Mathematics crossword
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: October 6, 2012
Solution
Clues
Across
(1) First name of Australian Fields medalist.
(5) Name of the mapping 
(8) Ratio of probability of an event to probability of complementary event.
(9) Type of group named after Norwegian mathematician.
(11) The Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has this (abbrev.)
(12) A morphism that asserts essential sameness.
(13) Sum of diagonal entries of a matrix.
(14) High values of this index mean a cool roof (abbrev.)
(15) Three of a kind.
(17) A set that contains all its limit points.
(20) A name for +.
(22) Not odd.
(23) Greatest value.
Down
(2) Every mathematician has his number.
(3) German professor who solved the two-body scattering problem.
(4) The mapping in (4) across has this property.
(6) A type of morphism.
(7) A multi-dimensional array that sounds not relaxed.
(10) Set of points satisfying a particular condition.
(14) A type of geometry.
(16) Polynomials have these, here though some may be complex.
(18) Complement of a set in (16) across.
(19) Polynomials have one of these.
(21) Archimedes worked at calculating this number.
(22) An iterative optimization algorithm.
These people are not male, white, bearded or bald
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: June 22, 2012
The following images are of black women who are research mathematicians.
There are not enough of them, diagnosis and their talents and abilities are not recognized in the wider community to the extent they should be.
Young women, especially, young black women, who think mathematics is for old, bald white Aspergic men should think again.
So should we all.
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- Trachette Jackson
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- Suzanne Weekes
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- Dawn Lott
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- Katherine Okikiolu
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- Bonita Saunders
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- Aissa Wade
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- Fern Hunt
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- Christine Mcmillan
