FAMUS People
This person was comically referred to as "Spooky Face" by Tyler Brock when talking about the Gamma Function.
Who is Legendre?
This proof follows directly from the limit definition of a derivative with clever algebra; often times students forget that the integral of the same function involves a negative sign.
What is the derivative of sine?
This professor is known for walking up to the base of the stairs, running up the stairs, and then walking after.
Who is Nandor Sieben?
This is a common food found in Jim Roberts' thermos.
What is lasagna/pasta/ravioli/sauce/*******/ ect.?
Who is Paul Erdos? What is an Erdos Number?
This mathematician is loving called "Ian Williams Grandfather" because of his... resemblance to Ian Williams
Who is J.J. Sylvester?
This "lemma" can proven through graph theoretical means or 'double-counting'; first done by Euler through the ladder method, and usually done in MAT226 through the degree-sum formula of undirected graphs.
What is the Handshake Lemma?
This teaching professor has the highest rate my professor score at a shocking 4.8.
Who is Matthew Fahy?
This is the day of birth of Jim Roberts.
What is October 9th?
This 1996 movie famously has a still-functioning website, preserved perfectly until the 2021 reboot of the movie changed the homepage.
What is Space Jam?
This mathematician has the title of "The Greatest Mathematician of all Time".
Who is Gauss?
This proof is done by supposing the set of prime numbers is finite, and showing that P, the product of the set plus one, has the property that no prime in our set divides P.
What is Euclid's proof of the infinitude of primes?
At FAMUS, it is an inside joke that this professor arrives after the introductory video has been played. They also are the only ones to ask questions during Colloquiums.
Who is Jim Swift?
This is how my co-host sleeps at night.
What is "like a baby"?
Not to be confused with the famous pirate, this French folktale is "about a wealthy man in the habit of murdering his wives and the attempts of the present one to avoid the fate of her predecessors" (Source: Wikipedia)
What is Bluebeard? Who is Bluebeard?
Speed readers everywhere confuse this mathematician who Gauss claimed had "rare talents' with the world famous physicist Einstein.
Who is Gotthold Eisenstein?
This proof is famously done through a "diagonalization argument", that is, constructing a new element in an infinite set by changing elements along the diagonal of an enumerated set.
What is Cantor's proof of the size of the continuum?
This professor had Paul Erdos at his house as a child sometimes, and has research focus as his father did.
Who is John Neuberger?
This is the middle name of my co-host's coworker; known for having 3 first names for his fully name.
What is James? Who is Andrew James Patrick?
This is roughly the Schwarzschild radius of the Earth in inches.
What is 0.35 inches?
This judge has a famous theorem in number theory related to factorials named after him, and has nothing else named after him (it is NOT Fermat).
Who is John Wilson?
This famous theorem was first (and Last) proven by Andrew Wiles in 1994 at a conference, before a problem being found in it, and later fixed in 1995-1996. The proof hinges on a 1-1 correspondence between modular forms and elliptic curves, which seems wildly unrelated to this number theoretic statement.
What is Fermat's Last Theorem?
This teaching professor does not erase whiteboards sideways; only in vertical motions.
Who is Jeff Rushall?
The number of chains in a furlong.
What is ten?