A mathematician who helped pave the way for women to advance in the academic field has been honoured with a blue plaque. Dame Mary Cartwright was one of the most eminent British mathematicians of the ...

Sofia Kovalevskaya, Emmy Noether and Ada Lovelace are just three of the many famous female mathematicians you should know. Wikicommons If you haven’t yet read my story “Ten Historic Female Scientists ...

Chemistry has a long history ultimately dating back to alchemy, although there have not been as many female chemists in history as female mathematicians. Maria Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934) and her ...

In July, up to four of the world’s most promising young mathematicians will receive a Fields Medal, one of the discipline’s highest honours. But the prize, awarded every four years, has honoured only ...

Angela Tabiri, who researches quantum algebra at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in Accra, was a PhD student at the University of Glasgow, UK, when she launched Femafricmaths in ...

The United States may not have won the Space Race had it not been for the contributions of three African-American women. World War II left the US with a shortage of male labor, leading various federal ...

All Girls/All Math (http://www.math.unl.edu/programs/agam/) The University of Nebraska-Lincoln offers a weeklong summer camp for high school girls who are interested ...