Famous Mathematicians
This mathematician is said to have ran naked through the streets yelling "Eureka!" upon discovering a math principle related to bathtubs.
Who is Archimedes?
A polynomial with only one term is called this - deriving its prefix from ancient Greek.
What is a monomial?
The counting numbers 1, 2, 3... are all examples of this type of non-artificial number.
What are the natural numbers?
This delicious constant appears in the formulae for both the area and circumference of a circle.
What is pi?
The number of planets in the Solar System.
What is 8?
Legend has it that this mathematician's cult killed one of their own for proving that the square root of 2 was irrational.
Who is Pythagoras?
This polynomial with two terms shares its prefix with a bicycle.
What is a binomial?
The square roots of 3, 5, and 10 are this type of number. The same word can be used to qualify illogical behavior.
What are irrational numbers?
This formula, used to find distances between two points, is credited to a Greek man whose cult drowned a man for proving sqrt(2) was an irrational number.
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
Everything in existence is defined by this astronomy-related word.
What is Universe?
This Greek mathematician is known as the "Father of Geometry".
Who is Euclid?
A "cubic" equation is not shaped like a cube, but instead has this number as its degree.
What is 3?
In addition to positive numbers and zero, the integers also include these.
What are negative numbers?
The sand model in the computer room is a practical demonstration of this mathematical formula.
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
Total solar eclipses can only occur during this moon phase.
What is a New Moon?
This British mathematician worked on breaking the German Enigma code in World War II. Afterwards, he revolutionized computer science.
Who is Alan Turing?
DAILY DOUBLE
Name the degree of this polynomial expression:
(x + 2)³(x - 1)²(2x + 5)
0.5, 1/3, and -4/5 are all examples of this type of number.
What are rational numbers?
What is Pop Goes the Weasel?
This element comprises the vast majority of the Universe, including the Sun.
What is Hydrogen?
Who are Scipione del Ferro, Antonio Fior, Nicolo Tartaglia, Gerolamo Cardano, Rafael Bombelli, Leonhard Euler, and Carl Friedrich Gauss?
True or False: y = 0 is a polynomial expression.
What is True?
The name of this number group doesn't mean "hard" but instead means "composed of many parts".
This term means B^2 - 4AC in a quadratic expression.
What is the discriminant?
Astronomy comes from "astro" + "nomy" which, when put together, means this.
What is "law of the stars"?