Question: April is Math and Statistics Awareness Month (nationwide and at NSU) so please answer this four-part question.
- The late Stanley Cohen, professor of medicine at NSU, spent many hours as a student at Rutgers University as chauffer for this Nobel Prize-winning Princeton University physicist/mathematician.
- In 1996, NSU brought this engineer/mathematician, the first black woman to travel into space, in for a distinguished speaker lecture.
- In 2012, NSU’s Farquhar College brought this physicist/mathematician campus to talk about his recent book, The Hidden Reality.
- Prior to his death in 1984, this pioneer of statistical survey sampling techniques and inventor of a public opinion poll which bears his name, gave a lecture at Nova University.
Identify all four mathematicians.
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A: Albert Einstein; B: Mae Jemison; C: Brian Greene; D: George Gallup.
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