stud
bud
Sign up
Log in
Home
Library
Explore
SAT
More
Famous Female Mathematicians Flashcards | StudBud
Explore
/
Famous Female Mathematicians
Famous Female Mathematicians
19 terms
·
StudBud Administration
·
754 plays
Imported from external platform
Flashcards
19 cards
F
Practice quiz
P
Host live
L
Questions
19
Answers
1
What math topic did Maryam Mirzakhani NOT work on?
Dynamics and Geometry of Riemann Surfaces
Ergodic Theory
Hyperbolic Geometry
Modular Arithmetic
2
Ada Lovelace is now called:
The World's First Computer Programmer
The Mother of Mathematics
The Precursor of Programming
The Mathematical Poet
3
Katherine Johnson worked for which organization for 35 years?
NASA
CIA
NSA
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Corps of America
4
What is Ada Lovelace's claim to fame?
She corresponded with Charles Babbage for 17 years.
She is credited with writing the first computer algorithm.
She invented bernoulli numbers.
She killed a moth with her father's book of poetry.
5
Who was the aerospace engineer who helped create a guidance system to bring Apollo 13 home while in labor!
Mary Cartwright
Sofya Kovalevskaya
Judith Love Cohen
Emmy Noether
6
What university did Maryam Mirzakhani teach at prior to her death in 2017?
University of Illinois
Yale
Harvard
Stanford
7
What nickname did Charles Babbage give to Ada Lovelace?
The Number Goddess
The Guru of Numbers
The Enchantress of Numbers
The Mathematician Extraordinaire
8
In 2015, President Obama awarded Katherine Johnson what award?
Gold Star
Congressional Space Medal of Honor
Purple Heart
Presidential Medal fo Freedom
9
Sophie Germain grew up during what historical event?
French Revolution
Civil War
World War 1
American Revolution
10
Which of the following is NOT true about Hypatia?
Developed concepts of conics
First female math teacher
Was brutally murdered by a religious group
Is known for solving the Pythagorean Theorem
11
This astronomer, philosopher and mathematician was born in 370 AD in Alexandria, Egypt.
Mayim Bialik
Demeter
Pandrosian
Hypatia
12
What machine did Ada Lovelace conceptualize?
Bifocals
Shoelaces
Flying Machine
Catapult
13
Sophie Germain is best known for her work in:
Number Theory and the Theory of Elsasticity
Binomial Expansion
Fourier Analysis
Quadratics
14
In this 2016 movie, Taraji P. Henson played the role of Katherine Johnson.
Hidden Figures
The Dish
Apollo 11
October Sky
15
How many women, including Mirzakhani, have won the Fields Medal, the most prestigious prize in Mathematics?
3
2
1
5
16
Who was the first female mathematician to win the Fields Medal?
Sophie Germain
Maryam Mirzakhani
Judith Love Cohen
Ada Lovelace
17
Sophie Germain had to use an alias because of gender discrimination. What was her alias?
Monsieur LeBlanc
Henri Poincarre
Cedric Villani
Matt Leblanc
18
Judith Love Cohen, while solving her guidance system problem, gave birth to which actor?
George Clooney
Jack Black
Tom Hanks
Tom Cruise
19
Judith Love Cohen was also an electrical engineer who worked on:
International Space Station
Minutemen Missiles
Black Holes
Moon Landing
