WorksheetsWomen in Math
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 3600secs
Who was the Ancient Mathematician of Alexandria that was a neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician?
Emmy Noether
Sofia Kovalevskaya
Sophie Germain
Hypatia
Who is known as the first computer programmer?
Wang Zhenyi
Joan Beauchamp Procter
Lillian Gilbreth
Ada Lovelace
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
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
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
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
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
Who is called the Mother of modern Algebra?
Mileva Marić
Marie Curie
Emmy Noether
Caroline Herschel
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
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
Who was a French mathematician, physicist, philosopher, and one of the pioneers of elasticity theory?
Sophia Kovelaskaya
Audrey Maclean
Hypatia of Alexandria
Sophia Germain
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.
