Think Fast!
2022-1811
What is 211?
Benedict Cumberbatch portrays this English computer scientist/mathematician in a movie loosely based on their life.
Who is Turing?
This mathematician died in a duel.
Who is Évariste Galois ?
cos(x)
What is -sin(x)?
∫ 1/x dx
What is ln(abs(x)) + C ?
77 * 30
What is 2310?
This mathematician who, before he died at the age of 32, independently compiled almost 4,000 results dealing with topics such as mock theta functions and partition formulas, was the focus of the movie The Man Who Knew Infinity.
Who is Ramanujan?
He's considered the father of Number Theory.
Who is Pierre de Fermat ?
What is 1/(1+x2)?
∫ sinh(x) dx
What is cosh(x) + C ?
12 + 21 * (39 - 15) / (3!)
What is 96?
The book (and subsequent movie) Hidden Figures highlights the work of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and this other mathematician.
Who is Mary Jackson?
Sharing a name with a NEU building, this mathematician was the first female fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
sec(sin(x2))
What is 2x*sec(sin(x2))*tan(sin(x2))*cos(x2)
∫10 sqrt(x) + x + x2 dx
What is 3/2 ?
94 mod 6
This former baseball executive expressed disapproval after seeing the 2011 movie loosely based on his experiences with the Oakland A's
Who is Paul DePodesta?
This mathematician was a high school teacher for several years and proved a very important result in finite Group Theory.
Who is Peter Sylow ?
ln(x4)/sqrt(x)
[((4/x)*sqrt(x)) - 4*ln(x)*(1/(2*sqrtx))]/[abs(x)] ?
(4 - 2*ln(x))/(abs(x)*sqrt(x)) ?
∫ 1/(ex + 1) dx
What is x - ln(ex + 1) + C?
(1 + 2 + ... + 99) - 2928
What is 2022?
The 1988 movie Stand and Deliver recounts the story of this high school math teacher, who teaches and encourages a group of struggling students as they prepare for the AP Calculus exam.
Who is Jaime Escalante?
This famous author, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, included a multitude of math references in his book Alice in Wonderland.
Who is Charles Dodgson?
y = (sin(x))^(sin(x)^(sin(x)^ ... ))
dy/dx ??
(Hint: the derivative is in terms of x and y!)
What is (y2*cot(x))/(1 - y*ln(sin(x)))?
∫ arcsinh(x) dx
What is x*arcsinh(x) - sqrt(1 + x2) + C ?