"Math Figures"
Branches of Math
Calculations
Famous Numbers
Math Potpourri
100
Who is credited with inventing Calculus?

Isaac Newton

or

Gotfried Leibniz

100

What branch of mathematics concerned with properties of space such as the distance, shape, size, and relative position of figures?

Geometry

100

Give the number pi accurate to four decimal places

3.1415

100

What number represents the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter?

pi

100

Which mathematician wrote the book Elements?

Euclid

200

Who is credited with first representing known and unknown numbers by letters, nowadays called variables?

François Viète

200

what is an elementary part of mathematics that consists of the study of the properties of the traditional operations on numbers—addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, exponentiation, and extraction of roots.

Arithmetic

200

Calculate (3x2- 1)2

121

200

What number is the multiplicative identity?

1

200

What are the name of the 7 unsolved math problems that can earn someone 1 million dollars if they can solve one? 

Millennium Prize Problems

300

What mathematician is referred to as the "father of geometry"? 

Euclid

300

The branch that deals with solving generic algebraic expressions and manipulating them to arrive at results.

Algebra

300

Which is bigger?

78   or 8

78

300

What number is the additive identity and the only value which cannot be used for division.

0

300

Which American University has a math sculpture called The Octacube?

Penn State University

400

This mathematician's result gives a relationship between the lengths of sides in a right triangle.

Pythagoras

400

What is the branch of mathematics concerned with relationships between angles and ratios of lengths. 

Trigonometry

400

Diane is 23 years older than her daughter Amy. In 6 years, Diane will be twice as old as Amy.  How old is Diane now?

52

400

What number is called the natural base? 

Give its symbol and decimal to three places

e

2.718

400

Who wrote the book Principia?

Isaac Newton

500
Who was the first woman to win the prestigious Fields Medal?

Maryam Mirzakhani

500

The branch that is concerned with the properties of a geometric object that are preserved under continuous deformations, such as stretching, twisting, crumpling, and bending; that is, without closing holes, opening holes, tearing, gluing, or passing through itself.

Topology

500

What is the smallest prime number less that 200?

199

500

What number is the solution to x2=-1

i

500

What operation represents repeated exponentiation?

Tetration
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