Algebra and other
An equation of which the highest power is 2.
What is a quadratic?
The ratio between the circle's circumference and diameter.
What is pi?
(Total desired outcomes)/(Total undesired outcomes)
What are odds?
Cosecant
What is the reciprocal of sine?
This man is known as the founder of geometry.
Who was Euclid?
The Greek letter used to denote the summation of terms of a sequence.
What is sigma?
A line joining two points on a circle.
What is a chord?
The product of all positive integers less than or equal to some integer n.
What is a factorial?
The study of the area underneath a curve and the slopes of tangents to said curve.
What is calculus?
The child of Lord Byron, a mathematician, a writer and one of the first programmers in the world.
Who was Ada Lovelace?
The set of all possible y-values a function may take.
What is the co-domain of a function?
A six-faced solid, of which all sides are parallelograms.
What is a parallelepiped?
A triangular array of integers that can be used to determine the coefficients of binomial expansions. (Binomial theorem)
What is Pascal's triangle?
a/1-r (for real r such that -1 < r < 1)
What is the formula for the sum of an infinite geometric series?
A philosopher and mathematician, and the author of La Géométrie.
Who was René Descartes?
These formulas write the coefficients of a polynomial in terms of its roots.
What are Vieta's formulas?
√(s(s - a)(s - b)(s - c))
What is Heron's formula?
n!/(k!(n - k)!)
How do you describe the number of ways to select k items from n distinct items?
The base of natural log.
What is Euler's number?
This mathematician was Fatio de Duillier's alleged lover, and the inventor of calculus.
Who was Sir Isaac Newton?
The statement that there are no positive integers a,b,c such that an + bn = cn for any integer n>2.
What is Fermat's last theorem?
V - E + F = 2
What is Euler's polyhedron formula?
In statistics, a statement that describes how much data of a normal distribution falls within each section of standard deviations from the mean.
What is the 68-95-99.7 rule? (Empirical rule)
The statement "If not Q, then not P".
What is the contrapositive of the statement "If P then Q"?
"do not disturb my circles"
What is Archimedes famed to have said?