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