Math in Industry
These insurance professionals use mathematics to estimate risk.
What are actuaries?
Pythagoras was a notable opponent to these unreasonable numbers.
What are irrational numbers?
A functions derivative describes the slope of a line that has this relation to a point on the function
The first evidence of this number appearing in history is from India around the 6th century.
What is 0?
Calculus courses at Michigan Tech all end with this 3 digit suffix
What is 160?
Mathematicians who use computers are likely to know bits and pieces of this base number system.
What is binary/base 2?
Euclid was the first to prove that there are infinitely many of these types of number.
What are primes?
Beginning calculus students build an intuition for integrals using this mans sums.
Who is Riemann?
Leonard Euler is largely credited with creating the notion of modern graph theory in a problem where he studied this many bridges.
This Michigan Tech math lecturer has taught the MA3450 Intro Real Analysis course for nearly every year of this millennium.
Who is David Olson?
It's not a well kept secret that this place is the number one employer of mathematicians in America.
What is the National Security Agency?
This mathematician is widely regarded as the founder of algebra.
Who is al-Khwarizmi?
This acronym serves as an aid for picking the u term when integrating by parts
What is LIATE?
DAILY DOUBLE:
This is the smallest number that is a product of three distinct primes.
What is 30?
This Tech professor is potentially best known for his collection of expensive Patek Phillipe watches.
This Harvard mathematician is best known for founding a tech company that is one of the top employers of mathematicians in America, he is lesser known for his longstanding efficient combinatorial algorithim for pancake sorting.
This ancient civilization was well known for this base 60 approach to the number system.
Who are Mesopotopians/Babylonians?
DAILY DOUBLE:
This rhythmic series is well known to Calc II students for it's divergence.
What is the Harmonic Series?
It is rumored that Gauss derived this number as the sum of the numbers 1-100 in less than a minute in the third grade.
What is 5050?
This Michigan Tech math professor resides in Fisher's pi office: Fisher 314.
Who is Dr. Keith?
Get off the television and study! Unless you're watching this Matt Groening show that consistently drops mathematics related theorems in the background due to the writing team's background in mathematics.
What is Futarma?
The second best selling literary works of all time: Euclid's Elements has this many books.
What is thirteen?
This infamous function is known for it's property of being continuous everywhere--but differentiable nowhere.
What is the Weierstrass Function?
This constant term can be substituted for C in the polynomial x^2+x+C in order to generate primes for the first 40 values of x. Thanks Euler!
Every year David Olson runs an "Exploring" class, surveying various topics in mathematics. This class cycles every year between these four different subjects.
What are: Non-Euclidean Geometry, Number Theory, Groups and Symmetry, and Knots and Surfaces.