Famous Mathematicians
This mathematician famously wrote a book called Elements.
Who was Euclid?
The letter used to abbreviate the constant that is approximately 2.718.
What is e?
This famous inequality relates two different averages.
What is the AM-GM inequality? (Accept any other inequality relating two averages)
The term for a "four dimensional cube".
What is a tesseract?
The most popular secondary school math competition series in the US.
What is the AMC competition series?
This mathematician's namesake distribution is also called the normal distribution
Who was Carl Gauss
The letter used for the Roman numeral 50.
What is capital L?
The famous theorem about the limit of an indeterminate form that was actually discovered by Bernoulli.
What is L'Hopital's rule?
The theorem memorized with the mnemonic: A man and his dad put a bomb in the sink.
What is Stewart's Theorem?
The fractal that appears in Pascal when you shade in/color add numbers
What is the Sierpinski Triangle?
This mathematician proved the famous equation e^(ipi)=-1
Who was Leonhard Euler?
The Greek letter that is used commonly in prefixes that represent 10^-6 of a base unit.
What is lowercase mu?
The circle containing midpoints of the sides of a triangle, the bases of the altitudes of the triangle, and the midpoints between the orthocenter and the vertices of the triangle.
The term for the point in a polygon that minimizes the sum of all of the distances between that point and all of the vertices.
What is the Fermat point?
The mathematician who is considered the best mathematician still alive today and received a gold medal for the IMO at the young age of 12
Who is Terrence Tao?
The mathematician whose "final theorem" would remain unsolved for over 300 years after it was proposed.
Who was Fermat?
The Greek letter that represents a constant that is also known as Euler's constant and is approximately 0.577.
What is lowercase gamma?
The solution to the Basel problem, or 1+1/4+1/9+1/16+...
What is pi squared over 6?
The theorem named a common fast food item that finds the highest number that is impossible to reach by summing any number of two relatively prime positive integers.
What is the Chicken McNugget Theorem?
The only polyhedron other than the tetrahedron that has this property: Each of its sides shares a side with every other side this polyhedron has.
What is the Szilazzi polyhedron
This mathematician's namesake formula solves for the area of a cyclic quadrilateral given its length
Who was Brahmagupta?
The non-English letter that represents the lowest ordinal for infinity
What is lowercase omega?
This 2D geometry theorem about the common tangents of circles can famously be proved by thinking in the third dimension.
What is Monge's theorem
This famous inequality compares the average value of a function over a domain to the function applied to the average value over the domain.
What is Jensen's inequality?
The former U.S. president that discovered a proof of the Pythagorean theorem before he became president.
Who was James A. Garfield?