MATH CROSSWORD PUZZLE (Famous women Mathematicians)

4. Herschel, She didn't receive much formal schooling so later in life when she was calculating astronomical data she used a cheat sheet of multiplication tables.
6. Nightingale, her knowledge of mathematics became evident when she used her collected data to calculate the mortality rate in the hospital.
8. Agnesi, she was an Italian mathematician who was the first woman to write a mathematics handbook and the first woman to be a mathematics professor at a university.
9. Lovelace, She is considered the first computer programmer even though the computer was never built she realized that the computer could follow a series of simple instructions to perform a complex calculation.

1. Germain, She is best known for her work in number theory, but her work in the theory of elasticity is also very important to mathematics.
2. Browne, Mathematician and educator who became the third African American woman to earn a PhD in her field.
3. She was trained to be a mathematician by her dad and took his place as the leading mathematician of Alexandria.
5. Kovalevskaya, She was the first major Russian female mathematician, responsible for important original contributions to analysis, differential equations and mechanics
7. Noether, German mathematician who found out alot about both algebra and physics.
8. Somerville, She began solving math problems posed by a mathematics journal and won a medal for a solution she submitted.