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Which mathematician whose research was in modern algebra left Nazi Germany to
teach at Bryn Mawr College in the United States? - ✔✔Emmy Noether
Florence Nightingale's rose diagram was the precursor of which of the following
graphs? - ✔✔Circle Graph
Who coined the phrase "de-bugging" when she discovered that a moth had gotten into
one of the early computers and caused a short in the machine? - ✔✔Grace Hooper
Which French mathematician corresponded with Carl Friedrich Gauss using the
pseudonym, L. LeBlanc? - ✔✔Sophie Germain
Who translated Newton's book, the Principia, into French? - ✔✔Emilie du Chatelet
Which mathematician was unable to obtain a professorship in her native country of
Russia or in Germany but did obtain a position in Sweden? - ✔✔Sofia Kovalevskaya
Who wrote the first surviving mathematical text by a woman? - ✔✔Maria Agnesi
Which mathematician was the daughter of the British poet, Lord Byron, and wrote
about how to program Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine? - ✔✔Ada Byron King
Who was the first female mathematician that we have information about? - ✔✔Hypatia
Which mathematician was the highest ranking woman in the U.S. Navy when she died?
- ✔✔Grace Hopper
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, Who wrote The Principia? - ✔✔Isaac Newton
Which mathematician is credited with first using the symbol ∫ for the integral? -
✔✔Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
What did Newton call his method of calculus? - ✔✔Method of fluxions
Isaac Newton was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at what university in
England? - ✔✔University of Cambridge
What is Newton's third law of motion due to gravity? - ✔✔To every action there is an
equal and opposite reaction.
How did Newton's Generalized Binomial Theorem improve on the expansion of (a +
b)^n - ✔✔n could be annoy rational number
According to Newton, what is a fluxion? - ✔✔The speed at which a quantity changes
Many mathematicians made progress on the proof of the Fundamental Theorem of
Algebra. What was Euler's contribution? - ✔✔He proved the theorem for polynomial
equations of degree less than or equal to 6.
Working independently of Isaac Newton, what other mathematician developed the
basics of calculus at just about the same time? - ✔✔Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Who is known as the Prince of Mathematicians? - ✔✔Carl Friedrich Gauss
Which French mathematician intervened with the French army to guarantee Gauss's
safety during the Napoleonic wars? - ✔✔Sophie Germain
What is the difference between an arithmetic sequence and a geometric sequence? -
✔✔In an arithmetic sequence, consecutive terms have a common difference. In
geometric sequences, consecutive terms have a common ratio.
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