Famous black mathematician
Across
- 3. the second black to earn a PhD in mathematics
- 7. Yale University, On Laguerre series in the complex domain
- 8. who made significant contributions to the field of numerical analysis
- 9. the first African American woman to earn a Ph. D. in mathematics
- 11. the third black woman to earn a PhD in mathematics
- 13. was instrumental in John Glenn's orbit around the moon in 1962.
- 14. an educator and mathematician the bulk of whose career was spent at Spelman College
Down
- 1. Mathematician, sociologist, columnist, essayist and scholar
- 2. a world-class American mathematician, mechanical engineer
- 4. made significant contributions to game theory
- 5. American mathematician specializing in topology.
- 6. known as a “human computer.”
- 10. the first African American to earn a Ph. D. in mathematics.
- 12. a self-educated mathematician, astronomer, and inventor.