Famous Mathematicians
Perhaps the most famous scientist of all time, this German genius is known for revolutionizing physics with his general theory of relativity.
Albert Einstein
2^8
256
The study of spatial figures like circles and cubes.
What is geometry?
This is the culture that coined the term "mathema," meaning knowledge or learning, and transformed mathematics from a largely empirical collection of techniques into a subject with a coherent theme of organization, based mainly upon deductive logic.
The Ancient Greeks
This number has the same number of letters as the number its describing.
four
An Italian mathematician whose famous sequence relates to many aspects of nature such as the patterns in flower petals, how rabbits reproduce, and the whorls of a pine cone. He popularized the Indo–Arabic numeral system in the Western world primarily through his composition in 1202 of Liber Abaci (Book of Calculation).
Leonardo Fibonacci
(24+67)/13
7
The formalization and studies of the math of uncertain events or knowledge.
What is probability?
This is the mathematician who founded the basis of infinitesimal calculus. There are two possible and viable answers.
Isaac Newton
OR
Gottfried Leibniz
This is the first positive whole number to have the letter "a" in it.
one thousand
This mathematician, the winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Economics, created one of the most important concepts of game theory to this day. His work enables us to determine logically the actions that participants of a game should take to secure the best outcomes for themselves.
John Nash
(1+2)/3 + (4+5+6)/(7+8) + 9 - 10
1
The computations of limits, derivatives, and integrations of functions.
calculus
Winifred Edgerton Merrill became the first American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics, which she earned from Columbia University. When was this?
1886
Among all possible shapes with the same area, this shape will have the smallest perimeter.
a circle
A 9th-century Muslim mathematician and astronomer, sometimes known as the “father of algebra." He presented the first systematic solution of linear and quadratic equations. One of his achievements in algebra was his demonstration of how to solve quadratic equations by completing the square, for which he provided geometric justifications.
Muhammad al-Khwarizmi
101 (base 2) - 4 (base 10)
1
The branch of mathematics that uses models to study interactions with formalized incentive structures.
game theory
In Mesopotamia, the Sumerians invent the first numeral system, and a system of weights and measures. When was this?
c. 3400 BC
This number is a one followed by a hundred zeros.
a googol
This English Mathematician founded Boolean algebra, which is now used in computers and software programs worldwide.
George Boole
Express 2^5 + 10 in base four
222 (base 4)
The study of algebraic structures such as groups, rings, and fields. One might study the properties of these structures, and think about such things as homomorphisms, or isomorphisms.
abstract algebra
The first theorem thought to have been written, generally attributed to Thales of Miletus but occasionally attributed to Pythagoras.
Thales' Theorem: if A, B, and C are distinct points on a circle where the line AC is a diameter, the angle ∠ ABC is a right angle
What is the probability that two individuals share the same birthday in a sample of 70?
99.9%