First female mathematician

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This is a timeline of women in mathematics.

Timeline

Classical Age

18th Century

19th Century

• 1827: French mathematician Sophie Germain saw her theorem, known as Sophie Germain's theorem, published in a footnote of a book by the mathematician Adrien-Marie Legendre.^[7][8] In this theorem Germain proved that if x, y, and z are integers and if x⁵ + y⁵ = z⁵ then either x, y, or z must be divisible by 5. Germain's theorem was a major step toward proving Fermat's Last Theorem for the case where n equals 5.^[7]
• 1829: The first public examination of an American girl in geometry was held.^[9]
• 1858: Florence Nightingale became the first female member of the Royal Statistical Society.^[10]
• 1873: Sarah Woodhead of Britain became the first woman to take the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos Exam, which she passed.^[11]
• 1874: Russian mathematician Sofya Kovalevskaya became the
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