Women in Mathematics

Multiple Choice

Who was the Ancient Mathematician of Alexandria that was a neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician?

• Emmy Noether

• Sofia Kovalevskaya

• Sophie Germain

• Hypatia

Multiple Choice

This biographical drama shed light on the African American female mathematicians who worked at Nasa during the Space Race during the height of segregation

• Voyagers

• Hidden Figures

• Katherine Johnson

• Challenger

Multiple Choice

Which women in mathematics also pursed her interest in dance in addition to mathematics? She even enrolled in courses at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

• Mae Jemison

• Katherine Johnson

• Valerie Thomas

• Dr. Euphemia Lofton Haynes

Multiple Choice

Valerie Thomas invented and patented the illusion transmitter which led the way to ______ images

• visual

• transparent

• three dimensional

Multiple Choice

Who is known as the first computer programmer?

• Wang Zhenyi

• Joan Beauchamp Procter

• Lillian Gilbreth

• Ada Lovelace

Multiple Choice

Who invented the Illusion Transmitter (1980) --- the first of its kind in the field of 3D-imagery and is the basis for modern 3D-televisions, video games, and movies?

• Valerie Thomas

• Lonnie Johnson

• Annie Easley

• Mae Carol Jemison

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Who is famous for being the first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics and after earning her Ph.D., embarked on a 47-year career of advocacy for students of color, improving schools, and overcoming the harmful effects of racial segregation.

• Mae Carol Jemison

• Valerie Thomas

• Katherine Johnson

• Euphemia Lofton Haynes

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Who worked in applied mathematics and mathematical biology and has been involved with biomathematics, patterns in genetic variation, and chaos theory? Their current work is focused on encouraging women and minority students to pursue graduate degrees in mathematics and other STEM fields.

• Euphemia Lofton Haynes

• Mae Carol Jemison

• Fern Hunt

• Valerie Thomas

Multiple Choice

Who, during their 35-year career at NASA , held a reputation for being a master of complex manual calculations, helped pioneer the use of computer programming for performing complex calculations and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom?

• Annie Easley

• Valerie Thomas

• Mae Carol Jemison

• Katherine Johnson

Multiple Choice

This mathematician worked as a computer programmer and was the first African American manager at the NACA. Later they joined NASA (originally NACA) calculating wind tunnel and flight data.

• Dorothy Vaughan

• Fern Hunt

• Valerie Thomas

• Marjorie Lee Browne

Multiple Choice

Who is called the Mother of modern Algebra?

• Mileva Marić

• Marie Curie

• Emmy Noether

• Caroline Herschel

Multiple Choice

Annie Easley was a trailblazer for gender and racial diversity in STEM. She is known for being

• A unicorn founder & CEO

• A NASA rocket scientist

• A computer scientist and a US Navy rear admiral

• VP of Research at the MIT

Multiple Choice

Who was a Russian mathematician who made noteworthy contributions to analysis, partial differential equations, and mechanics?

• Sophia Germain

• Sophia Koveleskaya

• Hypatia of Alexandria

• Audrey Maclean

Multiple Choice

Who was a French mathematician, physicist, philosopher, and one of the pioneers of elasticity theory?

• Sophia Kovelaskaya

• Audrey Maclean

• Hypatia of Alexandria

• Sophia Germain

Multiple Choice

What is Mae Jemison best known for?

• Mae Jemison was an engineer.

• Mae Jemison was the first black woman to travel into space

• Mae Jemison was on Star Trek.

• Mae Jemison got to meet Albert Einstein.