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Thanksgiving is in fact a holiday
100

Which professor is currently on sabbatical?

Dr.T

100

‘Father of Geometry’

Euclid

100

The amount of Moves  It Takes To Solve A Rubik's Cube?

No more than 20

100

3.14159265

pi

100

The month the very first Thanksgiving celebration likely took place

September

200

These Taylor professors graduated from TU

Dr. Case, Dr. Maxwell, and Dr. Rodman

200

This great Greek mathematician from 287-212 BC, is very famous for his attempts at the measurement of the circle.

Archimedes

200

 Lemniscate Is The Shape Of this Mathematical Symbol

Infinity

200

0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987, ....


 

The Fibonacci sequence

200

The President which made Thanksgiving a permanent national holiday

Abraham Lincoln

300

This professor is originally from Wisconsin 

Dr. Maxwell

300

The Cartesian coordinate system, in which geometric shapes can be expressed in algebraic terms is named after this man

Rene Descartes

300

 First People To Ever Use Negative Numbers

the Chinese 

300

   1

 1   1

1  2   1

1 3. 3. 1

Pascals triangle

300

What Native American tribe celebrated the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims?

The Wampanoag

400

This professor has the alma mater's of Miami University and Minnesota

Dr. Case

400

Which mathematician proved the famous formula e^(i*pi) + 1 = 0

Leonhard Euler

400

The Number 0 Originally Called

Cipher

400

1+1/2+1/3+1/4+1/5+...

Harmonic series

400

 The first turkey trot was in this year.

1896

500

This is lie the about Dr. Rodman's Taylor experience

  1. Took MAT 180 Problem Solving in the last semester of senior year.
  2. Have been on the roof of every academic building and dorm except Breu.
  3. Did one fall semester abroad, one spring semester abroad, one Lighthouse trip, and a spring break mission trip.
  4. Was part of an airband act with wing and sister wing, but we weren't very good and didn't make it past auditions.
  • Have been on the roof of every academic building and dorm except Breu.
500

invented the mechanical calculator

Blaise Pascal

500

Most Of The Mathematical Notation In Use Today Was Not Invented Until this century

6th century

500

Infinite sum of -1+1+-1+1+-1.....

Grandi's series

500

 the average Thanksgiving turkey weighs this much

about 15 pounds

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