Variations in Math (Trivia)

Question 1

What sports team did John Urschel play in the NFL?

Accepted Answer

Baltimore Ravens

Question 2

Select all the statements that accurately describe Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright's career:

Accepted Answer

Cartwright collaborated with Littlewood on radio and radar modeling problem, Was the first female mathematician elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, Cartwright's theorem estimates the maximum modulus of an analytic function.

Question 3

Which of the following fields did Karen Uhlenbeck make foundational contributions to?

Accepted Answer

Geometric analysis

Question 4

Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya was the first woman to gain a doctorate in mathematics in modern Europe.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 5

What was Euphemia Lofton Haynes' major achievement in the field of education?

Accepted Answer

Founding the mathematics department at Miner Teachers College

Question 6

What significant contribution did Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya make to mathematics?

Accepted Answer

Proposing the Cauchy-Kovalevskaya theorem for partial differential equation

Question 7

Choice: Which of the following is NOT an accomplishment of Annie Easley during her career at NASA?

Accepted Answer

Serving as an equal employment opportunity counselor

Question 8

What groundbreaking concept did Karen Uhlenbeck's work on Yang-Mills equations lead to (impacted geometry and topology)?

Accepted Answer

Instantons

Question 9

Annie Easley began her career at NASA as a computer programmer and switched to manual computations as a "human computer"

Accepted Answer

False

Question 10

What invention did Valerie Thomas create while working at NASA?

Accepted Answer

A way to transmit three-dimensional images

Question 11

Which of the following awards and honors were received by Cathleen Morawetz?

Accepted Answer

Krieger-Nelson Award from the Canadian Mathematical Society (1997), Birkhoff Prize (2006), Leroy P Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the AMS (2004), National Medal of Science (1998)

Question 12

What fields of mathematics does John Urschel focus on in his studies at MIT?

Accepted Answer

Graph theory, Machine learning, Numerical analysis

Question 13

What was one of Hypatia's notable contributions to mathematics and science?

Accepted Answer

Inventing the astrolabe

Question 14

What year was Gladys West recognized for her contribution to the development of GPS by the Virginia General Assembly?

Accepted Answer

2018

Question 15

Mae Jemison graduated college to be a mathematician and astronaut

Accepted Answer

False

Question 16

In which year did Valerie Thomas receive a patent for her invention?

Accepted Answer

1980

Question 17

In which year did Euphemia Lofton Haynes earn her doctorate in mathematics?

Accepted Answer

1943

Question 18

Which project was Gladys West the project manager, demonstrating the use of satellites to observe oceanographic data?

Accepted Answer

Seasat

Question 19

What was Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright's significant contribution to mathematics?

Accepted Answer

Pioneering chaos theory alongside J. E. Littlewood

Question 20

Which of the following are accomplishments of Mae Jemison?

Accepted Answer

Served as a medical officer with the Peace Corps in West Africa, First African American woman to become an astronaut, Degrees in chemical engineering and African American studies from Stanford, Spent more than a week orbiting Earth in the space shuttle Endeavour

Question 21

What was the subject of Cathleen Morawetz's doctoral thesis?

Accepted Answer

Stability of a spherical implosion

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