Women in Math
The first woman to win the Fields Medal in 2014, this mathematician is celebrated for her work in hyperbolic geometry.
Who is Maryam Mirzakhani?
This popular T.V. sitcom featuring Sheldon and his quirky friends puts physics on center stage.
What is "The Big Bang Theory"?
You can find this famous sequence in both sunflower spirals and pinecone patterns.
What is the Fibonacci Sequence?
Switch doors to avoid the goat and improve your odds in this classic game-show brain teaser.
What is the Monty Hall problem?
Meaning "small pebble" in Latin, this subject links rates of change with accumulated quantities.
What is calculus?
She is often called the world's first computer programmer for her notes on Babbage's Analytical Engine.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
Starring Matt Damon and Robin Williams, a difficult math problem posed to graduate students at MIT is anonymously solved by a janitor in this film.
What is "Good Will Hunting"?
Radioactive materials are often used as an example for this kind of decay.
What is exponential?
What is the pigeonhole principle?
This branch is the study of the properties of structures such as groups and rings.
What is Algebra?
A fourth-century scholar of Alexandria, known for her work on conics and her public teaching.
Who is Hypatia?
This film highlights three women of color who were employed by NASA during the space race.
What is "Hidden Figures"?
Smart choices in lotteries or insurance use this long-run average calculation.
What is expected value?
When two explanations both fit the facts, this "razor" says to prefer the simpler one.
What is Occam's Razor?
This subject is the study of relationships between functions and their derivatives.
What is differential equations?
Born in the 19th century, this figure employed statistical techniques to improve unsanitary hospital conditions.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
This film follows John Nash, whose schizophrenia leads him to believe he works for the Pentagon decrypting hidden soviet messages.
What is "A Beautiful Mind"?
This "check digit" formula is used by online vendors to validate credit card numbers.
What is the Luhn algorithm?
This paradox claims a single sphere can be split into parts and reassembled into two full-size copies.
What is the Banach-Tarski paradox?
With a deceptively simple name, this branch of mathematics focuses on the properties of integers and arithmetic functions.
What is number theory?
This NASA mathematician's orbital calculations helped launch John Glenn into space.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
Four engineers tinker in a garage and stumble into time travel in this ultra-low-budget sci-fi movie named after a math word.
What is "Primer"?
To minimize file size, JPEG images rely on this to change pixel data into frequencies.
What is the discrete fourier transform?
If you replace all the individual parts, is it still the same object? This classic paradox tests identity over time.
What is the Ship of Theseus?
Popularized in the 1950s, this subject studies the properties of calculations done with finite precision.
What is numerical analysis?