Math History
Which mathematician is considered to be the "Father of Geometry"?
Euclid
Which department member has guided backpacking trips in the Idaho mountains?
Beglinger
Who started at Timberline the same year as The Village Idiot?
Vicki Baker
What is the only positive number that is one less than a perfect square and one more than a triangular number?
8
Which department member loves cookies?
Swanson
Which country first clearly defined and used zero in calculations?
India
Which department member has 5 educators in their family?
Urquidi
In what state did The Village Idiot earn his Bachelor's degree?
Alaska
What ancient civilization developed a base-60 number system, which is why we still measure time in 60s and circles in 360 degrees?
The Basbylonians
Which department member could officiate your wedding?
Wiechert
Which mathematician has the Cartesian Coordinate Plane named after them?
Rene Descartes
Which department member has illegally crossed the US-Mexico border?
Barnes
What treasure valley high school did The Village Idiot graduate from?
Borah
What irrational number, approximately 1.618, is often associated with art, architecture, and the Fibonacci sequence?
The golden ratio
Which department member has lived in 4 different states but not in the state they consider their home state?
Apa
Which mathematician coined the phrase "I think, therefore I am"?
Rene Descartes
Which department member has performed at Disneyland?
Stucki
How many of The Village Idiot's sons were varsity wrestlers at Timberline?
2
What branch of mathematics studies shapes that look similar at every scale, such as coastlines and snowflakes?
Fractals
Which department member served as the state's key witness in a bombing trial?
Fogdall
Which mathematician claimed that many of his mathematical formulas related to number theory came to him during dreams?
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Which department member won their 8th-grade spelling bee?
Baker
What minor did The Village Idiot earn in college?
Statistics
What problem, posed by Blaise Pascal in 1654 about gambling, helped launch the field of probability?
The Problem of Points
Which department member hates mushrooms to the point that they refuse even to touch them?
Crowell