List of women in mathematics

# List of women in mathematics

## Abstract

This is a list of women who have made noteworthy contributions to or achievements in mathematics. These include mathematical research, mathematics education, the history and philosophy of mathematics, public outreach, and mathematics contests.

## A

- Karen Aardal (born 1961), Norwegian and Dutch applied mathematician, theoretical computer scientist, and operations researcher

- Hanan Mohamed Abdelrahman, Egyptian and Norwegian mathematics educator

- Izabela Abramowicz (1889–1973), Polish mathematician and mathematics educator

- Louise Doris Adams (1889–1965), British mathematics reformer, president of the Mathematical Association

- Rachel Blodgett Adams (1894–1982), American mathematician, one of the earliest mathematics doctorates from Radcliffe College

- Tatyana Afanasyeva (1876–1964), Russian-Dutch researcher in statistical mechanics, randomness, and geometry education

- Amandine Aftalion (born 1973), French applied mathematician, studies superfluids and the mathematics of footracing

- Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718–1799), Italian mathematician and philosopher, possibly the first female mathematics professor

- Ilka Agricola (born 1973), German expert on differential geometry and its applications in mathematical physics

- Nkechi Agwu (born 1962), African American ethnomathematician

- Dorit Aharonov (born 1970), Israeli specialist in quantum computing

- Beatrice Aitchison (1908–1997), American topologist who became a transportation economist in the US civil service

- Noreen Sher Akbar, Pakistani fluid dynamicist

- Shabnam Akhtari, Iranian number theorist

- Asuman Aksoy, Turkish-American functional analyst

- Meike Akveld, Swiss knot theorist and mathematics educator

- Fatiha Alabau (born 1961), French expert in control of partial differential equations, president of French applied mathematics society

- Mara Alagic, Serbian mathematics educator, editor-in-chief of Journal of Mathematics and the Arts

- Lara Alcock, British mathematics educator and author

- Helen Popova Alderson (1924–1972), Russian and British mathematician and translator, wrote on quasigroups and reciprocity laws

- Grace Alele-Williams (1932–2022), first woman to lead a Nigerian university

- Aldona Aleškevičienė-Statulevičienė (1936–2017), Lithuanian probability theorist

- Stephanie B. Alexander, American differential geometer

- Florence Eliza Allen (1876–1960), second female and fourth overall mathematics PhD from the University of Wisconsin

- Linda J. S. Allen, American mathematician and mathematical biologist

- Elizabeth S. Allman (born 1965), American mathematical biologist

- Ann S. Almgren, American applied mathematician who works on computational simulations of supernovae and white dwarfs

- Melania Alvarez, Mexican-Canadian mathematics educator, organizer of summer mathematics camps for indigenous students

- Yvette Amice (1936–1993), French expert on p-adic analysis who became president of the French mathematical society

- Divsha Amirà (1899–1966), Israeli geometer and mathematics educator

- T. A. Sarasvati Amma (1918–2000), Historian of ancient Indian mathematics

- Astrid an Huef, New Zealand expert on functional analysis, president of New Zealand Mathematical Society

- Nalini Anantharaman (born 1976), French mathematical physicist, winner of the Henri Poincaré Prize

- Beverly Anderson (born 1943), American mathematician, director of minority programs for Mathematical Sciences Education Board

- Kirsti Andersen (born 1941), Danish historian of mathematics

- Cabiria Andreian Cazacu (1928–2018), Romanian complex analyst

- Hajnal Andréka (born 1947), Hungarian researcher in algebraic logic

- Annie Dale Biddle Andrews (1885–1940), algebraic geometer, first female PhD from the University of California, Berkeley

- Grace Andrews (mathematician) (1869–1951), one of only two women listed in the first edition of American Men of Science

- Lidia Angeleri Hügel (born 1960), Italian expert on tilting theory and silting theory

- Guacolda Antoine Lazzerini (1908–2015), Chilean mathematician and mathematics educator

- Kathleen Antonelli (1921–2006), Irish-American programmer of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer

- Paola Antonietti (born 1980), Italian numerical analyst, applies domain decomposition methods to geophysical simulation

- Noriko H. Arai (born 1962), Japanese mathematical logician and artificial intelligence researcher

- Crista Arangala, American numerical analyst, textbook author, and international educator

- Carolina Araujo, Brazilian algebraic geometer

- Gabriela Araujo-Pardo, Mexican graph theorist, president of Mexican Mathematical Society

- Maria Angela Ardinghelli (1730–1825), Italian translator of Stephen Hales, mathematician, physicist and noble

- Esther Arkin, Israeli-American researcher in operations research and computational geometry

- Sandra Arlinghaus, founder of the Institute of Mathematical Geography

- Beulah Armstrong (1895–1965), American mathematician, University of Illinois

- Marie-Claude Arnaud, French expert in dynamical systems

- Mary Nicholas Arnoldy (1893–1985), American nun and mathematician

- Fuensanta Aroca, Spanish-Mexican tropical geometer

- Elayne Arrington, American aerospace engineer, expert on Soviet aircraft

- Sharon Arroyo, American operations researcher in aircraft manufacture

- Michèle Artigue (born 1946), French expert in mathematics education

- Natascha Artin Brunswick (1909–2003), German-American mathematician, photographer, and journal editor

- Shiri Artstein (born 1978), Israeli mathematician specializing in convex geometry and asymptotic geometric analysis

- Marcia Ascher (1935–2013), American ethnomathematician

- Winifred Asprey (1917–2007), helped establish the first computer science lab at Vassar

- Michèle Audin (born 1954), French researcher in symplectic geometry

- Bonnie Averbach (1933–2019), American mathematics and actuarial educator and author

- Tamara Awerbuch-Friedlander (died 2021), American biomathematician and public health scientist

- Hertha Ayrton (1854–1923), English engineer, mathematician, physicist, and inventor, winner of the Hughes Medal

## B

- Ellen Baake (born 1961), German mathematical biologist

- Wealthy Babcock (1895–1990), American mathematician, namesake of Kansas University mathematics library

- Christine Bachoc (born 1964), French expert on coding theory and kissing numbers

- Clara Latimer Bacon (1866–1948), first woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics from Johns Hopkins University

- Jenny Baglivo (born 1948), American mathematician, statistician, and book author

- Hajer Bahouri (born 1958), Franco-Tunisian mathematician interested in partial differential equations

- Ann E. Bailie (born 1935), American mathematician and space scientist, discovered that the earth is pear-shaped

- Frances Ellen Baker (1902–1995), American mathematician and number theorist

- Kitty Baker (1912–2014), American mathematics educator, artist and weaver, and author

- Rose Baker, British physicist, mathematician, and statistician

- Ruth Baker, British mathematical biologist interested in pattern formation and morphogenesis

- Rena Bakhshi (born 1981), Dutch complex network theorist

- Viviane Baladi (born 1963), Swiss-French expert on dynamical systems

- Jennifer Balakrishnan, American number theorist who solved the "cursed curve"

- Deborah Loewenberg Ball, American mathematics education researcher

- Cristina Ballantine, Romanian-born American algebraic combinatorist and number theorist

- Catherine Bandle (born 1943), Swiss expert on differential equations and isoperimetric inequalities

- Selenne Bañuelos (born 1985), Mexican-American mathematician and mathematical biologist

- Hélène Barcelo (born 1954), mathematician from Québec, former editor-in-chief of Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A

- Grace Marie Bareis (1875–1962), American group theorist, first mathematics Ph.D. at Ohio State, and founding member of the MAA

- Nina Bari (1901–1961), Soviet mathematician known for her work on trigonometric series

- Ruth Aaronson Bari (1917–2005), American mathematician known for her work in graph theory and homomorphisms

- Mildred Barnard (1908–2000), Australian biometrician, mathematician and statistician

- Janet Barnett, American mathematician known for integrating the history of mathematics into her teaching

- Ida Barney (1886–1982), American mathematics professor and astronomer

- Charlotte Barnum (1860–1934), mathematician and social activist, first female mathematics PhD from Yale

- Margaret Baron (1915–1996), British mathematics educator and historian of mathematics

- Lida Barrett (1927–2021), second female president of the MAA

- June Barrow-Green (born 1953), British historian of mathematics

- Jean Bartik (1924–2011), one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer

- Martha Helen Barton (1891–1971), American mathematician and professor

- Estelle Basor (born 1947), American mathematician interested in operator theory and the theory of random matrices

- Marjorie Batchelor, American mathematician known for Batchelor's theorem on supermanifolds

- Grace Bates (1914–1996), one of few women in the United States to be granted a PhD in mathematics in the 1940s

- Lynn Batten (born 1948), Canadian immigrant to Australia, researcher in finite geometries and cryptography

- Helga Baum (born 1954), German differential geometer

- Patricia E. Bauman, studies the mathematics of liquid crystals and superconductors

- Karin Baur, Swiss combinatorial representation theorist

- Agnes Sime Baxter (1870–1917), second Canadian and fourth North American woman to earn a mathematics PhD

- Margaret Bayer, American mathematician working in polyhedral combinatorics

- Pilar Bayer (born 1946), Spanish number theorist

- Eva Bayer-Fluckiger (born 1951), Hungarian-Swiss mathematician, proved Serre's conjecture on Galois cohomology of classical groups

- Jillian Beardwood (1934–2019), British mathematician, contributed to the traveling salesperson problem

- Karine Beauchard (born 1978), French control theorist

- Agnès Beaudry, Canadian-American stable homotopy theorist

- Miriam Becker (1909–2000), American mathematician whose career became a test case for unionization and academic tenure

- Astrid Beckmann (born 1957), German mathematician, mathematics educator, physicist, and academic administrator

- May Beenken (1901–1988), American mathematician

- Janet Beery, American mathematician and historian of mathematics

- Mary Beisiegel, American mathematics educator

- Marion Beiter (1907–1982), American mathematician, expert on cyclotomic polynomials

- sarah-marie belcastro, American algebraic geometer, editor of books on mathematics and fiber arts

- Hélène Bellosta (1946–2011), French historian of mathematics in medieval Islam

- Alexandra Bellow (born 1935), Romanian researcher in ergodic theory, probability and analysis

- Margherita Piazzola Beloch (1879–1976), Italian researcher in algebraic geometry, algebraic topology and photogrammetry

- Amel Ben Abda, Tunisian applied mathematician

- Suzan Rose Benedict (1873–1942), first woman to earn a PhD from the University of Michigan

- Georgia Benkart (1947–2022), American mathematician, expert on Lie algebras

- Alona Ben-Tal, Israeli and New Zealand applied mathematician, models human and bird breathing

- Deborah J. Bennett (born 1950), American mathematics educator and popular mathematics book author

- Sylvie Benzoni (born 1967), French expert in fluid dynamics and partial differential equations, director of the Institut Henri Poincaré

- Bonnie Berger, American mathematician and computer scientist, researcher in computational molecular biology

- Marsha Berger (born 1953), American researcher in numerical analysis, computational fluid dynamics, and parallel computing

- Tanja Bergkvist (born 1974), Swedish mathematician and anti-feminist activist

- Julie Bergner, American expert on algebraic topology, homotopy theory, and higher category theory

- Nicole Berline (born 1944), French researcher on index theory of elliptic differential operators

- Natalia Berloff, professor of applied mathematics at the University of Cambridge

- Leah Berman (born 1976), American discrete geometer

- Christine Bernardi (1955–2018), French expert on numerical analysis of partial differential equations

- Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (1914–1988), applied mathematician, first female president of the MAA

- Inga Berre (born 1978), Norwegian applied mathematician, models porous media and geothermal systems

- Valérie Berthé (born 1968), French researcher in symbolic dynamics, combinatorics on words, and discrete geometry

- Andrea Bertozzi (born 1965), American researcher in partial differential equations, studies mathematics of urban crime

- Nadine Bezuk, American mathematics educator, president and executive director of Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators

- Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak (1938–2009), professor of combinatorics and head of mathematics at the University of Mumbai

- Ushadevi Bhosle (born 1949), Indian expert on vector bundles

- Francesca Biagini (born 1973), Italian-German probability theorist and financial mathematician

- Ginestra Bianconi, Italian network scientist

- Lydia Bieri (born 1972), Swiss-American expert on general relativity, gravity waves, and the history of cosmology

- Anna Maria Bigatti, Italian algebraist, developer of CoCoA

- Miggy Biller, British mathematician and mathematics educator

- Sara Billey (born 1968), American algebraic combinatorialist

- Katalin Bimbó (born 1963), Canadian mathematical logician and proof theorist

- Christina Birkenhake (born 1961), German algebraic geometer

- Joan Birman (born 1927), American braid and knot theorist

- Laure Blanc-Féraud (born 1963), French applied mathematician and image processing researcher

- Gertrude Blanch (1897–1996), American numerical analyst

- Roswitha Blind, German convex geometer and politician

- Karen M. Bliss, American applied mathematician specializing in biomedical applications and materials science

- Lenore Blum (born 1942), distinguished professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University

- Jo Boaler (born 1964), British-American promoter of mathematics education reform and equitable mathematics classrooms

- Mary L. Boas (1917–2010), author of Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences

- Christine Böckmann (born 1955), German numerical analyst, expert in atmospheric lidar

- Graciela Boente, Argentine mathematical statistician known for her research in robust statistics

- Neda Bokan (born 1947), Serbian differential geometer

- Natashia Boland (born 1967), Australian mathematician and operations researcher

- Sylvie Boldo, French expert in formal verification of numerical computation

- Aline Bonami, French mathematical analyst, president of the Société mathématique de France

- Petra Bonfert-Taylor, German-American complex analyst and engineering educator

- Virginie Bonnaillie-Noël (born 1976), French numerical analyst

- Alicia Boole Stott (1860–1940), Irish-English four-dimensional geometer

- Mary Everest Boole (1832–1916), self-taught author of didactic works on mathematics

- Kathleen Booth (1922–2022), British mathematician and pioneer of assembly language computer programming

- Liliana Borcea, Romanian-American applied mathematician, expert on wave propagation

- Valentina Borok (1931–2004), Soviet Ukrainian mathematician who studied partial differential equations

- Celia Grillo Borromeo (1684–1777), Genovese mathematician and scientist, discovered Clélie curve

- Liouba Bortniker (1860 – after 1903), Russian-French mathematician, first woman agrégée in mathematics, first winner of Peccot prize

- Fernanda Botelho (born 1957), Portuguese-American functional analyst

- Julia Böttcher, German graph theorist

- Mary Michel Boulus (1926–2012), American Catholic nun, mathematics teacher, and college president

- Anne Bourlioux, Canadian expert in turbulent combustion and world record holder in indoor rowing

- Élisabeth Bouscaren (born 1956), French mathematician who studies the connections between algebraic geometry and model theory

- Mireille Bousquet-Mélou (born 1967), French combinatorialist

- Anne Boutet de Monvel (born 1948), French applied mathematician and mathematical physicist

- Debra Boutin, American mathematician, expert on the symmetries of graphs

- Sylvia Bozeman (born 1947), African-American mathematician and academic administrator

- Lis Brack-Bernsen (born 1946), Danish and Swiss mathematician, historian of science, and historian of mathematics

- Mary Bradburn (1923–2000), British mathematics educator, president of the Mathematical Association

- Elizabeth Bradley (born 1961), American expert in nonlinear dynamical systems, competed in 1988 Olympics

- Lillian K. Bradley (1921–1995), first African-American woman to earn a doctorate in any subject at the University of Texas

- Dorothy Brady (1903–1977), American mathematician and economist

- Priscilla Braislin (1838–1888), first professor of mathematics at Vassar College

- Leila Bram (1927–1979), head of mathematics for Office of Naval Research

- Leticia Brambila Paz (born 1953), Mexican algebraic geometer

- Bodil Branner (born 1943), founder of European Women in Mathematics, chair of the Danish Mathematical Society

- Hel Braun (1914–1986), German number theorist

- Elena Braverman, Russian, Israeli, and Canadian researcher in delay differential equations and difference equations

- Loretta Braxton (1934–2019), American mathematician

- Marilyn Breen (born 1944), American geometer

- Tara E. Brendle, American low-dimensional topologist and combinatorial group theorist

- Susanne Brenner, expert in the numerical solution of differential equations

- Sonja Brentjes (born 1951), German historian of Islamic mathematics and cartography

- Diane Briars (born 1951), American mathematics educator, advocate for education reform, president of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

- Kathrin Bringmann (born 1977), German number theorist, expert on mock theta functions, winner of SASTRA Ramanujan Prize

- Ruth Britto, American mathematical physicist

- Jill Britton (1944–2016), Canadian mathematics educator, author of educational books on mathematics

- Bárbara M. Brizuela, American researcher on mathematics education in early childhood and elementary school

- Anne Broadbent, Canadian researcher on quantum computing, quantum cryptography, and quantum information

- Tamara Broderick, American mathematician and computer scientist who works in machine learning and Bayesian inference

- Lia Bronsard (born 1963), Canadian expert on interface dynamics, president of Canadian Mathematical Society

- Margaret Brown, British mathematics educator

- Susan Brown (1937–2017), English fluid mechanics researcher, possibly second female mathematics professor in UK

- Marjorie Lee Browne (1914–1979), one of the first African-American women to receive a doctorate in mathematics

- Laurence Broze (born 1960), Belgian applied mathematician, statistician, and economist, president of l'association femmes et mathématiques

- Karen Brucks (1957–2017), American mathematician, expert on one-dimensional dynamical systems

- Maria Bruna (born 1984), Spanish applied mathematician known for stochastic modelling of multiscale phenomena

- Sophie Bryant (1850–1922), Anglo-Irish mathematician, educator, feminist and activist

- Ranee Brylinski (born 1957), American mathematician known for her research in representation theory and quantum logic gates

- Evelyn Buckwar, German-Austrian expert on stochastic differential equations

- Alina Bucur, American analytic number theorist and arithmetic statistician

- Lilya Budaghyan, Armenian-Norwegian cryptographer

- Annalisa Buffa (born 1973), Italian specialist in numerical analysis for partial differential equations

- Marta Bunge (1938–2022), Argentine-Canadian category theorist

- Angelika Bunse-Gerstner (born 1951), German expert on numerical linear algebra

- Regina S. Burachik, Argentine-Australian researcher in convex analysis, functional analysis and non-smooth analysis

- Almut Burchard, German-Canadian functional analyst, probability theorist, and communication network analyst

- Marilyn Burns (born 1941), American mathematics educator and author of children's books on mathematics

- Ellen Burrell (1850–1938), American mathematician

- Gail F. Burrill, American mathematics educator, president of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

- Leone Burton (1936–2007), British researcher in ethnomathematics, founded book series on women in mathematics

- Edith Bush (1882–1977), American mathematician, first female engineering professor at Tufts University

- Ida Busbridge (1908–1988), studied integral equations and radiative transfer, first female mathematics fellow at Oxford

- Marjorie V. Butcher (1925–2016), American actuarial mathematician, first woman mathematics instructor at Michigan, first woman professor at Trinity College Connecticut

- Lynne Butler (born 1955), American combinatorialist and mathematical statistician

- Margaret K. Butler (1924–2013), computer programmer, director of the National Energy Software Center at Argonne

- Helen Byrne, British applied mathematician and mathematical biologist

## C

- María Emilia Caballero, Mexican probability theorist

- Angelina Cabras (1898–1993), Italian mathematician, physicist, and theoretical mechanics professor

- Fioralba Cakoni, Albanian expert on inverse scattering theory

- Maria-Carme Calderer, Spanish-American researcher in applied mathematics

- Nora Calderwood (1896–1985), Scottish mathematician, namesake of Birmingham University's Calderwood Prize

- Helen Calkins (1893–1970), American mathematician and professor

- Daniela Calvetti, Italian-American mathematician whose work connects Bayesian statistics with numerical analysis

- Erika Tatiana Camacho (born 1974), Mexican-American mathematical biologist

- Lucy Campbell, geophysical fluid dynamics researcher from Barbados, Jamaica, Ghana, and Canada

- Sue Ann Campbell, Canadian applied mathematician and computational neuroscientist, president of Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematical Society

- Jessie Forbes Cameron (1883–1968), British mathematician, first woman to complete her PhD in mathematics at the University of Marburg

- Naiomi Cameron, American combinatorist, vice president of National Association of Mathematicians

- Patricia Campbell, American mathematics educator

- María Antònia Canals (1930–2022), Spanish mathematics educator and recreational mathematician

- Sunčica Čanić, Croatian-American expert in modeling the cardiovascular system and devices for treating it

- Ana Cannas da Silva (born 1968), Portuguese mathematician specializing in symplectic geometry and geometric topology

- Barbara Canright (1920–1997), American human computer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory

- Yaiza Canzani, Spanish and Uruguayan mathematical analysis, known for work in spectral geometry and microlocal analysis

- Mireille Capitaine, French researcher on random matrices and free probability theory

- Lucia Caporaso, Italian algebraic geometer

- Marian Palmer Capps (1901–2001), American mathematician and leader of prominent African-American women's societies

- Ana Caraiani, Romanian-American IMO medalist, Putnam fellow, expert in algebraic number theory and the Langlands program

- Olivia Caramello (born 1984), Italian topos theorist

- Alessandra Carbone, Italian mathematician and computer scientist, studies protein interactions in muscular dystrophy

- Sally Elizabeth Carlson (1896–2000), first woman to obtain a doctorate in mathematics at the University of Minnesota

- Debra Carney, American mathematics educator

- Ana Carpio, Spanish applied mathematician

- María J. Carro (born 1961), Spanish mathematical analyst

- Anna Cartan (1878–1923), French mathematician, teacher and textbook author, student of Marie Curie

- Coralia Cartis, Romanian expert on compressed sensing, numerical analysis, and regularization methods in optimization

- Mary Cartwright (1900–1998), British mathematician, one of the first to analyze a dynamical system with chaos

- María Andrea Casamayor (1700–1780), only 18th-century Spanish scientist whose work is still extant

- Bettye Anne Case, American mathematician and historian of mathematics

- Emma Castelnuovo (1913–2014), Italian mathematics educator and textbook author

- Eleonora Catsigeras (born 1956), Uruguayan mathematician, applies dynamical systems in neuroscience

- Catherine Cavagnaro (born 1965), American low-dimensional topologist and aerobatic aviator

- Beatrice Mabel Cave-Browne-Cave (1874–1947), English pioneer in the mathematics of aeronautics

- Frances Cave-Browne-Cave (1876–1965), English mathematician and computer scientist, taught at Girton College, Cambridge

- Anny Cazenave (born 1944), French space geodesist, pioneer in satellite altimetry

- Zoia Ceaușescu (1949–2006), Romanian functional analyst, daughter of Communist leader

- Elena Celledoni (born 1967), Italian-Norwegian expert on numerical analysis, Lie groups, and structure-preserving algorithms

- Vivien Challis, Australian Applied mathematician, expert in topology optimization

- Sue Chandler, author of English secondary-school mathematics textbooks

- Melody Chan, American expert in combinatorial commutative algebra, graph theory, and tropical geometry

- Sun-Yung Alice Chang (born 1948), Chinese-American mathematical analyst, member of National Academy of Sciences

- Josephine Chanler (1906–1992), American mathematician

- Mei-Chu Chang, Taiwanese-American expert in algebraic geometry and combinatorial number theory

- Vyjayanthi Chari (born 1958), Indian-American expert in quantum algebra

- Ruth Charney (born 1950), American expert on geometric group theory and Artin groups, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)

- Marie Charpentier (1903–1994), first woman to earn a doctorate in pure mathematics in France and second to obtain a faculty position there

- Émilie du Châtelet (1706–1749), French translator and commentator of Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica

- Françoise Chatelin (1941–2020), French applied mathematician and numerical analyst

- Indira Chatterji (born 1973), Swiss-Indian low-dimensional geometer

- Zoé Chatzidakis, French researcher in model theory and differential algebra

- Laura Chaubard, French mathematician, Director General of the École Polytechnique

- Madeleine Chaumont (1896–1973), French mathematician, one of first women at École normale supérieure

- Jennifer Tour Chayes (born 1956), expert on phase transitions in networks, founder of the theory group at Microsoft Research

- Karine Chemla (born 1958), French historian of Chinese mathematics

- Jacqueline Chen, American applied mathematician and mechanical engineer, applies massively parallel computing to simulate combustion

- Xiaojun Chen, Chinese applied mathematician, expert on nonconvex optimization

- Margaret Cheney (born 1955), American expert on inverse problems

- Eugenia Cheng, English category theorist and pianist, uses analogies with food and baking to teach mathematics to non-mathematicians

- Leslie Cheng, American harmonic analyst

- Maggie Cheng, Chinese-American applied mathematician, computer scientist, and network scientist

- Miranda Cheng (born 1979), Taiwanese-Dutch mathematician and theoretical physicist, formulated umbral moonshine

- Yingda Cheng (born 1983), Chinese-American applied mathematician, expert in Galerkin methods

- Alina Chertock, mathematician specializing in the numerical solution of partial differential equations modeling flow and chemotaxis

- Amanda Chetwynd, British combinatorist and spatial statistician

- Elaine Chew, Singaporean-American expert in the mathematics and visualization of concepts in music theory

- Tanya Christiansen, American expert on scattering theory and partial differential equations

- Graciela Chichilnisky (born 1944), Argentine-American mathematical economist and authority on climate change

- Lauren M. Childs, American mathematician, expert on modeling disease spread

- Phyllis Chinn (born 1941), American graph theorist and historian of mathematics

- Grace Chisholm Young (1868–1944), English mathematician, first woman to receive a German doctorate

- Sonya Christian, Indian mathematician and American community college administrator

- YoungJu Choie (born 1959), Korean number theorist

- Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (born 1923), French mathematician and physicist, first woman elected to the French Academy

- Maria Chudnovsky (born 1977), Israeli-American graph theorist, MacArthur Fellow

- Fan Chung (born 1949), Taiwanese-American researcher in random graphs

- Julia Chuzhoy, Israeli expert in approximation algorithms and graph minor theory

- Monique Chyba, applied control theory to autonomous underwater vehicles

- Agata Ciabattoni, Italian non-classical mathematical logician

- Maria Cibrario (1905–1992), Italian specialist in partial differential equations

- Marta Civil, American mathematics educator

- Mónica Clapp, Mexican researcher in nonlinear partial differential equations and algebraic topology

- Lisa Orloff Clark, professor of mathematics at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand

- Joan Clarke (1917–1996), English code-breaker at Bletchley Park, numismatist

- Jeanne N. Clelland (born 1970), American expert on differential geometry and its applications to differential equations

- Mary Clem (1905–1979), American mathematician and human computer, invented zero check error detection

- Harriet Redfield Cobb (1866–1958), American mathematician

- Anne Cobbe (1920–1971), British algebraist

- Sally Cockburn (born 1960), Canadian-American mathematician

- Jane Purcell Coffee (1944–2023), one of the first women to earn a mathematics PhD at U. Penn.; founded a teaching academy

- Judita Cofman (1936–2001), Yugoslav-German finite geometer and mathematics educator, first mathematics doctorate from Novi Sad

- Doris Cohen, American mathematician, first female author in the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

- Elaine Cohen, American pioneer in the use of splines for geometric modeling

- Marion Cohen (born 1943), American poet and mathematician, teaches the relationship between art and mathematics

- Miriam Cohen (born 1941), Israeli researcher in Hopf algebras, quantum groups and non-commutative rings

- Amy Cohen-Corwin, American expert in the Korteweg–de Vries equation and cubic Schrödinger equation

- Alina Carmen Cojocaru, Romanian number theorist

- Margaret Buchanan Cole, American mathematician at West Virginia University

- Nancy Cole (1902–1991), American mathematician, made pioneering contributions to Morse theory

- Caroline Colijn, Canadian mathematical epidemiologist

- Susan Jane Colley (born 1959), first female editor-in-chief of the American Mathematical Monthly

- Agnes Bell Collier (1860–1930), British mathematician

- Karen L. Collins, American graph theorist and combinatorist

- Sandra Collins (born 1970), Irish fluid dynamicist and librarian

- Coralie Colmez, French writer on legal mathematics

- Maria Colombo (born 1989), Italian mathematical analyst

- Caterina Consani (born 1963), Italian mathematician specializing in arithmetic geometry

- Keisha Cook, American mathematical biologist

- Pamela Cook, American expert in fluid dynamics, president of SIAM

- Frances Cope (1902–1983), American researcher on differential equations, namesake of the Thorndike nomogram

- Lennie Copeland (1881–1951), American mathematician and professor at Wellesley College

- Minerva Cordero, Puerto Rican expert on finite geometry

- Lesley Cormack (born 1957), Canadian historian of mathematics and historian of geography

- Leticia Corral (born 1959), Mexican mathematician, astrophysicist and materials scientist

- Sylvie Corteel, French combinatorialist, former editor-in-chief of Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A

- Véronique Cortier, French mathematician and computer scientist, uses mathematical logic to verify cryptographic protocols

- Carla Cotwright-Williams (born 1973), African-American data scientist for the US government

- Pamela G. Coxson, American applied mathematician specializing in disease modeling

- Collette Coullard, American matroid theorist and operations researcher

- Judith Covington, American mathematics educator

- Lenore Cowen, American discrete mathematician, computer scientist, and computational biologist

- Elizabeth Buchanan Cowley (1874–1945), American mathematician, advocated high school teaching of solid geometry

- Annalisa Crannell, American expert on water waves and geometric perspective

- Alissa Crans, American mathematician specializing in higher-dimensional algebra

- Mary Croarken, British historian of mathematics and of computing

- Marie Crous, 17th-century mathematician who introduced the decimal system to France

- Ana Bela Cruzeiro (born 1957), Portuguese and Swiss stochastic analyst

- Barbara Csima, Canadian computability theorist, president of Canadian Mathematical Society

- Marianna Csörnyei (born 1975), Hungarian researcher in real analysis, geometric measure theory, and functional analysis

- Helen F. Cullen (1919–2007), American topologist

- Jane Cullum (born 1938), American applied mathematician known for her work in numerical algorithms and control theory

- Louise Duffield Cummings (1870–1947), Canadian-American expert on Steiner triple systems

- María Cumplido (born 1992), Spanish geometric group theorist

- Susan Jane Cunningham (1842–1921), founded the mathematics and astronomy departments at Swarthmore College

- Serafina Cuomo (born 1966), Italian historian of ancient mathematics

- Antonella Cupillari (born 1955), Italian-American mathematics educator, historian of mathematics, and biographer of Agnesi

- Ruth F. Curtain (1941–2018), Australian-Dutch expert in infinite-dimensional linear systems

- Carina Curto (born 1978), American mathematical neuroscientist

- Eleanor P. Cushing (1856–1925), American mathematician

- Elizabeth Cuthill (1923–2011), American applied mathematician and Navy researcher known for sparse matrix ordering

- Annie Cuyt (born 1956), Belgian expert on approximation

## D

- Sophie Dabo-Niang, Senegalese-French mathematician and statistician

- Amy Dahan, French mathematician, historian of mathematics, and historian of the politics of climate change

- Mimi Dai, American expert in partial differential equations

- Karma Dajani, Lebanese-Dutch mathematician, applies ergodic theory to number theory

- Anne-Laure Dalibard, French mathematician, expert on fluid dynamics in oceanography

- Ewa Damek (born 1958), Polish mathematical analyst, namesake of Damek–Ricci spaces

- Pallavi Dani, Indian-American geometric group theorist

- Donatella Danielli (born 1966), Italian-American specialist in partial differential equations

- Sofia Danova (1879–1946), Bulgarian teacher and philanthropist, first Bulgarian woman to graduate in mathematics

- Christine Darden (born 1942), American aeronautical engineer who researches sonic booms

- Geraldine Claudette Darden (born 1936), one of the first African-American women to earn a PhD in mathematics

- Panagiota Daskalopoulos, Greek-American differential geometer

- Nilanjana Datta, Indian-born British quantum information theorist

- Ingrid Daubechies (born 1954), Belgian physicist and mathematician, known for wavelets

- Monique Dauge (born 1956), French mathematician and numerical analyst

- Chantal David (born 1964), Canadian analytic number theorist and arithmetic statistician

- Giuliana Davidoff, American number theorist and expert on expander graphs

- Penny J. Davies, Scottish expert on wave scattering, president of Edinburgh Mathematical Society

- Cristiana De Filippis (born 1992), Italian expert in regularity theory for partial differential equations

- Nicole De Grande-De Kimpe (1936–2008), Belgian pioneer in p {\displaystyle p} -adic functional analysis

- Christine De Mol (born 1954), Belgian applied mathematician and mathematical physicist

- Ineke De Moortel, Belgian mathematician who studies the Sun's corona; president of Edinburgh Mathematical Society

- Valeria de Paiva, Brazilian researcher in categorical logic

- Lisette de Pillis, American researcher on the mathematics of cancer growth

- Kaye A. de Ruiz, American mathematics educator

- Daniela De Silva, Italian mathematician known for her expertise in partial differential equations

- Luz de Teresa (born 1965), Mexican control theorist, president of Mexican Mathematical Society

- Gerda de Vries, Canadian mathematician who studies dynamical systems and mathematical physiology

- Winifred Margaret Deans (1901–1990), British translator of German mathematics and physics texts into English

- Mary Deconge (born 1933), one of the first African-American women to earn a PhD in mathematics

- Maria Deijfen (born 1975), Swedish graph theorist and probability theorist

- Huguette Delavault (1924–2003), French mathematical physicist, activist for women in mathematics

- Ermelinda DeLaViña, Hispanic American graph theorist

- Laura DeMarco, American researcher in dynamical systems and complex analysis

- Beryl May Dent (1900–1977), British mathematical physicist, researcher in molecular forces and computer-aided design

- Darinka Dentcheva, Bulgarian-American convex analyst

- Alicja Derkowska (born 1940), Polish social activist, mathematician and educator.

- Marjorie Devaney (1931–2007), mathematician, electrical engineer, and pioneering computer programmer

- Shakuntala Devi (1939–2013), Indian child prodigy, writer, and mental calculator

- Cécile DeWitt-Morette (1922–2017), French founder of l'École de physique des Houches

- Elena Deza (born 1961), French-Russian mathematician, author of books on figurate numbers and metric spaces

- Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini (born 1946), Italian expert on type theory, lambda calculus, and programming language semantics

- Eleonora Di Nezza, Italian Kahler geometer

- Giulia Di Nunno (born 1973), Italian expert in stochastic analysis and financial mathematics, promoter of mathematics in Africa

- Sandra Di Rocco (born 1967), Italian-Swedish algebraic geometer

- Carrie Diaz Eaton, American mathematical biologist

- Auguste Dick (1910–1993), Austrian historian of mathematics and biographer of Emmy Noether

- Alicia Dickenstein (born 1955), Argentine algebraic geometer, vice-president of the International Mathematical Union

- Caren Diefenderfer (1952–2017), American mathematician, president of National Numeracy Network

- Susanne Dierolf (1942–2009), German expert on topological vector spaces

- Ada Dietz (1882–1950), American weaver who used algebraic expressions to design textiles

- Alice M. Dimick (1878–1956), American mathematician PhD

- Ulla Dinger (born 1955), Swedish mathematical analyst, first female doctorate in mathematics at University of Gothenburg

- Irit Dinur, Israeli researcher in probabilistically checkable proofs and hardness of approximation

- Serena Dipierro, Italian expert on partial differential equations

- Susanne Ditlevsen, Danish mathematical biologist and biostatistician

- Mary P. Dolciani (1923–1985), developed modern method for teaching high school algebra in the United States

- Yvonne Dold-Samplonius (1937–2014), Dutch historian of Islamic mathematics

- Rosa Donat (born 1960), Spanish mathematician, uses multiresolution methods for flows with shock waves and high Mach number

- Suzanne Dorée, American group theorist and mathematics educator

- Isabel Dotti, Argentine expert on homogeneous manifolds

- Itala D'Ottaviano (born 1944), Brazilian logician

- Yael Dowker (1919–2016), Israeli researcher in measure theory and ergodic theory

- Agnes Meyer Driscoll (1889–1971), American cryptanalyst during both World War I and World War II

- Kathy Driver, South African expert in special functions, orthogonal polynomials and approximation theory

- Suely Druck, Brazilian mathematician, president of Brazilian Mathematical Society

- Cornelia Druțu Romanian mathematician, won Whitehead Prize for research in geometric group theory

- Malgorzata Dubiel, Polish and Canadian mathematics educator

- Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin (1905–1972), first woman full professor of mathematics in France, expert in fluid mechanics and abstract algebra

- Moon Duchin, American expert in geometric topology, geometric group theory, and Teichmüller theory

- Marie Duflo (1940–2019), French probability theorist, activist for foreigners in France

- Vida Dujmović (born 1972), Yugoslav-Canadian graph theorist

- Della Dumbaugh, American historian of mathematics, editor-in-chief of American Mathematical Monthly

- Ioana Dumitriu (born 1976), Romanian-American numerical analyst

- Julena Steinheider Duncombe (1911–2003), American mathematics teacher and astronomer

- Elizabeth B. Dussan V. (born 1946), American expert on the behavior of fluids

- Nira Dyn, Israeli expert on subdivision surfaces

## E

- Madeline Early (1912–2001), American mathematician and university professor.

- Annie Easley (1933–2011), African-American computer scientist, mathematician, and rocket scientist

- Sheila May Edmonds (1916–2002), British mathematician, Vice-Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge

- Josephine D. Edwards (1942–1985), Australian mathematician, founded Australian Mathematics Competition

- Mary Edwards (c. 1750–1815), human computer for the British Nautical Almanac

- Ranthony Edmonds, American postdoctoral algebraist

- Constance van Eeden (1927–2021), Dutch nonparameteric statistician who contributed to the development of statistics in Canada

- Hettie Belle Ege (1861–1942), American mathematician, acting president of Mills College

- Tatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest (1905–1984), Dutch researcher in combinatorics and graph theory

- Andrée Ehresmann (born 1935), French category theorist

- Gertrude Ehrlich (born 1923), Austrian-American algebraist and number theorist

- Thyra Eibe (1866–1955), first woman to earn a mathematics degree from the University of Copenhagen, translator of Euclid

- Bettina Eick (born 1968), German computational group theorist

- Carolyn Eisele (1902–2000), American mathematician, historian of mathematics, expert on Charles Sanders Peirce

- Nathalie Eisenbaum, French probability theorist

- Kirsten Eisenträger, German-American researcher in computational number theory

- Tanja Eisner (born 1980), Ukrainian-German expert on operator theory

- Nicole El Karoui (born 1944), Tunisian-French pioneer in mathematical finance

- Amèle El Mahdi (born 1956), Algerian mathematics professor and writer

- Donna DeEtte Elbert (1928-2019), American human calculator, worked on differential equations modeling magnetohydrodynamics

- Nerida Ellerton (born 1942), Australian mathematics educator and historian of mathematics education

- Joanne Elliott (1925–2023), American mathematician specializing in potential theory

- Jo Ellis-Monaghan, American mathematician interested in graph polynomials and topological graph theory

- Maria Emelianenko, Russian-American expert on centroidal Voronoi tessellation

- Susan Empson, American scholar of mathematics education including childhood development of the concept of fractions

- Gisela Engeln-Müllges (born 1940), escapee from East Germany, expert in numerical algorithms, and abstract artist

- Lyn English, Australian mathematics education scholar

- Susanna S. Epp (born 1943), American researcher in discrete mathematics and mathematical logic

- Karin Erdmann (born 1948), German researcher in modular representation theory and homological algebra

- Viveka Erlandsson, Swedish low-dimensional topologist and geometer

- Anna Erschler (born 1977), Russian-French expert on random walks on groups

- Hélène Esnault (born 1953), French algebraic geometer, winner of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize

- Malena Español, Argentine-American applied and computational mathematician, expert in regularization methods for discrete inverse problems

- Maria J. Esteban (born 1956), Basque-French applied mathematician, president of International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

- Alison Etheridge FRS (born 1964), English researcher in theoretical population genetics and mathematical ecology

- Christina Eubanks-Turner, American mathematics educator, graph theorist, and commutative algebraist

- Bess Marie Eversull (1899–1978), first woman to earn a PhD in mathematics from the University of Cincinnati

## F

- Marie Fabianová (1872–1943), Czech PhD mathematician, teacher and school principal, first female to graduate with a PhD in math from Charles University

- Cornelia Fabri (1869–1915), Italian mathematician, first woman to graduate in math from University of Pisa.

- Vera Faddeeva (1906–1983), Russian expert on numerical linear algebra

- Fariba Fahroo, Persian-American expert in pseudospectral optimal control, winner of AIAA Mechanics and Control of Flight Award

- Barbara Trader Faires (born 1943), American mathematician and textbook author, secretary of MAA

- Bianca Falcidieno, Italian applied mathematician, pioneer of semantics-driven shape modeling

- Etta Zuber Falconer (1933–2002), one of the first African-American women to receive a PhD in mathematics

- Ruma Falk (1932–2020), Israeli psychologist and philosopher of mathematics specializing in human understanding of probability

- María Falk de Losada, American-born Colombian mathematician, co-founded Colombian Mathematical Olympiad, rector of Antonio Nariño University

- Mary Fama (1938–2021), New Zealand applied mathematician, expert on rock deformation in mining

- Barbara Fantechi (born 1966), Italian algebraic geometer

- Rosa María Farfán, Mexican researcher in social epistemology and mathematics education

- Marie Farge (born 1953), French mathematician and physicist known for her research on wavelets and turbulence in fluid mechanics

- Fay Farnum (1888–1977), American mathematician, founding member of MAA

- Mary Celine Fasenmyer (1906–1996), Catholic nun whose research on hypergeometric functions prefigured WZ theory

- Heike Fassbender, German expert in numerical linear algebra, first woman to lead a German mathematical society

- Lisa Fauci (born 1960), American applied mathematician who applies computational fluid dynamics to biological processes

- Patricia Fauring, Argentine mathematician, coach of the Argentine mathematical olympiad team

- Odile Favaron (born 1938), French graph theorist

- Philippa Fawcett (1868–1948), English educationalist, first woman to obtain the top score in the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos

- Anita Burdman Feferman (1927–2015), American historian of mathematics and mathematical biographer

- Nina Fefferman, American mathematical biologist

- Eva-Maria Feichtner (born 1972), German algebraic geometer

- Joan Feigenbaum (born 1958), theoretical computer scientist, co-inventor of trust management

- Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein (1912–2006), helped decipher Japanese Purple cryptography, worked on Venona counter-intelligence

- Käte Fenchel (1905–1983), Jewish German researcher on non-abelian groups

- Zhilan Feng (born 1959), Chinese-American applied mathematician, mathematical biologist, and epidemiologist

- Elizabeth Fennema (1928–2021), researched attitudes of young women towards mathematics and their classroom interactions

- Anuška Ferligoj (born 1947), Slovenian mathematical sociologist and researcher in network analysis

- Begoña Fernández, Mexican probability theorist and expert in mathematical finance

- Elena Fernández (born 1956), Spanish operations researcher, president of Association of European Operational Research Societies

- Marisa Fernández, Spanish differential geometer

- Jacqueline Ferrand (1918–2014), French researcher on conformal representation theory, potential theory, and Riemannian manifolds

- Antonia Ferrín Moreiras (1914–2009), Spanish mathematician and first Galician woman astronomer

- Joan Ferrini-Mundy (born 1954), American researcher in mathematics education

- Soheyla Feyzbakhsh, Iranian-British mathematician whose research connects algebraic geometry to string theory

- Judith V. Field (born 1943), British historian of mathematics and art

- Anna Fino, Italian differential geometer

- Jessica Fintzen, German p -adic representation theorist

- Farideh Firoozbakht (1962–2019), Iranian number theorist

- Ilse Fischer (born 1975), Austrian combinatorialist

- Irene Fischer (1907–2009), Austrian-American geodesist for Mercury and Apollo spaceflights, member of National Academy of Engineering

- Vera Fischer, Austrian set theorist and mathematical logician

- Naomi Fisher, American mathematics educator, worked to bring together research mathematicians and educators

- Mary Flahive (born 1948), American mathematician, author of books on difference equations and diophantine approximation

- Sarah Flannery (born 1982), winner of the EU Young Scientist of the Year Award for her teenage research on cryptography

- Erica Flapan (born 1956), American researcher in low-dimensional topology and knot theory

- Jennifer Flegg, Australian applied mathematician

- Irmgard Flügge-Lotz (1903–1974), German aerodynamics researcher, first female engineering professor at Stanford

- Natasha Flyer (born 1969), American earth scientist and applied mathematician, expert on radial basis functions

- Anne Bosworth Focke (1868–1907), first mathematics professor at what is now University of Rhode Island; student of David Hilbert

- Amanda Folsom (born 1979), American number theorist

- Irene Fonseca (born 1956), Portuguese-American director of the Center for Nonlinear Analysis at Carnegie Mellon University

- Liliana Forzani, Argentine applied mathematician and statistician, expert in dimensionality reduction

- Phyllis Fox (1923–2017), American mathematician and computer scientist, collaborator on the first LISP interpreter

- Marguerite Frank (born 1927), French-American pioneer in convex optimization theory and mathematical programming

- Hélène Frankowska, Polish-French control theorist and set-valued analyst

- Ailana Fraser, Canadian researcher on geometric analysis and the theory of minimal surfaces

- Elena Freda (1890–1978), Italian mathematician, applied mathematical analysis to electromagnetics and biology

- Haya Freedman (1923–2005), Israeli-British mathematician who studied the Tamari lattice and ring theory

- Herta Freitag (1908–2000), Austrian-American expert on Fibonacci numbers

- Nedda Friberti (born 1913), Italian mathematician, refugee from Nazi-occupied Italy

- Susan Friedlander (born 1946), English-American researcher in fluid dynamics, first female editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of the AMS

- Joyce Friedman (1928–2018), American mathematician, operations researcher, computer scientist, and computational linguist

- Aline Huke Frink (1904–2000), American mathematician and professor

- Charlotte Froese Fischer (born 1929), Canadian-American expert on atomic-structure calculations who predicted negative calcium ions

- Cleota Gage Fry (1910–2001), American mathematician, physicist and university professor

- Hannah Fry (born 1984), English complex systems theorist and public speaker

- Shirley M. Frye, American mathematics educator, president of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

- Elza Furtado Gomide (1925–2013), Brazilian mathematician, first female doctorate in mathematics at University of São Paulo

- Cohl Furey, Canadian mathematical physicist

- Fumiko Futamura, Japanese-American mathematician, expert on graphical perspective

## G

- Lisl Gaal (born 1924), Austrian-born American set theorist and Galois theorist

- Isabelle Gallagher (born 1973), French researcher in partial differential equations

- Eva Gallardo (born 1971), president of Spanish Mathematical Society

- Irene M. Gamba (born 1957), Argentine-American applied mathematician

- Svetlana Gannushkina (born 1942), Russian mathematician and human rights activist

- Nina Gantert, Swiss and German probability theorist

- Kseniya Garaschuk (born 1982), Soviet-born Canadian mathematics educator, editor of Crux Mathematicorum

- Pascale Garaud, French-American applied mathematician interested in fluid dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, and their applications to astrophysics

- Laura Gardini (born 1952), Italian mathematician, applies chaotic dynamics to economics

- Manuela Garín (1914–2019), Spanish-born pioneer of Mexican mathematics

- Annie Marie Watkins Garraway (born 1940), American mathematician who worked in telecommunications and electronic data transmission

- Adriana Garroni (born 1966), Italian mathematician, expert on modeling plasticity and fracture

- Mary Cleophas Garvin (1899–1990), American mathematician

- Élisabeth Gassiat (born 1961), French mathematical statistician

- Karin Gatermann (1961–2005), German mathematician, researcher in symbolic computation and dynamical systems

- Geneviève Gauthier (born 1967), Canadian financial mathematician, statistician, and decision scientist

- Véronique Gayrard, French probability theorist

- Mai Gehrke (born 1964), Danish lattice theorist and mathematical logician

- Hilda Geiringer (1893–1973), Austrian researcher on Fourier series, statistics, probability, and plasticity, refugee from Nazi Germany

- Anne Gelb, American mathematician interested in numerical analysis, partial differential equations, and Fourier analysis of images

- Sue Geller, American mathematician with interdisciplinary interests in algebraic K-theory, bioinformatics, and biostatistics

- Hélyette Geman, French researcher in mathematical finance

- Ruth Gentry (1862–1917), American geometer

- Sommer Gentry, American mathematician, applies dance notation to haptic interaction and operations research to organ transplants

- Penka Georgieva, expert on enumerative geometry, symplectic topology, and Gromov–Witten invariants

- Maria-Pia Geppert (1907–1997), German mathematician and biostatistician who founded the Biometrical Journal

- Ralucca Gera, American graph theorist and mathematics educator

- Sophie Germain (1776–1831), French number theorist, physicist, and philosopher, correspondent of Gauss

- Marie Gernet (1865–1924), first German woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics

- Nadeschda Gernet (1877–1943), Russian mathematician, student of David Hilbert, worked in the calculus of variations

- Judith Gersting (born 1940), American mathematician, computer scientist, and textbook author

- Ellen Gethner, American graph theorist

- Patrizia Gianni (born 1952), Italian expert in computer algebra

- Danuta Gierulanka (1909–1995), Polish mathematics educator and philosopher of mathematics

- Irène Gijbels, Belgian mathematical statistician and expert in nonparametric statistics

- Olga Gil Medrano (born 1956), Spanish geometric analyst, first female president of the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society

- Anna C. Gilbert (born 1972), American expert in streaming algorithms and matching pursuit

- Jane Piore Gilman (born 1945), topologist and group theorist, distinguished professor of mathematics at Rutgers University

- Gloria Ford Gilmer, American ethnomathematician

- Joella Gipson (1929–2012), American music educator and mathematics educator, first African-American student at Mt. St. Mary's College

- Vivette Girault (born 1943), French expert on numerical analysis, finite element methods, and computational fluid dynamics

- E. G. Glagoleva (1926–2015), Soviet and Russian mathematician, mathematics educator, and textbook author

- Josephine Burns Glasgow (1887–1969), American group theorist, active in American Association of University Women

- Muriel Glauert (1892–1949), British mathematician and aerodynamicist

- Sarah Glaz (born 1947), Romanian-Israeli-American commutative algebraist and mathematical poet

- Heide Gluesing-Luerssen (born 1961), German mathematician specializing in algebraic coding theory

- Julia Gog, English mathematical biologist, uses mathematics to study the spread of infectious diseases

- Linda Gojak, American mathematics educator, president of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

- Nüzhet Gökdoğan (1910–2003), Turkish astronomer and mathematician, founder of Turkish Mathematical Society

- Bonnie Gold (born 1948), American mathematician, mathematical logician, philosopher of mathematics, and mathematics educator

- Lisa Goldberg, American mathematical finance scholar and statistician

- Rebecca Goldin, American expert in symplectic geometry

- Christina Goldschmidt, British probability theorist

- Catherine Goldstein (born 1958), French number theorist and historian of mathematics

- Gisèle Ruiz Goldstein (born 1958), American expert in partial differential equations, operator theory, and mathematical finance

- Susan Goldstine, American mathematician active in mathematics and fiber arts

- Shafi Goldwasser (born 1958), American-born Israeli theoretical cryptographer

- Concha Gómez, Italian and Cuban-American mathematician and advocate for diversity in STEM

- Patricia Gonçalves, Portuguese probability theorist

- Sherry Gong, second American gold medal winner at International Mathematical Olympiad

- Enriqueta González Baz (1915–2002), first woman to earn a mathematics degree in Mexico, founder of the Mexican Mathematical Society

- Valentina Gorbachuk (born 1937), Ukrainian operator theorist

- Maria Gordina (born 1968), Russian-American mathematical analyst

- Carolyn S. Gordon (born 1950), isospectral geometer who proved that you can't hear the shape of a drum

- Julia Gordon, Canadian representation theorist, winner of Michler and Krieger–Nelson prizes

- Pamela Gorkin, American complex analyst and textbook author

- Sigal Gottlieb, American expert in numerical simulation of the partial differential equations used in aerodynamics

- Aline Gouget (born 1977), French cryptographer

- Mary de Lellis Gough (1892–1983), American mathematician

- Alice Bache Gould (1858–1953), American mathematician and historian

- Gene Grabeel (1920–2015), American mathematician and cryptanalyst who founded the Venona project

- Judith Grabiner (born 1938), American historian of 18th- and 19th-century mathematics

- Eva-Maria Graefe, German-English mathematical physicist, expert in ultracold atoms and Non-Hermitian quantum mechanics

- Christine Graffigne (born 1959), French expert on Markov random fields for image analysis

- Maria Gramegna (1887–1915), Italian mathematician, pioneer of abstraction in functional analysis

- Evelyn Boyd Granville (1924–2023), one of the first African-American women to receive a PhD in mathematics

- Antonella Grassi, mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry and string theory

- Mary Graustein (1884–1972), American mathematician, first mathematical doctorate from Radcliffe College

- Marion Cameron Gray (1902–1979), Scottish telephone engineer, discoverer of the Gray graph

- Mary W. Gray (born 1939), author on mathematics, mathematics education, economic equity, discrimination law, and academic freedom

- Judy Green (born 1943), logician and historian of women in mathematics

- Anne Greenbaum (born 1951), American expert in theoretical and numerical linear algebra

- Catherine Greenhill, Australian graph theorist

- Sarah J. Greenwald, American mathematician, studies connections between mathematics and society

- Cindy Greenwood (born 1937), Canadian statistician, winner of Krieger-Nelson Prize

- Sina Greenwood, New Zealand topologist

- Ruth Gregory, British mathematical physicist specializing in general relativity and cosmology

- Margaret Greig (1922–1999), English applied mathematician, developed theory for worsted spinning

- Harriet Griffin (1903–1991), American mathematician, author of a textbook on number theory

- Lois Wilfred Griffiths (1899–1981), American expert on polygonal numbers

- Laura Grigori, French applied mathematician, known for communication-avoiding algorithms for numerical linear algebra

- Ellina Grigorieva, Russian expert on mathematical problem solving

- Elisenda Grigsby, American low-dimensional topologist

- Clara Grima (born 1971), Spanish computational geometer, co-discoverer of scutoids, mathematics popularizer

- Margaret Grimshaw (1905–1990), English mathematician at Cambridge and author on Hilbert spaces

- Birgit Grodal (1943–2004), Danish mathematical economist, studied atomless economies

- Ione Grogan (1891–1961), American schoolteacher, mathematics professor, and literary club leader

- Edna Grossman, German-born American designer of the Data Encryption Standard and of the slide attack in cryptography

- Marcia Groszek, American mathematician whose research concerns mathematical logic, set theory, forcing, and recursion theory

- Gerd Grubb (born 1939), Danish expert on pseudodifferential operators

- Helen G. Grundman, American number theorist

- Weiqing Gu, Chinese-American researcher on differential geometry and the mathematics of cancer growth

- Rebeca Guber (1926–2020), Argentine mathematician, founder of Argentine Calculation Society

- Christine Guenther, American expert on the Ricci flow

- Laura Guggenbühl (1901–1985), American mathematician known for her work in triangle geometry and the history of mathematics

- Colette Guillopé, French researcher in partial differential equations and fluid dynamics, former president of femmes et mathématiques

- Joséphine Guidy Wandja (born 1945), Ivorian mathematician

- Alice Guionnet (born 1969), French probability theorist

- Geneviève Guitel (1895–1982), French mathematician who studied natural-language numbering systems

- Kanta Gupta (1938–2016), Indian-Canadian researcher on abstract algebra and group theory

- Neena Gupta, Indian mathematician who solved the Zariski cancellation problem

- Rona Gurkewitz, American mathematician and computer scientist known for her work on modular origami

- Margaret Gurney (1908–2002), American mathematician, survey statistician, and pioneering computer programmer

- Rochelle Gutierrez, American education theorist who studies the impacts of race, class and language on mathematics education

- Simone Gutt (born 1956), Belgian differential geometer

- Martha Guzmán Partida, Mexican functional analyst

## H

- Ruth Haas, American mathematician known for mentorship of other women mathematicians

- Violet B. Haas (1926–1986), American control theorist

- Naomi Habib, Israeli computational neuroscientist who researches genomics and genome engineering

- Olga Hadžić (1946–1995), Serbian expert on fixed-point theorems

- Dörte Haftendorn (born 1948), German mathematician, mathematics educator, and textbook author

- Kari Hag (born 1941), Norwegian expert on quasiconformal mappings

- Elisabeth Hagemann (born 1906), early German female doctorate in mathematics

- Marjorie Hahn (born 1948), American probability theorist and tennis player

- Deborah Tepper Haimo (1921–2007), Ukrainian-Palestinian-American classical analyst, third female president of the Mathematical Association of America

- Susie W. Håkansson (born 1940), mathematics educator, director of the California Mathematics Project

- Ursula Hamenstädt (born 1961), German differential geometry

- Christine Hamill (1923–1956), English mathematician specializing in group theory and finite geometry

- Mary-Elizabeth Hamstrom (1927–2009), American topologist

- Xiaoying Han, Chinese mathematician who studies random dynamical systems and stochastic differential equations

- Gila Hanna (born 1934), Canadian mathematics educator and philosopher of mathematics

- Anita Hansbo (born 1960), Swedish mathematician, rector of Jönköping University

- Megumi Harada, Canadian expert on equivariant symplectic and algebraic geometry

- Eleonor Harboure (1948–2022), first woman president of the Argentina Mathematical Union

- Alison Harcourt (born 1929), Australian mathematician and statistician known for branch and bound algorithms and quantification of poverty in Australia

- Frances Hardcastle (1866–1941), group theorist, one of the founders of the American Mathematical Society

- Kathryn E. Hare (born 1959), Canadian expert in harmonic analysis

- Valentina Harizanov, Serbian-American researcher in computability and model theory

- Dorothee Haroske (born 1968), German expert on function spaces

- Heather Harrington (born 1984), applied mathematician and algebraic systems biologist

- Leona Harris, American mathematician and diversity activist

- Pamela E. Harris, Mexican combinatorist and mathematics blogger

- Jenny Harrison, American expert on generalized functions and minimal surfaces

- Frances Harshbarger (1902–1987), one of the first female American mathematicians to receive a doctorate

- Bertha Hart, American mathematician

- Sarah B. Hart, British group theorist

- Shelly Harvey, American researcher in knot theory, low-dimensional topology, and group theory

- Mary Gertrude Haseman (1889–1979), American knot theorist

- Asma Hassannezhad, Iranian spectral geometer

- Maria Hasse (1921–2014), German graph theorist, set theorist, and category theorist, first female professor in science at TU Dresden

- Rhonda Hatcher, American number theorist, winner of Haimo teaching award

- Deanna Haunsperger, American mathematician, former president of the Mathematical Association of America

- Jane M. Hawkins, American researcher in dynamic systems, complex dynamics, cellular automata, and Julia sets

- Louise Hay (1935–1989), founding member of the Association for Women in Mathematics

- Linda B. Hayden (born 1949), African-American mathematics educator and mathematical geoscientist known for mentorship of women and minorities

- Ellen Hayes (1851–1930), American mathematician, astronomer, and political radical

- Margaret Hayman (1923–1994), British mathematics educator, co-founder of British Mathematical Olympiad

- Euphemia Lofton Haynes (1890–1980), first African-American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics

- Nola Anderson Haynes (1897–1996), American mathematician, professor

- Sarah D. Allen Oren Haynes (1836–1907), first female state librarian of Indiana and first female faculty member at Purdue University

- Teresa W. Haynes (born 1953), American expert on domination in graphs

- Emilie Virginia Haynsworth (1916–1985), American linear algebraist known for Schur complements and Haynsworth inertia additivity formula

- Olive Hazlett (1890–1974), American algebraist at the University of Illinois

- Sandra Mitchell Hedetniemi (born 1949), American researcher in graph theory and graph algorithms

- Maria Heep-Altiner (born 1959), German mathematician and actuary

- Jane Heffernan, Canadian mathematician who studies mathematical models for the spread of infectious disease

- Katherine Heinrich (born 1954), Canadian combinatorialist, first female president of Canadian Mathematical Society

- Christine Heitsch, American expert on the mathematics of RNA structure

- Diane Henderson, American applied mathematician and experimental fluid dynamics researcher

- Nadia Heninger (born 1982), American cryptographer, computer security expert, and computational number theorist

- Cora Barbara Hennel (1888–1947), American mathematician, first woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics at the Indiana University

- Dagmar R. Henney (born 1931), German-American expert on additive set-values and Banach spaces

- Inge Henningsen (born 1941), statistician, writer and feminist

- Allison Henrich (born 1980), American knot theorist

- Shandelle Henson (born 1964), American mathematician and mathematical biologist, expert on population dynamics

- Rebecca A. Herb (born 1948), American researcher in abstract algebra and Lie groups

- Raphaèle Herbin, French expert on the finite volume method

- Grete Hermann (1901–1984), German mathematician and philosopher also noted for her work in physics and education

- Susan Hermiller, American group theorist

- Norma Hernández (born 1934), American mathematics educator, studied factors affecting Mexican-American mathematics students

- Constance Anne Herschel (1855–1939), British lecturer in natural sciences and mathematics

- Patricia Hersh (born 1973), American expert on algebraic and topological combinatorics

- Bobby Hersom (born 1929), British mathematician and computer scientist

- Kathryn Hess (born 1967), American mathematician who uses algebraic topology to understand structures in neurology and materials science

- Silvia Heubach, German-American mathematician specializing in enumerative combinatorics, combinatorial game theory, and bioinformatics

- Gloria Conyers Hewitt (born 1935), early African-American female mathematics PhD, MAA governor

- Laurie Heyer, American mathematician specializing in genomics and bioinformatics

- Patricia Hiddleston (1933–2017), Scottish and Rhodesian mathematician

- Aparna Higgins, Indian-American graph theorist known for encouraging undergraduate research

- Raegan Higgins, American mathematician, co-director of the EDGE program for Women

- Nancy Hingston, American differential geometer

- Wei Ho, American arithmetic geometer

- Hoàng Xuân Sính (born 1933), first female Vietnamese mathematician, student of Grothendieck, founder of Thang Long University

- Catherine Hobbs (born 1968), British singularity theorist, applies geometry to robotics

- Dorit S. Hochbaum (born 1949), American expert on approximation algorithms for facility location, covering and packing, and scheduling

- Marlis Hochbruck (born 1964), German expert on matrix exponentials and their applications to differential equations

- Maria Hoffmann-Ostenhof (born 1947), Austrian expert on the Schrödinger equation

- Leslie Hogben, American mathematician specializing in graph theory and linear algebra, known for graduate mentorship

- Nina Holden, Norwegian probability theorist

- Judy A. Holdener (born 1965), American number theorist who simplified the proof of Touchard's theorem on perfect numbers

- Barbara R. Holland (born 1976), New Zealand born Australian phylogeneticist

- Lotte Hollands (born 1981), Dutch mathematical physicist

- Tara S. Holm, American algebraic geometer and symplectic geometer

- Olga Holtz (born 1973), Russian numerical analyst, winner of the European Mathematical Society Prize

- Betty W. Holz (1919–2005), American mathematician and defense analyst

- Jennifer Hom, American low-dimensional topologist

- Dorothy McFadden Hoover (1918–2000), American human computer involved in the design of swept-wing aircraft

- Grace Hopper (1906–1992), American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral

- Eleanor Mollie Horadam (1921–2002), English-Australian mathematician, studied generalized integers, mother of Kathy

- Kathy Horadam (born 1951), Australian mathematician, studies Hadamard matrices, daughter of Eleanor Mollie

- Annick Horiuchi, French historian of Japanese mathematics

- Anette Hosoi, American mechanical engineer, biophysicist, and mathematician, studies fluid dynamics, robotics, and bio-inspired design

- Victoria Howle, American expert in numerical linear algebra, founded AWM essay contest

- Susan Howson (born 1973), British mathematician known for work on algebraic number theory and arithmetic geometry

- Rebecca Hoyle, British applied mathematician, expert on pattern formation

- Celia Hoyles (born 1946), British mathematician, president of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications

- Christine Hrenya, American computational fluid dynamicist, expert in fluidization and multiphase flow

- Pao-sheng Hsu, Mathematics educator, founder of AWM Teacher Partnership Program

- Hu Hesheng (born 1928), differential geometer, president of Shanghai Mathematical Society, member of Chinese Academy of Science

- Lan-Hsuan Huang, Taiwanese-American geometric analyst and relativity theorist

- Katharina T. Huber (born 1965), German mathematical biologist, expert in the foundations and visualization of phylogeny

- Verena Huber-Dyson (1923–2016), Swiss-American group theorist and logician, expert on undecidability in group theory

- Annette Huber-Klawitter (born 1967), German algebraic geometer, expert in the Bloch–Kato conjectures

- Vera Huckel, American human computer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

- Anne Lester Hudson, American expert in topological semigroups, mathematics educator, and mathematics competition coach

- Hilda Phoebe Hudson (1881–1965), English researcher on Cremona transformations in algebraic geometry

- Sabine Van Huffel (born 1958), Belgian applied mathematician, expert on total least squares and applications to medical diagnostics

- Rhonda Hughes (born 1947), American wavelet researcher, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics

- Deborah Hughes Hallett, mathematics education reformer

- Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann (born 1946), German-American representation theorist and ring theorist

- Dominique Hulin (born 1959), French differential geometer

- Mabel Gweneth Humphreys (1911–2006), Canadian-American number theorist and namesake of the M. Gweneth Humphreys Award

- Eugénie Hunsicker, American mathematician who works at the intersection of analysis, geometry and topology

- Fern Hunt (born 1948), American mathematician known for her work in applied mathematics and mathematical biology

- Bobbie Hunter, New Zealand educational theorist and mathematics educator

- Louise Stokes Hunter (died 1988), American mathematics educator, first African-American woman with a degree from the University of Virginia

- Joan Hutchinson (born 1945), American graph theorist who extended the planar separator theorem to graphs of higher genus

- Marie Hušková (born 1942), Czech mathematician who worked in theoretical statistics and change-point problems

- Hypatia (died 415), head of the Neoplatonic school at Alexandria, murdered by a Christian mob

## I

- Milagros D. Ibe (born 1931), Filipino mathematics educator, vice chancellor of the University of the Philippines Diliman

- Rosalie Iemhoff (born 1969), Dutch logician

- Mihaela Ignatova, Bulgarian mathematical analyst

- Annette Imhausen (born 1970), German historian of ancient Egyptian mathematics

- Tasha Inniss, first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, director of education for INFORMS

- Eleny Ionel, Romanian-American symplectic geometer

- Alessandra Iozzi (born 1959), Italian-American-Swiss geometric group theorist

- Ilse Ipsen, German-American expert in numerical linear algebra

- Valerie Isham (born 1947), British applied probabilist, president of Royal Statistical Society

- Shihoko Ishii (born 1950), Japanese mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry

- Vanaja Iyengar (–2001), founding vice chancellor of Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam, a women's university in Andhra Pradesh, India

## J

- Trachette Jackson (born 1972), researcher in mathematical oncology, second African-American woman to become a Sloan Fellow in mathematics

- Jessie Marie Jacobs (1890–1954), fired from mathematics instructorship for having a child, aided husband Hermann Muller's Nobel-winning genetic research

- Alex James, British and New Zealand applied mathematician, mathematical biologist, and epidemiologist

- Cathérine Jami (born 1961), French historian of Chinese mathematics

- Jeannette Janssen, Dutch and Canadian graph theorist

- Monique Jeanblanc (born 1947), French financial mathematician

- Lisa Jeffrey FRSC, Canadian expert in symplectic geometry and quantum field theory

- Erica Jen, American applied mathematician, studies mathematical analysis of chaotic and complex behavior

- Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins, Canadian philosopher of mathematics

- Jacqueline Jensen-Vallin, American low-dimensional topologist, editor of MAA FOCUS

- Svetlana Jitomirskaya (born 1966), Ukrainian mathematician working on dynamical systems and mathematical physics

- Naomi Jochnowitz, American algebraic number theorist known for her mentorship of women in mathematics

- Aimee Johnson, American expert on dynamical systems

- Katherine Johnson (1918–2020), calculated the trajectory for Project Mercury and the 1969 Apollo 11 flight to the Moon

- Marion Lee Johnson, African-American mathematician, helped calculate trajectories for the Apollo 11 Moon landing

- Roberta Frances Johnson (1902–1988), American mathematics educator

- Antonia J. Jones (1943–2010), British mathematician and computer scientist

- Eleanor Jones (1929–2021), one of the first African American women to receive a PhD in mathematics

- Shelly M. Jones, American mathematics educator

- Nataša Jonoska (born 1961), Macedonian-American expert in DNA computing

- Kerstin Jordaan, president of South African Mathematical Society

- Artishia Wilkerson Jordan (1901–1974), African-American mathematics educator and clubwoman

- Nicole M. Joseph, American scholar of mathematics education focusing on the experiences of African-American women and girls in mathematics

- Nalini Joshi, researcher in differential equations, Australian Laureate Fellow, Hardy Lecturer, president of Australian Mathematical Society

- Josephine Jue, Chinese-American mathematician, compiler, and programmer, first Asian-American woman at NASA

## K

- Margarethe Kahn (1880–c. 1942), one of the first female German doctorates, contributed to Hilbert's sixteenth problem

- Suzan Kahramaner (1913–2006), one of the first female mathematicians in Turkish academia

- Delaram Kahrobaei, Iranian-American applied algebraist and post-quantum cryptographer

- Gabriele Kaiser, German mathematics educator

- Nataliya Kalashnykova, Soviet-Mexican expert on bilevel optimization

- Efstratia Kalfagianni, Greek-American topologist

- Eva Kallin, American researcher in geometric axiom systems, functional algebra, and polynomial convexity

- Gudrun Kalmbach (born 1937), German quantum logician

- Anne-Sophie Kaloghiros, French algebraic geometer

- Barbara Kaltenbacher, Austrian applied analyst, president of Austrian Mathematical Society

- Hermine Agavni Kalustyan (1914–1989), Armenian-Turkish mathematician and politician

- Constance Kamii (died 2023), Swiss-Japanese-American mathematics education scholar and psychologist

- Shoshana Kamin (born 1930), Soviet-Israeli mathematical physicist, wrote about parabolic partial differential equations

- Rosella Kanarik (1909–2014), American mathematics professor and educator

- Mihyun Kang, South Korean graph theorist

- Chiu-Yen Kao (born 1974), Taiwanese-American expert in image processing and mathematical biology

- Gizem Karaali, Turkish representation theorist, founding editor of Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

- Mary Cordia Karl (1893–1984), American geometer

- Carol Karp (1926–1972), American researcher on infinitary logic, viola player

- Yael Karshon (born 1964), Israeli-Canadian expert on symplectic geometry

- Elaine Kasimatis, American discrete geometer and mathematics educator

- Haya Kaspi (born 1948), Israeli probability theorist

- Fanny Kassel (born 1984), French expert on Lie groups

- Svetlana Katok (born 1947), Russian-American founder of Electronic Research Announcements of the AMS

- Yoshie Katsurada (1911–1980), Japanese differential geometer, first Japanese woman with a doctorate or professorship in mathematics

- Bruria Kaufman (1918–2010), Israeli theoretical physicist who collaborated with Einstein on general relativity

- Kathleen Kavanagh, American mathematician, applies simulation-based engineering to water quality and sustainability

- Elham Kazemi (born 1970), Iranian-American mathematics educator

- Ailsa Keating, French-British symplectic geometer

- Rinat Kedem (born 1965), American mathematician and mathematical physicist

- Linda Keen (born 1940), American mathematician and computer scientist, president of AWM

- Lyudmila Keldysh (1904–1976), Russian set theorist and geometric topologist

- Ruth Kellerhals (born 1957), Swiss expert on hyperbolic geometry, geometric group theory and polylogarithm identities

- Christine Kelley, American coding theorist, director of Project NExT

- Julia Kempe, French, German, and Israeli researcher in quantum computing

- Claribel Kendall (1889–1965), one of the founders of the Rocky Mountain Section of the MAA

- Juliette Kennedy, mathematical logician in Finland

- Patricia Clark Kenschaft (born 1940), American mathematician, prolific book author, and activist for equity and diversity

- Autumn Kent, American mathematician specializing in topology and geometry, promoter of transgender rights

- Deborah Kent (born 1978), American historian of mathematics

- Leah Keshet, Israeli-Canadian mathematical biologist, first female president of the Society for Mathematical Biology

- Radha Kessar, Indian mathematician known for her research in the representation theory of finite groups

- Jennifer Key, South African mathematician, expert on group theory, finite geometry, combinatorial designs, and coding theory

- Barbara Keyfitz (born 1944), Canadian-American researcher on nonlinear partial differential equations, president of AWM and ICIAM

- Lily Khadjavi, American mathematician, author on mathematics for social justice

- 'Mamphono Khaketla (born 1960), Lesotho mathematician, senator, and finance minister

- Olga Kharlampovich (born 1958), Russian-Canadian group theorist who solved the Tarski conjecture on first-order theories of free groups

- Carolyn Kieran, Canadian mathematics educator

- Anna Kiesenhofer (born 1991), Austrian cyclist and mathematical physicist

- Misha Kilmer, American applied mathematician known for research in numerical linear algebra and scientific computing

- Eun Jung Kim, South Korean researcher in parameterized complexity and graph width

- Ju-Lee Kim (born 1969), Korean-American expert on the representation theory of p -adic groups

- Chawne Kimber (born 1971), African-American mathematician and quilter, incorporates social justice into mathematics teaching

- Amy C. King (1928–2014), American mathematics educator

- Angie Turner King (1905–2004), American mathematics and chemistry educator

- Karen D. King (1971–2019), African-American mathematics educator and Falconer Lecturer

- L. Christine Kinsey, American topologist and textbook author

- Faina Mihajlovna Kirillova (born 1931), Belarusian optimal control theorist

- Vivien Kirk, New Zealand dynamical systems theorist, president of New Zealand Mathematical Society

- Ellen Kirkman, American algebraist

- Denise Kirschner, American mathematical biologist and immunologist

- Frances Kirwan (born 1959), British specialist in algebraic and symplectic geometry

- Virginia Kiryakova, Bulgarian mathematician, expert on fractional calculus and special functions

- Jane Kister, British-American mathematical logician, editor of Mathematical Reviews

- Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen, Danish researcher in mathematics education and the philosophy and history of mathematics

- Kathrin Klamroth (born 1968), German expert on combinatorial optimization and facility location

- Erica Klarreich (born 1972), American geometer and writer

- Maria Klawe (born 1951), Canadian-American theoretical computer scientist, president of Harvey Mudd College

- Caroline Klivans, American algebraic combinatorist, expert on chip-firing games

- Małgorzata Klimek (born 1957), Polish mathematician, expert on fractional calculus

- Genevieve M. Knight (1939–2021), African-American mathematics educator

- Julia F. Knight, American specialist in model theory and computability theory

- Sarah Koch (born 1979), American complex analyst and complex dynamicist

- Eleanor Krawitz Kolchin (1927–2019), American mathematician, programmer, and astronomer, calculated orbits for the Apollo program

- Tamara G. Kolda, American applied mathematician at Sandia National Laboratories

- Natalia Komarova, Russian-American mathematician, studies cancer, language, gun control, pop music, and other complex systems

- Nancy Kopell (born 1942), American researcher in the dynamics of the nervous system

- Elaine Koppelman (1937–2019), American mathematician

- Maria Korovina (born 1962), Russian research on functional spaces and differential equations

- Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach (born 1941), French differential geometer, namesake of the Kosmann lift

- Ekaterina Kostina, Belarusian-German expert on nonlinear optimization

- Motoko Kotani (born 1960), Japanese discrete geometric analyst and academic administrator

- Sofya Kovalevskaya (1850–1891), first major Russian female mathematician, worked in analysis, differential equations and mechanics

- Bryna Kra (born 1966), American mathematician who applies dynamical systems in number theory and combinatorics

- Edna Kramer (1902–1984), American mathematician and author of mathematics books

- Gunilla Kreiss (born 1958), Swedish numerical analyst

- Cecilia Krieger (1894–1974), third person and first woman to earn a Canadian mathematics PhD, translator of Sierpiński

- Holly Krieger, American dynamical systems theorist

- Anna Zofia Krygowska (1904–1988), Polish mathematician known for her work in mathematics education

- Ewa Kubicka, Polish-American graph theorist and actuarial scientist

- Vera Kublanovskaya (1920–2012), Russian inventor of the QR algorithm for computing eigenvalues and eigenvectors

- Daniela Kühn (born 1973), German-English combinatorialist, expert on infinite graphs, winner of the Whitehead Prize

- Radhika Kulkarni, Indian-American operations researcher, president of INFORMS

- Angela Kunoth (born 1963), German numerical analyst

- Frances Kuo, Taiwanese-Australian applied mathematician, expert on quasi-Monte Carlo methods

- Krystyna Kuperberg (born 1944), Polish-American topologist who found a smooth counterexample to the Seifert conjecture

- Věra Kůrková (born 1948), Czech expert in neural networks and approximation theory

- Rachel Kuske (born 1965), American-Canadian expert on stochastic and nonlinear dynamics, asymptotic methods, and industrial mathematics

- Klavdija Kutnar (born 1980), Slovenian algebraic graph theorist and academic administrator

- Gitta Kutyniok (born 1972), German researcher in harmonic analysis, compressed sensing, and image processing

## L

- Izabella Łaba (born 1966), Polish-Canadian specialist in harmonic analysis, geometric measure theory, and additive combinatorics

- Carole Lacampagne, American mathematician known for her work in mathematics education and gender equality

- Christine Ladd-Franklin (1847–1930), American psychologist, logician, and mathematician

- Jeanne LaDuke (born 1938), American child actress, mathematical analyst, and historian of mathematics

- Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922–2004), Soviet mathematician, proved convergence of a finite difference method for Navier–Stokes

- V. Lakshmibai, Indian-American expert on flag varieties and Schubert varieties

- Matilde Lalín, Argentine-Canadian number theorist, expert on L-functions and Mahler measure

- Lam Lay Yong (born 1936), Singaporean historian of mathematics, claimed Chinese origin for Hindu-Arabic numerals

- Ailsa Land, British operations researcher known for developing branch and bound algorithms

- Susan Landau (born 1954), American mathematician and computer scientist, known for internet security and denesting radicals

- Mary Landers (1905–1991), American mathematician, activist for academic collective bargaining

- Kerry Landman, Australian applied mathematician

- Alicia Prieto Langarica, American applied mathematician

- Tanja Lange, German number theorist and cryptographer

- Amy Langville (born 1975), American college basketball star and expert on ranking systems

- Loredana Lanzani (born 1965), Italian-American harmonic analyst

- Glenda Lappan (born 1939), developed Connected Mathematics curriculum, led National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

- Ruth Lara (1936–2000), Portuguese-Angolan educator, mathematician, translator, and activist, briefly first lady of Angola

- Gillie Larew (1882–1977), American mathematician, first alumna of Randolph–Macon Woman's College to become full professor there

- Jean Ann Larson, American set theorist and historian of mathematical logic

- Elisabeth Larsson (born 1971), Swedish researcher in scientific computing

- Irena Lasiecka (born 1948), Polish-American expert in control theory of partial differential equations

- Renu C. Laskar (born 1932), Indian-American graph theorist, specialist in domination numbers and circular arc graphs

- Klavdiya Latysheva (1897–1956), Soviet mathematician, contributed to differential equations, electrodynamics and probability

- Monique Laurent (born 1960), French-Dutch expert in mathematical optimization

- Kristin Lauter (born 1969), American researcher in elliptic curve cryptography, president of AWM

- Anna Lawniczak (born 1953), Polish-Canadian applied mathematician and cellular automatist

- Emille D. Lawrence, American topological graph theorist

- Ruth Lawrence (born 1971), child prodigy, British-Israeli researcher in knot theory and algebraic topology

- Snezana Lawrence, Yugoslav and British historian of mathematics

- Anneli Cahn Lax (1922–1999), American mathematician, winner of the George Pólya Award

- Anita Layton, Hong Kong-American applied mathematician who studies mathematical models of kidney function

- Katherine Puckett Layton, American mathematics educator and textbook author

- Lê Thị Thanh Nhàn (born 1970), Vietnamese mathematician, vice rector for Science at Thái Nguyên University, won Kovalevskaya Prize

- Alice Lee (1858–1939), helped discredit craniology

- Heisook Lee (born 1948), South Korean algebraist and algebraic coding theorist

- Hollylynne Lee, American mathematics and statistics educator

- Joceline Lega, French applied mathematician interested in nonlinear dynamics

- Anne M. Leggett, American mathematical logician, editor of AWM Newsletter

- Emma Lehmer (1906–2007), Russian-American mathematician known for work on reciprocity laws in algebraic number theory

- Marguerite Lehr (1898–1987), pioneer in the use of television to teach mathematics

- Tanya Leise, American biomathematician, expert in circadian rhythms

- Joan Leitzel (born 1936), American mathematics educator and university administrator

- Miriam Leiva, Cuban-American mathematics educator

- Anne Lemaître (born 1957), Belgian applied mathematician, expert on orbital resonance and space debris

- Mary Leng, British philosopher of mathematics

- Frédérique Lenger (1921–2005), Belgian mathematics educator and leader of the New Math movement

- Suzanne Lenhart (born 1954), American researcher in partial differential equations, president of AWM

- Ulrike Leopold-Wildburger (born 1949), Austrian mathematical economist, applied mathematician, and operations researcher

- Katrin Leschke (born 1968), German differential geometer, quaternionic analyst, and minimal surface theorist

- Nandi Olive Leslie, American industrial mathematician

- Gail Letzter (born 1960), American quantum group representation theorist and intelligence agency executive

- Annie Leuch-Reineck (1880–1978), Swiss mathematician and women's rights activist

- Debbie Leung, Canadian expert in quantum communications

- Rachel Levy (born 1968), American applied mathematician, mathematics educator, and blogger

- Sophia Levy (1888–1963), American astronomer, numerical analyst, and mathematics educator

- Marta Lewicka (born 1972), Polish expert in nonlinear elasticity

- Florence Lewis (1877–1964), American mathematician and astronomer

- Marie Lhuissier (born 1989), French mathematical storyteller and children's book author

- Jing-Rebecca Li, applied mathematician in France, studies magnetic resonance imaging and Lyapunov equations

- Sherry Li, Chinese-American developer of sparse parallel solvers for systems of linear equations

- Winnie Li (born 1948), Chinese-American researcher in number theory, coding theory, automorphic forms, and spectral graph theory

- Paulette Libermann (1919–2007), French specialist in differential geometry

- Pamela Liebeck (1930–2012), British mathematician and mathematics educator

- Lillian Rosanoff Lieber (1886–1986), American mathematics professor and author of popular books on science and mathematics

- Magnhild Lien, Norwegian mathematician specializing in knot theory

- Nelly Litvak (born 1972), Russian and Dutch complex network theorist

- Elizaveta Litvinova (1845–c. 1919), Russian mathematician and biographer, defied czar's order forbidding women to study abroad

- Bonnie Litwiller (1937–2012), American mathematics educator and textbook author

- Marie Litzinger (1899–1952), American number theorist

- Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu (born 1974), Taiwanese-American researcher in algebraic geometry and symplectic geometry

- Naomi Livesay (1916–2001), human computer and mechanical calculator programmer for the Manhattan Project

- Klara Löbenstein (1883–1968), German researcher in algebraic geometry

- Patti Frazer Lock (born 1953), American mathematics and statistics educator and textbook author

- Deborah Frank Lockhart, administrator at the National Science Foundation

- Susan Loepp (born 1967), American algebraist and cryptographer

- Marina Logares (born 1976), Spanish geometer and LGBT+ activist

- Mayme Logsdon (1881–1967), American algebraic geometer and mathematics educator

- Louise Zung-nyi Loh (1900–1981), Chinese mathematician, physicist, and educator

- Sara Lombardo, Italian mathematician, expert on rogue waves and integrable systems

- Ling Long (mathematician), Chinese-American expert on modular forms, elliptic surfaces, and dessins d'enfants

- Lynette Long, American psychologist, mathematics educator, and textbook author

- Carlotta Longo (1895- after 1959), Italian mathematical physicist and high school teacher

- Judith Q. Longyear (1938–1995), American researcher in graph theory and combinatorics

- Maria Laura Moura Mouzinho Leite Lopes (1917–2013), first Brazilian woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics

- Paola Loreti, Italian researcher in Fourier analysis, control theory, and non-integer bases

- Lisa Lorentzen, Norwegian mathematician and author, specializing in continued fractions

- Dawn Lott, African-American expert on numerical partial differential equations

- Ada Lovelace (1815–1852), wrote the first computer program as part of her work on Babbage's Analytical Engine

- María Teresa Lozano Imízcoz (born 1946), Spanish low-dimensional topologist

- Sylvia Chin-Pi Lu (1928–2014), Chinese-American commutative algebraist

- Katarzyna Lubnauer (born 1969), Polish probability theorist and politician

- Edith Hirsch Luchins (1921–2002), Polish-American mathematician, experimented on psychology of mathematical problem solving

- Maria Silvia Lucido (1963–2008), Italian mathematician, expert on the prime graphs of finite groups

- Malwina Łuczak, Polish-Australian probability theorist

- Monika Ludwig (born 1966), Austrian researcher in convex geometry, member of Austrian Academy of Sciences

- Alessandra Lunardi (born 1958), Italian mathematical analyst

- Xiaoyu Luo, Chinese and British applied mathematician, applies fluid dynamics and biomechanics to soft tissues

- Élisabeth Lutz (1914–2008), French student of Weil, showed how to compute torsion subgroups of elliptic curves

- Julie Lutz (born 1944), American astronomer and mathematician who studies planetary nebulae and symbiotic binary stars

- Sonja Lyttkens (1919–2014), Swedish mathematician, first Swedish woman to obtain a permanent academic position in mathematics

## M

- Odile Macchi (born 1943), French mathematician and physicist

- Marta Macho Stadler (born 1962), Basque expert on foliations and mathematical blogger

- Barbara MacCluer, American expert on operator theory and author on functional analysis

- Brenda MacGibbon, Canadian mathematician, statistician, and decision scientist

- Sheila Scott Macintyre (1910–1960), Scottish researcher on the Whittaker constant, co-author of German–English mathematics dictionary

- Iris Mack (1956–2022), American financial mathematician and edutainment author

- Annie MacKinnon (1868–1940), Canadian-born American mathematician, third woman to earn a mathematics doctorate at an American university

- Diane Maclagan (born 1974), expert on toric varieties, Hilbert schemes, and tropical geometry

- Chrystal Macmillan (1872–1937), Scottish Liberal politician, barrister, feminist and pacifist, first female honours graduate in mathematics from University of Edinburgh

- Jessie MacWilliams (1917–1990), English researcher on error-correcting codes

- Kathleen Madden, American expert on dynamical systems

- Isabel Maddison (1869–1950), British mathematician known for her work on differential equations

- Penelope Maddy (born 1950), American philosopher of mathematics

- Urmila Mahadev, American quantum computing researcher

- Dorothy Maharam (1917–2014), American mathematician who made important contributions to measure theory

- Carolyn A. Maher, American expert in mathematics education

- Carolyn Mahoney (born 1946), African-American combinatorialist, president of Lincoln University of Missouri

- Apala Majumdar, British expert on liquid crystals

- Larisa Maksimova (born 1943), Russian mathematical logician

- Agnieszka Malinowska, Polish expert on fractional calculus and the calculus of variations

- Maryanthe Malliaris, American mathematician specializing in model theory

- Marie-Paule Malliavin (1935–2019), French algebraist

- Vivienne Malone-Mayes (1932–1995), fifth African-American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics, researcher in functional analysis

- Eugenia Malinnikova (born 1974), Russian-Norwegian expert in functional analysis and partial differential equations

- Claudia Malvenuto (born 1965), Italian mathematician known for her work on the Hopf algebra of permutations

- Michelle Manes, American mathematician interested in number theory, algebraic geometry, and dynamical systems

- Kathryn Mann, geometric topologist and geometric group theorist

- Cristina Manolache, British algebraic geometer

- Renata Mansini (born 1968), Italian applied mathematician, uses mathematical optimization for portfolio balancing

- Elizabeth Mansfield, Australian expert on moving frames and conservation laws

- Lisa Mantini, American mathematician

- Elena Mantovan, Italian-American arithmetic geometer

- María Manzano (born 1950), Spanish mathematical logician

- Elena Marchisotto (born 1945), American mathematician, mathematics educator, and historian of mathematics

- Anna Marciniak-Czochra (born 1974), Polish applied mathematician and mathematical biologist

- Matilde Marcolli (born 1969), Italian mathematical physicist

- Fotini Markopoulou-Kalamara (born 1971), Greek theoretical physicist interested in foundational mathematics and quantum mechanics

- Hannah Markwig (born 1980), German researcher in tropical geometry

- Alison Marr (born 1980), American graph theorist and advocate of inquiry-based learning

- Karen Marrongelle, American mathematics educator and academic administrator

- Bethany Rose Marsh, British expert in cluster algebras and tilting theory

- Susan H. Marshall, American number theorist

- Maia Martcheva, Bulgarian-American mathematical biologist

- Laura Martignon (born 1952), Colombian-Italian researcher in neuroscience and decision-making

- Emilie Martin (1869–1936), American group theorist

- Mireille Martin-Deschamps, French algebraic geometer, president of Société mathématique de France

- Consuelo Martínez (born 1955), Spanish algebraist

- María del Carmen Martínez Sancho (1901–1995), first woman in Spain to gain a PhD in Mathematics

- Verónica Martínez de la Vega (born 1971), Mexican hypertopologist

- Katalin Marton (1941–2019), Hungarian information and probability theorist

- Susan Martonosi, American mathematician, applies operations research to counter-terrorism, epidemiology, and sports analytics

- Roswitha März (born 1940), German expert on differential-algebraic equations

- Verdiana Masanja (born 1954), first Tanzanian woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics

- Joanna Masingila (born 1960), American mathematics educator

- Vera Nikolaevna Maslennikova (1926–2000), Russian researcher on partial differential equations, hydrodynamics of rotating fluids, and function spaces

- Maura Mast, Irish-American differential geometer, mathematics educator, textbook author, and academic administrator

- Claire Mathieu (born 1965), French algorithms researcher

- Gordana Matic, Croatian-American low-dimensional topologist, expert on contact topology

- Kaisa Matomäki (born 1985), Finnish number theorist known for her work on multiplicative functions over short intervals

- Gretchen Matthews (born 1973), American algebraic coding theorist

- Lilian Matthiesen, applies Fourier analysis to Diophantine geometry

- Laura Matusevich, Argentine commutative algebraist

- Margaret Maxfield (1926–2016), American mathematician and mathematics book author

- Lola J. May (1923–2007), American mathematics educator and early proponent of new math

- Svitlana Mayboroda (born 1981), Ukrainian-American expert on boundary value problems for elliptic partial differential equations

- Ellen Maycock (born 1950), American functional analyst and mathematics educator

- Joanna Isabel Mayer (1904–1991), American mathematician and educator

- Francesca Mazzia (born 1967), Italian numerical analyst

- Anna Mazzucato, American expert on fluid dynamics

- Shirley McBay (1935–2021), first African-American doctorate at the University of Georgia

- Mary McCammon (c. 1928 – 2008), first woman to complete a doctoral degree in mathematics at Imperial College London

- Maeve McCarthy, Irish mathematician interested in inverse problems and biological modeling

- Lynne McClure, British mathematics educator

- Allison McCoy, American bioinformatician specializing in applied clinical informatics

- Dorothy McCoy (1903–2001), American mathematician, first female doctorate in mathematics at University of Iowa

- Janet McDonald (1905–2006), American geometer

- Dusa McDuff FRS (born 1945), English researcher on symplectic geometry, winner of Satter Prize, first female Hardy Lecturer

- Elizabeth McHarg (1923–1999), Scottish mathematician and translator, first female president of Edinburgh Mathematical Society

- Lois Curfman McInnes, American researcher on numerical solution of nonlinear partial differential equations for scientific applications

- Camille McKayle (born 1964), Afro-Jamaican-American mathematician and academic administrator

- Danica McKellar (born 1975), American actor, author, mathematician, and education advocate

- Joyce McLaughlin (1939–2017), American researcher in inverse problems

- Jeanette McLeod, New Zealand combinatorialist, popularizes mathematics through crochet and origami

- Jennifer McLoud-Mann, Cherokee mathematician who discovered the 15th and last class of convex pentagons that tile the plane

- Jenny McNulty, American matroid theorist and academic administrator

- Sallie Pero Mead (1893–1981), American human computer and radar engineer

- Catherine Meadows, American cryptographer who formally verifies cryptographic protocols

- Florence Marie Mears (1896–1995), American specialist in summation methods

- Elizabeth Meckes (1980–2020), American probability theorist

- Nicole Megow, German discrete mathematician and theoretical computer scientist, researcher in scheduling algorithms

- Ulrike Meier Yang, German-American expert on numerical algorithms for scientific computing

- Beatrice Meini (born 1968), Italian computational mathematician and numerical analyst

- Sylvie Méléard, French probability theorist

- Pauline Mellon, Irish functional analyst, president of Irish Mathematical Society

- Karin Melnick, American differential geometer

- Teresa Melo (born 1966), Portuguese mathematician and operations researcher

- Florence Merlevède, French probability theorist

- Helen Abbot Merrill (1864–1949), American mathematician, educator and textbook author

- Winifred Edgerton Merrill (1862–1951), first woman with a degree from Columbia University and first American female doctorate in mathematics

- Adele Merritt, American applied mathematician and intelligence officer

- Uta Merzbach (1933–2017), German-American historian of mathematics, first Smithsonian curator of mathematical instruments

- Vilma Mesa, Colombian-American mathematics educator

- Chikako Mese, American differential geometer

- Jill P. Mesirov, American mathematician, computer scientist, and computational biologist, president of AWM

- Jaqueline Mesquita (born 1985), Brazilian mathematician specializing in differential equations

- Dora Metcalf (1892–1982), British mathematician and data analysis entrepreneur

- Ida Martha Metcalf (1857–1952), second American female doctorate in mathematics

- Catherine Meusburger (born 1978), German mathematical physicist interested in string theory

- Ariane Mézard, French arithmetic geometer

- Marie-Louise Michelsohn (born 1941), American researcher on complex geometry, spin manifolds, the Dirac operator, and algebraic cycles

- Ruth I. Michler (1967–2000), American commutative algebraist and algebraic geometer

- Kaisa Miettinen (born 1965), Finnish industrial optimization researcher and academic administrator

- Ana Millán Gasca (born 1964), Spanish historian of science and scholar of mathematics education

- Alison Miller, first American female gold medalist in the International Mathematical Olympiad, three-time Elizabeth Lowell Putnam award winner

- Laura Miller, American mathematician, applies fluid dynamics to insect flight and jellyfish propulsion

- Maggie Miller, American low-dimensional topologist

- Mirka Miller (1949–2016), Czech-Australian graph theorist, data security expert

- Margaret Millington (1944–1973), English expert on modular forms

- Susan Milner, Canadian mathematics educator, popularizer of mathematics through puzzles and games

- Eva Miranda, Spanish expert on symplectic dynamics

- Marie Lynn Miranda, American data scientist and professor of applied computational mathematics and statistics

- Rosa M. Miró-Roig (born 1960), Spanish algebraic geometer and commutative algebraist

- Maryam Mirzakhani (1977–2017), first female Fields medalist; researcher on the symmetry of curved surfaces

- Yuliya Mishura, Ukrainian probability theorist and mathematical finance expert

- Josephine M. Mitchell (1912–2000), Canadian-American mathematical analyst, victim of discriminative application of anti-nepotism rules

- Dorina Mitrea (born 1965), Romanian-American functional analyst and mathematics educator

- Irina Mitrea, Romanian-American researcher in partial differential equations known for outreach to women and minorities

- Yash Mittal (born 1941), first female program director for probability at US National Science Foundation

- Atsuko Miyaji (born 1965), Japanese cryptographer and number theorist

- Reiko Miyaoka (born 1951), Japanese geometer known for her research on hypersurfaces

- Fatma Moalla (born 1939), first Tunisian woman to earn a French doctorate in mathematics

- Colette Moeglin (born 1953), French expert on automorphic forms

- Joanne Moldenhauer (1928–2016), American high school mathematics teacher

- Amanda Montejano, Mexican graph theorist, expert in coloring geometric graphs

- Clemency Montelle (born 1977), New Zealand historian of Indian mathematics and astronomy

- Susan Montgomery (born 1943), American researcher in noncommutative algebra

- Helen Moore, American mathematician who applies control theory to combination therapy in the health industry

- Gisèle Mophou, Cameroonian numerical analyst in the French Antilles

- Cathleen Synge Morawetz (1923–2017), Canadian-American researcher on the partial differential equations governing fluid flow

- Anne C. Morel, American logician, order theorist, and algebraist, first female full professor of mathematics at the University of Washington

- Sophie Morel (born 1979), French number theorist and contributor to the Langlands program, first female tenured mathematics professor at Harvard

- Eugenie Maria Morenus (1881–1966), American mathematician and professor

- Susan Morey, American mathematician specializing in commutative algebra

- Carolyn Morgan, American statistician and applied mathematician

- Hélène Morlon (born 1978), French mathematical biologist, models biodiversity

- Irene Moroz, British applied mathematician

- Joy Morris (born 1970), Canadian researcher on groups and graphs

- Kirsten Morris (born 1960), Canadian control theorist

- Rosa M. Morris (1914–2011), Welsh applied mathematician and aerodynamicist

- Jennifer Morse, American algebraic combinatorialist

- Rose Morton (1925–1999), American expert in the mathematical modeling of bubbles

- Joan Moschovakis, American intuitionistic logician

- Ruth Moufang (1905–1977), German researcher on non-associative algebraic structures, namesake of Moufang loops

- Magdalena Mouján (1926–2005), Argentine mathematician of Basque descent, operations researcher, computing pioneer, and science fiction author

- Nežka Mramor–Kosta, Slovenian mathematician

- Jennifer Mueller, American applied mathematician, expert in inverse problems and electrical impedance tomography

- Edith Alice Müller (1918–1995), Swiss mathematician and astronomer, studied the group theory of Moorish tile designs

- Anna Mullikin (1893–1975), American mathematician, early investigator of point set theory

- Irene Mulvey, American mathematician, president of American Association of University Professors

- Anca Muscholl (born 1967), Romanian-German mathematical logician and theoretical computer scientist

- Kieka Mynhardt (born 1953), South African and Canadian expert on dominating sets in graph theory

- Emmy Murphy, American symplectic geometer

- Cecilia Wangechi Mwathi (1963–2011), Kenyan mathematician and union activist, first woman in Kenya to become a mathematics professor

- Valerie Myerscough (1942–1980), British mathematician and astrophysicist

- Vera Myller (1880–1970), Russian mathematician and student of David Hilbert, first female professor in Romania

- Wendy Myrvold, Canadian graph theorist, combinatorist, and algorithms researcher

## N

- Anna Nagurney, Ukrainian-American mathematician, economist, educator and author in operations management

- Hasibun Naher, Pakistani applied mathematician who studies tsunamis

- Andrea R. Nahmod (born 1964), American expert in nonlinear Fourier analysis, harmonic analysis, and partial differential equations

- Pia Nalli (1884–1964), Italian researcher in functional analysis and tensor calculus

- Seema Nanda, Indian researcher in applications of mathematics to biology, engineering and finance

- Mangala Narlikar, Indian number theorist, author of Marathi-language mathematics books for schoolchildren

- Tamilla Nasirova (1936–2023), Azerbaijani probability theorist

- Sonia Natale (born 1972), Argentine expert in abstract algebra

- Caryn Navy (born 1953), blind American researcher in set-theoretic topology and Braille technology

- Lyudmyla Nazarova, Ukrainian representation theorist

- Vicky Neale, British number theorist and mathematics popularizer

- Gabriele Nebe (born 1967), German researcher on sphere packings, lattices, and codes

- Deanna Needell, American applied mathematician, won 2016 IMA Prize in Mathematics and Applications

- Sara Negri (born 1967), Italian-Finnish proof theorist

- Evelyn Nelson (1943–1987), Canadian researcher in universal algebra with applications to theoretical computer science

- Gail S. Nelson (born 1959), American mathematician, textbook author, and editor-in-chief of the MAA "Problem Books"

- Nancy Neudauer, American matroid theorist known for her work in mathematical outreach in Africa and South America

- Claudia Neuhauser (born 1962), German-American mathematical biologist whose research concerns spatial ecology

- Hanna Neumann (1914–1971), German-born mathematician who worked on group theory

- Adriana Neumann de Oliveira, Brazilian expert in interacting particle systems

- Mara Neusel (1964–2014), German-American invariant theorist and advocate for women in mathematics

- Monica Nevins (born 1973), Canadian algebraist

- Virginia Newell (born 1917), American mathematics educator, author, politician, and centenarian

- Mary Frances Winston Newson (1869–1959), first female American to receive a PhD in mathematics from a European university

- Sylvia de Neymet (1939–2013), First Mexican woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics in Mexico

- Purity Ngina, Kenyan biomathematician

- Giang Nguyen (born 1985), Vietnamese-Australian applied mathematician and chess master

- Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin (born 1983), Irish celebrity and mathematics lecturer

- Nancy K. Nichols, British applied mathematician and numerical analyst

- Olympia Nicodemi, American mathematician and mathematics educator interested in wavelets and the history of mathematics

- Phyllis Nicolson (1917–1968), British developer of the Crank–Nicolson method for solving partial differential equations

- Barbara Niethammer (born 1963), German expert on the growth of particles in liquids

- Sofía Nieto (born 1984), Spanish mathematician and actress

- Nilima Nigam, Indian-Canadian applied mathematician and mathematical physiologist

- Stanisława Nikodym (1897–1988), first Polish woman to earn PhD in mathematics, known for research in continuum theory

- Mila Nikolova (1962–2018), Bulgarian researcher in image processing, inverse problems, and compressed sensing

- Kumiko Nishioka (born 1954), Japanese specialist on transcendental numbers and Mahler functions

- Wiesława Nizioł, Polish researcher in arithmetic algebraic geometry

- Emmy Noether (1882–1935), German researcher in abstract algebra and theoretical physics, named "the greatest woman mathematician of all time"

- Margarita Nolasco Santiago, Mathematics textbook author, member of Puerto Rico Senate

- Khalida Inayat Noor, Pakistani mathematical analyst

- Dorothée Normand-Cyrot, French control theorist

- Anne van den Nouweland, Dutch-American cooperative game theorist

- Isabella Novik (born 1971), Israeli-American expert on algebraic and geometric combinatorics

- Frieda Nugel (1884–1966), one of the first German women to obtain a doctorate in mathematics

- Helena J. Nussenzveig Lopes, Brazilian mathematician known for her research on incompressible Euler equations

- Kaisa Nyberg (born 1948), Finnish cryptographer

## O

- Katharine Elizabeth O'Brien (1901–1986), American mathematician, musician and poet

- Vivian O'Brien (1924–2010), American applied mathematician and physicist, expert in fluid dynamics and visual perception

- Hilary Ockendon, British applied mathematician, expert in fluid dynamics

- Ortrud Oellermann, South African and Canadian graph theorist

- Yoshiko Ogata, Japanese quantum mathematical physicist

- Frédérique Oggier, Swiss and Singaporean coding theorist

- Hee Oh (born 1969), Korean-American dynamical systems theorist, expert on equidistribution in fractal structures

- Eve Oja (1948–2019), Estonian functional analyst

- Christine O'Keefe, Australian researcher in finite geometry and information security

- Kathleen Adebola Okikiolu (born 1965), British-American researcher on differential operators, developed curricula for inner-city children

- Dianne P. O'Leary (born 1951), American expert on scientific computing, computational linear algebra, and the history of scientific computing

- Janis Oldham (1956–2021), African-American differential geometer and mathematics educator

- Olga Oleinik (1925–2001), Soviet researcher on partial differential equations, elastic media, and boundary layers

- Dorte Olesen (born 1948), first Danish mathematician to be appointed full professor

- Gloria Olive (1923–2006), American-born New Zealand mathematician

- Déborah Oliveros, Mexican discrete and convex geometer

- Kathleen Ollerenshaw (1912–2014), British mathematician and politician, mayor of Manchester, educational advisor to Margaret Thatcher

- Yewande Olubummo (born 1960), Nigerian-American functional analyst

- Rebecca Walo Omana (born 1951), first female mathematics professor in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

- Cathy O'Neil, American arithmetic algebraic geometer and author on the social hazards of machine learning

- Eugenia O'Reilly-Regueiro, Mexican algebraic combinatorist

- Rosa Orellana, American mathematician specializing in algebraic combinatorics and representation theory

- Ewa Orłowska (born 1935), Polish logician

- Omayra Ortega, American mathematical epidemiologist

- Laura Ortíz-Bobadilla, Mexican expert on holomorphic foliations

- Hinke Osinga (born 1969), Dutch expert in dynamical systems, crocheted the Lorenz manifold

- Barbara L. Osofsky (born 1937), American algebraist, first woman in 50 years to address a national AMS meeting, first female AMS journal editor

- Mina Ossiander, American probability theorist

- Sofiya Ostrovska (born 1958), Ukrainian probability theorist and approximation theorist

- Marie Françoise Ouedraogo (born 1967), Burkinabé expert on pseudodifferential operators and superalgebras, president of African Women in Mathematics Association

- Helen Brewster Owens (1881–1968), American suffragette, associate editor of the American Mathematical Monthly

- Robyn Owens, Australian applied mathematician, studies computer vision including face recognition and the imaging of lactation

## P

- Ietje Paalman-de Miranda (1936–2020), Surinamese–Dutch mathematician, first female mathematics professor at University of Amsterdam

- Harriet Padberg (1922–2014), mathematician, music therapist, and pioneer of algorithmic music composition

- Mariolina Padula (died 2012), Italian expert on fluid dynamics

- Christina Pagel, British German operations researcher, applies data analysis and mathematical modelling to health care

- Eleanor Pairman (1896–1973), Scottish mathematician, developed methods to teach mathematics to blind students

- Ilona Palásti (1924–1991), Hungarian researcher in discrete geometry, geometric probability, and random graphs

- Pandrosion (4th century AD), ancient Greek mathematician predating Hypatia, developed an approximation for cube roots

- Erika Pannwitz (1904–1975), German geometric topologist who proved that every knot has a quadrisecant

- Anna Panorska, Polish-American expert on extreme events in stochastic processes and on the effect of weather on baseball

- Greta Panova (born 1983), Bulgarian-American algebraic combinatorist

- Theoni Pappas (born 1944), American mathematics teacher and author of books on popular mathematics

- Raman Parimala (born 1948), Indian mathematician known for her contributions to algebra

- Clare Parnell (born 1970), British astrophysicist and applied mathematician, studies the mathematics of the sun and of magnetic fields

- Haesun Park, Korean-American researcher in numerical analysis and the data sciences

- Jinyoung Park, South Korean combinatorist

- Karen Parshall (born 1955), American historian of mathematics

- Griselda Pascual (1926–2001), Spanish algebraic number theorist and mathematics translator

- Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, Polish-American control theorist and mathematics educator

- Maria Pastori (1895–1975), Italian mathematician, specialist in rational mechanics

- Christine Paulin-Mohring (born 1962), French mathematical logician and computer scientist, developer of Coq theorem prover

- Barbara Paulson (1928–2023), American human computer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

- Nataša Pavlović, Serbian–American expert in fluid dynamics and nonlinear dispersive equations

- Sylvie Paycha (born 1960), French mathematician working in operator theory

- Sandrine Péché (born 1977), French expert on random matrices

- Jean Pedersen (1934–2016), American mathematician and author, expert on mathematical paper folding

- Irena Peeva, American researcher in commutative algebra and its applications

- Jeanne Peiffer (born 1948), Luxembourgian historian of mathematics

- Magda Peligrad, Romanian probability theorist known for her work on stochastic processes

- Beatrice Pelloni (born 1962), Italian expert on partial differential equations

- Rose Peltesohn (1913–1998), German-Israeli researcher in additive combinatorics

- Kirsi Peltonen, Finnish mathematician whose interests include differential geometry and the connections between mathematics and art

- Charlotte Elvira Pengra (1875–1916), sixth American woman to receive a doctorate in mathematics

- Cristina Pereyra (born 1964), Venezuelan mathematician, author of several books on wavelets and harmonic analysis

- Hazel Perfect (died 2015), British combinatorialist, author, and translator, inventor of gammoids

- Teri Perl (born 1926), American mathematics educator, educational software designer, and author

- Bernadette Perrin-Riou (born 1955), French number theorist, winner of the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize

- Mary Perry Smith (1926–2015), American mathematics educator, founder of MESA program for under-privileged students

- Karoline Pershell, American mathematician and roboticist

- Laura Person, American low-dimensional topologist

- Ilaria Perugia (born 1969), Italian applied mathematician and numerical analyst

- Adriana Pesci, Argentine fluid dynamicist, expert on flagellar motion, soap films, and the Leidenfrost effect

- Małgorzata Peszyńska (born 1962), Polish-American applied mathematician, models geological flow in porous media

- Rózsa Péter (1905–1977), recursion theorist, first woman elected to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

- Stefanie Petermichl (born 1971), German-French mathematical analyst, first female winner of the Salem Prize

- Louise Petrén-Overton (1880–1977), first Swedish woman with a doctorate in mathematics

- Guergana Petrova, Bulgarian applied mathematician, uses numerical methods to solve differential equations

- Sonja Petrović, American mathematical statistician

- Linda Petzold (born 1954), researcher in differential algebraic equations and simulation, member of National Academy of Engineering

- Julia Pevtsova, Russian-American representation theorist

- Mamokgethi Phakeng (born 1966), first black female South African to earn a PhD in mathematics education

- Flora Philip (1865–1943), first female member of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society

- Cynthia A. Phillips, American expert on combinatorial optimization

- Dominique Picard (born 1953), French expert on the statistical applications of wavelets

- Sophie Piccard (1904–1990), Russian-Swiss mathematician, first female full professor in Switzerland

- Lisa Piccirillo, American low-dimensional topologist

- Ragni Piene (born 1947), Norwegian algebraic geometer, member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

- Lillian Pierce, American mathematician whose research connects number theory with harmonic analysis

- Johanna Piesch (1898–1992), Austrian pioneer in switching algebra

- Marie Anne Victoire Pigeon (1724–1767), French mathematician, writer, and teacher

- Faustina Pignatelli (d. 1785), princess of Colubrano, second woman elected to the Academy of Sciences of Bologna

- Gabriella Pinzari, Italian expert on the n -body problem

- Jill Pipher (born 1955), researcher in harmonic analysis, Fourier analysis, differential equations, and cryptography, president of AWM

- Laura Pisati (died 1908), Italian mathematician, first woman invited to speak at International Congress of Mathematicians

- Elena Cornaro Piscopia (1646–1684), Italian philosopher, musician, and mathematics lecturer, first woman to earn a doctorate

- Toniann Pitassi, American-Canadian computational complexity theorist, expert on proof complexity

- Shirley Pledger, New Zealand mathematician and statistician known for her work on mark and recapture methods

- Vera Pless (1931–2020), American mathematician specializing in combinatorics and coding theory

- Kim Plofker (born 1964), American historian of Indian mathematics, winner of the Brouwer Medal

- Gerlind Plonka, German mathematician known for her work on refinable functions and curvelets

- Eileen Poiani, American mathematician, first woman to teach mathematics at Saint Peter's University, first female president of Pi Mu Epsilon

- Claudia Polini, Italian expert on commutative algebra

- Harriet Pollatsek (born 1942), Lie theorist who has applied difference sets to error correcting codes and coding theory

- Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina (1899–1999), Soviet researcher in fluid mechanics, hydrodynamics, and history of mathematics

- Elena Moldovan Popoviciu (1924–2009), Romanian functional analyst

- Freda Porter (born 1957), American applied mathematician, groundwater consultant, and Native American leader

- Claire Postlethwaite, New Zealand dynamical systems theorist

- Yvonne Pothier (born 1937), Canadian mathematics educator, Catholic nun, and activist for refugees

- Marian Pour-El (1928–2009), American mathematical logician and computable analyst

- Victoria Powers, American real algebraic geometer and social choice theorist

- Maria Assunta Pozio (died 2018), Italian expert on partial differential equations

- Cheryl Praeger (born 1948), Australian researcher in group theory, algebraic graph theory and combinatorial designs

- Malabika Pramanik, Indian-Canadian harmonic analyst

- Norma Presmeg, South African and American mathematics education researcher

- Eleanor C. Pressly (1918–2003), American mathematician and sounding rocket engineer

- Emma Previato (1952–2022), researcher in algebraic geometry and partial differential equations

- Candice Renee Price, American mathematician, advocate for greater representation of women and people of color in STEM

- Rachel Justine Pries, American arithmetic geometer and Galois theorist

- Hilary Priestley, British mathematician who used topological methods to study distributive lattices

- Elena Prieto-Rodriguez, Spanish and Australian mathematician, theoretical computer scientist, and mathematics educator

- Michela Procesi (born 1973), Italian expert in Hamiltonian partial differential equations

- Dorette Pronk (born 1968), Dutch and Canadian category theorist and mathematics contest leader

- Christine Proust (born 1953), French expert on Babylonian mathematics

- Mileva Prvanović (1929–2016), Serbian differential geometer, first to earn a doctorate in geometry in Serbia

- Danuta Przeworska-Rolewicz (1931–2012), Polish mathematician and resistance fighter in World War II

- Mary Pugh, American-Canadian expert on thin films

- Amber L. Puha, American probability theorist

- Jessica Purcell, American and Australian low-dimensional topologist

- Florence Purington (1862–1950), first dean of Mount Holyoke College

- Ulla Pursiheimo (born 1944), Finnish control theorist who became the first female mathematics professor in Finland

- Helena Pycior (born 1947), American historian of mathematics and expert on Marie Curie and human-animal relations

## Q

- Martine Queffélec (born 1949), French expert in substitution dynamical systems and Diophantine approximation

- Jennifer Quinn, American combinatorialist

- Peregrina Quintela Estévez (born 1960), Spanish applied mathematician

## R

- Ami Radunskaya, American mathematician, specializes in dynamical systems and applications to medical problems, president of AWM

- Virginia Ragsdale (1870–1945), American specialist in algebraic curves, formulated the Ragsdale conjecture

- Alison Ramage, British expert in preconditioning methods for numerical linear algebra

- Kavita Ramanan, Indian-American probability theorist

- Mythily Ramaswamy (born 1954), Indian functional analyst and control theorist

- Susan Miller Rambo (1883–1977), second woman awarded a PhD from the University of Michigan, delegate to 1928 ICM

- Sujatha Ramdorai (born 1962), Indian-Canadian algebraic number theorist, expert on Iwasawa theory

- Saly Ruth Ramler (1894–1993), first woman to earn a mathematics doctorate from Charles University

- Jacqui Ramagge, Australian mathematician and academic administrator, president of Australian Mathematical Society

- Asha Rao, Indian-Australian mathematician and expert in cybersecurity

- Annie Raoult (born 1951), French applied mathematician, models cell membranes and other thin nanostructures

- Helena Rasiowa (1917–1994), Polish researcher in the foundations of mathematics and algebraic logic

- Marina Ratner (1938–2017), Russian-American ergodic theorist, member of National Academy of Sciences

- Cora Ratto de Sadosky (1912–1981), Argentine mathematician and human rights activist

- Geneviève Raugel (1951–2019), French numerical analyst and dynamical systems theorist

- Ethel Raybould (1899–1987), Australian mathematician and mathematics benefactor

- Adrienne Sophie Rayl (1898–1989), American mathematician and professor

- Michèle Raynaud (born 1938), French algebraic geometer

- Margaret Rayner (1929–2019), British expert on isoperimetric inequalities, president of Mathematical Association

- Michela Redivo-Zaglia, Italian numerical analyst

- Mary Lynn Reed (born 1967), American mathematician, intelligence researcher, and short fiction writer

- Mary Rees (born 1953), British specialist in complex dynamical systems

- Mina Rees (1902–1997), first female President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

- Sarah Rees (born 1957), British group theorist

- Karin Reich (born 1941), German historian of mathematics and biographer of mathematicians

- M. Henrietta Reilly (1895–1964), American nun and mathematician

- Anna Barbara Reinhart (1730–1796), Swiss mathematician, wrote commentary on Newton's Principia

- Kristina Reiss (born 1952), German mathematics educator

- Idun Reiten (born 1942), Norwegian representation theorist, member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

- Kasia Rejzner (born 1985), Polish mathematical physicist

- Yuriko Renardy, Australian-American expert in fluid dynamics

- Rosemary Renaut, British and American computational mathematician

- Barbara Reys (born 1953), American mathematics educator known for her research in number sense and mental calculation

- Karen Rhea, American calculus educator and proponent of flipped classrooms

- Ida Rhodes (1900–1986), American pioneer in computer programming, designed the first computer used for Social Security

- Pilar Ribeiro (1911–2011), Portuguese mathematician, founded Portuguese Mathematical Society and Gazeta de Matemática

- Marjorie Rice (1923–2017), American amateur mathematician who discovered new pentagon tilings

- Joan L. Richards (born 1948), American historian of mathematics

- Sophia Foster Richardson (1855–1916), American geometer and textbook author

- Bettina Richmond (1958–2009), German-American algebraist, textbook author, and murder victim

- Mary Rickett (1861–1925), British mathematician and educator

- Cicely Ridley (1927–2008), British-American applied mathematician, developed codes for quantum chemistry and climate models

- Christine Riedtmann (born 1952), Swiss algebraist, president of Swiss Mathematical Society

- Eleanor Rieffel (born 1965), American applied mathematician interested in quantum computing, computer vision, and cryptography

- Carol Jane Anger Rieke (1908–1999), American astronomer and mathematics educator

- Edwina Rissland, American researcher on knowledge representation in mathematics and case-based reasoning in computational law

- Beatrice Rivière (born 1974), French expert on numerical simulation of fluid flow through porous media

- Catherine A. Roberts (born 1965), American applied mathematician and executive director of the American Mathematical Society

- Rachel Roberts, American low-dimensional topologist

- Siobhan Roberts, Canadian mathematical biographer

- Vanessa Robins, Australian computational topologist

- Julia Robinson (1919–1985), American researcher on diophantine equations, contributed to solution of Hilbert's Tenth Problem

- Margaret M. Robinson, American number theorist and expert on zeta functions

- Alvany Rocha, American specialist in Lie groups, computed characters of the Virasoro algebra

- Eliane R. Rodrigues, Brazilian-Mexican researcher on stochastic models for pollution and health

- Jana Rodriguez Hertz (born 1970), Argentine and Uruguayan mathematician

- Rosana Rodríguez-López, Spanish expert on the application of fixed-point theorems to differential equations

- Rubí Rodríguez, Chilean complex geometer, president of Chilean Mathematical Society

- Josephine Robinson Roe (1858–1946), American mathematician and university professor

- Sylvie Roelly (born 1960), French probability theorist

- Alice Rogers, English expert on supermanifolds

- Marie Rognes (born 1982), Norwegian researcher in scientific computing and numerical methods

- Judith Roitman (born 1945), American specialist in set theory, topology, Boolean algebra, and mathematics education

- Anna Romanowska, Polish abstract algebraist, first convenor of European Women in Mathematics

- Dolores Romero Morales (born 1971), Spanish operations researcher

- Colva Roney-Dougal, British computational group theorist

- Anna Rönström (1847–1920), Swedish educator, school founder, and mathematician

- Marian P. Roque, Filipina expert on partial differential equations, president of the Mathematical Society of the Philippines

- Tatiana Roque, Brazilian historian of mathematics and politician

- Ana Ros Camacho, Spanish mathematical physicist whose work connects superconductivity with quantum field theory

- Frances A. Rosamond (born 1943), Australian researcher in parameterized complexity, advocate for women in computer science and mathematics

- Lauren Lynn Rose, American mathematician active in mathematical outreach

- Margit Rösler, German expert on harmonic analysis, special functions, and Dunkl operators

- Mary G. Ross (1908–2008), first Native American female engineer, studied mathematics for aeronautics and celestial mechanics

- Alida Rossander (1843–1909) and Jenny Rossander (1837–1887), Swedish mathematics teachers and women's rights activists

- Corinna Rossi (born 1968), Italian Egyptologist and historian of Egyptian mathematics and architecture

- Alice Roth (1905–1977), Swiss mathematician known for her invention of Swiss cheese spaces

- Hildegard Rothe-Ille (1899–1942), German mathematician specializing in Ramsey theory

- Linda Preiss Rothschild (born 1945), president of AWM, vice-president of AMS, co-editor-in-chief of Mathematical Research Letters

- Christel Rotthaus, German-American researcher in commutative algebra

- Svetlana Roudenko, Russian-American functional analyst

- Christiane Rousseau (born 1954), French-Canadian mathematician, president of the Canadian Mathematical Society

- Julie Rowlett (born 1978), American geometric analyst

- Marie-Françoise Roy (born 1950), French expert in real algebraic geometry, co-founder of two organizations for women in mathematics

- Julia Rozanska, Soviet topologist

- Maria Aparecida Soares Ruas (born 1948), Brazilian singularity theorist

- Jean E. Rubin (1926–2002), American expert on the axiom of choice

- Mary Ellen Rudin (1924–2013), constructed many counterexamples in topology

- Adela Ruiz de Royo (1943–2019), first lady of Panama

- Mari-Jo P. Ruiz, Filipina graph theorist and operations researcher

- Iris Runge (1888–1966), German applied mathematician, translator and biographer

- Mary Beth Ruskai (born 1944), proved subadditivity of quantum entropy, bounded the electrons in an atom, advocate for women in mathematics

- Beulah Russell (1878–1940), American mathematician

- Alma Johanna Ruubel (1899–1990, Estonian mathematician, developed curvilinear representational geometry

- Barbara Falkenbach Ryan, American mathematician, computer scientist, statistician and business executive

- Halina Ryffert (1916–1996), Polish cryptographer, mathematician, and professor of acoustics

## S

- Irene Sabadini, Italian hypercomplex analyst

- Flora Sadler (1912–2000), Scottish mathematician and astronomer

- Cora Sadosky (1940–2010), Argentine-American analyst, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics

- Claudia Sagastizábal, Argentine-Brazilian researcher in convex optimization and energy management

- Ayşe Şahin, Turkish-American expert on dynamical systems

- Laure Saint-Raymond (born 1975), French specialist in partial differential equations, member of the French Academy of Sciences

- Reiko Sakamoto (born 1939), Japanese expert in hyperbolic boundary value problems

- Adriana Salerno (born 1979), Venezuelan-American arithmetic geometer

- Graciela Salicrup (1935–1982), Mexican pioneer in categorical topology

- Judith D. Sally (1937–2024), American researcher in commutative algebra, Noether lecturer

- Sema Salur, Turkish-American differential geometer

- Jean E. Sammet (1928–2017), supervised the first scientific programming group, helped develop COBOL

- Mildred Sanderson (1889–1914), American mathematician, established a correspondence between modular and formal invariants

- Mary Sandoval, American global analyst and spectral geometer

- Marta Sanz-Solé (born 1952), Catalan researcher on stochastic processes, president of the European Mathematical Society

- Winifred Sargent (1905–1979), English researcher on integration theory and BK-spaces

- Alessandra Sarti (born 1974), Italian algebraic geometer, namesake of Sarti surfaces

- Ruth Lyttle Satter (1923–1989), American researcher on circadian rhythms, namesake of Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics

- Linda Gilbert Saucier (born 1948), American mathematician, prolific textbook author

- Lisa Sauermann (born 1992), German mathematician ranked third in the International Mathematical Olympiad Hall of Fame

- Bonita V. Saunders, American expert on mathematical visualization

- Carla Savage, American researcher on parallel algorithms and combinatorial generation, secretary of AMS

- Cami Sawyer, American and New Zealand expert on distance learning in mathematics

- Karen Saxe, American expert on functional analysis and social choice theory

- Renate Scheidler (born 1960), German and Canadian computational number theorist

- Jacquelien Scherpen, Dutch nonlinear control theorist

- Carol Schumacher (born 1960), Bolivian-born American mathematician, author of inquiry-based learning textbooks

- Jane Cronin Scanlon (1922–2018), American researcher in partial differential equations and mathematical biology

- Alice T. Schafer (1915–2009), American differential geometer, founding member of the Association for Women in Mathematics

- Sakura Schafer-Nameki, German mathematical physicist

- Mary Schaps (born 1948), Israeli mathematician and academic administrator, researcher in deformation theory, group theory, and representation theory

- Doris Schattschneider (born 1939), American mathematician known for writing about tessellations and the art of M. C. Escher

- Michelle Schatzman (1949–2010), French numerical analyst

- Katya Scheinberg, Russian-American expert on derivative-free continuous optimization

- Anne Schilling, American algebraic combinatorialist, representation theorist, and mathematical physicist

- Tamar Schlick, American applied mathematician who develops and applies tools for biomolecule modeling and simulation

- Anja Schlömerkemper (born 1973), German applied mathematician, president of International Society for the Interaction of Mechanics and Mathematics

- Karin Schnass (born 1980), Austrian expert on sparse dictionary learning

- Leila Schneps (born 1961), American-French analytic number theorist and arithmetic geometer, archivist of Grothendieck's works

- Anita Schöbel (born 1969), German operations researcher, expert on optimization for public transportation

- Maria E. Schonbek (born 1979), Argentine-American researcher in fluid dynamics and associated partial differential equations

- Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb (born 1979), Austrian mathematician known for her research in image analysis

- Ida May Schottenfels (1869–1942), American group theorist

- Lynn Schreyer, American applied mathematician, models porous media

- Mary Leontius Schulte (1901–2000), American nun, mathematics educator, and historian of mathematics

- Jennifer Schultens (born 1965), American low-dimensional topologist and knot theorist

- Marie-Hélène Schwartz (1913–2013), French mathematician known for her work on characteristic numbers of spaces with singularities

- Irene Sciriha, Maltese graph theorist

- Jeanette Scissum, American mathematician known for her work on sunspot prediction

- Charlotte Scott (1858–1931), British mathematician who promoted mathematical education of American women

- Elizabeth Scott, American statistician

- Jennifer Scott (born 1960), British numerical analyst

- Catherine Searle, American differential geometer

- Ruthmae Sears, Bahamian-American mathematics educator

- Jennifer Seberry (born 1944), Australian cryptographer, mathematician, and computer scientist, one of the founders of Asiacrypt

- Alexandra Seceleanu, Romanian commutative algebraist

- Rose Whelan Sedgewick (c. 1904–2000), first person to earn a PhD in mathematics from Brown University

- Esther Seiden (1908–2014), Polish-Israeli-American mathematical statistician known for her research on design of experiments and combinatorial design

- Anna Seigal, British applied algebraic geometer

- Annie Selden, American mathematics educator, one of the founders of the Association for Women in Mathematics

- Svetlana Selezneva (born 1963), Russian expert on discrete functions

- Helaine Selin (born 1946), American librarian, historian of science, and ethnomathematician

- Muriel Seltman (1927–2019), British left-wing activist, mathematics educator, historian of mathematics, and author

- Marjorie Senechal (born 1939), American expert on quasicrystals, author on history of science, editor-in-chief of The Mathematical Intelligencer

- Adélia Sequeira, Portuguese applied mathematician specializing in modeling blood flow

- Sylvia Serfaty (born 1975), French expert on superconductivity, winner of the European Mathematical Society Prize

- Vera Serganova, Russian-American researcher on superalgebras and their representations

- Caroline Series (born 1951), English specialist in hyperbolic geometry, Kleinian groups and dynamical systems

- Lily Serna (born 1986), Israeli-Australian arithmetical guru of the SBS game show Letters and Numbers

- Maria Serna, Spanish expert on graph layout and adversarial queueing theory

- Cristina Sernadas (born 1951), Portuguese mathematical logician

- Brigitte Servatius (born 1954), Austrian-American expert on matroids and structural rigidity

- Nataša Šešum, expert in geometric flows

- Ingeborg Seynsche (1905–1994), one of the earliest women to earn a doctorate at the University of Göttingen

- Jeanette Shakalli (born 1985), promoter of mathematics in Panama

- Betty Shannon (1922–2017), mathematician and human computer, collaborator with husband Claude Shannon

- Zorya Shapiro (1914–2013), Soviet mathematician, educator and translator

- Tatyana Shaposhnikova (born 1946), Russian-Swedish researcher on multipliers in function spaces, partial differential operators, and history of mathematics

- Mei-Chi Shaw (born 1955), Taiwanese-American researcher on partial differential equations

- Mariya Shcherbina (born 1958), Ukrainian expert on random matrices

- Amy Shell-Gellasch, American historian of mathematics and book author

- Diana Shelstad (born 1947), Australian-American mathematician, formulated the fundamental lemma of the Langlands Program

- Wenxian Shen, Chinese-American dynamical systems theorist

- Irina Shevtsova (born 1983), Russian probability theorist

- Brooke Shipley, American expert in homotopy theory and homological algebra

- Rebecca Shipley, British applied mathematician and healthcare engineer

- Tatiana Shubin, Soviet-American mathematician, founder of several mathematics circles

- Patricia D. Shure, American mathematics educator and calculus reformer

- Lesley Sibner (1934–2013), American differential geometer and Hodge theorist, produced a constructive proof of the Riemann–Roch theorem

- Martha Siegel, American probability theorist and mathematics educator

- Anna Sierpińska (born 1947), Polish-Canadian scholar of understanding and epistemology in mathematics education

- Mary Silber, American expert in bifurcation theory and pattern formation

- Alice Silverberg (born 1958), American number theorist and cryptographer

- Ruth Silverman (c. 1936–2011), American computational geometer, founder of Association for Women in Mathematics

- Evelyn Silvia (1948–2006), American functional analyst and mathematics educator

- Rodica Simion (1955–2000), Romanian-American pioneer in the study of permutation patterns

- Valeria Simoncini (born 1966), Italian numerical analyst

- Lao Genevra Simons (1870–1949), American mathematician and historian of mathematics

- Hourya Benis Sinaceur (born 1940), Moroccan expert in the theory and history of mathematics

- Margaret P. Sinclair (1950–2012), Canadian mathematics educator

- Mary Emily Sinclair (1878–1955), American mathematician, first woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics at the University of Chicago

- Nathalie Sinclair (born 1970), Canadian researcher in mathematics education

- Stephanie Singer, American mathematician and politician, author of books on symmetry

- Sue Singer, British mathematics educator, president of Girls' Schools Association and Mathematical Association

- Ajit Iqbal Singh (born 1943), Indian researcher in functional analysis and harmonic analysis

- Sylvia Skan (1897–1972), British applied mathematician known for the Falkner–Skan boundary layer in fluid mechanics

- Jessica Sklar (born 1973), American mathematician interested in abstract algebra, recreational mathematics, and the popularization of mathematics

- Anna Skripka, Ukrainian-American noncommutative analyst

- Gillian Slater, British mathematician and academic administrator, vice chancellor of Bournemouth University

- Lucy Joan Slater (1922–2008), British expert on hypergeometric functions and the Rogers–Ramanujan identities

- Angela Slavova, Bulgarian expert on waves and cellular neural networks, chair of SIAM

- Alice Slotsky, American historian of mathematics and Assyriologist

- Marian Small (born 1948), Canadian proponent of constructivist mathematical instruction

- Ionica Smeets (born 1979), Dutch number theorist and science communicator

- Deirdre Smeltzer (born 1964), American mathematician, mathematics educator, academic administrator, and textbook author

- Sonja Smets, Belgian and Dutch mathematical logician, works on quantum logic and belief revision

- Adelaide Smith (1878–1938), American mathematician, studied and taught internationally

- Clara Eliza Smith (1865–1943), American mathematician specializing in complex analysis

- Daphne L. Smith, first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology

- Karen E. Smith (born 1965), American specialist in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry

- Kate Smith-Miles, Australian applied mathematician, president of Australian Mathematical Society

- Leslie M. Smith (born 1961), American applied mathematician and engineering physicist working in turbulence

- Martha K. Smith, American mathematics educator and non-commutative algebraist

- Agata Smoktunowicz (born 1973), Polish-Scottish researcher in abstract algebra, constructed noncommutative nil rings

- Nina Snaith (born 1974), British researcher in random matrix theory, quantum chaos, and zeta functions

- Vera Šnajder (1904–1976), Bosnian mathematician, first Bosnian to publish in mathematics, first female dean in Yugoslavia

- Alena Šolcová (born 1950), Czech applied mathematician and historian of mathematics

- Priyanshi Somani (born 1998), Indian mental calculator

- Mary Somerville (1780–1872), Scottish science writer and polymath, one of two first female members of the Royal Astronomical Society

- Christina Sormani, American researcher on Riemannian geometry, metric geometry, and Ricci curvature

- Vera T. Sós (1930–2023), Hungarian number theorist and combinatorialist

- Chris Soteros, Canadian applied mathematician, studies biomolecules and the knot theory of random space curves

- Hortensia Soto, Mexican-American mathematics educator

- Marilda Sotomayor (born 1944), Brazilian mathematician, economist, and game theorist

- Laila Soueif (born 1956), Egyptian mathematics professor and women's rights activist

- Diane Souvaine (born 1954), American computational geometer, advocate for women and minorities in mathematics and gender neutrality in teaching

- Ayşe Soysal (born 1948), Turkish mathematician, president of Boğaziçi University

- Angela Spalsbury (born 1967), American functional analyst and academic administrator

- Mary Margaret Speer (1906–1996), American mathematician

- Birgit Speh (born 1949), American expert in Lie groups, namesake of Speh representations

- Domina Eberle Spencer (1920–2022), researcher on electrodynamics and field theory, founded fringe science organization Natural Philosophy Alliance

- M. Grazia Speranza, Italian operations researcher, president of EURO and IFORS

- Pauline Sperry (1885–1967), mathematician, musician, and astronomer, unconstitutionally fired from UC Berkeley for refusing to sign a loyalty oath

- Dolores Richard Spikes (1936–2015), African-American mathematician, first female university chancellor and first female president of a university system in the US

- Nicole Spillane (born 1988), French and Irish applied mathematician

- Vera W. de Spinadel (1929–2017), Argentine-Austrian researcher on metallic means

- Jean Springer (1939–2007), Jamaican-Canadian specialist in abstract algebra and academic administrator

- Jane Squire (bap. 1686 – 1743), English mathematician studied solutions to finding longitude at sea

- Bhama Srinivasan (born 1935), representation theorist, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics

- Hema Srinivasan (born 1959), Indian-American mathematician specializing in abstract algebra and algebraic geometry

- Kaye Stacey (born 1948), Australian mathematics educator

- Tanja Stadler (born 1981), German mathematician, expert in phylogenetics

- Gigliola Staffilani (born 1966), Italian-American researcher on harmonic analysis and partial differential equations

- Anna Stafford (1905–2004), one of the first postdoctoral researchers at the Institute for Advanced Study

- Helene Stähelin (1891–1970), Swiss mathematician, editor of Bernoulli family letters, and pacifist

- Gwyneth Stallard, British expert on complex dynamics and the iteration of meromorphic functions

- Katherine E. Stange, Canadian-American number theorist

- Zvezdelina Stankova (born 1969), Bulgarian-American expert on permutation patterns, founder of the Berkeley Math Circle

- Nancy K. Stanton, American researcher on complex analysis, partial differential equations, and differential geometry

- Marion Elizabeth Stark (1894—1982), one of the first female American mathematicians to receive a doctorate

- Anastasia Stavrova, Russian expert in algebraic groups, non-associative algebra, and algebraic K-theory

- Jackie Stedall (1950–2014), British historian of mathematics

- Angelika Steger (born 1962), German-Swiss expert on graph theory, randomized algorithms, and approximation algorithms

- Irene Stegun (1919–2008), American mathematician who edited a classic book of mathematical tables

- Gabriele Steidl (born 1963), German researcher in computational harmonic analysis, convex optimization, and image processing

- Mary Kay Stein, American mathematics educator

- Berit Stensønes (born 1956), Norwegian mathematician specializing in complex analysis and complex dynamics

- Elizabeth Stephansen (1872–1961), first Norwegian woman to receive a mathematics doctorate

- Edith Stern (born 1952), child prodigy in mathematics and IBM engineer

- Chris Stevens, American topological group theorist, historian of mathematics, and mathematics educator

- Perdita Stevens (born 1966), British algebraist, theoretical computer scientist, and software engineer

- Lorna Stewart, Canadian graph theorist and graph algorithms researcher

- Alice Christine Stickland (1906–1987), British applied mathematician, expert on radio propagation

- Angeline Stickney (1830–1892), American suffragist, abolitionist, and mathematician, namesake of the largest crater on Phobos

- Doris Stockton (1924–2018), American mathematician and textbook author

- Ruth Stokes (1890–1968), American mathematician, astronomer, and cryptologer, pioneer of linear programming, and founder of Pi Mu Epsilon journal

- Yvonne Stokes, Australian expert on fluid mechanics, mathematical biology, and industrial applications of mathematics

- Emily Stone, American mathematician, works in fluid mechanics and dynamical systems

- Betsy Stovall, American harmonic analyst

- Anita Straker, British mathematics educator, president of the Mathematical Association

- Dona Strauss (born 1934), British mathematician, founder of pointless topology and European Women in Mathematics

- Anne Penfold Street (1932–2016), Australian combinatorialist, third woman mathematics professor in Australia

- Ileana Streinu, Romanian-American computational geometer, expert on kinematics and structural rigidity

- Catharina Stroppel (born 1971), German researcher on representation theory, low-dimensional topology, and category theory

- Marilyn Strutchens (born 1962), African-American mathematics educator

- Tatjana Stykel, Russian-German expert on numerical linear algebra, control theory, and differential-algebraic equations

- Dorothy Geneva Styles (1922–1984), American organist, choir director, composer, poet, and mathematician

- Bella Subbotovskaya (1938–1982), Soviet founder of the Jewish People's University

- Indulata Sukla (born 1944), Indian researcher on Fourier series, author of textbook on number theory and cryptography

- Agnès Sulem (born 1959), French applied mathematician, control theorist, and mathematical finance expert

- Catherine Sulem (born 1957), Algerian-born Canadian mathematician and violinist, expert on singularities in wave propagation

- Nike Sun, American probability theorist studying phase transitions and counting complexity

- Iryna Sushko (born 1967), Ukrainian mathematician, applies nonlinear dynamical systems to economics

- Rosamund Sutherland (1947–2019), British mathematics educator

- Louise Nixon Sutton (1925–2006), first African-American woman to earn a mathematics PhD at New York University

- Thyrsa Frazier Svager (1930–1999), African-American mathematician, donated entire salary to support African-American women in mathematics

- Márta Svéd (–2005), Hungarian-Australian mathematician, wrote about non-Euclidean geometry

- Marcia P. Sward (1939–2008), executive director of the Mathematical Association of America

- Lorna Swain (1891–1936), British fluid dynamics researcher, early female lecturer at Cambridge

- Irena Swanson, Yugoslav-born American commutative algebraist and mathematical quilter

- Henda Swart (1939–2016), South African geometer and graph theorist, editor-in-chief of Utilitas Mathematica

- Adela Świątek (1945–2019), Polish mathematician and a popularizer of mathematics

- Jennifer Switkes, American mathematics educator and volunteer prison mathematics instructor

- Polly Sy, Filipino functional analyst

- Esther Szekeres (1910–2005), Hungarian-Australian mathematician posed the happy ending problem in discrete geometry

- Ágnes Szendrei, Hungarian-American expert on universal algebra

- Wanda Szmielew (1918–1976), Polish logician who proved the decidability of the first-order theory of abelian groups

- Zofia Szmydt (1923–2010), Polish researcher on differential equations, potential theory and distributions

## T

- Laura Taalman, American mathematician known for work on the mathematics of Sudoku and mathematical 3D printing

- Daina Taimiņa (born 1954), Latvian-American mathematician, crochets objects to illustrate hyperbolic space

- Martha Takane, Mexican algebraist and algebraic combinatorist

- Christiane Tammer, German expert in set-valued optimization

- Tan Lei (1963–2016), Chinese-French specialist in complex dynamics and functions of complex numbers

- Betül Tanbay (born 1960), first female president of the Turkish Mathematical Society

- Yunqing Tang, Chinese-American number theorist and arithmetic geometer

- Rosalind Tanner (1900–1992), English mathematician and a historian of mathematics

- Anne Taormina, Belgian mathematical physicist interested in string theory, moonshine, and the symmetry of virus capsids

- Gabriella Tarantello (born 1958), Italian mathematician specializing in partial differential equations, differential geometry, and gauge theory

- Éva Tardos (born 1957), Hungarian-American researcher in combinatorial optimization algorithms

- Olga Taussky-Todd (1906–1995), Austrian and later Czech-American advocate of matrix theory

- Jean Taylor (born 1944), American mathematician known for her work on soap bubbles and crystals

- Miranda Teboh-Ewungkem (born 1974), American mathematical biologist using ordinary and partial differential equations and statistical methods for modeling the dynamics and transmission of mosquito-borne infectious diseases

- Aretha Teckentrup, British mathematician, data scientist, and numerical analyst

- Mina Teicher, Israeli algebraic geometer

- Monique Teillaud, French computational geometer

- Montserrat Teixidor i Bigas, Spanish-American expert on moduli of vector bundles on curves

- Keti Tenenblat (born 1944), Turkish-Brazilian differential geometer

- Katrin Tent (born 1963), German mathematician, expert in group theory, the symmetries of groups, algebraic model theory, and finite geometry

- M. B. W. Tent, American mathematics educator, mathematical biographer

- Chuu-Lian Terng (born 1949), Taiwanese-American differential geometer

- Susanna Terracini (born 1963), Italian mathematician known for her research on chaos in Hamiltonian dynamical systems

- Audrey Terras (born 1942), American number theorist specializing in quantum chaos and zeta functions

- Susanne Teschl (born 1971), Austrian expert on mathematical modeling of breath analysis

- Donna Testerman (born 1960), expert in the representation theory of algebraic groups

- Ngamta Thamwattana, Thai-Australian expert in granular materials and nanotechnology

- Theano (6th century BC), one or possibly two different Pythagorean philosophers

- Diana Thomas, American mathematician who studies nutrition and body weight

- Doreen Thomas, South African and Australian mathematician and engineer

- Janet Thomas, founder of the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute

- Rekha R. Thomas, American mathematician and operations researcher

- Abigail Thompson (born 1958), American low-dimensional topologist, educational reformer

- Frances McBroom Thompson (1942–2014), American mathematics educator and textbook author

- Gillian Thornley (born 1940), New Zealand differential geometer, first woman president of the New Zealand Mathematical Society

- Heidi Thornquist, American applied mathematician, expert on numerical linear algebra and circuit simulation

- Mary Domitilla Thuener (1880–1977), American mathematician, founder of Thomas More College, Kentucky

- Ene-Margit Tiit (born 1934), Estonian mathematician and statistician, founding president of Estonian Statistical Society

- Mary Tiles (born 1946), writer on the philosophy and history of set theory

- Ulrike Tillmann FRS (born 1962), German-English algebraic topologist

- Sheila Tinney (1918–2010), Irish mathematical physicist, first Irishwoman with a mathematical doctorate

- Maryanne Tipler, New Zealand mathematics textbook author

- Françoise Tisseur, French-English numerical analyst

- Jacqueline Naze Tjøtta (1935–2017), French-Norwegian researcher in kinetics, magnetohydrodynamics and theoretical acoustics

- Renate Tobies (born 1947), German historian of mathematics

- Gordana Todorov (born 1949), American representation theorist and noncommutative algebraist

- Susan Tolman, American symplectic geometer

- Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann FRSC, Polish-Canadian geometric functional analyst

- Alison Tomlin, British physical chemist and applied mathematician, develops detailed models of combustion

- Cristina Toninelli, Italian probability theorist

- Christina Tønnesen-Friedman, Danish-American Riemannian geometer

- Virginia Torczon, American applied mathematician, computer scientist, and expert in nonlinear optimization

- Antoinette Tordesillas, Australian applied mathematician

- Marie Torhorst (1888–1989), German mathematician, school teacher, and politician

- Anna-Karin Tornberg, Swedish computational mathematician

- Eve Torrence (born 1963), American mathematician, president of Pi Mu Epsilon

- Laura Toti Rigatelli (born 1941), Italian historian of mathematics and biographer of Galois

- Vera Traub, German expert on approximation algorithms in network optimization

- Paula Tretkoff, Australian-American researcher in number theory, noncommutative geometry, and hypergeometric functions

- Christiane Tretter (born 1964), German expert in spectral theory and differential operators

- Věra Trnková (1934–2018) Czech category theorist

- Konstantina Trivisa, Greek-American expert in fluid dynamics and flocking

- A. Mary Tropper (1917–2009), British mathematician, textbook author, and translator

- Mary Esther Trueblood (1872–1939), American mathematician, studied with Felix Klein

- Chrysoula Tsogka, Greek applied mathematician, expert in wave propagation through complex media

- Olga Tsuberbiller (1885–1975), Russian analytical geometer and textbook author

- Virginia Tucker (1909–1985), American human computer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

- Laurette Tuckerman (born 1956), American and French researcher in computational fluid dynamics

- Annita Tuller (1910–1994), American geometer and textbook author

- Reidun Twarock, German-born mathematical biologist

- Julianna Tymoczko (born 1975), American algebraic geometer and algebraic combinatorist

- Regina Tyshkevich (1929–2019), Belarusian graph theorist, co-invented split graphs

- Galina Tyurina (1938–1970), Soviet algebraic geometer

## U

- Olabisi Ugbebor (born 1951), first female mathematics professor in Nigeria

- Karen Uhlenbeck (born 1942), American mathematician, MacArthur Fellow, National Medal of Science, Leroy P. Steele Prize, Abel Prize

- Corinna Ulcigrai (born 1980), Italian researcher on dynamical systems, won European Mathematical Society Prize and Whitehead Prize

- Kristin Umland, American mathematics educator

- Nina Uraltseva (born 1935), Russian mathematical physicist, specialist in nonlinear partial differential equations

- Arantza Urkaregi (born 1954), Spanish mathematician and Basque separatist and feminist politician

## V

- Brigitte Vallée (born 1950), French mathematician and computer scientist, expert in lattice basis reduction algorithms

- Clàudia Valls, Spanish and Portuguese mathematician specializing in dynamical systems

- Pauline van den Driessche (born 1941), British-Canadian pioneer in combinatorial matrix theory and mathematical biology

- Monica VanDieren, American model theorist and academic administrator

- Olena Vaneeva (born 1982), Ukrainian mathematician specializing in group analysis of differential equations

- Ursula van Rienen (born 1957), German applied mathematician, expert in simulating electrical brain stimulation

- Michela Varagnolo, Italian-French representation theorist

- Maria Eulália Vares, Brazilian expert in stochastic processes

- Laura Vargas Koch (born 1990), German algorithmic game theorist and Olympic medal winning judoka

- Alena Varmužová (1939–1997), Czech mathematics educator

- Dorothy Vaughan (1910–2008), African-American mathematician at NASA

- Elena Vázquez Cendón, Spanish expert in modeling waves and shallow water, and numerical solution of hyperbolic problems

- Mariel Vázquez, Mexican mathematical biologist specializing in DNA topology

- Eva Vedel Jensen (born 1951), Danish spatial statistician, stereologist, and stochastic geometer

- Argelia Velez-Rodriguez (born 1936), Black Cuban-American differential geometer

- Tatyana Velikanova (1932–2002), Soviet mathematician, computer programmer, dissident, and political prisoner

- Luitgard Veraart, German financial mathematician

- Michèle Vergne (born 1943), French specialist in analysis and representation theory, member of French Academy of Sciences

- Siobhán Vernon (1932–2002), first Irish-born woman to get a PhD in pure mathematics in Ireland

- Luminița Vese, Romanian specialist in image processing

- Katalin Vesztergombi (born 1948), Hungarian graph theorist and discrete geometer

- Maryna Viazovska (born 1984), Ukrainian mathematician, solved the sphere packing problems in dimensions 8 and 24

- Eva Viehmann (born 1980), German arithmetic geometer

- Marie-France Vignéras (born 1946), French mathematician who proved that one cannot hear the shape of a hyperbolic drum

- Maria Cristina Villalobos, American applied mathematician recognized for her mentorship

- Cynthia Vinzant, American real algebraic geometer

- Bianca Viray, American arithmetic geometer

- Nina Virchenko (born 1930), Ukrainian mathematician and anti-Soviet activist

- Monica Vișan (born 1979), Romanian expert on the nonlinear Schrödinger equation

- Begoña Vitoriano (born 1967), Spanish applied mathematician, uses operations research for humanitarian disaster relief

- Marie A. Vitulli, American algebraic geometer, union organizer, and proponent for women in mathematics on Wikipedia

- Roxana Vivian (1871–1961), first female mathematics doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania

- Karen Vogtmann (born 1949), American geometric group theorist, namesake of Culler–Vogtmann outer space

- Margit Voigt, German expert on graph coloring

- Claire Voisin (born 1962), French expert on Hodge structures and mirror symmetry, member of French Academy of Sciences

- Elisabeth Vreede (1879–1943), Dutch mathematician, astronomer and Anthroposophist

- Kristina Vušković (born 1967), Serbian graph theorist

## W

- Michelle L. Wachs, American specialist in algebraic combinatorics

- Aissa Wade (born 1967), Senegalese symplectic geometer, president of African Institute for Mathematical Sciences

- Grace Wahba (born 1934), American pioneer in methods for smoothing noisy data

- Nathalie Wahl (born 1976), Belgian topologist

- Yoshiko Wakabayashi (born 1950), Brazilian researcher in combinatorial optimization and polyhedral combinatorics

- Sarah Wakes, New Zealand mathematician and engineer, first female head of mathematics at University of Otago

- Rebecca Waldecker (born 1979), German group theorist

- Irène Waldspurger, French mathematician, expert on phase retrieval

- Muriel Kennett Wales (1913–2009), Irish-Canadian mathematician

- Carol Walker (born 1935), American group theorist and fuzzy set theorist

- Erica N. Walker, American mathematician, studies racial and gender equity in mathematics education

- Janice B. Walker, American mathematician at Xavier University

- Judy L. Walker, American algebraic coding theorist

- Mary Shore Walker (1882–1952), American mathematician, first woman faculty member at the University of Missouri

- Dorothy Wallace, American number theorist, mathematical biologist, and mathematics educator

- Lynne H. Walling, British number theorist

- Joan E. Walsh (1932–2017), British numerical analyst

- Marion Walter (1928–2021), German-born mathematician who wrote about using mirrors to explore symmetry

- Andrea Walther (born 1970), German expert in automatic differentiation

- Chelsea Walton (born 1983), African-American researcher in noncommutative algebra

- Yuan Wang, Chinese-American control theorist

- Yusu Wang, Chinese computational geometer and computational topologist

- Wang Zhenyi (1768–1797), Qing dynasty mathematician and astronomer

- Lesley Ward, Australian harmonic and complex analyst

- Rachel Ward, American applied mathematician who researches machine learning and signal processing

- Virginia Warfield, American mathematics educator

- Mary Wynne Warner (1932–1998), British pioneer in fuzzy topology

- Simone Warzel (born 1973), German mathematical physicist, expert on the many-body problem

- Talitha Washington (born 1974), American applied mathematician and mathematics educator

- Sarah L. Waters, British expert in fluid mechanics and tissue engineering

- Ann E. Watkins, American statistics educator, president of Mathematical Association of America

- Anne Watson, British mathematics educator

- Charlotte Watts (born 1962), British mathematical epidemiologist

- Johanna Weber (1910–2014), German-British mathematician and aerodynamicist, contributed to supersonic aircraft design

- Charlotte Wedell (1862–1953), one of four women at the first International Congress of Mathematicians

- Suzanne Weekes, American mathematician, cofounder of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Undergraduate Program

- Katrin Wehrheim (born 1974), American symplectic topologist and gauge theorist

- Guofang Wei (born 1965), Chinese-American differential geometer, found new positively-curved manifolds

- Tilla Weinstein (1934–2002), American differential geometer

- Marie Johanna Weiss (1903–1952), American mathematics researcher and textbook author

- Florence Weldon (1858–1936), British human computer, analysed biological variation

- Katrin Wendland (born 1970), German mathematical physicist, expert on singularities in quantum field theories

- Annette Werner (born 1966), German expert on diophantine geometry and non-Archimedean algebraic geometry

- Elisabeth M. Werner, researcher on convex geometry, functional analysis, and probability theory

- Eléna Wexler-Kreindler (1931–2002), Romanian-French algebraist

- Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler (1883–1966), American researcher on infinite-dimensional linear algebra

- Mary Wheeler (born 1931), American expert on domain decomposition methods for partial differential equations

- Marion Ballantyne White (1871–1958), American mathematician and university professor

- Sue Whitesides, Canadian mathematician and computer scientist, expert in computational geometry and graph drawing

- Alice S. Whittemore, American group theorist, biostatistician, and epidemiologist who studies the effects of genetics and lifestyle on cancer

- Kirsten Wickelgren, American number theorist and geometer

- Margaret Wiecek, Polish-American operations researcher, expert on multi-objective optimization

- Sylvia Wiegand (born 1945), American algebraist, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics

- Anna Wienhard (born 1977), German differential geometer

- Lynda Wiest, American mathematics education researcher

- Evelyn Prescott Wiggin (1900–1964), American mathematician and university professor

- Geertruida Wijthoff (1859–1953), Dutch mathematician and teacher

- Marie S. Wilcox (died 1995), American high school mathematics teacher, textbook author, and president of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

- Trena Wilkerson, American mathematics educator, president of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

- Amie Wilkinson (born 1968), American researcher in ergodic theory and smooth dynamical systems

- Emily Willbanks (1930–2007), American mathematician who contributed to defense weapons applications and high performance storage

- Margaret Willerding (1919–2003), American mathematician and textbook author

- Karen Willcox, New Zealand applied mathematician, expert on reduced-order modeling and multi-fidelity methods

- Elizabeth Williams (1895–1986), British mathematician and educationist

- Emily Coddington Williams (1873–1952), American historian of mathematics, translator, novelist, playwright, and biographer

- Kim Williams, scholar of connections between mathematics and architecture

- Lauren Williams, American expert on cluster algebras and tropical geometry

- Roselyn E. Williams, American mathematician, founder of National Math Alliance

- Ruth J. Williams, American probability theorist, president of Institute of Mathematical Statistics

- Ruth Margaret Williams (born 1945), British mathematical physicist, researches discrete gravity

- Sheila Oates Williams (born 1939), British and Australian abstract algebraist

- Talithia Williams, American statistician and mathematician who researches the spatiotemporal structure of data

- Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Bulgarian-American researcher on graph algorithms and fast matrix multiplication

- Stephanie van Willigenburg, Canadian researcher in algebraic combinatorics and quasisymmetric functions

- Elizabeth Wilmer, American expert on Markov chain mixing times

- Helen Wilson (mathematician) (born 1973), British expert on non-Newtonian fluids, president of British Society of Rheology

- Ulrica Wilson, African-American mathematician specializing in noncommutative rings and the combinatorics of matrices

- Helen Wily (1921–2009), New Zealand mathematician and statistician

- Sarah Witherspoon, American mathematician interested in abstract algebra

- Emily E. Witt, American commutative algebraist and representation theorist

- Barbara Wohlmuth, German expert on the numerical solution of partial differential equations

- Julia Wolf, British mathematician specialising in arithmetic combinatorics

- Louise Adelaide Wolf (1898–1962), American mathematician and university professor

- Gail Wolkowicz, Canadian mathematical biologist known for her work on the competitive exclusion principle

- Maria Wonenburger (1927–2014), Galician-American group theorist, first Spanish Fulbright scholar in mathematics

- Carol Wood (born 1945), American expert in model-theoretic algebra, president of American Women in Mathematics

- Melanie Wood (born 1981), first female American to compete in the International Mathematical Olympiad

- Ruth Goulding Wood (1875–1935), American non-Euclidean geometer

- Sarah Woodhead (1851–1912), first woman to pass the Cambridge University mathematical Tripos examination

- Mary Lee Woods (1924–2017), British mathematician and computer programmer

- Carol S. Woodward, American expert in numerical algorithms and software

- Margaret H. Wright (born 1944), American researcher in optimization, linear algebra, and scientific computing

- Dorothy Maud Wrinch (1894–1976), Argentine-English mathematician and biochemical theorist, expert in protein structure

- Jang-Mei Wu, Taiwanese-American complex analyst

- Sijue Wu (born 1964), Chinese-American expert in the mathematics of water waves

- Emily Kathryn Wyant (1897–1942), American mathematician, founder of honor society Kappa Mu Epsilon

- Lucy R. Wyatt, British mathematician and oceanographer, studies high frequency radar oceanography and ocean surface waves

- Urszula Wybraniec-Skardowska (born 1940), Polish logician

- Cynthia Wyels, American mathematician known for her mentorship of Latino students

## X

- Dianna Xu, American mathematician and computer scientist who studies computational problems on curves and surfaces

- Xu Ruiyun, first Chinese woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics

## Y

- Carolyn Yackel, American commutative algebraist and mathematical fiber artist

- Erna Beth Yackel (1939–2022), American mathematics educator

- Mayuko Yamashita, Japanese mathematician and mathematical physicist

- Catherine Yan, Chinese-American mathematician interested in algebraic combinatorics

- Grace Yang, Chinese-American expert on stochastic processes in the physical sciences, asymptotic theory, and survival analysis

- Elena Yanovskaya (born 1938), Soviet and Russian game theorist

- Sofya Yanovskaya (1896–1966), restored mathematical logic research in Soviet Union, edited mathematical works of Karl Marx

- Jane Ye, Chinese-Canadian researcher in variational analysis

- Karen Yeats (born 1980), Canadian mathematician whose research connects combinatorics to quantum field theory

- Florence Yeldham (1877–1945), British school teacher and historian of arithmetic

- Yiqun Lisa Yin, Chinese-American cryptographer, broke the SHA-1 hash scheme and helped develop the RC6 block cipher

- Ruriko Yoshida, Japanese-American combinatorist, statistician, phylogeneticist, and operations researcher

- Anna Irwin Young (1873–1920), charter member of the Mathematical Association of America

- Cynthia Y. Young, American applied mathematician, textbook author, and academic administrator

- Lai-Sang Young (born 1952), Hong Kong born dynamical systems theorist

- Mabel Minerva Young (1872–1963), American geometer

- Virginia R. Young, American expert on the mathematics of insurance

- Noriko Yui, Japanese-Canadian researcher on arithmetic geometry, mathematical physics, and mirror symmetry

- Mariette Yvinec, French computational geometer

## Z

- Sara Zahedi (born 1981), Iranian-Swedish researcher in computational fluid dynamics, former child refugee, and winner of EMS Prize

- Martina Zähle (born 1950), German stochastic geometer and geometric measure theorist

- Frieda Zames (1932–2005), American mathematician and disability rights activist

- Antonella Zanna, Italian-Norwegian numerical analyst

- Thaleia Zariphopoulou (born 1962), Greek-American expert in mathematical finance

- Claudia Zaslavsky (1917–2006), American mathematics educator and ethnomathematician

- Anna Zdunik, Polish researcher on dynamical systems

- Mary Lou Zeeman, British expert on dynamical systems and their application to mathematical biology

- Sarah Zerbes (born 1978), German and British algebraic number theorist

- Ping Zhang, graph theorist and textbook author

- Tianyi Zheng, Chinese-American probability and geometric group theorist

- Rozetta Zhilina (1933–2003), Soviet expert in computational problems for nuclear weapons

- Tamar Ziegler (born 1971), Israeli researcher in ergodic theory and arithmetic combinatorics, won Erdős Prize

- Magdolna Zimányi (1934–2016), pioneer of Hungarian computing