Journey Through Genius
Who discovered the Pythagorean Theorem?
Who is Pythagoras?
What is the name of the English mathematician who is credited with discovering the law of gravity?
Who is Isaac Newton?
Pythagorean theorem:
a² + b² =X
What is the correct value in place of X?
What is c2?
What is the symbol used to represent the empty set in set theory?
What is ∅?
How many classes do you think I was late for, missed, or otherwise was not promptly on time?
Answers are accepted with a margin of error of +-1
What is 7?
What is the name of the theorem which states that the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter is a constant?
What is the definition of pi?
What is the name of the German mathematician who is credited with inventing calculus independently of Isaac Newton?
Who is Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz?
Euler's equation
ei(pi) = X
What is the correct value in place of X?
What is -1?
What is the symbol used to represent the logical AND operator in algebra?
What is ∧?
What is professor Trevino's office number?
Ex. : Brown 000
What is Brown 123?
Who discovered that the angles of a triangle add up to 180 degrees?
Who is Euclid?
What is the name of the ancient Greek mathematician who is credited with discovering the method of exhaustion, which was a precursor to calculus?
Who is Eudoxus?
Fermat's last theorem
xn + yn = X
What is the correct value in place of X?
What is zn?
What symbol is used to represent the universal quantifier in mathematical logic?
What is ∀?
What is the third digit of constant e after the decimal point?
Ex. : 2.71X
What is 8?
e = 2.7182818284590452353602874713527
Who proved the theorem "The Divergence of the Harmonic Series"?
What is Johann Bernoulli?
What is the name of the Italian mathematician who discovered a sequence of numbers that bears his name, and who also made important contributions to the study of continued fractions?
Who is Leonardo Fibonacci?
The Law of Cosines
c2 = a2 + b2 - 2 * X
What is the correct value in place of X?
What is a*b*cos(alpha)?
What symbol is used in calculus to represent an infinitely small change in a variable?
What is Δ?
What is the last letter of the last word of the last chapter of the book Journey through Genius (Chapter 12)?
What is "s"?
The last word was "things"
What is the name of the theorem which states that the power set of any set has a strictly larger cardinality than the original set?
What is Cantor's theorem?
In what year did Cantor publish his first paper on set theory? (The answer is deemed correct if it is within 15 years off of an actual answer)
What is 1874?
The Gaussian integral
∫ e(-x^Y) dx
What is the correct value in place of Y?
What is 2?
What symbol is used to represent the cardinality of denumerable sets
What is ℵ0?
What is the first class professor Trevino taught after he completed his Ph.D. in Mathematics at Dartmouth College in June 2011?
What is "Math 27: Linear Algebra" at Swarthmore College Fall 2011?