Math Clubs
The WPI Math Club constitution was originally called this?
What is the Constitution
Professor Jane Coons sing's this voice part?
Soprano
The solution for:
The limit as x approaches 2 of (x2-4) / (x-2)
What is 4
This is a concept you can not measure, though it is a powerful and very real concept in mathematics and philosophy, and can be positive or negative.
What is infinity?
He broke the enigma code in WWII and Benedict Cumberbatch played him in 2014.
Who is Alan Turing?
This event which "seeks to connect members of the Massachusetts mathematical community and provide students with an opportunity to present their work" will have it's second annual event in Fabuary of 2027. This event is hosted by the Massachussettes Alpha chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon.
What is the WPI Mathematics Symposium
This person is a professor at WPI who has earned the Summer Sandbox grants for 2026.
Who is Bill Sanguinet, Michael Smith, Sam Tripp, and/or Zheyang Wu?
These are the two names most commonly used in cryptography to represent people.
Who are Alice and Bob?
This number is used quite often in chemistry to measure tiny particals, such as atoms, molecules, and ions.
What is Avogadro's number?
In the fild Mean Girls, what is the correct answer to the final problem of the mathematics bowl.
What is "the limit does not exist"
This annual event held in April will hit its 9-year anniversary for the AWM WPI Chapter.
What is Sonia Kovalevsky (SK) Day?
These are the instructors that teach the calculus labs at WPI.
Who are Jane Bouchard and Caroline Labenski?
The famous unsolved Riemann hypothesis states that all non-trivial zeroes of the Riemann-Zeta function have real part of this number.
What is 1/2
Often refered to as one of the most impactful people in mathematics, he was advised by Bernoulli in Switzerland before spending most of his adult life in Russia. This number which he discovered shares his name and is aproximatly equal to 2.718...
What is Eulers number (e)
This type of problem was put on the hallway chalkboard that Will Hunting solves at the beginning of Good Will Hunting.
What is advanced Fourier system?
This was the year that the WPI chapter of SIAM was established.
What is the 2003-2004 Academic year?
This WPI Professor crawled under a fence to watch a Soviet missle launch
Who is Prof. Fehribach
This graph is the smallest non-planar simple graph that is not complete
What is K3,3
While Gerolamo Cardano is credited with initially discovering the imaginary numbers, this mathematician was the one who coined the term "imaginary" decades later.
Who is Rene Descartes?
In 1998, Homer Simpson writes 3987^12+4365^12=4472^2 which apears true when entered into a 10-digit calculator but it is actually a violation of this theorem.
What is Fermat's Last Theorem
These are the full names of the four math clubs that are hosting this event.
What are Pi Mu Epsilon, Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Association for Women in Mathematics, and Math Club
This professor is a member of the committee that writes questions for the FM Actuarial Exam, and at one point, had a question turned away due t it being too difficult (so he gave it to his class to solve on an exam instead).
Who is Prof. Jon Abraham
The kissing number of a n-dimensional space is the greatest number of non-overlapping n-dimensional unit spheres you can arrange around another unit sphere so that each sphere touches the center sphere. This number is the largest dimension we have solved the problem in.
What is 24?
This enormous (understatement) number is the, in the words of its creator, the "smallest positive integer bigger than any finite positive integer named by an expression in the language of first-order set theory with googol symbols or less."
What is Rayo's Number
The math stack exchange user that became infamous for responding to very difficult integrals with just the (correct) answer and no explanation.
Who is Cleo