"Pioneers in mathematics and science who have inspired me time and again"

Emmy Noether: One of the greatest mathematician of all times.

She is well known in the particle physics community for her wonderful theorem on symmetry and conserved quantities. She is also the mother of commutative algebra.

Sofia Kovalevskaya: A great mathematician who made major contributions to PDE, analysis and mechanics.

Satyendranath Bose: who discovered the mathematics of the Bose-Einstein statistics which half the particles in the universe follow. He collaborated with Einstein on this and the particles are called Bosons. (The other half of the particles are called Fermions after the physicist Enrico Fermi).

Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri: who contributed greatly in cosmology and general relativity. He developed the Raychaudhuri equations (also known as the Landau-Raychaudhuri equations) which demonstrate mathematically that singularities arise in general relativity as a matter of course.

These equations were crucial in the proofs of Penrose and Hawking singularity theorems.

Karen Uhlenbeck: She is an American mathematician who founded the area of modern Geometric Analysis. She was awarded the Abel Prize in 2019 for "her pioneering achievements in geometric partial differential equations, gauge theory, and integrable systems, and for the fundamental impact of her work on analysis, geometry and mathematical physics."

Dusa Mc Duff: She is an mathematician who made pioneering contributions in the area of Symplectic geometry and topology. She is a Professor at Stony Brook University., USA

Jessica Fridrich:who developed the CFOP algorithm for speed cubing. She is a professor in Electrical and computer engineering in SUNY Binghamton, USA.

Mariam Mirzakhani: She was a great mathematician hailing from Iran and worked in many areas of geometry. She was the first woman to receive the Field's medal. She comes across as a very humble and friendly person.

Wasfia Nazreen: She is a Bangladeshi mountaineer, activist, environmentalist, social worker and writer. She climbed the seven summits and recently climbed K2. She is a vegan climber.