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This person gets credit for coming up with the triangle formula a2+b2=c2 in ancient Greece.
Who is Pythagoras?
Author of the book Elements, this mathematician laid the foundations for geometry on a flat plane.
Who is Euclid?
This force attracts all matter in the universe to each other, and depends on the mass of each object, as well as the distance between the two
What is gravity?
This number is the solution to the linear equation 10x+5=15
What is 1?
What is a hexagon?
This famous physicist invented calculus while studying the motion of planets and celestial bodies.
Who is Newton?
This mathematician worked in every area of mathematics, but is most famous for his work on series which led to the formula ei*pi+1 = 0
Who is Euler?
This equation relates the force experienced by an object and its acceleration.
What is F=ma?
This number is the only even prime number
What is 2?
This is the area of an equilateral triangle with side-length 1
What is the square root of 3 over 4? (0.43..)
This philosopher, known for the famous saying "I think, therefore I am," also made their own coordinate system connecting geometry and algebra
Who is Descartes?
In this mathematician's famous sequence, the next term comes from adding the two previous terms
Who is Fibonacci?
With 12 protons in the nucleus, this element makes up about 12% of the atoms in the human body
What is Carbon?
This number is the only one with the property that one-half of the number is equal to the number itself
What is 0?
This is the volume of a cone with radius r and height h
what is 4pi*r*h / 3
Known for his famous triangle, this mathematician made contributions to the theory of binomial coefficients.
Who is Pascal?
This mathematician, known for his famous "game of life", made massive contributions to many areas of math. He passed away in 2020 due to COVID-19
Who is Conway?
This process of transferring energy happens when a force is applied to an object over a distance
What is work?
This number is the largest root of the polynomial P(x)=x3-7x2-4x+28
This 12-sided polyhedron is made up entirely of regular pentagons
What is a dodecahedron?
This person's "zeta function" has important applications in prime numbers and is applicable to almost every branch of math
Who is Riemann?
Who is Diophantus?
This quantity remains constant in any system with no outside force or heat loss
What is energy?
This theorem states that every polynomial of degree n has exactly n roots in the complex numbers
What is the fundamental theorem of algebra?
This is the number of regular polyhedra only made up of equilateral triangles
What is 3?