3D-Shapes
What shape is composed of 6 faces, all of which are parallelograms (but not necessarily squares, rectangles, or rhombuses)?
Parallelepiped
Gottfried Liebniz
What curve does the trajectory of a diagonally thrown ball follow on Earth's surface?
Parabola
What theorem should be used to most easily expand the following:
(x+27)^6
Binomial Theorem
Provide notation which represents the compliment of a set A (there are multiple correct answers)
A^c, A', Ā, or ~A
What is a Platonic solid with 20 faces called?
Icosahedron
What 2001 film follows the life of schizophrenic mathematician John Nash?
A Beautiful Mind
The fractal known as the Koch Curve approximates the shape of what natural fractals?
Snowflakes
Which theorem is the following statement:
"If f is continuous on a closed interval [a,b], and c is any number between f(a) and f(b) inclusive, then there is at least one number x in the closed interval such that f(x) = c"
(source: Wolfram)
Intermediate Value Theorem
In mathematics, what does an upside down A generally stand for?
For All
What shape has area 1/3(B)(h), where B is the area of the base and h is the height?
Pyramid
Which Fields Medalist and child prodigy is the youngest person to ever win gold in the International Math Olympiad?
Terrence Tao
A rainbow version of which curve is often used to represent the Autism Rights Movement?
Lemniscate
e^(iπ) = ?
-1
What is the following division symbol officially called?
÷
Obelus
How many vertices does a regular dodecahedron have?
20
What pioneer of group theory was killed in a duel at age 20?
Evariste Galois
The Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri is which type of curve?
Catenary
What theorem guarantees that
x^6 + 5x^5 + x + 9
has 6 roots (real or complex, counting roots with multiplicity n n times) due to being a 6th degree polynomial?
The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra
What does the mathematical shorthand ∵ mean?
Because
What type of ellipsoid is the Earth's shape considered to be most similar to?
Oblate Spheroid
19th Century mathematician Ada Lovelace, credited for creating the concept of a computer program, was the daughter of what famous poet?
Lord Byron
Approximating Earth as a sphere, longitude lines are half of what type of circle?
Great Circle
Which theorem with applications in mapmaking is widely considered the first major mathematical result to be proven with computers?
The Four Color Theorem
The abbreviation "QED" is often placed at the end of mathematical proofs to indicate their completion. What do the letters in the abbreviation QED stand for?
Quod Erat Demonstrandum (Translation: "What Was to be Shown")