The Hidden Figures
This U.S. government space agency, founded in 1958, employed the mathematicians featured in the book and film about their work.
What is NASA?
This constant, roughly 3.14159, represents a circle's circumference divided by its diameter.
What is pi?
This force, described by Newton, pulls objects toward the center of the Earth.
What is gravity?
This is the official greeting on campus
What is Howdy?
This war, fought from 1861-1865, ended slavery in the United States.
What is the Civil War?
This mathematician's manual calculations verified an IBM computer's numbers before John Glenn's 1962 orbital flight.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
This theorem states that in a right triangle, a² + b² = c².
What is the Pythagorean theorem?
This process allows plants to convert sunlight, water, and CO2 into glucose and oxygen.
What is photosynthesis?
This event takes place the night before home football games
What is Midnight Yell?
This wall, dividing a German city, fell in 1989.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This "Hidden Figures" mathematician became NASA's first Black supervisor, leading the West Area Computers unit.
Who is Dorothy Vaughan?
Developed independently by Newton and Leibniz, this branch of math deals with rates of change and areas under curves.
What is calculus?
This is the basic structural and functional unit of all living organisms.
What is a cell?
She is the first lady of the Corps of Cadets
Who is Reveille?
This U.S President famously used Supply-Side Economics during his presidency
Who is Ronald Reagan?
This woman had to petition a Virginia court to attend night classes so she could become NASA's first Black female engineer.
Who is Mary Jackson?
This rule lets you evaluate limits that produce indeterminate forms like 0/0 by taking the derivative of the numerator and denominator separately.
What is L'Hôpital's Rule?
This principle, formulated by Werner Heisenberg, states you cannot simultaneously know a particle's exact position and momentum.
What is the uncertainty principle?
This somber event takes place on the first Tuesday of every month as needed
What is Silver Taps?
This document, signed in 1215, limited the power of the English monarchy.
What is the Magna Carta?
The book Hidden Figures was written by this author, Margot Lee Shetterly, and carries this descriptive subtitle referencing an "American Dream" and a "space race."
What is The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race?
This famous math identity combines many fundamental math constants into one equation
What is Euler's Identity?
This subatomic particle, discovered at CERN in 2012, gives other particles their mass.
What is the Higgs boson?
This Aggie famously led the 2nd Ranger Battalion during the D-Day invasion during WWII
Who is Earl Rudder?
This 1919 treaty officially ended World War I and imposed heavy reparations on Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?