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This French mathematician is responsible for formalizing proofs of many calculus concepts, including everybody's favorite, the epsilon-delta proof. His name is attached to many important theorems in Complex Analysis.
Who is Augustin Cauchy?
100
Man married to Lady Cumference
What is circumference?
100
Better known as the Squeeze Theorem, this lunchtime staple says that if a function is bounded above and below by two functions that have the same limit, the first function also shares that limit.
What is The Sandwich Theorem ?
100
taylor, harmonic, world
What are series?
100
This idea for distributing more elements than you have room for wasn't named for an animal at all, but rather slots in a desk.
What is the Pigeonhole Principle?
200
Most historians believe that these two mathematicians independently developed calculus, although the matter was disputed hotly in their own time. The name of one is associated most often with the laws of physics, while the other is remembered for introducing the notation "dy/dx" for the derivative.
Who are Newton and Leibniz ?
200
An upper division course required of all mathematics majors and a Picasso-like undergarment for a mermaid.
What is Abstract Algebra?
200
This theorem takes its name from the case when n = 3, which can then all be simultaneously bisected with a single cut. We think hot with cheese need not be cut at all.
What is The Ham Sandwich Theorem ?
200
sine, tidal, good-bye
What are waves?
200
Any herpetologist could tell you this lemma is used in homological algebra to construct long exact sssss-equences.
What is The Snake Lemma ?
300
This type of geometry results from modifying the fifth postulate of Euclid so that through a point not on a given line there may be many parallels. Also it's name is related to one of the conic sections, the graph of which approaches two asymptotes.
What is hyperbolic geometry?
300
A course for mathematics education majors and what the little acorn said when it grew up.
What is Geometry?
300
The two dimensional version of the Ham Sandwich Theorem is known as this, but it comes without an International House.
What is the Pancake Theorem ?
300
Natural, common, Yule
What are logs?
300
This very hungry Graph Theory object.
What is a Caterpillar ?
400
In 1993 this mathematician proved that when n > 2, there are no non-trivial integer solutions to the equation
an + bn = cn,
a fact commonly known as Fermat's Last Theorem.
Who is Andrew Wiles?
400
What parents must do when their child wants to get a loan to buy a car.
What is cosine?
400
The maximum number of slices of pizza you can get when making n straight cuts also solves
$$\sum_{i=1}^ni$$
What is n(n+1)⁄2?
400
Euclidean, Complex, 747
What are planes?
400
Also known as the Zassenhaus lemma, this lepadoptera inspired lemma is a technical result on the lattice of subgroups of a group.
What is the Butterfly Lemma ?
500
This German mathematician is remembered today for his contributions to the axiomatization of geometry, foundational work in functional analysis, and for his address to the International Congress of mathematicians in Paris in 1900 in which he famously posed 23 problems.
Who is David Hilbert?
500
Banquet at a poets' convention or g in f(g(x)) = x.
What is an inverse function ?
500
When cooking at home, this theorem says for any pantry of ingredients, the number of dishes possible is always greater than the number of ingredients in the pantry.
What is Cantor's Theorem ?
500
Cantor, null, swing
What are Sets?
500
Since 2008, a popular, industrial-chic winery and taproom in Denver, CO. Also a theorem that says one of these hitting keys at random on a typewriter for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text.
What is the Infinite Monkey Theorem ?