page_title: List of women in mathematics
section_title: W
hierarchical_section_title: List of women in mathematics / W
caption_attribution_description: English: Katrin Wendland, Oberwolfach 2010
context_page_description: This is a list of women who have made noteworthy contributions to or achievements in mathematics. These include mathematical research, mathematics education, the history and philosophy of mathematics, public outreach, and mathematics contests.
context_section_description: Michelle L. Wachs, American specialist in algebraic combinatorics
  Aissa Wade (born 1967), Senegalese symplectic geometer, president of African Institute for Mathematical Sciences
  Grace Wahba (born 1934), American pioneer in methods for smoothing noisy data, member of National Academy of Sciences
  Nathalie Wahl (born 1976), Belgian topologist
  Rebecca Waldecker (born 1979), German group theorist
  Erica N. Walker, American mathematician, studies racial and gender equity in mathematics education
  Muriel Kennett Wales (1913–2009), Irish-Canadian mathematician
  Judy L. Walker, American algebraic coding theorist
  Mary Shore Walker (1882–1952), American mathematician, first woman faculty member at the University of Missouri
  Dorothy Wallace, American number theorist, mathematical biologist, and mathematics educator
  Lynne H. Walling, British number theorist
  Joan E. Walsh (1932–2017), British numerical analyst, founder of the Numerical Algorithms Group
  Marion Walter (born 1928), German-born mathematician who wrote about using mirrors to explore symmetry
  Chelsea Walton (born 1983), African-American researcher in noncommutative algebra
  Yusu Wang, Chinese computational geometer and computational topologist
  Wang Zhenyi (1768–1797), Qing dynasty mathematician and astronomer
  Lesley Ward, Australian harmonic and complex analyst
  Rachel Ward, American applied mathematician who researches machine learning and signal processing
  Virginia Warfield, American mathematics educator
  Mary Wynne Warner (1932–1998), British pioneer in fuzzy topology
  Simone Warzel (born 1973), German mathematical physicist, expert on the many-body problem
  Talitha Washington (born 1974), American applied mathematician and mathematics educator
  Sarah L. Waters, British expert in fluid mechanics and tissue engineering
  Ann E. Watkins, American statistics educator, president of the Mathematical Association of America
  Anne Watson, British mathematics educator
  Charlotte Watts (born 1962), British mathematical epidemiologist
  Johanna Weber (1910–2014), German-British mathematician and aerodynamicist, contributed to supersonic aircraft design
  Charlotte Wedell (1862–1953), one of four women at the first International Congress of Mathematicians
  Suzanne Weekes, American mathematician, cofounder of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Undergraduate Program
  Katrin Wehrheim (born 1974), American symplectic topologist and gauge theorist
  Guofang Wei (born 1965), Chinese-American differential geometer, found new positively-curved manifolds
  Tilla Weinstein (1934–2002), American differential geometer
  Katrin Wendland (born 1970), German mathematical physicist, expert on singularities in quantum field theories
  Annette Werner (born 1966), German expert on diophantine geometry and non-Archimedean algebraic geometry
  Elisabeth M. Werner, researcher on convex geometry, functional analysis, and probability theory
  Eléna Wexler-Kreindler (1931–2002), Romanian-French algebraist
  Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler (1883–1966), American researcher on infinite-dimensional linear algebra
  Mary Wheeler (born 1931), American expert on domain decomposition methods for partial differential equations
  Sue Whitesides, Canadian mathematician and computer scientist, expert in computational geometry and graph drawing
  Alice S. Whittemore, American group theorist, biostatistician, and epidemiologist who studies the effects of genetics and lifestyle on cancer
  Margaret Wiecek, Polish-American operations researcher, expert on multi-objective optimization
  Sylvia Wiegand (born 1945), American algebraist, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics
  Anna Wienhard (born 1977), German differential geometer
  Amie Wilkinson (born 1968), American researcher in ergodic theory and smooth dynamical systems
  Emily Willbanks (1930–2007), American mathematician who contributed to defense weapons applications and high performance storage
  Karen Willcox, New Zealand applied mathematician, expert on reduced-order modeling and multi-fidelity methods
  Elizabeth Williams (1895–1986), British mathematician and educationist
  Kim Williams, scholar
caption: Katrin Wendland, expert on singularities in quantum field theories
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