People
An African American to receive Ph.D. in mathematics
Gloria Hewitt
Gloria Hewitt
2n + 1
Sophie Germain Prime
This person self learned mathematics using books
Sophie Germain
Member of the AP Calculus Test Development Committee
Gloria Hewitt (1991 - 1995)
This work contained problems on maxima, minima, tangents, & inflections points
Analytical Institutions
Sophie Germain was one of the first people to do this
Partial solution to Fermat’s Last theorem
This person lived from 1718 - 1799
Maria Gaetana Agnesi
The Witch of Agnesi
Cubic curve
First woman to get a Ph.D. in mathematics
Sofia (Sonya) Kovalevskaya
Florence Nightingale elected a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society
1858
Maryam Mirzakhani was the first _____ to get a Fields Medal
First women & Iranian
Katherine Johnson calculated trajectory for these project(s)
Project Mercury & Apollo 11
Katherine Johnson joined NASA in
1953
Helped with the USA’s aeronautics & space programs
Katherine Johnson