algebraic geometer and algebraic combinatorist
• Regina Tyshkevich, Belarussian graph theorist, co-invented split graphs
• Galina Tyurina, Soviet algebraic geometer

  U

• Olabisi Ugbebor, first female mathematics professor in Nigeria
• Karen Uhlenbeck, American mathematician, MacArthur Fellow, National Medal of Science, Leroy P. Steele Prize, Abel Prize
• Corinna Ulcigrai, Italian researcher on dynamical systems, won European Mathematical Society Prize and Whitehead Prize
• Nina Uraltseva, Russian mathematical physicist, specialist in nonlinear partial differential equations

  V

• Brigitte Vallée, French mathematician and computer scientist, expert in lattice basis reduction algorithms
• Clàudia Valls, Spanish and Portuguese mathematician specializing in dynamical systems
• Pauline van den Driessche, British-Canadian pioneer in combinatorial matrix theory and mathematical biology
• Monica VanDieren, American model theorist and academic administrator
• Maria Eulália Vares, Brazilian expert in stochastic processes
• Dorothy Vaughan, African-American mathematician at NASA
• Mariel Vázquez, Mexican mathematical biologist specializing in DNA topology
• Argelia Velez-Rodriguez, Black Cuban-American differential geometer
• Tatyana Velikanova, Soviet mathematician, computer programmer, dissident, and political prisoner
• Michèle Vergne, French specialist in analysis and representation theory, member of French Academy of Sciences
• Siobhán Vernon, first Irish-born woman to get a PhD in pure mathematics in Ireland
• Luminița Vese, Romanian specialist in image processing
• Katalin Vesztergombi, Hungarian graph theorist and discrete geometer
• Maryna Viazovska, Ukrainian mathematician, solved the sphere packing problems in dimensions 8 and 24
• Eva Viehmann, German arithmetic geometer
• Marie-France Vignéras, French mathematician who proved that one cannot hear the shape of a hyperbolic drum
• Monica Vișan, Romanian expert on the nonlinear Schrödinger equation
• Marie A. Vitulli, American algebraic geometer, union organizer, and proponent for women in mathematics on Wikipedia
• Roxana Vivian, first female mathematics doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania
• Karen Vogtmann, American geometric group theorist, namesake of Culler–Vogtmann outer space
• Margit Voigt, German expert on graph coloring
• Claire Voisin , French expert on Hodge structures and mirror symmetry, member of French Academy of Sciences
• Elisabeth Vreede, Dutch mathematician, astronomer and Anthroposophist

  W

• Michelle L. Wachs, American specialist in algebraic combinatorics
• Aissa Wade, Senegalese symplectic geometer, president of African Institute for Mathematical Sciences
• Grace Wahba, American pioneer in methods for smoothing noisy data, member of National Academy of Sciences
• Nathalie Wahl, Belgian topologist
• Erica N. Walker, American mathematician, studies racial and gender equity in mathematics education
• Muriel Kennett Wales, Irish-Canadian mathematician
• Judy L. Walker, American algebraic coding theorist
• Mary Shore Walker, American mathematician, first woman faculty member at the University of Missouri
• Dorothy Wallace, American number theorist, mathematical biologist, and mathematics educator
• Lynne H. Walling, British number theorist
• Joan E. Walsh, British numerical analyst, founder of the Numerical Algorithms Group
• Marion Walter, German-born mathematician who wrote about using mirrors to explore symmetry
• Chelsea Walton, African-American researcher in noncommutative algebra
• Yusu Wang, Chinese computational geometer and computational topologist
• Wang Zhenyi, Qing dynasty mathematician and astronomer
• Lesley Ward, Australian harmonic and complex analyst
• Rachel Ward, American applied mathematician who researches machine learning and signal processing
• Virginia Warfield, American mathematics educator
• Mary Wynne Warner, British pioneer in fuzzy topology
• Simone Warzel, German mathematical physicist, expert on the many-body problem
• Talitha Washington, American applied mathematician and mathematics educator
• Sarah L. Waters, British expert in fluid mechanics and tissue engineering
• Ann E. Watkins, American statistics educator, president of the Mathematical Association of America
• Anne Watson, British mathematics educator
• Charlotte Watts, British mathematical epidemiologist
• Johanna Weber, German-British mathematician and aerodynamicist, contributed to supersonic aircraft design
• Charlotte Wedell, one of four women at the first International Congress of Mathematicians
• Suzanne Weekes, American mathematician, cofounder of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Undergraduate Program
• Katrin Wehrheim, American symplectic topologist and gauge theorist
• Guofang Wei, Chinese-American differential geometer, found new positively-curved manifolds
• Tilla Weinstein, American differential geometer
• Katrin Wendland, German mathematical physicist, expert on singularities in quantum field theories
• Annette Werner, German expert on diophantine geometry and non-Archimedean algebraic geometry
• Elisabeth M. Werner, researcher on convex geometry, functional analysis, and probability theory
• Eléna Wexler-Kreindler, Romanian-French algebraist
• Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler, American researcher on infinite-dimensional linear algebra
• Mary Wheeler, American expert on domain decomposition methods for partial differential equations
• Sue Whitesides, Canadian mathematician and computer scientist, expert in computational geometry and graph drawing
• Alice S. Whittemore, American group theorist, biostatistician, and epidemiologist who studies the effects of genetics and lifestyle on cancer
• Margaret Wiecek, Polish-American operations researcher, expert on multi-objective optimization
• Sylvia Wiegand, American algebraist, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics
• Anna Wienhard, German differential geometer
• Amie Wilkinson, American researcher in ergodic theory and smooth dynamical systems
• Emily Willbanks, American mathematician who contributed to defense weapons applications and high performance storage
• Karen Willcox, New Zealand applied mathematician, expert on reduced-order modeling and multi-fidelity methods
• Elizabeth Williams, British mathematician and educationist
• Kim Williams, scholar of connections between mathematics and architecture
• Lauren Williams, American expert on cluster algebras and tropical geometry
• Roselyn E. Williams, American mathematician, founder of National Math Alliance
• Ruth J. Williams, American probability theorist, president of Institute of Mathematical Statistics, member of National Academy of Sciences
• Talithia Williams, American statistician and mathematician who researches the spatiotemporal structure of data
• Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Bulgarian-American researcher on graph algorithms and fast matrix multiplication
• Stephanie van Willigenburg, Canadian researcher in algebraic combinatorics and quasisymmetric functions
• Elizabeth Wilmer, American expert on Markov chain mixing times
• Helen Wilson , British expert on non-Newtonian fluids, president of British Society of Rheology
• Ulrica Wilson, African-American mathematician specializing in noncommutative rings and the combinatorics of matrices
• Helen Wily, New Zealand mathematician and statistician
• Sarah Witherspoon, American mathematician interested in abstract algebra
• Barbara Wohlmuth, German expert on the numerical solution of partial differential equations
• Julia Wolf, British mathematician specialising in arithmetic combinatorics
• Gail Wolkowicz, Canadian mathematical biologist known for her work on the competitive exclusion principle
• Maria Wonenburger, Galician-American group theorist, first Spanish Fulbright scholar in mathematics
• Carol Wood, American expert in model-theoretic algebra, president of AWM
• Melanie Wood, first female American to compete in the International Mathematical Olympiad
• Ruth Goulding Wood, American non-Euclidean geometer
• Sarah Woodhead, first woman to pass the Cambridge University mathematical Tripos examination
• Mary Lee Woods, British mathematician and computer programmer
• Carol S. Woodward, American expert in numerical algorithms and software
• Margaret H. Wright, American researcher in optimization, linear algebra, and scientific computing
• Dorothy Maud Wrinch, Argentine-English mathematician and biochemical theorist, expert in protein structure
• Jang-Mei Wu, Taiwanese-American complex analyst
• Sijue Wu, Chinese-American expert in the mathematics of water waves
• Emily Kathryn Wyant, American mathematician, founder of honor society Kappa Mu Epsilon
• Lucy R. Wyatt, British mathematician and oceanographer, studies high frequency radar oceanography and ocean surface waves
• Cynthia Wyels, American mathematician known for her mentorship of Latino students

  X

• Dianna Xu, American mathematician and computer scientist who studies computational problems on curves and surfaces

  Y

• Catherine Yan, Chinese-American mathematician interested in algebraic combinatorics
• Grace Yang, Chinese-American expert on stochastic processes in the physical sciences, asymptotic theory, and survival analysis
• Sofya Yanovskaya, restored mathematical logic research in Soviet Union, edited mathematical works of Karl Marx
• Jane Ye, Chinese-Canadian researcher in variational analysis
• Karen Yeats, Canadian mathematician whose research connects combinatorics to quantum field theory
• Florence Yeldham, British school teacher and historian of arithmetic
• Yiqun Lisa Yin, Chinese-American cryptographer, broke the SHA-1 hash scheme and helped develop the RC6 block cipher
• Anna Irwin Young, charter member of the Mathematical Association of America
• Lai-Sang Young, Hong Kong born dynamical systems theorist
• Mabel Minerva Young, American geometer
• Virginia R. Young, American expert on the mathematics of insurance
• Noriko Yui, Japanese-Canadian researcher on arithmetic geometry, mathematical physics, and mirror symmetry
• Mariette Yvinec, French computational geometer

  Z

• Sara Zahedi, Iranian-Swedish researcher in computational fluid dynamics, former child refugee, and winner of EMS Prize
• Martina Zähle, German stochastic geometer and geometric measure theorist
• Antonella Zanna, Italian-Norwegian numerical analyst
• Thaleia Zariphopoulou, Greek-American expert in mathematical finance
• Claudia Zaslavsky, American mathematics educator and ethnomathematician
• Mary Lou Zeeman, British expert on dynamical systems and their application to mathematical biology
• Sarah Zerbes, German and British algebraic number theorist
• Ping Zhang, graph theorist and textbook author
• Rozetta Zhilina, Soviet expert in computational problems for nuclear weapons
• Tamar Ziegler, Israeli researcher in ergodic theory and arithmetic combinatorics, won Erdős Prize
• Magdolna Zimányi, pioneer of Hungarian computing