It's all Greek to me
This greek letter and cows have something in common.
What is mu?
Adding opposite sides of a die always yields this number
What is 7?
The Arabic numerals originated from this region.
What is the 30th?
This person supposedly watched flies on the ceiling and invented something useful.
Who is Descartes?
This group allegedly killed a member for accidentally discovering the square root of 2.
Who are the Pythagoreans?
This geometric postulate fails on a sphere.
What is the parallel postulate?
MMMCMXCIV
What is 3994?
What is 19?
This mathematician has an irrational constant named after him.
Who is Euler?
This Greek was the first to accurately measure the circumference of the Earth
Who is Eratosthenes?
(era - toss - thinese)
6, 28, 496, and 8128 are called these kinds of numbers because they equal the sum of their factors.
6 = 1 + 2 + 3
28 = 1 + 2 + 4 + 7 + 21
What are perfect numbers?
This sophisticated base 20 number system used only 3 symbols to represent numbers.
What is the Mayan Number system
WGU is accredited by this body or institution.
What is the NWCCU (Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities)?
also NCATE
This woman was the earliest known/recognized female mathematician.
Who is Hypatia?
This is the eighth digit of pi
(digit refers to digits after the decimal point)
3.14159_ _ _
What is 5?
This is the name of the figure created by the equation
x^4 + y^4 = 1
What is a squircle?
This civilization discovered the Pythagorean theorem long before the Greeks.
Who are the Chinese, Babylonians or Egyptians?
WGU Texas is one of 14 WGU affiliate state universities. Name 5 others.
WGU Ohio, WGU Indiana, WGU Washington, WGU Missouri, WGU Tennessee, WGU Nevada, WGU North Carolina, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Nebraska, Arizona, Colorado
This mathematician said “A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems.”
Who is Paul Erodos or Alfred Renyi?
Both Hungarians were known for their coffee addictions. Erodos reportedly drank strong espresso and regularly took caffeine tablets and Ritalin.
This Greek goddess was also known as the math goddess
This is the actual name of the division symbol
What is the obelus?
This ancient theorem is used to solve problems like this:
There are certain things whose number is unknown. If we count them by threes, we have two left over; by fives, we have three left over; and by sevens, two are left over. How many things are there?
What is the Chinese Remainder Theorem?
During today's townhall, Scott Pulsipher shed some tears this many minutes after the top of the first hour.
What is minute 37-39?
This 20th century mathematician once said this about the number 1729. "It is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in 2 different ways."
1729 = 1^3 + 12^3 = 9^3 + 10^3
Who is Ramanujan?