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Maria Agnesi
Best known for: published the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus. This book was called: Instituzioni analitiche ad uso della gioventù italiana..
Sophie Germain
French mathematician who contributed notably to the study of acoustics, elasticity, and the theory of numbers.
Alicia Stott
Known for coining the term "polytope" for a convex solid in four dimensions.
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Philippa Fawcett
The first woman to obtain the top score in the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos Exam.
Emmy Noether
Best known for being a big contributer to Abstract algebra, Theoretical physics, and Noether's theorem
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Anna Pell-Wheeler
First woman to present a lecture at the American Mathematical Society Colloquium
Cecilia Krieger
First woman to earn a PhD in mathematics in Canada, at the University of Toronto
Doris Schattschneider
First female editor of Mathematics Magazine and became the first woman to present the J. Sutherland Frame Lectures
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Julia Robinson
The first female president of the American Mathematical Society and became the first female mathematician to be awarded a MacArthur Fellowship
Euphemia Haynes
First African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics, which she earned from Catholic University.
Mary Cartwright
Created Cartwright's theorem, which gives an estimate for the maximum modulus of an analytic function that takes the same value no more than p times in the unit disc. and became the first woman to win the De Morgan Medal, the London Mathematical Society's premier award