Math Dictionary
A natural number whose only positive divisors are 1 and itself
What is a prime number?
A homophone for a dessert with a crust, this mathematical constant is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter
What is pi?
Calculus 2 - Calculus 1
What is 1?
This student organization fosters community and empowers women and other gender minorities in mathematics
What is AWM (or Northeastern's Student Chapter of the Association for Women in Mathematics)?
Matt Damon and Robin Williams star in this drama about a janitor that turns out to be a mathematical genius
What is Good Will Hunting?
The set of points in the plane a set distance away from a fixed point
What is a circle?
The 22nd letter in the backwards alphabet, this constant is the base of the natural logarithm
What is e?
(Advanced Probability and Statistics - Probability and Statistics) + Group Theory
Give your solution in the form of a course
What is Advanced Group Theory?
This student organization pairs upperclassmen as mentors with younger students to help guide them through college life and the complicated math department
What is MathEMA (or the Mathematics Engagement and Mentorship Association)
This film shows the lives of African-American mathematicians Katherine Goble, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson, who worked at NASA during the Mercury and Apollo missions
What is Hidden Figures?
The set of numbers formed by fractions of integers
What are the rational numbers?
The limit of the difference between the natural logarithm and the harmonic series, approximately 0.577
What is the Euler–Mascheroni constant (or Euler's constant)?
The prime factors of Number Theory 1
What is 3527 (or Number Theory 1)?
This math department program pairs undergraduate students with graduates to study a text in small groups
What is the DRP (or Directed Reading Program)?
The Imitation Game depicts this mathematician's struggles to crack the Enigma Code and live as a gay man in Britain during World War II
Who is Alan Turing?
An algebraic structure with an associative binary operation with an identity and inverses, often denoted G
What is a group?
The value of the sum 1 + 2 + 3 + ...
What is -1/12?
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Applied Math Capstone / (Group Theory - Real Analysis)
What is 161?
These are ALL FOUR of the named halls that comprise the connected building that contains the Math Department on the 5th floor
What are Nightingale, Lake, Holmes, and Meserve Halls.
In A Beautiful Mind, brilliant mathematician John Nash receives the Nobel Prize in Economics, but struggles with this chronic brain disorder
What is schizophrenia?
A monoid in the category of endofunctors
What is a monad?
The third number of a sequence defined by Gary Friedman related to finding sequences of graphs with no loops
What is TREE(3)?
(Research Capstone / Intensive Calculus) + (Theory of Interest and Basics of Life Insurance 1 / Differential Equations and Linear Algebra)
What is 5?
Certified SCUBA diver, two time Putnam honorable mention recipient, and the department's resident number theorist, this professor co-directs the Putnam Club and is the Faculty advisor for the Math Club
Who is Evan Dummit?
In The Man Who Knew Infinity, we watch the life of this mathematician, who despite minimal formal training, made groundbreaking contributions to analysis and number theory
Who is Srinivasa Ramanujan?