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  1. 5. MIT grad student led the creation of a new algorithm to produce the first-ever image of a black hole
  2. 7. African-American Mathematics professor who said "My entire career has been devoted to increasing the number of African American women in mathematics and mathematics-related careers."
  3. 8. Albert Einstein called this woman "the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began."
  4. 9. Self-taught Indian mathematician who proved over 3,000 theorems
  5. 11. Russian Mathematician who was the first developer of a non-Euclidean Geometry
  6. 12. Culmination of Chinese “magic” squares, circles and triangles,and earlier version of Pascal’s Triangle of binomial co-efficients
  7. 14. Persian mathematician who advocated for the Hindu numerals 1 to 9 and 0 in Islamic world and discovered key foundations of modern algebra
  8. 17. Inventor of natural logarithms who popularized the use of the decimal point
  9. 18. 1st African American woman to earn PhD
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  1. 1. This English woman is now acknowledged as the world's first computer programmer.
  2. 2. Surname of George and Katherine, the Nigerian Father-Daughter duo who both earned PhD’s in mathematics (1972 & 1991)
  3. 3. This mathematician is quoted as saying "it is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul"
  4. 4. Egyptian mathematician was the first woman to make a substantial contribution to the development of mathematics.
  5. 6. Mathematician who became the first Iranian and only Woman to win the Fields Medal in Mathematics.
  6. 10. Hungarian who developed a non-Euclidean Geometry at the same time as ***
  7. 13. This mathematician submitted mathematical papers under a male name, but was later able to reveal her identity and became the first woman to win a prize from the French Academy of Sciences.
  8. 15. Chinese mathematician who solved linear equations using a matrices and calculated value of π correct to five decimal places in 3rd century
  9. 16. considered the mathematician who collaborated with the most other mathematicians. There is a number named after him that describes the collaborative distance of other math professors.