Melissa's MRP Research Blog: Famous Mathematicans

When I 'Googled' the string "Famous Mathematicians", I found this website:
http://euler.ciens.ucv.ve/English/mathematics/
It lists various famous mathematicans who (on this website) are all males.
Who are some current female mathematicans we can also expose children to?

Below is the list of the mathematicians:

Niels Henrik Abel
Archimedes
Banach, Stefan
Bessel, Friedrich
Bolzano, Bernhard
Cantor, Georg
Cauchy, Augustin Louis
Cayley, Arthur
Dedekind, Richard
Einstein, Albert
Euclides
Euler, Leonhard
Fourier, Joseph
Galois, Evariste
Gauss, Carl Friedrich
Hilbert, David
Kepler, Johannes
Lagrange, Joseph Louis de
Laplace, Pierre Simon de
Lebesgue, Henri Leon
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von
de Moivre, Abraham
von Neumann, John
Newton, Sir Isaac
Pascal, Blaise
Peano, Giuseppe
Pythagoras of Samos
Poincare, Henri
Riemann, Georg Friedrich Bernhard
Taylor, Brook

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As many of you know, I am currently a Masters of Education student. I am researching mathematics picture books and its gender content. My Master’s MRP title will be: Gender Identification: An Analysis of Gender in Mathematics Picture books for Young Children. I will be using identification and gender theory as a framework for analysis. Before I engage in my research, I have created this blog for a Digital Technology course I am currently enrolled in, and would like to see what other people think about my research. By no means will your ideas or thoughts be used in my research. Please feel free to post your thoughts, questions, and feedback on my blog! I am very interested in aspects and perspectives that I have not considered in my research and would greatly appreciate your input. Thanks, Melissa

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