Guess the Professor
This Emory professor just left for maternity leave.
Who is Manuela Manetta?
This ancient Greek mathematician wrote the influential book The Elements.
Who is Euclid?
The sum of two nonzero real numbers is 5 times their product. The sum of the reciprocals of the two numbers is this.
What is 5?
Of all shapes with the same area, this shape has the shortest parameter.
What is a circle?
The equation
a^2 + b^2 = c^2
is referred to as this.
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
This Emory professor typically dresses in black clothes.
Who is Dwight Duffus?
This Greek mathematician calculated the Earth's diameter several centuries before the discovery that the Earth is round.
Who is Erathotenes?
If it takes 3 men 8 hours to build a wall, it would have taken this amount of time for 4 men to build the same wall.
What is 6 hours?
The only number between 0 and 1000, inclusive, to have the letter “a” in it is this.
What is 1000?
The equation
x^2/a^2 + y^2/b^2 = 1
describes this conic section.
What is an ellipse?
This Emory visiting faculty member completed his PhD from Emory in 2018.
Who is Warren Shull?
This British mathematician cracked the German ciphers in the second world war and played a huge role in the development in the modern computer.
Who is Alan Turing?
Which of the following numbers is the largest: 21/2, 31/3, or 61/6?
What is 31/3?
The only non-math related category of the following list is this: category theory, Boolean algebra, representation approximation factorization (RAF), simplicial homology
What is representation approximation factorization (RAF)?
The equation is known as this.
e^{ipi}+1=0
What is Euler's Identity?
This Emory faculty member got a bronze medal in the International Math Olympiad and was in the same PhD program as her sister.
Who is Maja Taskovic?
This mathematician's approach to geometry is the origin of the cartesian axes.
Who is Descartes?
The hundreds digit of 18!-16! is this.
What is 0?
These two numbers are the only prime number that end in 2 and 5.
What are 2 and 5?
The equation V+F-E=2, where V stands for vertices, F stands for faces, and E stands for edges is referred to as this.
What is Euler's Polyhedra Formula?
This Emory professor got a PhD in physics from Harvard.
Who is David Borthwick?
In 1637, this mathematician introduced the convention that letters at the end of the alphabet represent unknowns and letters at the beginning of the alphabet represent known quantities.
Who is Descartes?
With the tangents measured in degrees, the following expression is evaluated to this.
\log_10 (\tan(10) \cdot \tan(20) \cdot \cdots \cdot \tan(80))
What is 0?
The symbol for division is called this.
Who is obelus?
The following identity is also known as this.
\frac{1}{pi} = \frac{sqrt 8}{9801}\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}\frac{(4n)!}{(n!)^4}\cdot \frac{26390n + 1103}{396^{4n}}
What is Ramanujan's Formula for Pi.