Famous
Mathematicians
Mathematicians
Who is known as the father of geometry?
Euclid
A recipe calls for 1 1/2 cups of flour to serve 8 people. Now, imagine you need to prepare a cake for 20 people instead. How many cups of flour would you need?
3 ¾ or 3.75
How many sides does a dodecagon have?
12
What is the only even prime number?
2
In the TV show The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon Cooper often wears a T-shirt with the symbol for which famous irrational number?
pi
Which Indian mathematician contributed significantly to infinite series and number theory?
Srinivasa Ramanujan
If a bank offers 5% annual interest on savings, how much would $1000 grow into after one year?
1050 Rs.
What is the sum of interior angles in a pentagon?
540
A farmer has chickens and cows. Together, they have 30 heads and 84 legs. How many cows are there?
12 cows, 18 chickens
In the movie "The Imitation Game," Alan Turing helps crack which infamous code?
The Enigma Code
Which mathematician’s last theorem remained unsolved for 358 years until it was proven in 1994?
Fermat’s Last Theorem
If today is Saturday, the day after 53 days will be?
Wednesday
A cylinder and a cone have the same base and height. How many cones fit inside the cylinder?
3
I add six to eleven, and get five. Why is this correct?
We are talking about a clock
In Good Will Hunting, Will solves a complex problem in which branch of math?
Graph Theory & Combinatorics
This female mathematician wrote one of the earliest computer programs for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine.
Ada Lovelace
If a car travels 60 miles per hour and has ¾ of a tank left, enough for 180 miles, how many total miles can the car travel on a full tank?
240 miles
A square has an area of 64 square units. What is its diagonal length?
8√2 units, using Pythagoras
The sum of the first 100 natural numbers (1 to 100) is
5050, using Gauss’s formula
n(n+1)/2)
The number 42 is known as the answer to life, the universe, and everything in which book?
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Which 18th-century Swiss mathematician has one of the largest bodies of mathematical work and introduced the notation f(x) for functions?
Leonhard Euler
If Anil's salary is 20% less than that of Rama, then by what percent is Rama's salary more than that of Anil?
25%
The golden ratio (ϕ) is approximately 1.618. Which famous mathematical sequence converges toward this ratio?
The Fibonacci Sequence
An apple is 40 cents, a banana is 60 cents and a grapefruit is 80 cents. How much is a pear?
40 cents. The price of each fruit is calculated by multiplying the number of vowels by 20c.
In Jurassic Park, Dr. Ian Malcolm explains chaos theory using what real-life example?
The Butterfly Effect – a drop of water rolling unpredictably off a hand.