Math history
This Greek mathematician led a cult-like secret society that believed all numbers were rational, and drowned the man who discovered irrational numbers. Oh, also he's famous for his theorem about right triangles.
Pythagoras
In a room with at least this many people, there is more than a 50% chance that at least 2 people will share a birthday.
23
This theorem connects differentiation and integration, showing that they are inverse operations.
Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
This is the area of an ellipse with semi-major axis a and a semi-minor axis b.
pi*a*b
What is Abhi's favorite sport?
Soccer
These two mathematicians discovered calculus independently in the 17th century and had beef with each other ever since over who should get the credit.
Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Mary has 2 kids. One is a boy born on a Tuesday. What is the probability the other is a girl?
14/27 (~51.9%)
This formula allows you to calculate the area of any triangle using only its side lengths.
Heron's formula
The name of the set of all points in 2D space that are equidistant from a given point (focus) and a given straight line (directrix).
Parabola
What is Chris's favorite animal?
Pandas
This 18th century Swiss mathematician went blind later in his life but he was so goated that it actually increased his productivity because he started calculating everything in his head.
Leonhard Euler?
Russell’s Paradox is a set-theory problem asking whether the "___________" contains itself.
Set of all sets that do not contain themselves
This theorem was unproved for 350 years until Andrew Wiles proved it in 1994.
Fermat's Last Theorem
This Millennium Problem was recently solved by OpenAI.
Navier Stokes
What is Luna's favorite candy?
M&Ms
This book by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell and published in the 20th century contains a 162-paged proof that 1+1=2.
Principia Mathematica
Hilbert’s Grand Hotel
This formula states that
(cos(x) + i sin(x))n = cos(nx) + i sin (nx)
De Moivre's Theorem
The area under the curve y=1/x from x = 1 to x = ____ is exactly 1.
e
What is Harini's favorite Pixar movie?
This mathematician emigrated to the U.S. because of the Nazis annexing Austria. At his citizenship hearing, he tried to persuade the government official that there is a loophole in the US constitution that would allow for a dictatorship to take power (bro only got citizenship because Albert Einstein was there as a character witness).
Kurt Gödel
This paradox states that a solid 3D ball can be cut into a finite number of pieces and reassembled using to form 2 identical copies of the original ball without changing volume.
Banach-Tarski Paradox
According to this theorem, there are statements about natural numbers that are true but unprovable.
Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem
The largest known prime number has this many digits (give a range of 5 million)
41,024,320
Who is Aditya's favorite music artist?
Don Toliver