Babylonian Math
What do you use to write in Babylonian math?
Cuneiform
What did Archimedes invent?
The Water Screw
Where was Pierre Fermat born?
France
What is Hypatias fathers name?
Theon
Where was Hypatia born?
Alexandria Egypt
What Base does one work in when doing Babylonian math?
Base 60
What was doing before he was killed?
He was solving a geometry problem
What did Fermat study?
He studied law.
What did Hypatia study?
Algebra
What school did Hypatia teach at?
The Neoplatonic school
Where was Babylonian Math developed?
Mesopotamia
What did Archimedes discover when he was in the tub?
The measure of volume
In 1993, who announced proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in the newspaper?
Andrew Wiles.
Where does much of the information of Hypatia come from?
Her letters to Synesius of Cyrene
How old was Hypatia when she was murdered?
She was 45 years old
How did they record their mathematical findings?
By using clay tablets
What was the water screw also called?
What did Fermat discover that took people 300 years to re-discover?
x^n+y^n=z^n
Where did she study?
The University of Alexandria
How was Hypatia murdered?
She was murdered by a mob
Babylonian dates back to.........
2300 B.C.
How did Archimedes make the ship burn into flames?
He constructed large reflectors to beam the sun rays on to the enemies ships
What was Pierre de Fermat equation?
xn+yn=zn
After Hypatia was killed, where did the authorities say she moved?
Athens
What was an astrolabe?
It is used in timekeeping geography