Mathematician:Elisabeth of the Palatinate

Mathematician
Princess of the Electorate of the Palatinate who studied (among other things) mathematics and philosophy with.

Her correspondence with survives as a record of the nature of philosophical and religious debates in that period.

Renowned for her intelligence and humanism.

Nationality
German

History

 * Born: 26 December 1618 in Heidelberg, Electorate of the Palatinate (now Germany)
 * Died: 11 February 1680 in Herford Abbey, Westphalia

Theorems and Definitions

 * Supposedly found a solution to the Problem of Apollonius using Cartesian geometry.