MATH DEPT
LUNT FACTS
CHICAGO
POP CULTURE
SCIENCE
100

Number of chairs in the staff office (without counting Deavon's office).

6

100

Number of classrooms in the first floor of Lunt Hall


6

100

A true Chicago-style hot dog must exclude this popular red condiment.

Ketchup

100

This Canadian actor earned an Oscar nomination for playing Ken in the 2023 movie Barbie

Ryan Gosling

100

F and C are equal at this temperature

-40

200

Faculty that has the most number of students that won a best thesis award

John Francis

200

This street in Evanston shares its name with the building that houses the university's Mathematics Department.

Orrington Ave.

200

Longest (length) line in the L

Blue line

200

Lollapalooza started in this decade

90s

200

Largest lake in surface area

Lake Superior

300

The total number of non-human animals (cats, dogs, koalas) pictured alongside our current department directory

7

300

Number of steps to access the main door of Lunt Hall coming from Sheridan Rd

Four

300
Oldest major Chicago sport team

Cubs (1870)

300

Grammy category that was changed after Beyonce's win this year

Best country album

300

Universal donor blood type

O-

400

The undergraduate institution that supplied the largest number of students to our current graduate program

UC Berkeley (6 students)

400

This famous 1871 disaster in Chicago prompted Lunt to move his family and business north to Evanston.

The Chicago Great Fire

400

Real of name of The Bean

Cloud Gate

400

American college football coach hired to manage a fictional English Premier League soccer team, A.F.C. Richmond.

Ted Lasso

400

Jupiter's moon Ganymede holds the title of the largest moon in the Solar System, even exceeding the size of this planet.

Mercury

500
Day of the next Bellow Lecture Series (1st talk)

April 8

500

Building that replaced Lunt Hall as the university library in 1933

Deering Library

500

Number of countries you can fly from Midway

Four (US, Mexico, Canada and Dominican Rep.) 

500
This artist will be featured at the next Super Bowl half-time show

Bad Bunny

500

Largest desert on Earth

Antartica