Math club trivia
1st!!
Mathematician who invented Euler's method
Who is Leonhard Euler?
How you would write e as a decimal on the AP Calculus AP test if it was your final answer
What is 2.718?
Mr. Perez's elusive first name
Jorge
The first irrational number ever discovered
What is √2?
What NJML stands for
New Jersey Math League
The first civilization to use zero as a number
India
e is one of these numbers, which means it cannot be the root of a non-zero polynomial with rational coefficients
What is a transcendental number?
Classes that Mr. Perez teaches
AP Calc BC, Calc 3
The shape of the Earth
What is an oblate spheroid?
Name of the speaker
WONDERBOOM!
Mathematician whose teacher told him to add up the numbers from 1 to 100 in order to keep him occupied (it didn't work)
Gauss
The power of 10, when multiplied by pi, that is roughly the amount of digits that e has been calculated to
What is 13?
(e has been calculated to 31,415,926,535,897 digits)
Mr. Perez has a degree from...
Princeton University
A shape with 12 sides
What is a dodecahedron?
The number of math club meetings that we have had this year
What is 20?
This mathematician invented an infinite series for pi, claiming that a goddess revealed it to him in a dream.
Ramanujan
The most digits of e recited from memory in 1 minute
What is 364?
Origin story of the seagull palm pal (extra points for what's in the seagull's beak)
Mr. Perez wanted a jumbo one from the boardwalk and his kid got him a tiny one
Extra points: French fry!
The smallest number larger than any finite number that can be named by an expression in the language of first-order set theory with a googol symbols or less (extra points for how thist number was invented)
What is Rayo's number?
(In a big number duel between Agustín Rayo of MIT and Adam N. Elga of Princeton)
The number of years this math club has existed at Columbia High School
What is ___?
This state nearly legalized pi = 4
Indiana
The mathematician who discovered e
Who is Jacob Bernoulli?
Mr. Perez's coolest kid's name
What is Theo
The decade that Pi Day was first celebrated in
What is the 1980s?