Welcome to the web site for biographies of women in mathematics. These pages are part of a project at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, Georgia, to illustrate the numerous achievements of women in the field of mathematics. Here you can find biographical essays or comments on the women mathematicians profiled on this site, as well as additional resources about women in mathematics. Each time this page is reloaded, a randomly selected photo is displayed to the left (if Javascript is enabled). Click on the image to go to the profile of that woman.

• Names in Alphabetical Order
• Names in Chronological Order
• Interactive Timeline
• Names by Location of Birth (including a Google Map view)
• Other Resources about Women Mathematicians
• The First Ph.D's in Mathematics by Women before 1930
• Prizes, Awards and Honors for Women Mathematicians
• Birth and Death Anniversaries
• Photo Credits
• Search the site

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Did you know? (See the Archive for past announcements)

• Hong Wang, a 35-year-old Chinese mathematician specializing in harmonic analysis, has been awarded the 2026 Fields Medal by the International Mathematical Union, only the third woman to be so honored. Wang is a Silver Professor of Mathematics at NYU’s Courant Institute School of Mathematics, Computing, and Data Science and also a Permanent Professor at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques in France. For more information about her, watch this YouTube video.
   
• Congratulations to the United States team that placed 5th at the 2026 European Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad (EGMO), with team members earning two gold and two silver medals for outstanding individual performances. Read the press release from the Mathematical Association of America for more details about the team members. For more information about EGMO2026, see https://egmo2026.fr/, and to see the problems and scoreboard, see https://www.egmo.org/egmos/egmo15/.
   
• Congratulations to Katherine Tung (Harvard University) and Saskia Solotko (Tufts University) for being selected as 2026-2027 Churchill Scholars in pure mathematics by the Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States. The Churchill Scholarship is for one year of Master’s study at Churchill College, Cambridge. Tung (2025) and Solotko (2026) are also both winners of the Alice T. Schafer Mathematics Prize from the Association of Women in Mathematics. For more information about the Churchill Scholarship, see the scholarship website.
   
• At 17, Hannah Cairo solved a major math mystery. Read the article in Quantam Magazine about how she disproved a 40-year-old conjecture in harmonic analysis while taking a graduate mathematics class at the University of California at Berkeley.
   

AWM Biographies Contest

To increase awareness of women's ongoing contributions to the mathematical sciences, the Association for Women in Mathematics sponsors an essay contest for biographies of contemporary women mathematicians and statisticians in academic, industrial, and government careers. This contest is open to students in the following categories: Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12, and College Undergraduate. At least one winning submission will be chosen from each category. Winners will receive a prize, and their essays will be published online at the AWM website. Additionally, a grand prize winner will have his or her submission published in the AWM Newsletter. For more information and to see the results of past Essay Contests, go to https://awm-math.org/awards/student-essay-contest/.

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