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100

This person wrote:  "On Potentially P-Graphic Degree Sequences and Saturated Graphs"

Who is John Schmitt?

100

Ancient Greek mathematician who found the volume of the sphere and invented an eponymous screw.

Who is Archimedes?

100

Lo di hi minus hi di lo over lo lo and there you go

What is the quotient rule?

100

The integral of a f' is equal to f(b)-f(a).


What is the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus?

100

The only prime number between 90 and 100.

What is 97?

200

At an early age, this person penned the riviting narrative, "Diffusion Approximations for Networks of Queues with Multiple Customer Types"

Who is Bill Peterson?

200

Eighteenth Century prolific Swiss mathematician who was blind for most of his career.

Who is Leonhard Euler?

200

Cherry pie delicious; Apple pie are too

What are the formulas for circumference and area of a circle?

200

For an mxn matrix A, the dimension of the row space of A plus the dimension of the nullspace of A equals n.


What is the Fundamental Theorem of Linear Algebra?

200

The second perfect number.


What is 28?

300

In between games of bridge in the common room, this person managed to hack out a draft of the controversial tome, "Banded Knots and Simple Branched Covers of the 3-Sphere"

Who is Frank Swenton?

300

French mathematical prodigy known for his philosophical and religious writings as well as his triangle.

Who is Blaise Pascal?

300

Under dove is ultra-violet voodoo

What is the integration by parts formula?

300

Every natural number has a unique prime factorization.


What is the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic?

300

The least integer that is the product of three distinct odd primes.

What is 105?

400

Royalties are still rolling in for this person based on the best-selling page-turner, "Some Studies of Character Sums over Finite Fields"

Who is Priscilla Bremser

400

Nineteenth Century German analyst who had an Approximation Theorem and an M-test named after him.


Who is Karl Weierstrass?

400

Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally

How do you remember the order of operations? (Parenthesis, Exponents, Multiply, Divide, Add, Substract.)

400

Every non-constant polynomial has at least one complex root.

What is the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra?

400

The smallest square that is the sum of two smaller nonzero squares.


What is 25?

500

Too bad for this person that negotiations for the movie rights did come through for "Vectorial Hankel Operators With Toeplitz Weights"

Who is Steve Abbott?

500

French mathematician of the late 1700's/early 1800's who corresponded with Lagrange and Gauss, whose name is associated with a sequence of primes.

Who is Sophie Germain?

500

I Value Xylophones Like Cows Dig Milk

What is the order of values for the Roman Numerals I, V, X, L, C, D, M?

500

Every finite, zero sum, two-person game has an optimal mixed strategy.

What is the Minimax Theorem, or the Fundamental Theorem of Game Theory?

500

The least integer greater than one that is both a triangular number and a perfect square.


What is 36?

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