Famous Mathematicians
Polynomials
Types of Numbers
Formulae
Astronomy
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This mathematician is said to have ran naked through the streets yelling "Eureka!" upon discovering a math principle related to bathtubs.

Who is Archimedes?

100

A polynomial with only one term is called this - deriving its prefix from ancient Greek.

What is a monomial?

100

The counting numbers 1, 2, 3... are all examples of this type of non-artificial number.

What are the natural numbers?

100

This delicious constant appears in the formulae for both the area and circumference of a circle.

What is pi?

100

The number of planets in the Solar System.

What is 8?

200

Legend has it that this mathematician's cult killed one of their own for proving that the square root of 2 was irrational.

Who is Pythagoras?

200

This polynomial with two terms shares its prefix with a bicycle.

What is a binomial?

200

The square roots of 3, 5, and 10 are this type of number. The same word can be used to qualify illogical behavior.

What are irrational numbers?

200

This formula, used to find distances between two points, is credited to a Greek man whose cult drowned a man for proving sqrt(2) was an irrational number.

What is the Pythagorean Theorem?

200

Everything in existence is defined by this astronomy-related word.

What is Universe?

300

This Greek mathematician is known as the "Father of Geometry".

Who is Euclid?

300

A "cubic" equation is not shaped like a cube, but instead has this number as its degree.

What is 3?

300

In addition to positive numbers and zero, the integers also include these.

What are negative numbers?

300

The sand model in the computer room is a practical demonstration of this mathematical formula.

What is the Pythagorean Theorem?

300

Total solar eclipses can only occur during this moon phase.

What is a New Moon?

400

This British mathematician worked on breaking the German Enigma code in World War II. Afterwards, he revolutionized computer science.

Who is Alan Turing?

400

DAILY DOUBLE

Name the degree of this polynomial expression:

(x + 2)³(x - 1)²(2x + 5)

400

0.5, 1/3, and -4/5 are all examples of this type of number.

What are rational numbers?

400
One way to remember the quadratic formula is to sing this song.

What is Pop Goes the Weasel?

400

This element comprises the vast majority of the Universe, including the Sun.

What is Hydrogen?

500
Finding a general solution to cubic equations required the discovery of imaginary numbers. They were discovered and popularized by these mathematicians; name one.

Who are Scipione del Ferro, Antonio Fior, Nicolo Tartaglia, Gerolamo Cardano, Rafael Bombelli, Leonhard Euler, and Carl Friedrich Gauss?

500

True or False: y = 0 is a polynomial expression.

What is True?

500

The name of this number group doesn't mean "hard" but instead means "composed of many parts".

What are complex numbers?
500

This term means B^2 - 4AC in a quadratic expression.

What is the discriminant?

500

Astronomy comes from "astro" + "nomy" which, when put together, means this.

What is "law of the stars"?

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