Historical Mathe-maticians
This French philosopher and mathematician is known for the X and Y coordinate plane.
Who is Rene Descartes?
This is the value for x in the following equation: 3(x-1) = 2(x+3).
What is 9?
This 2014 film follows Alan Turing, played by Benedict Cumberbatch, in his efforts to solve the Nazis’ Enigma encryption message.
What is The Imitation Game?
A standard twelve-inch ruler can fit, at most, this many whole numbers of centimeters.
What is 30?
In the data set “5 5 5 5 5 9 10 12”, this statistical term would be used to describe “5”.
What is the mode?
This mathematician developed a theorem that states that the area of the square whose side is the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the areas of the squares of the other two sides.
Who is Pythagoras?
This is the conjugate of -2 + 3i.
What is -2 - 3i?
This 1988 movie based on a true story follows Los Angeles high school teacher Jaime Escalante inspiring high school students in mathematics.
What is Stand and Deliver?
1000 gigabytes makes this.
What is a terabyte?
This type of distribution is used to represent data that is symmetric about the mean.
What is the normal distribution?
This number sequence named after a famous Italian mathematician was discovered in 1202 AD and often appears in nature.
What is the Fibonacci sequence?
This is the value of x in the equation 9x - 13x - 5 = 23x + 3x - 35
What is x = -1?
“The Man Who Knew this mathematical term” tells the story of the life of an Indian mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan, and his friendship with his mentor.
What is infinity?
Ten gallons plus ten quarts makes this many pints.
What is 100?
This is known as the square root of a data set’s variance.
What is the standard deviation?
Newton was this age when he developed integral calculus.
What is 23 years old?
This is the equation in point-slope form of y = 2x + 1 passing through the point (2,5).
What is y-5=2(x-2)
This movie shares the name with the currently unsolvable math problem that discusses optimization of how to travel between multiple cities and return to the origin destination.
What is Traveling Salesman?
Roughly 3280 feet makes this, in the metric system.
What is a kilometer?
This term is used to describe a point that falls way outside the range of the other points in a dataset.
What is an outlier?
This German mathematician and philosopher developed differential and integral calculus independent of Isaac Newton.
Who is Leibniz?
These numbers are the solutions to the following equation: x^3 − 5x^2 − 4x + 20 = 0.
What is x=2,-2, and 5?
After John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.
What is A Beautiful Mind?
One pound is approximately 0.45 of these in the metric system.
What is a kilogram?
This percent of the data should fall within two standard deviations of the mean in the most common type of distribution.
What is 95%?