MATHEMATICAL HISTORY
This ancient collection of 13 books written by Euclid served as the main textbook for teaching mathematics from its publication until the early 20th century.
What is Elements?
This, largely self-taught, mathematican made major contributions to number theory and worked with G. H. Hardy at Cambridge.
Who is Srinivasa Ramanujan?
This conjecture asks whether every even integer greater than 2 can be written as the sum of two primes.
What is Goldbachs Conjecture?
This foundational theorem establishes a bridge between the concept of differentiating a function with the concept of integrating it.
What is Fundamental Theorem of Calculus?
This UO class focuses on the study of congruences, Chinese remainder theorem, theory of prime numbers and divisors, Diophantine equations, and quadratic reciprocity.
What is MTH 347?
Father of Geometry
Who is Euclid?
This man is considered to be the most prolifc mathematican in history.
Who is Paul Erdös?
This theorem states that every integer greater than 1 has a unique factorization into primes, up to ordering.
What is Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic?
This theorem gives that every bounded sequence in $R^n$ has a convergent subsequence.
What is Bolzono-Weistress Theorem?
This hotel has an infinite number of rooms, with an infinite number of occupants, yet it can accomodate more guests.
What is Hilbert's Hotel?
In 1994, this mathematician finally proved the centuries-old theorem that had resisted mathematicians since Pierre de Fermat's time.
Who is Andrew Wiles?
This mathematican posed a list of problems at the second ICM that shaped 20th century mathematics. A room in University Hall is named after him.
Who is David Hilbert?
This problem concerning the distribution of non-trivial zeros of what function is considered to be one of the most important unsolved problems in pure mathematics.
What is the Riemann zeta function?
if you take large enough random samples from any population, the averages of those samples will form a normal bell-shaped curve, even if the original population data is not bell-shaped.
What is Central Limit Theorem?
This space forces all triangles to be isosceles.
What is an Ultrametric space?
(strong triangle inequality is also an acceptable answer)
This mathematician earned his PhD in Mathematics at the University of Michigan at 25. He later became infamous under a very different name. Who was he?
"You can't eat your cake and have it too."
Who is Ted Kaczynski?
She was the second women to win the fields medal and solved a famous problem on sphere packing.
Who is Maryna Viazovska?
This millennium problem has been of reccent controversy.
What is the Navier-Stokes Equation?
You cannot comb a hairy ball flat without leaving one hair sticking up
What is Hairy-Ball Theorem?
This rule states that if n items are put into m containers, with n>m, then at least one container must contain more than one item.
What is Pigeon-Hole Principle?