Who are some famous female mathematicians?
Because of laws and cultural mores that deterred women from pursuing higher education and careers in certain high-level areas, men dominated mathematics into the twentieth century. But still, throughout time, a large number of women have managed to overcome both legal and cultural obstacles to make their marks in the history of mathematics. The list of successful and important women mathematicians spans both the alphabet and the centuries, from Maria Agnesi, who wrote about differential and integral calculus during the eighteenth century, to Lai-Sang Young, who is still expounding on dynamic and chaotic systems in the twenty-first century.
