History of Math
This number system is currently the most widely used
What are Arabic Numerals?
This club meets every third Monday at 5pm in this room.
What is WAMM?
He found the formula for the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle, a2+b2=c2.
Who is Pythagoras?
Problem One
Answer One
This is the time and place Math and Stats Club meets every Monday.
What is 6:00 pm at Cowley 103?
They proved Fermat's Last Theorem.
Who is Andrew Wiles?
They are the advisors and supporters of WaMM.
Who are Dr. George and Dr. Das?
A prolific Swiss mathematician who discovered, among many other things, the relationship V-E+F=2 between the vertices, faces, and edges of a polyhedra.
Who is Leonhard Euler?
Problem Two
Answer Two
These are the advisors to the Math and Stats club (name one).
This set of positive integers satisfies the equation, a squared + b squared = c squared.
What are Pythagorean triples?
This member of the UWL Math department often writes about underrepresented groups in math.
Who is Dr. Kelly?
A popular and well-known theoretical physicist who discovered the equation e=mc2 about energy and the speed of light.
Who is Einstein?
Problem Three
Answer Three
Who is Julie Ahearn?
In 1931, Godel published these theorems showing that there will always be statements that can neither be proved or disproved.
What are the Incompleteness theorems?
Einstein said that this women was "the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began."
Who was Emmy Noether?
He was a Scottish mathematician who discovered logarithms, and furthermore the equation log xy = log x + log y.
Who is John Napier?
Problem Four
Answer Four
The Math and Stats club hosted talks from two graduate students from this university last semester.
An Italian mathematician who was the first to discover the general solution to the cubic equation.
In 2014, she became the first women and the first Iranian to win the Field's medal.
Who is Maryam Mirzakhani?
An Irish mathematician whose life was often filled with tragedy, he developed the equation ijk=-1 along with the formation of the quaternions.
Who is Sir William Rowan Hamilton?
Problem Five
Answer Five
This is the number of registered members of Math and Stats club, according to MyOrgs.
What is 51?