Talk:List of female mathematicians
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To do: add dates, sort by century, alphabetize, annotate with specializations. -- Karada 12:57, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
Another place to find notable female mathematicians -- a Google search for the word "she" in the MacTutor History of Mathematics site: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=she+site%3Adcs.st-and.ac.uk Karada 14:07, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Addition?
I would really like to see Nadine Kowalsky (1966-1996) added to this list, but perhaps she tragically died too young to have achieved sufficient fame. Also, note that she was pre-web, so Google is not a reliable indication of her notability. I do consider her a notable female mathematician; she really was quite extraordinary.--RandomHumanoid(⇒) 17:08, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Some names for you
I have to say that having a page purporting to list women mathematicians and then having the list be so short creates an effect that is opposite to what you may be trying to achieve: i.e., looking at this list someone might think that there have been since antiquity only a small handful of prominent female mathematicians. Of course this is not true.
As a mathematician, I know plenty of eminent female mathematicians. I can give you some names. In fact though it looks like no one has taken the trouble to go through the list of mathematicians already on wikipedia and link the women to this page. If no one wants to the work, maybe the page should be temporarily deleted. Anyway:
Marie-France Vigneras, Bernadette Perrin-Riou, Marina Ratner, Maryam Mirzakhani, Karen Smith, Susan Howson, Nina Snaith, Izabella Laba, Cathleen Synge Morawitz, Fan Chung, Melanie Wood, Lillian Pierce
