Let's have a look at a women who was a world famous mathematician. She has inspired and taught many the beauty of mathematics.
Irene Maria Quintanilha Coelho Da Fonseca was born in Portugal and after studying mathematics in Lisbon, she transferred to the USA. She earned her phd at university of Menosota in 1985.
Fonseca writes that "My research interests lie in the areas of continuum mechanics, calculus of variations, geometric measure theory and partial differential equations. Recent work has been focused on the search for effective or relaxed energies, and on the study of existence, regularity, oscillatory and hysteretic behavior of solutions of (non convex) variational problems associated with materials instabilities, phase transitions, plasticity, nucleation and growth of phases, fracture and defects in solids.
The applications which guide me in this program arise from the analysis of mathematical models for computer vision and imaging, as well as for novel man-made materials such as shape memory alloys, ferroelectric, magnetic and magnetostrictive materials, composites, liquid crystals, and thin films. The mathematical challenges lie in the description of the dynamics and evolution of microscopic structures and of phenomena that occur at vastly different temporal or spatial scales. They require recently developed mathematical tools and the introduction of new mathematical techniques."
She truly is a famous mathematician who viewed the world differently.
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I think it is very important for young ladies studying mathematics to know that this is a subject not only catered to men. Secondly, female students should be cognizant of their contribution to mathematics and the skills they are developing that allows them to make an imprint on mathematical history.
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