Welcome to the web site for biographies of women in mathematics. These pages are part of an on-going project at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, Georgia, to illustrate the numerous achievements of women in the field of mathematics. Here you can find biographical essays or comments on the women mathematicians profiled on this site, as well as additional resources about women in mathematics. Each time this page is reloaded, a randomly selected photo is displayed to the left (if Javascript is enabled). Click on the image to go to the profile of that woman.

We also welcome contributions of biographical information or essays from those outside Agnes Scott College. If you are interested in contributing an essay, please send your contribution to the email address below. Comments, suggestions, or corrections can also be sent to this address.

• Names in Alphabetical Order
• Names in Chronological Order
• Names by Location of Birth (including a Google Map view)
• Other Resources about Women Mathematicians
• The First Ph.D's in Mathematics by Women before 1930
• Prizes, Awards and Honors for Women Mathematicians
• Birth and Death Anniversaries
• Photo Credits
• Search the site

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Did you know? (Archive)

• The Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University will present a Program for Women and Mathematics on 21st-Century Geometry from May 14 to May 25, 2012. The program will bring together research mathematicians and women undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral scholars for an intensive workshop held on the campus of the Institute for Advanced Study. For an application (due Feb. 20, 2012) and more information, go to www.math.ias.edu/wam.
   
• The 14th Annual Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics will be held January 27-29, 2012. This is a national showcase for research of undergraduate women in the mathematical sciences. Plenary speakers will be Sara Billey from the University of Washington and Ingrid Daubechies from Duke University. The conference will also include talks and posters by undergraduate women and panel discussions on careers using mathematics and choosing a mathematics graduate program. Registration opens October 10. For more information, visit the conference website.

• Rebecca Burks, Christina Chen, Sarah Herrmann, Elaine Hou, Julia Huang, Danielle Wang, Tiffany Wu and Victoria Xia, members of the United States team at the 2011 China Girls Math Olympiad, all won medals at the competition held July 28 - August 3 in Shenzhen, China. Wang and Xia each won gold medals, while a silver medal was awarded to Huang. The remaining team members each won bronze medals. The tenth annual Olympiad drew 192 girls from countries such as Japan, Russia, the United States, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, and China. For more information and an online travelogue from the team members, visit the website of one of the team's sponsors, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), or read the MSRI press release.
   
• Shijie (Joy) Zheng, a member of the class of 2011 at Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH, is the only girl among the twelve winners of the 40th U.S.A. Mathematical Olympiad. The USAMO is a six-question, two-day, nine-hour essay/proof examination with problems requiring pre-calculus methods to be solved. Joy also won the The Wendy Ravech-Akamai Mathematics Scholar Award, presented for the first time at the Mathematical Olympiad Awards Ceremony that took place on June 6 at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C. She received a gold medal for the U.S. team at the 2010 China Girls Mathematics Olympiad. For information about the USAMO winners, see the press release from the Mathematical Association of America.
   
• Legacy of Light is an award winning play by playwright Karen Zacarias that features Emilie du Châtelet as one of the characters. The play intertwines the stories of Châtelet and Voltaire with that of a modern day couple where the wife, an astrophysicist, is struggling to balance a yearning for science with the emotional pull towards having a child. Parts of the play describe Chatelet's mathematical interests. Look for a production at a local playhouse.

AWM Biographies Contest

To increase awareness of women's ongoing contributions to the mathematical sciences, the Association for Women in Mathematics sponsors an essay contest for biographies of contemporary women mathematicians and statisticians in academic, industrial, and government careers. This contest is open to students in the following categories: Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12, and College Undergraduate. At least one winning submission will be chosen from each category. Winners will receive a prize, and their essays will be published online at the AWM website. Additionally, a grand prize winner will have his or her submission published in the AWM Newsletter. For more information and to see the results of past Essay Contests, go to http://www.awm-math.org/biographies/contest.html.

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