Who is the greatest female mathematician of all time?

-Emmy Noether
Emmy Noether was born in Germany and is arguably the most influential women mathematician in history.
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Who is the best female mathematician?

Five Historic Female Mathematicians You Should Know
  • Hypatia (ca. 350 or 370 – 415 or 416) (© Bettmann/CORBIS) ...
  • Sophie Germain (1776 – 1831) (Public Domain) ...
  • Ada Lovelace (1815 – 1852) (© Heritage Images/Corbis) ...
  • Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850 – 1891) (© Michael Nicholson/Corbis) ...
  • Emmy Noether (1882 – 1935) (Public Domain)
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Who is famous female mathematician?

Ada Lovelace (1815-1852)

A giant in the world of STEM, Ada Lovelace not only holds the honour of being one of the most famous women in maths history, but she is also recognised as the first-ever computer programmer of any gender.
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Who is the first woman mathematician in the world?

Hypatia, (born c. 355 ce—died March 415, Alexandria), mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who lived in a very turbulent era in Alexandria's history. She is the earliest female mathematician of whose life and work reasonably detailed knowledge exists.
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Who is the No 1 mathematician in the world?

Isaac Newton is a hard act to follow, but if anyone can pull it off, it's Carl Gauss. If Newton is considered the greatest scientist of all time, Gauss could easily be called the greatest mathematician ever.
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Who is the queen of mathematics?

Carl Friedrich Gauss one of the greatest mathematicians, is said to have claimed: "Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and number theory is the queen of mathematics." The properties of primes play a crucial part in number theory. An intriguing question is how they are distributed among the other integers.
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What did Einstein say about Ramanujan?

In the words of Albert Einstein, "Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas." The credit for all the development in 20th century mathematics is given to the final writings, theories and developments of mathematics' genius, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar, who was born on December 22, 1887.
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Who is the smartest female mathematician?

-Emmy Noether

Emmy Noether was born in Germany and is arguably the most influential women mathematician in history.
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Who is the first female philosopher?

Hypatia of Alexandria (c. 370 CE - March 415 CE) was a female philosopher and mathematician, born in Alexandria, Egypt possibly in 370 CE (although some scholars cite her birth as c. 350 CE).
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Is there any girl name in mathematics?

So, a girl name from the word mathematics can be as Mathilda, Mathea, Mathilde, and other such names can be associates with the term mathematics.
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Who is the first Indian woman mathematician?

Shakuntala Devi was born on 4 November 1929 at Bangalore, Karnataka to a Kannada Brahmin family.
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Who is the father of mathematics?

Archimedes is known as the Father Of Mathematics. He lived between 287 BC – 212 BC. Syracuse, the Greek island of Sicily was his birthplace. Archimedes was serving the King Hiero II of Syracuse by solving mathematical problems and by developing interesting innovations for the king and his army.
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Who is the best mathematician in the world 2021?

Indian mathematician Nikhil Srivastava is joint winner of maths prize. Indian mathematician Nikhil Srivastava, has been named winner of the prestigious 2021 Michael and Sheila Held Prize along with two others for solving long-standing questions on the Kadison–Singer problem and on Ramanujan graphs.
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Who invented math?

Archimedes is considered the Father of Mathematics for his significant contribution to the development of mathematics. His contributions are being used in great vigour, even in modern times.
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Who is the king of maths?

Leonhard Euler, a Swiss mathematician that introduced various modern terminology and mathematical notation, is called the King of mathematics. He was born in 1707 in Basel, Switzerland, and at the age of thirteen, he joined the University of Basel, where he became a Master of Philosophy.
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Who won the Nobel Prize in mathematics?

There is no Nobel Prize in mathematics, and for decades, the most prestigious awards in math were the Fields Medals, awarded in small batches every four years to the most accomplished mathematicians who are 40 or younger.
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Who found zero?

"Zero and its operation are first defined by [Hindu astronomer and mathematician] Brahmagupta in 628," said Gobets. He developed a symbol for zero: a dot underneath numbers.
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Who has 400 IQ?

Marilyn vos Savant (/ˌvɒs səˈvɑːnt/; born Marilyn Mach; August 11, 1946) is an American magazine columnist who has the highest recorded intelligence quotient (IQ) in the Guinness Book of Records, a competitive category the publication has since retired.
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Who is the smartest female scientist in the world?

10 Famous Women Scientists in History
  • 1- MARIE CURIE. Polish-born French physicist and chemist best known for her contributions to radioactivity.
  • 2- JANE GOODALL. ...
  • 3- MARIA MAYER. ...
  • 4- RACHEL CARSON. ...
  • 5- ROSALIND FRANKLIN. ...
  • 6- BARBARA MCCLINTOCK. ...
  • 7- RITA LEVI-MONTALCINI. ...
  • 8- GERTRUDE ELION.
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Who is the smartest person in history?

In 1898, the smartest man who ever lived was born in America. His name was William James Sidis and his IQ was eventually estimated to be between 250 and 300 (with 100 being the norm).
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Is Ramanujan the greatest mathematician ever?

Srinivasa Ramanujan was one of the world's greatest mathematicians. His life story, with its humble and sometimes difficult beginnings, is as interesting in its own right as his astonishing work was. Srinivasa Ramanujan had his interest in mathematics unlocked by a book.
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How many IQ does Albert Einstein have?

2. Albert Einstein. Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist and philosopher of science whose estimated IQ scores range from 205 to 225 by different measures.
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How many times Ramanujan failed?

This is the true story.” >Robert Kanigel in his authoritative biography of Ramanujan, The Man Who Knew Infinity , states that he appeared for the Intermediate examinations four times and failed in all of them.
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