| Hint | Woman | Nationality |
| Student of G.H. Hardy, first woman president of the London Mathematical Society | |
| Did work in astronomy and mathematical physics | |
| Important early twentieth-century algebraist and mathematical physicist | |
| Word's first computer programmer, before computers had been invented | |
| Studied number theory, corresponded with Gauss | |
| Translated the Principia Mathematica into French; lover of Voltaire | |
| Her 'witch' curve is actually a mistranslation of 'turning curve' | |
| First European woman to hold a university chair in mathematics | |
| Nurse and statistician | |
| 20th century pioneer computer programmer | |
| Sometimes described as the first woman mathematician | |