Big Names
The founders of Calculus.
Who are Gottfried Leibniz and Issac Newton?
a(b+c) = ab+ac
What is the distributive property?
The number system that is the basis of code in the movie, The Matrix.
What is binary?
A magical number, determined by Schoolhouse Rock.
What is 3?
The limit of 1/n as n approaches infinity.
What is 0?
They are credited with proving the different sizes of infinity.
Who is Georg Cantor
If a = b, and b = c, then a = c.
What is the transitive property?
Cady's answer that wins her team the Mathletes State Championship in Mean Girls.
What is "The limit does not exist?"
The number of problems Jay-Z has.
What are 99 problems?
What is L'Hopital's Rule?
Thy proved the Incompleteness Thorems.
Who is Kurt Gödel?
f is a function such that f(a+b) = f(a) + f(b) for all a and b.
What is operation preserving?
A movie title that is also the name of an irrational number.
What is Life of Pi?
In the song Seasons of Love from the Broadway show Rent, how many minutes do they use to measure a year?
What are 525,600 minutes?
This large letter notation describes the rate of convergence of a sequence by bounding how fast the error shrinks.
What is Big O notation?
A female mathematician recognized as the first computer programmer.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
It is often called "memoryless" in probability theory.
What is the Markov Property?
The math concept behind the folded paper analogy to describe a wormhole in the movie, Interstellar.
What is a geodesic? [or] What is a shorter path between two points in a curved space?
The age the Beatles asked "will you still need me?"
What is 64?
This criterion states that a sequence converges if and only if the difference between two terms can be made arbitrarily small for sufficiently large indices.
What is the Cauchy criterion?