"That brain of mine is something more than merely Mortal...I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature...
Owning to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have perceptions of some things, which no one else has...and intuitive perception of...things hidden from eyes, ears and ordinary senses...."
Ada : a life and a legacy by Dorothy Stein (1985)
Achievement: Italian mathematician and philosopher, considered to be the first woman in the Western world to be recognized as a mathematician.
The World of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Mathematician of God by Achievement: First African American woman to earn a master’s degree in mathematics from Vanderbilt University.
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Achievement: Belgian physicist and mathematician; first woman to receive the National Academy of Sciences Award in Mathematics (2000)
Ten Lectures on Wavelets by Achievement: Published Institutions de Physique ("Foundations of Physics"; 1740) as well as a French translation of Isaac Newton’s Principia (1759), which is still in use today.
Seduced by logic : Émilie du Châtelet, Mary Somerville, and the Newtonian revolution by Achievement: French mathematician who contributed notably to the study of acoustics, elasticity, and the theory of numbers.
Achievement: Best known for using her mechanical calculating machine to perform the same trajectory calculations for John Glenn's Friendship 7 mission as NASA's new computer system.
Achievement: One of the first African-American women to gain degrees in chemistry and mathematics (B.S.in 1927; MS. in physical chemistry in 1931; Ph.D. in mathematics education in 1955).
Achievement: Russian-born mathematician who made valuable contributions to the theory of differential equations.
Little Sparrow: A Portrait of Sophia Kovalevsky by Achievement: Daughter of poet Lord Byron; called "the first computer programmer" for writing an algorithm for a computing machine in the mid-1800s.
Ada Lovelace : the making of a computer scientist by Achievement: In 2014, became the first woman to win the Fields Medal - the International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics - the most prestigious award in mathematics.
Achievement: Best known for her contributions to abstract algebra, in particular, her study of chain conditions on ideals of rings.
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Achievement: American mathematician; one of the "human computers" who worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). Became the first black supervisor at NACA in 1949.
Achievement: Daughter of mathematician Laurence Chisholm Young and grand-daughter of mathematicians Grace Chisholm Young and William Henry Young. Served as editor for Communications in Algebra and the Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics.
Achievement: Became the first woman to receive a doctorate in any field in Germany. Her early writings were published under the name of her husband, William Henry Young.
Change is possible : stories of women and minorities in mathematics by 
Women in mathematics : the addition of difference by 
