AbrahamA Adolf Fraenkel EnriquetaB González Baz

* 1891-1965, German-born Israeli Jewish male * 1915-2002, Mexican female * First Dean of Mathematics at the Hebrew * Founded the Mexican Mathematical Society University of Jerusalem * First woman to earn a mathematics degree in * Awarded Israel Prize for exact sciences (1956) Mexico (National Autonomous Univ. of Mexico) * Known for work in Set Theory * Translated Topology by Solomon Lefschetz's C D Chris Matthews Dorothy Vaughan * ?-Present, Aboriginal (Quandamooka) male * 1910-2010, African American female * Chair of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Math * Human computer for NASA, first African Alliance (ATSIMA) American to supervise computers at NASA * Developed method of teaching math through * Taught herself and her staff FORTRAN dance and stories to relate to Aboriginal students (programming language) to help in the Space * Earned PhD in applied math from Griffith University Race against Russia E F Elbert Frank Cox Fan Chung * 1895-1969, African American male * 1949-Present, Taiwanese-American female * First black person in the world to receive a PhD * Known for work on spectral graph theory, in Mathematics (from Cornell in 1925) extremal graphs, and random graphs * Studied Euler polynomials, Boole summation * First female tenured professor at the University * Taught for most of his career at Howard of Pennsylvania University (Washington D.C.) * Led the Mathematics division at Bell Labs G H Graciela Salicrup Grace Hopper * 1935-1982, Mexican female * 1906-1992, Caucasian American female * Known for her work in categorical topology * Computer scientist and US Navy Rear Admiral * Parents thought her interest in math indicated a * Earned PhD in Math from Yale mental problem, sent her to a psychiatrist * Invented first computer compiler * Published work in Spanish, so her mathematical * Coined the term “debugging” contributions not recognized until after death * Awarded Presidential Medal of Honor in 2016 I J Izabella Łaba Jama Musse Jama * 1966-Present, Polish-Canadian female * Earned PhD in math from Univ. of Toronto * 1967-Present, Somali male * Professor of math at Univ. of British Columbia * Ethnomathematician known for research about * Co-founded the Online Journal of Analytic traditional Somali board games Combinatorics * Earned PhD in computational linguistics from * Winner of Coxeter–James Prize (2004) and Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale" Krieger–Nelson Prize (2008) * Activist for Somali education and Somali diaspora SofiaK Kovalevskaya L Ada Lovelace * 1850-1891, Russian lesbian female * First woman to obtain doctorate in math * 1815-1852, English female * First woman appointed full professor in * Published first algorithm (program) to be run by Northern Europe the Analytical Engine (first computer) * Contracted a fake marriage so she could be * Countess who called herself a “poetical scientist” allowed to pursue advanced studies (needed * Tutored in mathematics by Mary Somerville father’s or husband’s permission at the time) M Maryam Mirzakhani N * 1977-2017, Iranian female Ngô Bảo Châu * Only woman to win Fields Medal (highest math prize) * 1972-Present, Vietnamese-French male * First female Iranian to earn gold medal in * First Vietnamese national to receive the Fields International Mathematical Olympiad in Hong Kong Medal (highest math prize) in 2010 * Made many original contributions to geometry and * Proved the Fundamental Lemma for unitary and dynamical systems generally reproductive groups * Professor at Princeton and Stanford Univ. O P Hee Oh Sophie Piccard * 1969-Present, South Korean female * 1904-1990, Russian-Swiss female * Earned PhD from Yale, bachelors from Seoul * First female full professor in Switzerland National University * Founded and directed the Center of Pure * First female tenured professor at Yale Mathematics * Known for work in dynamical systems * Published over 100 mathematical articles into her eighties Q R Al-Qalasadi Richard Tapia * 1412-1486, Spanish Muslim male * 1938-Present, Chicano * Known for introduction of algebraic symbolism * National Medal of Science winner (2011) * Studied mathematics under local Berber scholars * Named “University Professor” at Rice University * When The Catholic Monarchs raided his home of * Earned PhD from UCLA Baza, he fled to Tunisia with his family * First Hispanic elected to National Academy of Engineering S T Scott Duane Alan Turing * ?-Present, American transgender male * 1912-1954, English gay male * Earned PhD from UC San Diego * Considered to be father of theoretical computer * Fired from IXL Learning after complaining about science and artificial intelligence discrimination * Leader in decrypting Enigma code messages in * Founder of “Visible Bodies: Transgender World War II Narratives Retold” (transgender community art * Designed first computer chess program in 1953 initiative) U VictorV Neumann-Lara John Urschel * 1991-Present, Canadian-American Black male * 1933-2004, Mexican male * Baltimore Ravens guard ‘14-’16 (started 13 games) * Pioneer in the field of graph theory in Mexico * Doctoral candidate in Math at MIT, Bachelors and * Taught over 100 math courses Masters in Math from Penn State University * Earned bachelor's from UNAM and became a * 2017: Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list in science professor and senior researcher there * Co-host of ChessTV's Urschel Learns Chess W Wu Wen-tsün * 1919-2017, Chinese male * Graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University X Hoàng Xuân Sính and earned PhD from University of Strasbourg * Discovered the Wu class and Wu formula in * 1906-1992, Vietnamese female algebraic topology * First female mathematician and first female full * In 1966, sent to work in a factory manufacturing professor in Vietnam computers when Communist Party of China sent * Founder of Thang Long University (first private intellectuals to manual jobs - led Wu to create new university in Vietnam) way of studying geometry on computer * Earned doctorate from Paris Diderot University GraceY Chisholm Young ZAhmad Zainy al-Yasry * 1868-1944, English female * ?-Present, Iraqi male * First woman to receive doctorate in Germany * Specializes in noncommutative geometry * Early publications made under name of her * Survived assassination attempt in Baghdad husband (William Henry Young) * Earned PhD from University of Bonn and Max * Awarded Gamble Prize for Mathematics (1915) Planck Institute for Mathematics for her work in calculus * Winner of Excellence Award for the top Iraqi Universities Graduates in Math (2001)