Math History
This mathematician developed calculus independently at roughly the same time as Leibniz and formulated the laws of motion.
Who is Isaac Newton?
The name of the main UW math (and statistics) building.
What is Padelford?
The programming language developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and named after the type of coffee from Indonesia.
What is Java?
The Seattle Kraken play their home games in this arena.
What is the Climate Pledge Arena?
The continent that covers all four hemispheres of the Earth.
What is Africa?
Known as the "father of geometry."
Who is Euclid?
The year UW was founded.
What is 1861?
This programming language, created by Guido van Rossum, is known for significant whitespace.
What is Python?
The Ballard Locks connect Puget Sound to this freshwater lake.
What is Lake Washington?
The first animal to be successfully cloned.
What is a sheep?
This French mathematician’s name is attached to the series decomposition used heavily in signal processing and PDEs (first and last name).
Who is Joseph Fourier?
Lewis Hall's sister building and its current function.
What is Clark Hall, the ROTC building?
This data structure operates on a “last in, first out” principle.
What is a stack?
This Seattle company originally developed an internal distributed database called Dynamo, inspiring many NoSQL systems.
What is Amazon?
A group of flamingos.
What is a flamboyance?
This German mathematician is often called the “Prince of Mathematicians.”
Who is Carl Friedrich Gauss?
What the four pillars in Sylvan Grove represent
What is Loyalty, Industry, Faith, and Efficiency?
CPU stands for this.
What is Central Processing Unit?
Seattle sits near this tectonic fault capable of producing major earthquakes directly beneath the city.
What is the Seattle Fault?
The only planet in our solar system that rotates clockwise on its axis.
What is Venus?
This mathematician introduced the concept of a Cartesian coordinate system.
Who is René Descartes?
UW's original mascot before we became the Huskies
What are the Vikings (or Indians)?
The primary test designed to measure a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior.
What is the Turing Test?
This observatory atop Capitol Hill is named after a Seattle astronomer and former UW professor.
What is the Theodor Jacobsen Observatory?
The medical name for the big toe.
What is the hallux?