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