Math Club Members (Easy)
"I hate bananas."
Amber Lefever
"I played a jazz solo at the Pennsylvania state capitol."
Josh Salkin
"I am an Eagles fan but I’m not destructive of property."
Miles Davis
Born April 15, 1707, in Basel, Switzerland, this mathematician has not one, but two constants named after him.
Leonhard (Paul) Euler
William Jones (Born 1675) is accredited the first use of a specific Greek letter for this mathematical constant.
Pi
"My middle name is Tupac."
Ashley Yordy
"The day I was born I had a stroke and seizures in the night."
Josie Joyce
"My favorite class that I have ever taken was honors world lit during senior year of high school."
Dillon Stavarski
Upon his death on February 23, 1855, this mathematician was given a commemorative medal by the King of Hanover, George V, which read "The Prince of Mathematics."
Carl Friedrich Gauss
This German mathematician, born on March 14, 1879, invented the refrigerator.
Albert Einstein
"I am an Eagle Scout."
Eric Yazemboski
"I broke my nose in preschool."
Morgan Brown
"I went to grade school a couple blocks away from the slinky factory."
Dr. Rob
This mathematician, whose PhD dissertation was on Symplectic Manifold theory, began teaching at Millersville in 2009.
Zhigang Han
On his first ever paper on analytic number theory (1859), this mathematician proposed a problem that is still unsolved today.
(For 100 bonus points, name the PAPER in which this problem first arose.)
Bernhard Riemann
"On the Number of Primes Less Than a Given Magnitude"
"In high school, I wrestled and did the Musical at the same time."
Teddy Hill
"I've had 24 teeth removed."
"My aunt and uncle were married by Steve Harvey."
Kyle Duvall
Andrew Wiles
In 1988, the youngest ever participant, at age 12, mathematician Terence Tao won a gold medal in what prestigious mathematical competition?
The International Math Olympiad
"I started college as a French and Spanish Education major."
Michael Janvrin
"I was born with a broken collarbone."
Jude Giordano
"I was a backstage manager for two years, and was so strict that many of my peers claimed (after the fact) to have been afraid of me in performing arts settings."
Juno Manges
This Greek (Italian) mathematician, born 287 BCE, is known by some as the "Father of Hydrostatics."
Archimedes of Syracuse
This mathematician, born July 1, 1646, aimed to invent a language in which all knowledge could be expressed, so any argument could be resolved in one word: "Calculemus!"
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz