Timeline of women in mathematics - Quiz
Timeline of women in mathematics
  • 1. In which years did Lucy Joan Slater publish books about hypergeometric functions?
A) 1961 and 1964
B) 1965 and 1968
C) 1960 and 1966
D) 1970 and 1971
  • 2. Which agency employed Katherine Johnson to calculate flight trajectories?
A) Royal Society
B) Mathematical Association of America
C) NASA
D) London Mathematical Society
  • 3. Who became the first woman to be President of the London Mathematical Society in 1961?
A) Mary Cartwright
B) Mina Rees
C) Grace Alele-Williams
D) Elizabeth McHarg
  • 4. In 1962, who received the Award for Distinguished Service to Mathematics from the MAA?
A) Mary Cartwright
B) Mina Rees
C) Julia Robinson
D) Katherine Johnson
  • 5. Where did Grace Alele-Williams earn her Ph.D in 1963?
A) University of Cambridge
B) University of Edinburgh
C) University of London
D) University of Chicago
  • 6. What award was given to Mary Cartwright in 1964?
A) De Morgan Medal
B) Fields Medal
C) Abel Prize
D) Sylvester Medal
  • 7. Who became the first female president of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society in 1965?
A) Mary L. Boas
B) Joan Birman
C) Elizabeth McHarg
D) Mary Cartwright
  • 8. Which book did Mary L. Boas publish in 1966?
A) Introduction to Topology
B) Braids, Links, and Mapping Class Groups
C) Hypergeometric Functions
D) Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences
  • 9. What award did Mary Cartwright receive in 1968?
A) Sylvester Medal
B) De Morgan Medal
C) Fields Medal
D) Award for Distinguished Service
  • 10. In 1970, Mina Rees became the first female president of which organization?
A) American Association for the Advancement of Science
B) Royal Statistical Society
C) London Mathematical Society
D) Mathematical Association of America
  • 11. Who constructed the first Dowker space in 1971?
A) Joan Birman
B) Julia Robinson
C) Mary Ellen Rudin
D) Marjorie Rice
  • 12. In which state is the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) incorporated?
A) California
B) Massachusetts
C) Texas
D) New York
  • 13. What subject did Jean Taylor's 1973 dissertation focus on?
A) Braid groups
B) Soap-film triple function curves
C) Tessellating pentagons
D) Hypergeometric functions
  • 14. Who published the first book devoted to braid groups in 1974?
A) Julia Robinson
B) Mary Ellen Rudin
C) Dorothy Lewis Bernstein
D) Joan Birman
  • 15. Who was the first female mathematician elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1975?
A) Dorothy Lewis Bernstein
B) Mary Cartwright
C) Mina Rees
D) Julia Robinson
  • 16. Who became the first female president of the Royal Statistical Society in 1975?
A) Joan Birman
B) Mary Ellen Rudin
C) Stella Cunliffe
D) Elizabeth McHarg
  • 17. What did Marjorie Rice discover between 1976 and 1977?
A) New methods for calculating flight trajectories
B) The first Dowker space
C) Four new types of tessellating pentagons
D) New hypergeometric functions
  • 18. Who became the first female president of the Mathematical Association of America in 1979?
A) Julia Robinson
B) Mary Cartwright
C) Mina Rees
D) Dorothy Lewis Bernstein
  • 19. Which lecture series did Mary Ellen Rudin present in 1979?
A) Sylvester Lectures
B) Earle Raymond Hedrick Lectures
C) De Morgan Lectures
D) NASA Space Lectures
  • 20. Who was the first woman in Sweden to earn a doctorate in mathematics in 1911?
A) Mary Cartwright
B) Mildred Sanderson
C) Louise Petrén-Overton
D) Emmy Noether
  • 21. What did Mildred Sanderson earn her PhD for in 1913?
A) A theory on satellite data
B) A study on conformal mappings
C) A thesis about modular invariants
D) A lecture at the American Mathematical Society
  • 22. Which mathematician published a theorem regarding differentiable symmetry and conservation laws in 1918?
A) Anna Pell-Wheeler
B) Helen Walker
C) Euphemia Haynes
D) Emmy Noether
  • 23. Who was the first woman to lecture at the American Mathematical Society Colloquium in 1927?
A) Cecilia Kreiger
B) Gertrude Mary Cox
C) Maria Laura Lopes
D) Anna Pell-Wheeler
  • 24. What technique did Mary Cartwright use to prove her theorem?
A) Data collection from satellites
B) A technique by Lars Ahlfors
C) A method for modular invariants
D) A theory of differentiable symmetry
  • 25. Who was the first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1943?
A) Euphemia Haynes
B) Maria Laura Lopes
C) Gladys West
D) Helen Walker
  • 26. Who was the first woman in Brazil to earn a PhD in mathematics in 1949?
A) Louise Petrén-Overton
B) Maria Laura Lopes
C) Cecilia Kreiger
D) Gladys West
  • 27. What position did Mary Cartwright hold in the Mathematical Association in 1951?
A) First female PhD recipient
B) First female lecturer
C) First female president
D) First female secretary
  • 28. Gladys West's work in the 1950s directly impacted the development of which system?
A) GPS
B) Modular invariants
C) Symmetry conservation
D) Conformal mapping
  • 29. Where did Gladys West work when she collected data from satellites?
A) American Mathematical Society
B) University of Toronto
C) Catholic University of America
D) Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division
  • 30. Who was a Greek mathematician known for an approximate solution to doubling the cube before 350?
A) Sofya Kovalevskaya
B) Pandrosion
C) Maria Agnesi
D) Hypatia
  • 31. Who was the first well-documented woman in mathematics?
A) Pandrosion
B) Émilie du Châtelet
C) Wang Zhenyi
D) Hypatia
  • 32. In what year did Maria Agnesi publish her book on differential and integral calculus?
A) 1827
B) 1759
C) 1748
D) 1787
  • 33. Whose translation of Newton's Principia Mathematica is still considered the standard French translation?
A) Maria Agnesi
B) Sofya Kovalevskaya
C) Émilie du Châtelet
D) Sophie Germain
  • 34. How many books did Wang Zhenyi publish on astronomy and mathematics?
A) At least twelve
B) Twenty
C) None
D) Exactly five
  • 35. Sophie Germain's theorem was a major step toward proving which famous theorem?
A) The Pythagorean Theorem
B) The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
C) Fermat's Last Theorem
D) The Prime Number Theorem
  • 36. In what year did Florence Nightingale become the first female member of the Royal Statistical Society?
A) 1858
B) 1880
C) 1894
D) 1873
  • 37. Who was the first woman to take the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos Exam?
A) Philippa Fawcett
B) Sofya Kovalevskaya
C) Charlotte Angas Scott
D) Sarah Woodhead
  • 38. Who became the first woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics in the modern sense in 1874?
A) Cornelia Fabri
B) Winifred Edgerton Merrill
C) Sofya Kovalevskaya
D) Charlotte Angas Scott
  • 39. In what year did Charlotte Angas Scott become the first British woman to receive a doctorate in mathematics?
A) 1885
B) 1886
C) 1891
D) 1880
  • 40. Who was the first American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics?
A) Winifred Edgerton Merrill
B) Sarah Woodhead
C) Charlotte Angas Scott
D) Philippa Fawcett
  • 41. What is the name of the example of integrable rigid body motion discovered by Sofya Kovalevskaya in 1888?
A) The Kovalevskaya theorem
B) The Kovalevskaya constant
C) The Kovalevskaya equation
D) The Kovalevskaya top
  • 42. Who was the first woman to obtain the top score in the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos Exam in 1890?
A) Sarah Woodhead
B) Iginia Massarini
C) Charlotte Angas Scott
D) Philippa Fawcett
  • 43. Who was the first woman to earn a doctorate in math from the University of Pisa?
A) Philippa Fawcett
B) Sofya Kovalevskaya
C) Cornelia Fabri
D) Charlotte Angas Scott
  • 44. Which mathematician saw her theorem published in a footnote by Adrien-Marie Legendre?
A) Wang Zhenyi
B) Émilie du Châtelet
C) Maria Agnesi
D) Sophie Germain
  • 45. Who was the first woman to give the Gibbs Lecture of the American Mathematical Society in 1981?
A) Cathleen Morawetz
B) Julia Robinson
C) Doris Schattschneider
D) Eileen Poiani
  • 46. In what year did Doris Schattschneider become the first female editor of Mathematics Magazine?
A) 1981
B) 1992
C) 1988
D) 1983
  • 47. Who became the first female mathematics professor in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1982?
A) Bodil Branner
B) Cheryl Praeger
C) Rebecca Walo Omana
D) Ina Kersten
  • 48. In what year was European Women in Mathematics (EWM) founded?
A) 1980
B) 1995
C) 1992
D) 1986
  • 49. Who became the first female president of Pi Mu Epsilon in 1987?
A) Joan Birman
B) Katherine Heinrich
C) Doris Schattschneider
D) Eileen Poiani
  • 50. Which lecture did Doris Schattschneider present in 1988 as the first woman to do so?
A) Gibbs Lecture
B) J. Sutherland Frame Lecture
C) Chauvenet Prize lecture
D) Cox-Talbot address
  • 51. Who was the first female President of the Australian Mathematical Society in 1992?
A) Cheryl Praeger
B) Ina Kersten
C) Margaret Wright
D) Leah Edelstein-Keshet
  • 52. Who became the first woman to deliver the Cox-Talbot address in 1992?
A) Bodil Branner
B) Ruth Hendry
C) Gloria Gilmer
D) Joan Birman
  • 53. Who became the first female Senior Wrangler in 1992?
A) Katherine Heinrich
B) Ioana Dumitriu
C) Ruth Hendry
D) Melanie Wood
  • 54. Who was the first woman to head the German Mathematical Society?
A) Ina Kersten
B) Gudrun Kalmbach
C) Dona Strauss
D) Bodil Branner
  • 55. In 1996, which award did Joan Birman become the first woman to receive?
A) Chauvenet Prize
B) MacArthur Fellowship
C) Senior Wrangler
D) Putnam Fellow
  • 56. Who was the first female President of the Canadian Mathematical Society in 1996?
A) Cathleen Morawetz
B) Cheryl Praeger
C) Eileen Poiani
D) Katherine Heinrich
  • 57. Who became the first woman named a Putnam Fellow in 1996?
A) Ioana Dumitriu
B) Ruth Hendry
C) Melanie Wood
D) Julia Robinson
  • 58. Who was the first woman to lead the Danish Mathematical Society?
A) Dona Strauss
B) Bodil Branner
C) Marie-Françoise Roy
D) Caroline Series
  • 59. Who was the first female American to make the U.S. International Math Olympiad Team?
A) Ioana Dumitriu
B) Gloria Gilmer
C) Melanie Wood
D) Ruth Hendry
  • 60. In what year did Melanie Wood win her first silver medal in the International Mathematical Olympiad?
A) 1999
B) 1992
C) 1996
D) 1998
  • 61. In what year did Susan Howson become the first woman to win the Adams Prize?
A) 2000
B) 2004
C) 2002
D) 2006
  • 62. What is the age limit for the Adams Prize?
A) Under 50
B) Under 30
C) Under 40
D) Under 35
  • 63. Who was the first female gold medal winner on the U.S. International Mathematical Olympiad Team?
A) Alison Miller
B) Susan Howson
C) Olga Gil Medrano
D) Melanie Wood
  • 64. In what year did Alison Miller win her gold medal?
A) 2004
B) 2006
C) 2002
D) 2008
  • 65. Which mathematician became the first woman to win the CRM-Fields-PIMS prize in 2006?
A) Stefanie Petermichl
B) Olga Gil Medrano
C) Susan Howson
D) Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann
  • 66. What is the primary field of interest associated with the Salem Prize?
A) Number theory
B) Applied statistics
C) Differential geometry
D) Analysis related to Fourier series
  • 67. Who was the first woman to win the Salem Prize?
A) Alison Miller
B) Stefanie Petermichl
C) Melanie Wood
D) Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann
  • 68. With whom did Stefanie Petermichl share the Salem Prize?
A) Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann
B) Olga Gil Medrano
C) Artur Avila
D) Susan Howson
  • 69. In what year did Olga Gil Medrano become the president of the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society?
A) 2004
B) 2008
C) 2006
D) 2002
  • 70. Which country is Stefanie Petermichl from?
A) Poland
B) Spain
C) Germany
D) Canada
  • 71. Who became the first female president of the International Mathematical Union in 2011?
A) Claire Voisin
B) Maryam Mirzakhani
C) Karen Uhlenbeck
D) Ingrid Daubechies
  • 72. In which year was the Working Committee for Women in Mathematics of the Chinese Mathematical Society founded?
A) 2011
B) 2014
C) 2013
D) 2012
  • 73. The African Women in Mathematics Association was founded in which year?
A) 2012
B) 2013
C) 2017
D) 2014
  • 74. Who was the first woman to be awarded the Fields Medal?
A) Ingrid Daubechies
B) Karen Uhlenbeck
C) Maryam Mirzakhani
D) Claire Voisin
  • 75. In what year did Maryam Mirzakhani receive the Fields Medal?
A) 2016
B) 2019
C) 2013
D) 2014
  • 76. Which mathematician received the CNRS Gold medal in 2016?
A) Claire Voisin
B) Ingrid Daubechies
C) Maryam Mirzakhani
D) Karen Uhlenbeck
  • 77. Who became the first female president of the African Mathematical Union in 2017?
A) Nouzha El Yacoubi
B) Marissa Loving
C) Claire Voisin
D) Maryam Mirzakhani
  • 78. In 2019, who became the first woman to win the Abel Prize?
A) Nouzha El Yacoubi
B) Ingrid Daubechies
C) Claire Voisin
D) Karen Uhlenbeck
  • 79. Who was the first Native Hawaiian woman to earn a PhD in mathematics?
A) Marissa Loving
B) Nouzha El Yacoubi
C) Karen Uhlenbeck
D) Maryam Mirzakhani
  • 80. Maryam Mirzakhani was the first woman and first person from which country to win the Fields Medal?
A) France
B) Belgium
C) China
D) Iran
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