Father's of Math
This Greek mathematician is considered the "Father of Geometry" for his influential work The Elements
Who is Euclid?
Who wrote to Fermat about The Problem of the Points?
Blaise Pascal
This number sequence, discovered in 1202 AD, often appears in nature
What is the Fibonacci sequence
What two individuals proved the following:
We cannot determine if there is a set of cardinality greater than the natural numbers and rational numbers but less than the real numbers
Godel and Paul Cohen (20th century)
This German mathematician known as the "prince of mathematicians" for his work in number theory
Who is Carl Friedrich Gauss
Who wrote the first book on Mathematical Probability?
Huygens
On Reasoning in Games of Chance
Who's theorems are often used to show that a subgroup is a normal subgroup?
hint: it pertains to prime factorizations of the order of finite groups
Sylow (Ludwig Sylow)
Who proved that every positive definite function can be written as the sum of functions that are squares of functions.
Emil Artin
This philosopher and mathematician developed the Cartesian coordinate system in the 17th century
Who is René Descartes
Who created a pamphlet with a table that had the first "naive logarithms?"
Napier
What is Representation Theory and who created it?
(represents groups as matrices under multiplication where matrices have complex coefficients or coefficients modulo primes)
Cayley and Frobenius
Is there a packing of 3-d space using spheres with maximum density? How was the answer to this question proved?
Thomas Callister Hales found this packing via computer proof
This Greek mathematician is known as the father of probability.
Who is Blaise Pascal?
What was the slide rule, and who created it?
A mechanical device used for multiplying
Gunter and Briggs
Are the solutions of regular problems in the calculus of variations always analytic? Who answered this?
Bernstein, De Giorgi, and Nash prove that they are
Swiss mathematician and physicist known for significant contributions to various fields, including calculus, number theory, graph theory, and mechanics.
Who is Leonhard Euler?
This Indian mathematician and astronomer is credited with inventing the concept of zero.
Who is Aryabhatta
State the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture.