Famous Geometers
This Greek mathematician, born around 300 BC in Alexandria, is often called the "Father of Geometry" for his work Elements.
Who is Euclid?
This European country is often said to resemble a boot kicking a triangular ball.
What is Italy?
What do mathematicians do after it snows?
They make snow angles.
This is the name of Euclid’s most famous work, a 13-book treatise on geometry and mathematics.
What is the Elements?
This Atlanta-based chain, known for its waffle fries and closed-on-Sunday policy, achieved $10 billion in sales in 2022, surpassing many competitors in per-unit revenue.
What is Chick-fil-a?
This last name belongs to a 19th-century British mathematician who contributed to the study of conic sections and their applications in coordinate geometry.
What is Lawton?
Then he made the sea of cast metal. It was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.
1 Kings 7:23
This French mathematician, born in 1596, connected algebra and geometry by introducing the Cartesian coordinate system.
Who is Rene Descartes?
This South American country’s long, narrow shape is compared to a chili pepper.
What is Chile?
What don’t atheists do well with exponents?
Euclid lived in this Egyptian city, a major center of learning around 300 BC.
What is Alexandria?
This Louisville-based chain, with over 26,000 locations globally, introduced a proprietary blend of 11 herbs and spices for its fried chicken recipe in the 1930s.
What is KFC?
A 20th-century American educator with this last name developed a widely used high school geometry textbook emphasizing practical applications of triangles and circles.
What is Knapp?
He has inscribed a circle on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
Job 26:10
This French mathematician and philosopher and sort of Calvinist Roman Catholic, born in 1623, formulated a theorem at age 16 stating that the intersection points of opposite sides of a hexagon inscribed in a circle lie on a straight line.
Who is Blaise Pascal?
This African nation’s outline is sometimes likened to a rhinoceros horn.
What is Somalia?
Did you hear what zero said to eight?
Nice belt!
Euclid defined this as “that which has no part” in his Elements.
What is a point?
This chain, founded in 1975 in Arkansas, claims to be the home of the original chicken finger and emphasizes hand-breaded, made-to-order tenders.
What is Raising Canes?
This last name is associated with a Norwegian-American engineer who, in the 1950s, applied geometric principles to design efficient bridge structures in the Midwest.
What is Bjorlie?
The carpenter stretches a line; he marks it out with a pencil. He shapes it with planes and marks it with a compass. He shapes it into the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house.
Isaiah 44:13
This Greek philosopher, born around 624 BC, is considered the father of deductive geometry and traveled to Egypt to learn geometric techniques.
Who is Thales of Miletus?
This Caribbean island nation is said to resemble a crocodile due to its elongated, curved shape.
What is Cuba?
Where should you go in a room if you're cold?
The corner - it's always 90 degrees there!
This famous theorem, proven by Euclid in Elements, states that the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides in a right triangle.
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
This chain, founded in 1980 in Charlotte, North Carolina, sparked a 2019 social media frenzy with its spicy chicken sandwich, leading to nationwide sellouts.
What is Popeyes?
A German mathematician with this last name published a 1920s treatise on non-Euclidean geometry, exploring hyperbolic surfaces in higher dimensions.
What is DeGoffau?
And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plumb line; and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will overwhelm the shelter.
Isaiah 28:17
Born in 598 AD in India, this mathematician contributed to calculations involving cyclic quadrilaterals.
Who is Brahmagupta.
This Southeast Asian country’s shape is often described as an elephant’s head, with its trunk extending southward.
What is Thailand?
There was once a talking sheepdog. He ran up to the farmer and said “All 70 sheep are in the pen.”
The farmer said, “But I only counted 67!”
What did the sheepdog say?
"Yeah, but I rounded them up!"
Euclid’s fifth postulate, about this, feels like something that should be proven instead of assumed, and makes Euclidean geometry different from many other types of geometry.
What is the parallel line postulate?
This California-based chain, founded in 1982, specializes in flame-grilled chicken marinated in citrus and spices, reflecting its founder’s Peruvian heritage.
What is El Pollo Loco?
This last name identifies a contemporary researcher who advanced the use of geometric algorithms in computer-aided design, particularly for 3D modeling of polyhedra.
What is Lantz?
Its stones are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.
Job 28:6