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