María Andresa Casamayor 👩‍🏫

Mathematician

María Juana Rosa Andresa Casamayor de La Coma was a Spanish mathematician, writer and teacher of girls who excelled in the handling of numbers and arithmetic, areas that at that time were common to men and not to women. She was born on November 30, 1720, Zaragoza, Spain and died on October 23, 1780, Zaragoza, Spain.

In 2009, the Zaragoza City Council dedicated a street to her that was previously called "Grupo Jose Antonio Girón“ Gijón also has a street named after the Zaragoza scientist. In 2018 she was included in the Periodic Table of Women Scientists, together with other women scientists from all over the world.