Logs and Probability
What is a logarithm?
Inverse of an exponential function
What was Emmy’s father?
A math professor
Who is considered the Father of Abstract Algebra?
Evariste Galois
Who gave the earliest known formula for the area of a circle?
The Egyptians
Leibniz restructured this system, which forms the basis of nearly all computer code.
Binary system
There are 15 students in a class and I want to select 3. How many possible ways can I select the students?
2730 ways
What European country was Noether from?
What is the special name for a group where the operation is commutative?
Abelian groups
What was the Method of Two’s given in the Rhind papyrus?
Main method of multiplication for at least 3000 years
What was Barrow’s conjecture, which was proved by Newton?
The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
Simplify:
2log_2(x) - 4log_2(x+3)+log_2(y)
log_2((x^3y)/(x+3)^4)
What area of mathematics did she contribute to?
Abstract algebra
What does Sn stand for in abstract algebra?
The Symmetric group
Who introduced the “Why?” in mathematics; or who decided proof was a great idea
Greeks
What was the motivation of Leibniz in the creation of calculus?
To study curves and analytic geometry
Who created a pamphlet with a table that had the first “naive logarithms”?
Napier
Who described Emmy as the most important woman in mathematics?
Einstein
Who developed the system of quaternions?
Alexander Hamilton
What was the sexagesimal system used for by the Babylonians?
Measuring geometric angles
What were Newton’s original interests that led him to create calculus?
Optics and physics
Who wrote the first book on Mathematical Probability?
Huygens
What significant contribution did Emmy make to mathematics?
Theories of algebraic invasions and number fields
What type of finite groups got a classification system during the middle twentieth century?
Simple groups
According to the Greeks, what is a perfect number?
A positive integer which is amicable to itself; it equals the sum of its factors
Along with two other philosophers, Rene Descartes and Baruch Spinoza, Leibniz was one of the greatest 17th century advocates of this belief or theory.
Rationalism