Famous Mathematicians
This English mathematician is considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and Artificial intelligence
Who is Alan Turing?
This constant, in Einstein’s equation E=mc2 , representing the speed of light is represented by this letter.
What is c?
This is the point on the graph of a quadratic polynomial with positive leading coefficient that corresponds to the minimum value of the polynomial.
What is the vertex?
This is the result of raising the smallest prime number to the power equal to the second smallest prime number.
What is 8=23?
This area of mathematics derives its name from the Greek phrase, "land measurement."
What is Geometry?
This value is the sum of factorials of the first seven positive integers.
What is 5913?
This famous Greek philosopher and mathematician is known for discovering that the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides.
Who is Pythagoras (of Samos)?
This is the only whole number that cannot be represented using Roman numerals.
What is 0?
What is the smallest four digit number with distinct digits?
What is 1023?
The value of the following improper integral
int_0^infty 16/(1+x^2)dx
What is
8pi ?
What is Topology?
This famous German mathematician is widely recognized as the co-inventor of calculus together with Isaac Newton.
Who is (Gottfried Wilhelm) Leibniz?
This letter stands for the set of all rational numbers.
What is
\mathbb{Q}?
There are 3 red, 7 green, and 10 yellow balls in a bag. Then this is the least number of balls to take out of the bag (without looking) so that at least 5 balls are the same color.
What is 12?
The error estimate for the alternating series test, applied to
sum_{n=0}^{infty} (-1)^n b_n
gives this error bound for |R7|.
What is b8?
This area of mathematics is primarily concerned with counting.
What is Combinatorics?
This mathematician's triangles made binomial coefficients a breeze.
Who is Blaise Pascal?
This Hebrew letter is used to represent some of the cardinals.
What is aleph,
aleph?
The minimum value of the function
f(x)=cos(pi x/2)-sqrtx -1
on interval [0,1]?
What is -2?
In binary this number is written as
1011000_2
What is 88?
This area of mathematics studies, among other things, groups, rings, and fields.
What is (Abstract) Algebra?
This Australian-American mathematician is one of the most prolific and greatest of the 21st century. He got a PhD at Princeton in 1996 at age 21. Recipient of many awards, including the Field Medal.
Who is Terrence (Terry) Tao?
This horizontal line is used in several areas of mathematics including fractions and radicals.
What is a vinculum?
If A and B are two closed sets in some normed space, then this is defined as the
min ||a-b||
over all a in A and b in B.
What is the distance (between A and B)?
This is the smaller root of the quadratic equation
2x^2-x-136=0
What is -8?
This area of mathematics is concerned with the behavior of numbers, sequences, series, and functions.
What is Analysis?