General Trivia
In 1843, while translating an article on Charles Babbage’s "Analytical Engine," she added her own extensive notes. These included the first published algorithm intended to be processed by a machine.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
This LSU Math Professor was the first female professor in the combinatorics group.
Who is Christin Bibby?
These two LSU professors are on the AWM EvenQuads card games.
Who are Susanne Brenner and Ling Long?
This LSU math instructor is the 2021 George H. Deer Teaching award winner and current Trig Coordinator.
Who is Selena Oswalt?
These four individuals serve as the current officers of LSU Math's Chapter of AWM!!!
Who are Hailey, Laura, Rachel and Huong?
Her 1918 theorem provided the mathematical foundation for Einstein’s General Relativity by linking symmetry to conservation.
Who is Emmy Noether?
This number theorist studies connections between hypergeometric functions, general modular forms, and even the mysterious “mirror maps” that physicists talk about.
Who is Fang-Ting Tu
This LSU math professor was the first and only woman to be appointed a Boyd professor in the math department at LSU.
Who is Susanne Brenner?
This LSU Math Instructor was the first person to win the George H. Deer distinguished teaching award.
Who is Phoebe Rouse?
This LSU Professor was the first woman in the department to get her own Wikipedia page.
Who is Pallavi Dani?
Her book, Instituzioni Analitiche, was the first to integrate differential and integral calculus. She was also the first woman ever appointed as a mathematics professor at a university (the University of Bologna), though historians debate if she ever actually gave a lecture there.
Who is Maria Gaetana Agnesi?
This professor is a first for LSU Analysis in recent years, focusing on global well-posedness for "supercritical" dispersive equations.
Who is Aynur Bulut?
This LSU Math professor was the second woman to go up for tenure and get it, after a pioneering tenure run by Gisele Ruiz Goldstein.
Who is Pallavi Dani?
This LSU instructor was the first in the department to implement a service learning component in a mathematics course.
Who is Stephanie Kurtz?
This LSU Professor was the first woman at LSU mathematics to collaborate with Pennington Biomedical Research Center.
Who is Nadia Drenska?
This calculator for NASA whose hand-calculations were so trusted that astronaut John Glenn refused to fly unless she personally verified the computer's output.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
This Assistant Professor is the department’s leading expert the theory of singular integral operators.
Who is Manasa Vempati?
This professor earned the Lichnerowicz prize in Poisson geometry, and is the first at LSU to do so.
Who is Ana Balibanu?
This woman was the first woman and instructor to receive the role of Calculus coordinator.
Who is Julia Ledet?
This LSU math professor was the first to win AWM's Michler Memorial Prize.
Who is Ling Long?
This pioneer was the first woman to win the Fields Medal.
Who is Maryam Mirzakhani?
This LSU Professor was the first woman at LSU to do research with Schrodinger operators.
Who is Fan Yang?
This LSU Math Professor was the first woman to be hired with full tenure in the LSU Math department.
Who is Susanne Brenner?
This former LSU Math Instructor (who is retired now) was the first female administrator in the department (with the role of remedial math coordinator).
Who is Gerry Fitch?
This LSU Math Professor is an avid bridge player!
Who is Nadia Drenska?