Faculty Fun Facts
This professor won a prize for hand mowing at the Addison County Field Days.
Who is John Schmitt?
John Emerson's love of this theorem is not normal, even for a statistician.
What is the Central Limit Theorem?
This Warner room is the least used class space by mathematics in the building.
What is the hemicycle?
This mathematician was killed in duel but stayed up the entire night before revolutionizing the study of algebra.
Who was Evariste Galois?
The second smallest perfect number.
What is 28?
This department member has a black belt in Judo.
Who is David Dorman?
The point in a triangle where the perpendicular bisectors meet.
What is the circumcenter?
This former professor's name is on the prize awarded annually to the major who completes the most outstanding senior work.
Who is Llewellyn Parker?
This mathematician was killed by a Roman soldier while reportedly doing a mathematics problem.
Who was Archimedes?
The number of sides on a dodecagon.
What is 12?
This faculty member was so excited to score a goal in a high school soccer game that he broke his wrist.
Who is Alex Lyford?
The point in a triangle where the angle bisectors meet.
What is the incenter?
This feature of Warner Hall provides an aerobic introduction to Number Theory.
What is the Prime Number Staircase?
This mathematician wrote 866 scholarly papers despite being blind for a large part of his lifetime.
Who was Leonhard Euler?
The smallest integer that can be written as the sum of two cubes in two different ways.
What is 1729?
This faculty member can perform marriage ceremonies during office hours.
Who is Mike Olinick or Dave Dorman?
This campus building was the home of the mathematics department before it moved to Warner Hall.
What is Munroe Hall?
This popular puzzle was the subject of the most heavily enrolled mathematics course ever taught at Middlebury.
What is the Rubik's Cube?
She is known as the greatest female mathematician of antiquity.
Who is Hypatia?
The smallest prime greater than 90.
What is 97?
This professor is the most ardent Ohio State fan on campus.
Who is Frank Swenton?
The stone monument outside of Warner Hall is dedicated to this rather dubious scientific endeavor.
What is the search for anti-gravity devices?
This Middlebury alum is believed to be the first African-American professor of mathematics in the United States and the first African-American college president.
Who is Martin Freeman?
Theatre Professor Alex Draper played the role of this famous mathematician in the world premier of the play Love Song of the Electric Bear.
Who was Alan Turing?
The number of sides of the polygon that Gauss requested be put on his tombstone.
What is 17?