Fields Medals
How frequently do they give out the Fields Medal Award?
Every 4 years
In what year did the first women, Maryam Mirzakhani, win the Fields Medal? with a one year margin of error.
2014
Died in 2017 from breast cancer
In The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown, what sequence of numbers is the password to open the bank vault?
Fibonacci
In the movie Good Will Hunting, what job does Damon work before he is discovered by the MIT mathematicians?
Janitor
What mathematician is known as the father of geometry?
Euclid
What is the age limit for the Fields Medal?
under 40 years old
In a recent article by The Atlantic, there were only three countries where women felt more comfortable in mathematics than men. Name one of those countries.
Jordan, Qatar, United Arab Emirates
This book, turned in to a movie in 2016, storied the involvement of women who worked for NASA during the space race.
Hidden Figures
In the movie 21 senior math major Ben Campbell join the blackjack team in order to pay for medschool. What college did he attend?
MIT
What decade was the python language created?
1990
How much money do you get when you win the Fields Medal?
$15,000
What percentage of STEM-field PhD’s are awarded to women (within 3%)?
43% (40-46%)
In the novel, The Phantom Tollbooth, what is the capital city that the Mathemagician king rules?
Digitopolis
In the movie A Beautiful Mind, what mathematics concept, based on conflict and cooperation between people, does John Nash (played by Russel Crow) receive the nobel prize in economics for?
Game theory
Which Mathematician popularized the symbol for pi, π.
Hint: you have to pronounce his name correctly.
Euler
At what age was the youngest person to receive a fields medal? with 1 year margin of error.
Jean-Pierre Serre, 27 in 1954
algebraic topology, algebraic geometry, and algebraic number theory.
This American woman, Charlotte Angas Scott, became the first head of the math department at what Centennial conference college?
Bryn Mawr College
This children’s fictional novel was written by a mathematician and translated into 176 different language. What is the novel called?
Alice in Wonderland
In the movie The Imitation Game. What German Machine are they trying to decode?
Enigma
What year was the Math Center (QSC) founded at WAC?
This physicist called Emmy Noether, “the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.”
Albert Einstein
contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics
Who was the author the book, A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking
In the movie Mean Girls, Lindsay Lohan is selected to answer the tie breaking question at the high school math tournament. Her opponent incorrectly answers the question first, what was her answer?
The limit is -1.
In what century was pi discovered?
18th