Euler
The well-known transcendental number that isn't
pi.
What is e (formally called Euler's Number)?
The line in the clip below from the movie 21 that tells you the writers have never taken a math class:
What is almost all of it.
If he had a better publicist, he'd have credit for calculus.
Who is Leibnitz?
Surface Area of the state of Iowa, in square miles, within a power of 10.
What is 10^5 (55,860)?
lim_(x->infty)(3x^3-2x+4)/(4x^3+6x^2-9
What is 3/4?
The area of the unit circle.
pi
The solution to the differential equation
y'=iy
What is
Ce^(i\theta)
The Nobel prize winning idea that is not illustrated in the clip below from the John Nash biopic A Beautiful Mind:
What is Nash Equilibrium?
His most famous work is a proof that you can't know everything.
What is Goedel?
(number of public four-year college in Iowa)*(number of private 4-year colleges in Iowa), within 10. [at least according to a website I've never heard of that I didn't fact check).
What is 75?
Let f(x)=sin(cos(\ln(x))). Find f'(x).
What is cos(cos(ln(x)))*(-\sin(ln(x)))*1/x ?
2.8284
What is
2\sqrt(2)?
This isn't a new cross-fit regimen; it is the reason an extremely bored tourist can cross every bridge in Konigsberg without crossing one twice.
What is an Euler's Circuit.
The category of math problem on the chalkboard in this clip from Good Will Hunting:
What is graph theory (and certainly not whatever a "Fourier system" is).
Who is Noether?
(Population of the state of Iowa)-(Population of the city of Omaha), in the form x.y*10^z .
What is 2.8*10^6 ?
\int sin(x)e^(2cos(x))dx
What is
e^(2cos(x))/-2?
6.62*10^(-34) , in Jule-seconds.
What is Planck's constant?
The characteristic polynomial of the differential equation
2x^2y''-3xy'+4y=0
What is 4r(r-1)-3r+4=0.
The name of the section from a calculus course where one would learn to calculate the limit in the following clip:
What is L'Hopital's Rule
Has a hypothesis, an integral, and a sum; last syllable of his name is the first name of the leader of the Rebellion.
Who is Riemann?
(Number of men's NCAA basketball tournament wins from schools in Iowa this decade) * (Number of NCAA basketball tournament wins by Creighton this decade), within 20.
What is 99?
The solution to the initial value problem
y'''(x)-3y''(x)+2y'(x)-6y=0, with y(0)=y'(0)=y''(0)=0.
What is y=0?
3*10^9 , in meters/second.
What is the speed of light in a vacuum?
Euler's equation partial_t u(t,x)+nabla_u u(t,x)=nabla p(t,x) governs non-viscous fluids. This equation governs viscous fluids.
What is the Navier-Stokes equation.
The math class where you learn to solve the problem in the clip below (accounting for the typo):
What is Calc 3?
Within a standard deviation, his best known work is a statistical distribution; also inexplicably a cannon/gun in multiple science fiction settings.
Who is Gauss?
Number of bushels of corn grown in Iowa in 2025, to a power of 10.
What is 10^9 (2.77 billion bushels)?
\int_gamma ydx+xdy , where
gamma is the unit circle.
What is 0?
6.022*10^(23)
What is Avogadro's Number?