Mathletes (January 25, 2010)
In the 1730s Leonhard Euler made this delicious Greek letter the standard symbol for a familiar ratio
What is pi?
In 1655 England's John Wallis came up with the sideways 8 symbol for this
What is infinity?
III cubed
What is XXVII?
3*3*3=27
Number of ounces in a pound plus the number of pints in a gallon
What is 24?
16+8
If Mo can eat 25 Twinkies in 30 minutes, how concerned was Mo when this maker of Twinkies went bankrupt in 2012?
What is Hostess?
He thought, in math the last letters should stand for unknowns & the first letters for known quantities--therefore it was
Who is René Descartes?
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is the name of a founder of non-this geometry
What is non-Euclidean?
The square root of LXIV
What is VIII?
√64=8
Yards between the end zone on an NFL field divided by the number of 15-minute periods in a game
What is 25?
100/4
If Becky has 13 half-dollars & 46 pennies, she's way short of the 2018-19 tuition of $49,330 at this N.J. Ivy League school
What is Princeton?
To simplify multiplication and division, Scotsman John Napier published a book outlining these in 1614
What are logarithms?
Also known as Leonardo of Pisa, he knew a lot of numbers, not just 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8
Who is Fibonacci?
VI squared
What is XXXVI?
6*6=36
Number of seconds in an hour divided by the number of degrees in a circle
What is 10?
3600/360
Sal hits .382 & Mal hits .392, so both lose the 1994 batting title to Tony Gwynn, who hit .394 for this western team
Who are the San Diego Padres?
John Nash has a beautiful mind that contributed to this "theory" of strategic decision making
What is game theory?
Henri Poincaré pioneered this math branch that studies the deformation of objects into new shapes without any cutting or pasting
What is topology?
LII plus XV
What is LXVII?
52+15=67
It's the square root of a gross
What is 12?
√ 144
George II died at 76 in 1760, so maybe medicine improved by the time this great-great-granddaughter lived to be 81
Who is Victoria?
In 1995, 330 years after his death, proof was found for his last theorem
Who is Fermat?
This 19th century German, whose name is a unit of magnetism, was known as Princeps mathematicorum, "Prince of Mathematicians"
Who is Gauss?
XL times V
What is CC?
40*5=200
Number of original U.S. colonies minus the number of official solar planets farther out than Earth
What is 8?
13-5
If Carl's car exits Carlsbad Caverns at 60 MPH & Lou's leaves Louisville at 80, the 2 can meet in this Wyoming capital
What is Cheyenne?