Precalc and Calc
The derivative of x2.
What is 2x?
This popular puzzle game involves filling a 9x9 grid using just logic.
What is Sudoku?
The building where the math department is located.
What is Lunt Hall?
The decimal expansion 3.1415926… is this famous constant.
What is pi?
She is known as the first computer programmer for her work on early computing machines.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
The limit limx->0(sin(x)/x).
What is 1?
"The limit does not exist!" is yelled in this movie.
What is Mean Girls?
This course sequence studies randomness and is used in gambling, genetics, and economics.
What is Math 310, Probability and Stochastic Processes?
A number multiplied by itself three times is raised to this power.
What is the third power?
This woman was the first and only woman to win the Fields Medal, math’s highest honor.
Who is Maryam Mirzakhani?
The area under a curve is represented by this operation.
What is integration?
In Big Bang Theory, this physicist loves string theory and knocks three times.
Who is Sheldon Cooper?
This program pairs undergrads with faculty for research experience.
What is URAP?
The only even prime number.
What is 2?
She helped NASA send astronauts into orbit and to the moon.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
A function is one-to-one if it passes this test.
What is the Horizontal Line Test?
In The Simpsons, this character is known for her nerdiness and once wrote chalkboard equations.
Who is Lisa Simpson?
This person is the head of the math department.
Who is Professor Aaron Greicius?
The Fibonacci sequence starts with 0 and 1. This is the next number.
What is 1?
This 19th-century mathematician made major contributions to algebra, and a famous “Noether’s theorem” is named after her.
Who is Emmy Noether?
The integral of 1/x.
What is ln|x| + C?
In A Beautiful Mind, John Nash developed this concept fundamental to game theory and economics.
What is the Nash equillibrium?
This faculty member is the NUAWM advisor.
Who is Professor Byrna Kra?
The name for the set of numbers that includes everything except imaginary numbers.
What are real numbers?
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?