Prime Time
The smallest prime number that can be expressed as the sum of two other prime numbers.
What is 5?
5, 12, and this number make a Pythagorean triple.
What is 13?
You can earn one at college, but in math it take 360 of them to complete a circle.
What is a degree?
Snip one corner off of a square with a straight cut, and the remaining shape is this type of polygon.
What is a pentagon?
It is the largest two-digit prime number.
What is 97?
This Greek mathematician is credited with proving that there are infinitely many prime numbers.
Who is Euclid?
This word describes an unkind person, but in Statistics it is the arithmetic average of a set of numbers.
What is mean?
This theorem says that every integer greater than 1 can be expressed (uniquely) as a product of prime.
What is the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic?
This number was proved to be transcendental in 1882.
What is \pi ?
You walk with these, but in Geometry they are the two sides of a right triangle - NOT the hypotenuse!
What are legs?
The conjecture that there are infinitely many pairs of prime numbers differing by 2 is called this.
What is the Twin Prime Conjecture?
This Greek mathematician used the "method of exhaustion" to estimate the value of \pi .
Who is Archimedes?
You wear one of these on your finger, but in Abstract Algebra it is a structure featuring 2 binary operations.
What is a ring?
Prime numbers of the form 2p - 1, including 3, 7, 31, and 127, are known by this name.
What are the Mersenne Primes?
Western philosophy begins with this man, who once sacrificed an ox after finding a particularly satisfying geometry proof.
Who is Thales?
This word is synonymous with marriage, but in Set Theory it is used for the operation joining the elements of two sets.
What is union?