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- 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.
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- 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.