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- 5. MIT grad student led the creation of a new algorithm to produce the first-ever image of a black hole
- 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."
- 8. Albert Einstein called this woman "the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began."
- 9. Self-taught Indian mathematician who proved over 3,000 theorems
- 11. Russian Mathematician who was the first developer of a non-Euclidean Geometry
- 12. Culmination of Chinese “magic” squares, circles and triangles,and earlier version of Pascal’s Triangle of binomial co-efficients
- 14. Persian mathematician who advocated for the Hindu numerals 1 to 9 and 0 in Islamic world and discovered key foundations of modern algebra
- 17. Inventor of natural logarithms who popularized the use of the decimal point
- 18. 1st African American woman to earn PhD
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- 1. This English woman is now acknowledged as the world's first computer programmer.
- 2. Surname of George and Katherine, the Nigerian Father-Daughter duo who both earned PhD’s in mathematics (1972 & 1991)
- 3. This mathematician is quoted as saying "it is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul"
- 4. Egyptian mathematician was the first woman to make a substantial contribution to the development of mathematics.
- 6. Mathematician who became the first Iranian and only Woman to win the Fields Medal in Mathematics.
- 10. Hungarian who developed a non-Euclidean Geometry at the same time as ***
- 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.
- 15. Chinese mathematician who solved linear equations using a matrices and calculated value of π correct to five decimal places in 3rd century
- 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.