Math History
Who is known as the “Father of Geometry”?
Who is Euclid?
This many primes fall between 1 and 10.
What is 4 primes?
What is 36π?
The phrase "the limit does not exist" is shouted by this Mean Girls character.
Who is Cady Heron?
This is the derivative of x^2.
What is 2x?
This Swiss mathematician introduced much of the modern notation we use today, including f(x) for functions and the symbol e for the exponential constant.
Who is Euler?
This is the greatest common divisor of 84 and 126.
What is 42?
This is the probability of rolling snake eyes with a pair of dice.
What is 1/36?
This movie features a janitor at MIT who is secretly a math genius.
What is Good Will Hunting?
If f(x) = x^3, this is the slope of the tangent line at x=2.
What is 12?
This mathematician is known as the "Prince of Mathematics."
Who is Gauss?
This is the sum of the first 10 positive integers.
What is 55?
You have this probability of drawing a heart or a face card from a typical deck of cards.
What is 22/52?
This film features Russell Crowe as John Nash.
What is A Beautiful Mind?
This is the indefinite integral of x cos(x) with respect to x. (Don't forget the +C!)
What is x sin(x)+cos(x)+C?
This institute offers a $1 million prize for solving any one of its 7 "Millennium Problems".
What is the Clay Mathematics Institute?
This is the remainder when 2^10 is divided by 7.
What is 2?
You roll two fair six-sided dice. This is the probability that the sum is exactly 7.
What is 1/6?
A famous scene in The Hangover shows this character mentally calculating blackjack odds.
Who is Alan?
This French mathematician lends his name to an error bound for Taylor series.
Who is Lagrange?
This mathematician is widely regarded as the most published mathematician of all time.
Who is Paul Erdős?
This is the only number whose letters are in alphabetical order.
What is 40?
On the Richter scale, an earthquake of magnitude 6 is this many times stronger than one of magnitude 4.
What is 100 times stronger?
This character traveled through Mathmagic Land.
Who is Donald Duck?
This is the limit of sin(x)/x as x → 0.
What is 1?