MATH 4109 Final ACTUAL Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Which mathematician whose research was in modern algebra left Nazi Germany to teach at Bryn
Mawr College in the United States? - CORRECT ANSWER - Emmy Noether
Florence Nightingale's rose diagram was the precursor of which of the following graphs? -
CORRECT ANSWER - 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? - CORRECT ANSWER - Grace
Hooper
Which French mathematician corresponded with Carl Friedrich Gauss using the pseudonym, L.
LeBlanc? - CORRECT ANSWER - Sophie Germain
Who translated Newton's book, the Principia, into French? - CORRECT ANSWER -
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? - CORRECT ANSWER - Sofia
Kovalevskaya
Who wrote the first surviving mathematical text by a woman? - CORRECT ANSWER -
Maria Agnesi
Which mathematician was the daughter of the British poet, Lord Byron, and wrote about how to
program Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine? - CORRECT ANSWER - Ada Byron King
Who was the first female mathematician that we have information about? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Hypatia
, Which mathematician was the highest ranking woman in the U.S. Navy when she died? -
CORRECT ANSWER - Grace Hopper
Who wrote The Principia? - CORRECT ANSWER - Isaac Newton
Which mathematician is credited with first using the symbol ∫ for the integral? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
What did Newton call his method of calculus? - CORRECT ANSWER - Method of
fluxions
Isaac Newton was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at what university in England? -
CORRECT ANSWER - University of Cambridge
What is Newton's third law of motion due to gravity? - CORRECT ANSWER - 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 -
CORRECT ANSWER - n could be annoy rational number
According to Newton, what is a fluxion? - CORRECT ANSWER - 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? - CORRECT ANSWER - 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? - CORRECT ANSWER - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Which mathematician whose research was in modern algebra left Nazi Germany to teach at Bryn
Mawr College in the United States? - CORRECT ANSWER - Emmy Noether
Florence Nightingale's rose diagram was the precursor of which of the following graphs? -
CORRECT ANSWER - 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? - CORRECT ANSWER - Grace
Hooper
Which French mathematician corresponded with Carl Friedrich Gauss using the pseudonym, L.
LeBlanc? - CORRECT ANSWER - Sophie Germain
Who translated Newton's book, the Principia, into French? - CORRECT ANSWER -
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? - CORRECT ANSWER - Sofia
Kovalevskaya
Who wrote the first surviving mathematical text by a woman? - CORRECT ANSWER -
Maria Agnesi
Which mathematician was the daughter of the British poet, Lord Byron, and wrote about how to
program Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine? - CORRECT ANSWER - Ada Byron King
Who was the first female mathematician that we have information about? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Hypatia
, Which mathematician was the highest ranking woman in the U.S. Navy when she died? -
CORRECT ANSWER - Grace Hopper
Who wrote The Principia? - CORRECT ANSWER - Isaac Newton
Which mathematician is credited with first using the symbol ∫ for the integral? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
What did Newton call his method of calculus? - CORRECT ANSWER - Method of
fluxions
Isaac Newton was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at what university in England? -
CORRECT ANSWER - University of Cambridge
What is Newton's third law of motion due to gravity? - CORRECT ANSWER - 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 -
CORRECT ANSWER - n could be annoy rational number
According to Newton, what is a fluxion? - CORRECT ANSWER - 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? - CORRECT ANSWER - 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? - CORRECT ANSWER - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
