OSU Math Dept
This track requires two separate advisors.
What is the Integrated Major in Math and English?
A critical point occurs where the derivative is zero or ________.
Undefined
This mathematician created the fundamental theorem of the sides of a right triangle.
Who is Pythagoras?
OSU has a total of _____ campuses throughout Ohio.
What is six?
This is the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.
Who is Marie Curie?
This track is the only math track that does not require the course Foundations of Higher Mathematics.
What is Actuarial Science?
A set of vectors is ___________ if the only way to combine them with scalars to produce the zero vector is by choosing every scalar to be zero.
Though this mathematician is most commonly known for his work on cryptography or perhaps his work during WWII, he also had a fascination with Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.
Who is Alan Turing?
This OSU president served the longest term.
Who is William Oxley Thompson?
This is the world’s largest living structure
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
This math track required both Abstract Algebra, Introductory Analysis, and Differential Equations.
What is Theoretical Math?
A differential equation whose right-hand side depends only on the dependent variable, like y′=ky, is called this type of equation.
Autonomous differential equation
This French mathematician was the first to make substantial work towards a proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem.
Who is Sophie Germain?
This was the second building built on campus.
What is Orton Hall?
This country has the largest coastline in the world
What is Canada?
This math track is the only track to require the course “Beginning Scientific Computing.”
What is Financial Math?
What is the variance of a Poisson distribution?
Lambda
This philosopher is mathematically known for his work in analytical geometry, though his philosophy work is far more famous.
Who is René Descartes?
In 1926, this farm animal was named Homecoming Queen.
What is a cow?
This US city had the first subway train
What is Boston?
This math track requires the course “History in Mathematics.”
What is Math Education?
For a large sample size, this theorem states that the distribution of sample means converges to a normal distribution.
Central Limit Theorem
This mathematician was referred to as an “enchantress of numbers” by her colleagues for their work developing what is considered the first computer program.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
OSU has a larger collection of _____ ____ _____ than any other institution.
What are glacial ice cores?
This US president was a licensed bartender
Who is Abraham Lincoln?