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Quiz : Women in Mathematics Day Celebration 2025



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May 12 is celebrated as Women in Mathematics Day! The date was chosen because it is the birthday of _________________. She was a world-leading mathematician and the first woman to win a prestigious Fields Medal, one of the highest awards in maths.
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Maryam Mirzakhani was an Iranian mathematician known for her seminal works in the fields of hyperbolic geometry, topology and dynamics. In 1994, at age 17, she became the first Iranian to win a gold medal at _________________________________________.
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______________________ was the first Ukrainian mathematician and the second woman to win the prestigious Fields medal in mathematics in the year 2022 for her ground breaking work on a 400 year old problem on Sphere Packing.
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The prime numbers p for which 2p +1 is also a prime (for example, 11 is a prime and 2x11 + 1 = 23 is also a prime) are called _____________________- prime named after one of the famous French mathematician.
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The computer language Ada was named after Ada Lovelace who was an English mathematician and was known to have written world’s first published computer program for ________________________________.
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Daughter of Bhaskaracharya was an ancient Indian mathematician who solved many mathematical problems posed by her father. And the solutions given by her form the major part of ‘Bhaskara’s Treatise’ which is titled ______________________, named after her daughter.
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____________________, a professor at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata is the third woman to receive DST-ICTP-IMU Ramanujan Prize in the year 2021, for solving a long standing open problem called Zariski Cancellation problem. She was Selected by the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) as the Emmy Noether Lecturer for the year 2025.
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German mathematician ____________________ made important contributions in abstract algebra and topology – two branches of mathematics, while one of her theorem has great implications in theoretical physics. In a letter to The New Your Times, Albert Einstein wrote,
“In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, she was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.”
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____________________ was a Russian mathematician and made many notable contributions in analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics of rigid body. She was the first woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics, the first woman to be appointed as a full professor in mathematics in northern Europe
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Sofya Kovalevskaya was the first woman mathematician to work for a scientific journal  as an editor.  She was made an editor of the journal Acta Mathematica. Her doctoral advisor was the father of modern mathematical analysis _______________________.
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_____________________________,  is the first Indian woman to receive the prestigious ICTP-IMU Ramanujan Prize in the year 2006 for her work on the arithmetic of algebraic varieties and her contributions to noncommutative Iwasawa theory. She has also been awarded with Padma Shri award by the Government of India in 2023.
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______________________ was an American mathematician, known for her works in calculating orbital mechanics as a NASA employee, who was involved in the Apollo 11 mission. The name of her inspiring autobiography is “Reaching for the Moon”. She was inducted into America’s National Women’s Hall of Fame in 2021 and into America’s National Aviation Hall of Fame in 2024.
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Mathematician, philosopher and astronomer Hypatia of Alexandria was one of the most extraordinary women who lived between 350 AD to 415 AD.
Hypatia wrote a commentary on ______________________ on conic sections.
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_________________________, was a British mathematician, who was one of the pioneers of chaos theory. She received De Morgan Medal, the highest award of the London Mathematical Society in 1968.
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________________________________ was an Italian mathematician, who is credited to have written the 
first complete text book on differential and integral calculus sometime around 1748. She was the first woman to write a mathematics handbook and the first woman appointed as a mathematics professor at a university.
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___________________________ was an Indian mental calculator, who through her computer like arithmetic abilities earned a place in The Guinness Book of World Records.
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