Fields Medals
This is how frequently they give out the Fields Medal Award.
What is every 4 years
This was the first woman to win a Fields Medal.
Who is Maryam Mirzakhani? (2014)
In The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown, this sequence of numbers is the password to open the bank vault
What is the Fibonacci sequence?
In the movie Good Will Hunting, this is the job Damon has before he is discovered by the MIT mathematicians.
What is Janitor
The obelus is the sign for this operation.
what is division
This is the age limit for the Fields Medal.
What is 40 years old
In a recent article by The Atlantic, there were only three countries where women felt more comfortable in mathematics than men. Name one of those countries.
What is Jordan, Qatar, or United Arab Emirates
This children’s fictional novel was written by a mathematician and translated into 176 different language. What is the novel called?
Alice in Wonderland
In the movie 21 senior math major Ben Campbell join the blackjack team in order to pay for medical school. This is how much money he wants to make before he quits the game.
What is $300,000
Math Riddle
This is what you would call numbers that can't keep still.
What is Roamin' numbers?
This is the amount of money you get when you win the Fields Medal.
What is $1,500
This is the percentage of STEM-field PhD’s awarded to women (within 3%)?
What is 43% (40-46%)
In the novel, The Phantom Tollbooth, what is the capital city that the Mathemagician king rules?
Digitopolis
In the movie A Beautiful Mind, this is the mathematics concept, based on conflict and cooperation between people, for which John Nash (played by Russel Crow) receive the nobel prize in economics.
What is Game theory
Riddle:
This is what you call good male friends who love math.
What is algebro's?
This is the youngest person to receive a fields medal.
What was Terence Tao (age 31)
This American woman became the first head of the math department at Bryn Mawr College.
Who is Charlotte Agnes Scott
This novel by Edwin A. Abbott uses a 2-dimensional world to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture.
What is Flatland, (his pseudonym was A Square)
In the movie Harold and Kumar: Escape from Guantanamo Bay, this number is the subject of Kumar’s embarrassing poem
What is square root of 3
Irish mathematician William Hamilton once discovered something while walking across a bridge in Ireland. He was so excited that he carved the name of this discovery into the bridge.
What is The Quaternions
This is the year the first Fields Medal was given out.
What is 1936 (Lars Ahlfors)
Albert Einstein called this woman, “the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.”
Who is Emmy Noether
This is the name of the children's book by Jon Sciesza in which Mrs. Fibonacci begins the class by saying "You know, you can think of almost everything as a Math Problem."
What is Math Curse
In the movie Mean Girls, Lindsay Lohan is selected to answer the tie breaking question at the high school math tournament. Her opponent incorrectly answers the question first. This is the correct answer provided by Lindsay Lohan.
What is: The limit is -1.
A grandfather, two fathers and two sons buy roller coaster tickets. This is the number of tickets that were purchased.
What is 3?
(grandfather is also father, father is also son)