Math in Industry
Math History
Calculus
Famous Numbers
200

These insurance professionals use mathematics to estimate risk.

What are actuaries?

200

Pythagoras was a notable opponent to these unreasonable numbers.

What are irrational numbers?

200

A functions derivative describes the slope of a line that has this relation to a point on the function

What is tangent?
200

The first evidence of this number appearing in history is from India around the 6th century.

What is 0?

400

Mathematicians who use computers are likely to know bits and pieces of this base number system.

What is binary/base 2?

400

Euclid was the first to prove that there are infinitely many of these types of number.

400

Beginning calculus students build an intuition for integrals using this mans sums.

Who is Riemann?

400

Leonard Euler is largely credited with creating the notion of modern graph theory in a problem where he studied this many bridges.

600

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?

600

This mathematician is widely regarded as the founder of algebra.

Who is al-Khwarizmi?

600

This acronym serves as an aid for picking the u term when integrating by parts

What is LIATE?

600

DAILY DOUBLE:

This is the smallest number that is a product of three distinct primes.

What is 30?

800

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.

800

This ancient civilization was well known for this base 60 approach to the number system.

Who are Mesopotopians/Babylonians?

800

DAILY DOUBLE:

This rhythmic series is well known to Calc II students for it's divergence.

800

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?

1000

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.

1000

The second best selling literary works of all time:  Euclid's Elements has this many books.

What is thirteen?

1000

This infamous function is known for it's property of being continuous everywhere--but differentiable nowhere.

1000

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!

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