It's Greek to Me
This mathematical invention was what propelled Greek thought into the majority of traditional schooling for many years
What is a proof?
King Henry I created the measurement of a "yard" based on this length.
What is the length from nose to thumb? (at full extension)
The arithmomoter and stepped reckoner were names of two early examples of this machine.
What is Computer?
This 17th century mathematician has over 100 things named after him, and his works fill over 80 volumes.
Who is Euler?
These two mathematical terms are named after the Arabic mathematician Al-Kwharizmi
What is Algebra and Algorithm?
Abraham Lincoln studied this book every night in order to become a better lawyer
What is Euclid's Elements?
%
This math symbol is actually shorthand, and originally stood for this.
What is Per 100?
This programming language was named after lord Byron's daughter
What is Ada?
Lagrange thought his formulas were so good, he left this important thing out of his books.
What is Pictures?
Fibonacci wrote an influential book that popularized Arabic numerals... The name of the book sounded like this pianist and slang term.
Who is Liberace? Liber Abaci, the book of calculation
The "Greek" in Greek mathematicians refer to this
What is the spoken language?
What is 95%?
Taught in the Rhind papyrus and in most of the US until the mid 19th century, this 'lie' was used to solve many real world problems
What is false position?
James Wallis claimed that negative numbers were larger than this...(he was wrong).
What is Infinity?
Arabic mathematicians wrote equations in words, and would call squared numbers this, which is now used in many other contexts.
What is Properties? (Because they were areas.)
This 'sinister' symbol was also by the Pythagorean brotherhood
What is the pentagram?
The metric system was created in France, but this treaty led to it being adopted internationally.
What is the Treaty of the Meter?
The first American computer was named Mark I and built at Harvard in 1944 and was huge. It used 500 *BLANK* of wire.
What is miles?
Galois was a great mathematician who also spent a lot of time in jail for his political activism. This event cut his mathematical career short.
What is death? (During a duel)
This method of writing numbers(that everyone has seen!) hindered variables(such as abc xyz) from adoption until the mid 16th century.
What is Roman Numerals?
This mathematician wrote a song about Lobachevsky, a Russian mathematician who invented the main branch of non-Euclidian geometry
Who is Tom Lehrer?
Along with the US, these two other countries do not officially use the metric system.
What is Liberia and Myanmar
If another technology grew at fast as computers... And automobiles advanced from 1960 until 2004... This is how many miles per gallon your car would get
What is 120k? (also the engine would be 1/10 of an inch and cost 4$)
Scholars were supported by patrons in exchange for winning public competitions. One prominent mathematician in Italy, Niccolo Fontana was better known as Tartaglia. The nickname translates from Italian as this.
What is The Stammerer?
Cu.m.5.ce.p.7.co----Rv.co.p.6 was how many Renaissance mathematicians wrote an equation. This is what it means.
What is X³-5x²+7x=sqrt(x+6)
(censo and cubo for powers)