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Published Propositiones Philosophicae, wanted women's education
Agnesi
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Revolutionized ancient geometry and integral calculus, invented simple machines
Archimedes
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Invented an algebra which bears his name
George Boole
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Anticipated much of modern computing
Ada Byron (Lady Lovelace)
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Famous French mathematician, scientist, and philosopher
Rene Descartes
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"Father of Algebra," Arithmetica developed # theory
Diophantus
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Calculated Earth-related measurements, prime numbers
Erastosthenes
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Father of Geometry, wrote The Elements
Euclid
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Lots of fields, modern math technology like mathematic function
Leonard Euler
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Battled prejudices to become mathematician, number theory and elasticity
Sophie Germain
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First woman math contributor, killed by Christian sect
Hypatia
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Logarithms, mneumonic for triangles and formulas
John Napier
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Greek astronomer, geocentric theory
Claudius Ptolemy
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British, diagrams named after him
John Venn
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Wife of Pythagorus, Golden Mean
Theano
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4-D polytopes
Alicia Stott
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Apgebraeic geometry and commutative algebra (University of Michigan)
Karen E. Smith
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Semilinear hyperbolic systems
Freda Porter
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Abstract algebra: rings, groups, and fields
Emmy Noether
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First female math professor, first Nigerian woman with PhD
Grace Alele Williams
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Theory of differential equations
Sonya Kovalevsky
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