Mary Somerville was born in 1780. She didn't have much education and didn't become interested in algebra until she was over 14 years old. She married twice, both times to her cousins. Her first husband didn't support her in her math studies. The second one did. She was the first woman to have her paper read to the Royal Society. The paper was "The Magnetic Properties of the Violet Rays of the solar System". In 1835 she and another woman were the first women to be elected in the Royal Astronomical Society. It was a great honor to receive. She died in 1872 at the age of 92.