Famous STEM Women
The mathematician who despite initial opposition from her parents and difficulties presented by society, she gained education from books in her father's library.
Who is Sophie Germain?
If you are completing the square, the term would be added to both sides of this equation? x2+7x = 0
What is (7/2)2
In this class you were introduced to the p-value, the Z-test, and X2-distributions.
What is STA 2100?
The current club president
Who is Kesh?
When we were in person, the type of food we normally had at the meetings?
What is Pizza?
An American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflight.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
The derivative of tanx
What is sec²x?
In this class, you realized that counting was much harder than you thought.
What is MAT 3470 Combinatorics?
The e-board member that sends the club members meeting reminder emails
Who is Marion?
The event for middle schoolers and high schoolers hosted by the club this year?
What is Sonia Kovalevsky Day?
A Russian mathematician who made noteworthy contributions to analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics. The first woman to obtain a doctorate (in the modern sense) in mathematics.
Who is Sofya Kovalevskaya?
In a subset S of a partially ordered set T, the name of the least element in T that is greater than or equal to all elements of S.
What is Supremum?
In this class, you found out about choosing the correct door out of three doors and something involving a goat.
What is STA 2200?
2 e-board members who love animal crossing
Who is Ariana, Kesh, and Maddie?
The type of workshop did Sophie’s Circle have when Dr. Jillian Cannons came and spoke?
What is Scholarship Workshop?
The English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
The greatest value that your p-value can be if you are running a hypothesis test at a significance level of 95%.
What is .05?
In this class, you wrote more than you would have in some english classes.
What is MAT 3100: Intro to Proofs?
The e-board member that makes the club flyers?
Who is Jessica?
The name of a club collaboration event that Sophie’s Circle has taken part in
What is Game Nights with Science Council, Galentines with SheCodes, Trivia with MEOWS, Science Luncheon with math clubs?
The pioneers of what would later become known as chaos theory. Along with J. E. Littlewood, this woman saw many solutions to a problem which would later be seen as an example of the butterfly effect.
Who is Mary Cartwrite?
In probability theory and related fields, a random process is a mathematical object usually defined as a family of random variables. Another word for random processes
What is Stochastic Processes?
In what class did you dive into multiple linear regression?
What is STA 4320: Applied Regression Analysis?
The e-board member who went into different classes to advertise Sophie’s Circle
Who is Rasha?
Dr. Vanessa Perez Patel's career
What is an Epidemiologist?