Precalc and Calc
Math in Pop Culture
NU Math Dept
Fun With Numbers
Women in Math
100

The derivative of x2.

What is 2x?

100

This popular puzzle game involves filling a 9x9 grid using just logic.

What is Sudoku?

100

The building where the math department is located.

What is Lunt Hall?

100

The decimal expansion 3.1415926… is this famous constant.

What is pi?

100

She is known as the first computer programmer for her work on early computing machines.

Who is Ada Lovelace?

200

The limit limx->0(sin(x)/x).

What is 1?

200

"The limit does not exist!" is yelled in this movie.

What is Mean Girls?

200

This course sequence studies randomness and is used in gambling, genetics, and economics.

What is Math 310, Probability and Stochastic Processes?

200

A number multiplied by itself three times is raised to this power.

What is the third power?

200

This woman was the first and only woman to win the Fields Medal, math’s highest honor.

Who is Maryam Mirzakhani?

300

The area under a curve is represented by this operation.

What is integration?

300

In Big Bang Theory, this physicist loves string theory and knocks three times.

Who is Sheldon Cooper?

300

This program pairs undergrads with faculty for research experience.

What is URAP?

300

The only even prime number.

What is 2?

300

She helped NASA send astronauts into orbit and to the moon.

Who is Katherine Johnson?

400

A function is one-to-one if it passes this test.

What is the Horizontal Line Test?

400

In The Simpsons, this character is known for her nerdiness and once wrote chalkboard equations.

Who is Lisa Simpson?

400

This person is the head of the math department.

Who is Professor Aaron Greicius?

400

The Fibonacci sequence starts with 0 and 1. This is the next number.

What is 1?

400

This 19th-century mathematician made major contributions to algebra, and a famous “Noether’s theorem” is named after her.

Who is Emmy Noether?

500

The integral of 1/x.

What is ln|x| + C?

500

In A Beautiful Mind, John Nash developed this concept fundamental to game theory and economics.

What is the Nash equillibrium?

500

This faculty member is the NUAWM advisor.

Who is Professor Byrna Kra?

500

The name for the set of numbers that includes everything except imaginary numbers.

What are real numbers?

500

She was the first woman to earn a PhD in mathematics in modern Europe and made contributions to analysis and differential equations.

Who is Sofia Kovalevskaya?

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