Geometry
Find the slope of a line perpendicular to:
y=3x-6
What is -1/3?
Find the next number of this sequence:
8, 6, 7, 5, 3, 0, __
Hint: Ask Tommy Tutone
What is 9 (Jenny's Number)?
The football team the Houston Eulers each had this transcendental number printed on the back of their jerseys (also known as Euler's number.)
What is e?
The Scotsman discovered Logarithms over 400 years ago
Who is John Napier?
In baseball, dividing a players hits by their number of "at bats" yields what statistic
What is Batting Average?
Find the perimeter of a square circumscribed about a circle of radius 4
What is 32?
Find the next number in the sequence:
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, __
What is 13 (Fibonacci)?
Akira Haraguici publicly recited the first 100,000 digits of this number on October 3, 2006. It took him 16 hours to do so.
What is pi?
Publishing over 1500 papers in his lifetimes, this Hungarian Mathematician of the 20th century is considered the most prolific mathematical author in history
Who is Paul Erdos?
This sport’s ball is generally accepted to be in the shape of a prolate spheroid not necessarily because of the shape of the ball in modern day play but because the first balls were made by out of an inflated pig’s bladder which takes on that shape
What is Football?
Find the area of a regular hexagon of side length 2
What is 6 sqrt(3)?
Find the next number in the sequence:
1, 3, 6, 10, 15, __
What is 21 (Triangular)?
This is the number of 0's in the number googoplex.
What is a googol (or 10 to the 100th power)?
She, the only child of Lord and Lady Byron, known for her work with Charles Babbage, is often credited as the world's first computer scientist
Who is Ada Lovelace aka Countess of Lovelace?
A patent for dimpled types of balls in this sport was filed in 1905 by English engineer William Taylor when his experiments showed that balls flew further than balls that were true spheres
What is Golf?
Given a sphere of radium 4. The sphere is sliced in half to create two hemispheres which are separated. Find the total surface area of the two hemispheres.
What is 96pi?
The numbers in the sequence:
6, 28, 496, 8128
Are known as these:
What are perfect numbers?
Some mathematicians celebrate Tau Day on this day, which is the value of Tau (when rounded to 2 places)
What is June 28th(6/28)?
The first math professor at Queen's College in Ireland, his foundational work in algebra and logic was laid out in 1854 work "The Laws of Thought"
Who is George Boole?
This sport exploded in popularity after a group of mathematicians and sports scientists found that it’s forces and stresses on human knees and other joints was far less than similar games of tennis and racquetball. Recent franchise owners include Lebron James and Tom Brady
What is Pickleball?
Given a square A of side length 1, find the ratio of the area of a circle circumscribed around A to a circle inscribed within A.
What is 2:1?
The first few numbers in a sequence named for this Greek mathematician are:
3, 7, 31, 211, 2311, 30031 (note 30031 is not prime)
What are Euclid Numbers?
The irrational number:
1 + sqrt(5)
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2
is better known as this ratio
Who is John Napier?
The first African-American faculty member at the University of Maryland, this mathematician was recently named a fellow of the American Mathematical Society
Who is Raymond Johnson?
This is the only sport in the world where mathematicians are regularly consulted on the field of play during the match, it’s a bat and ball game played on a field featuring a 20 meter pitch in the middle with a wicket at each end of the pitch
What is Cricket?