Math Corner: Fan-stat-stic Four

Question: April is Math and Statistics Awareness Month (nationwide and at NSU) so please answer this four-part question.

  1. 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.
  2. In 1996, NSU brought this engineer/mathematician, the first black woman to travel into space, in for a distinguished speaker lecture.
  3. In 2012, NSU’s Farquhar College brought this physicist/mathematician campus to talk about his recent book, The Hidden Reality.
  4. 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.

A: Albert Einstein; B: Mae Jemison; C: Brian Greene; D: George Gallup.
Math Corner” is a contest that appears in each issue of The Current and is a collaboration between NSU’s Department of Mathematics | NSU Halmos College of Arts and Sciences | NSU and NSU’s Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts | Halmos College of Arts and Sciences | NSU. Contest submissions to the Math Corner question in the Current’s latest issue can be sent to jgershma@nova.edu up until the date the next issue is published. Prizes are awarded at the end of the academic year.

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