Women in Mathematics

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  1. 2. In 2015, she was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Obama for her work as a mathematician (last name)
  2. 4. A Canadian mathematician who became the first female director of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
  3. 5. Known for her role as Amy Fowler on The Big Bang Theory, she has also studied neuroscience in college, and has used her platform to advocate for the involvement of women in STEM (last name)
  4. 7. Known as NASA's "human computer" after overcoming racial and gender discrimination (last name)
  5. 9. She used her education in math to advocate for improved involvement of black women in STEM, spending her career educating middle and high school teachers on advanced math subjects to improve math education in North Carolina (last name)
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  1. 1. Became the first female recipient of the Abel Prize, the highest prize in mathematics, in 2019 (last name)
  2. 3. She was the first woman to win grand prize from the Paris Academy of Sciences for her essay on number theory (last name)
  3. 6. Published her own groundbreaking mathematical theorem establishing the relationship between the law of conservation and symmetry (last name)
  4. 8. The first woman to obtain a doctorate in the field of mathematics (first name)