MATHEMATICAL HISTORY
This, largely self-taught, mathematican made major contributions to number theory and worked with G. H. Hardy at Cambridge.
Who is Srinivasa Ramanujan?
This conjecture asks whether every even integer greater than 2 can be written as the sum of two primes.
What is Goldbachs Conjecture?
This UO class focuses on the study of congruences, Chinese remainder theorem, theory of prime numbers and divisors, Diophantine equations, and quadratic reciprocity.
What is MTH 347?
This man is considered to be the most prolifc mathematican in history.
Who is Paul Erdös?
This theorem states that every integer greater than 1 has a unique factorization into primes, up to ordering.
This theorem gives that every bounded sequence in $R^n$ has a convergent subsequence.
What is Bolzono-Weistress Theorem?
This hotel has an infinite number of rooms, with an infinite number of occupants, yet it can accomodate more guests.
What is Hilbert's Hotel?
In 1994, this mathematician finally proved the centuries-old theorem that had resisted mathematicians since Pierre de Fermat's time.
Who is Andrew Wiles?
This mathematican posed a list of problems at the second ICM that shaped 20th century mathematics. A room in University Hall is named after him.
Who is David Hilbert?
This space forces all triangles to be isosceles.
What is an Ultrametric space?
(strong triangle inequality is also an acceptable answer)
She was the second women to win the fields medal and solved a famous problem on sphere packing.
Who is Maryna Viazovska?