Mathematicians
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100
This mathematician famously yelled "Eureka, Eureka" while running naked through the city of Syracuse after solving a math problem
Who is Archimedes? 
100
This number gives us the duration of the Assyrian empire before it was conquered by Babylon.
What is 666?
100
-The highest form of thought is in mathematics.
Who is Plato?
100
One day this famous mathematician's teacher asked the class to sum the numbers from 1 to 100, assuming the task would occupy them for quite a while. The teacher was shocked when this young mathematician, after only a few moments, told the teacher the correct answer of 5050.
Who is Carl Friedrich Gauss?
100
This is the only number that has the same number of letters as it’s meaning?
What is 4?
200
Who is Carl Friedrich Gauss?
200
9+10=
What is 21?
200
-An equation means nothing to me unless it expresses a thought of God.
Who is Srinivasa Ramanujan?
200
This mathematician famously killed one of his students for inventing irrational numbers.
Who is Pythagoras?
200
This many colors are needed on a map to make sure that no border will share a color?
What is 4?
300
This mathematician famously stuck bodkins in his eye to create equations that model optics.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton? 
300
"dividing a line in the extreme and mean ratio"
What is
\phi?
300
-Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.
Who is Carl Fredrich Gauss?
300
Mathematician Hardy took a cab to visit this mathematician. When he got there, he told this mathematician that the cab’s number, 1729, was “rather a dull one.” This mathematician replied, “No, it is a very interesting number. It is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways. That is, 1729 = 1^3 + 12^3 = 9^3 + 10^3.
Who is Srinivasa Ramanujan?
300
Sides in a Icosahedron.
What is 20?
400
The first woman to ever win the Fields medal.
Who is Maryam Mirzakhani? 
400
\lim_{n\rightarrow \infty} (1+1/x)^n
What is e?
400
-As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not reflect to reality.
Who is Albert Einstein?
400
This famous sickly mathematician who spent much of life in bed thinking about mathematics and philosophy, noticed a fly crawling around on the ceiling. Realizing he could tell others the location of the fly by its distance from the walls of the room, he got out of bed and wrote down his ideas and in the process invented the coordinate plane, which we now call the Cartesian plane.
Who is Rene Descartes?
400
This mathematician invented paint by numbers.
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?
500
Considered to be the most prolific mathematician of all time, this mathematician published over 900 books.
Who is Leonard Euler? 
500
2\pi
What is
\tau
500
"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than to not think at all.
Who is Hypatia?
500
The reason as to why there is no prize in mathematics for this prestigious award is that the wife of the founder of this prize was cheating on him with a famous mathematician.
What is the Nobel Prize.
500
The Ancient Babylonians had their number system based on this number.
What is 60?