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Question: Name three other famous women mathematicians and their accomplishments!.!?
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Emmy Noether (1882 - 1935) - developed theories about fields and connected symmetry to the conservation laws!. Close friend of Albert Einstein

Sophie Germain (1776 - 1831) - differential geometry and number theory

Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850 - 1891) - first woman to be appointed full professorship of maths in Europe

Rózsa Péter (1905 - 1977) - recursion theories

Julia Robinson (1919 - 1985) - diophantine equations and decidability

Mary Ellen Rudin - point set topology

éva Tardos - computer science mostly

Ada Lovelace (1815 – 1852) - the first real programmer and only legitimate child of poet, Lord Byron

émilie du Chatelet - looked into fire and predicted the outcome of electromagnetic radiation

Mary Cartwright - Cartwright's theorem (analytical technique)

Hypatia of Alexandria - first notable female mathematician

Marianna Cs?rnyei - geometric analysis

Ingrid Daubechies - wavelets that led to the invention of jpegs

Maria Agnesi - calculus

Shafi Goldwasser - cryptology and artificial intelligence

Karen Uhlenbeck - calculus of variations

Jessie MacWilliams - coding theory

Dusa McDuff - von Neumann algebra

Ruth Moufang - projective geometry

Hanna Neumann - group theory

Cheryl Praeger - group theory, combinational algebra and algebraic graph designs

Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya - partial differential equations

there's also annie moskol although i can't remember what she did!.

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