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Mathematics

Numbers become power in this collection of brilliant minds who calculated launches, opened classrooms, and turned abstract ideas into world-changing tools.

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Algebra

Dudley Weldon Woodard

(October 3, 1881 - July 15, 1965)Mathematician and professor.

Clarence F. Stephens

(July 24, 1917 - March 5, 2018)Mathematician and educator.

Etta Zuber Falconer

(November 21, 1933 - September 19, 2002)Mathematician and academic leader.

Kelly Miller

(July 18, 1863 - December 29, 1939)Mathematician, sociologist, and educator.

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Calculus

William Schieffelin Claytor

(January 4, 1908 - July 14, 1967)Mathematician specializing in topology.

Gladys West

(October 27, 1930 - January 17, 2026)Mathematician and satellite geodesist.

Christine Darden

(September 10, 1942 -)Mathematician and aerospace engineer.

Annie Easley

(April 23, 1933 - June 25, 2011)Mathematician and computer scientist.

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Statistics & Probability

David Blackwell

(April 24, 1919 - July 8, 2010)Statistician, mathematician, and game theorist.

Albert T. Bharucha-Reid

(November 13, 1927 - February 26, 1985)Mathematician and probabilist.

Talithia Williams

(Birth date not publicly listed -)Statistician, author, and professor.

Edray Herber Goins

(June 29, 1972 -)Mathematician.

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Applied Mathematics

Katherine Johnson

(August 26, 1918 - February 24, 2020)Mathematician and NASA research mathematician.

Dorothy Vaughan

(September 20, 1910 - November 10, 2008)Mathematician and NASA supervisor.

Evelyn Boyd Granville

(May 1, 1924 - June 27, 2023)Mathematician and computer scientist.

Arlie Petters

(February 8, 1964 -)Mathematical physicist.