Little is known about Lubna (or Labana) of Córdoba, but the fragmentary sources historians do have illuminate the forgotten role of Muslim women in mathematics and science...
Germain’s lifetime of contributions to mathematics ranged from elasticity theory to a new approach to Fermat’s Last Theorem––but as a woman, she had been barred from studying at the École Polytechnique...
Noether was recognized as one of the most important mathematicians of her time, but, as a Jewish woman, the Nazi’s rise to power forced her from her (already precarious) university position in Germany...
