Mathematicians
This famous Greek mathematician, and author of The Elements, is known as the “Father of Geometry.”
Euclid
This value represents the sum of the first five prime numbers.
28
In this 1997 film, Matt Damon’s character plays a Harvard janitor who is also a natural genius in mathematics.
Good Will Hunting
In gambling and investing, the term “Perms and Combs” is often used, where “Perms” refers to Permutations, a set where the order matters, and “Combs” refers to __________________________, a set where it does not.
Combinations
Found naturally in pinecones and sunflowers, the spiral arrangement of structures and seeds follow this geometric sequence.
The Fibonacci Sequence
This famous English mathematician is often credited as the inventor of calculus also had a deep interest in alchemy, spending many years of his life conducting secret experiments in the hope of discovering the fabled Philosopher’s Stone.
Sir Isaac Newton
This mathematical property of numbers states that the order of the terms when performing addition or multiplication does not affect the end result.
The Commutative Property
In this 2001 film, Russell Crowe plays real-life mathematician, John Nash, who is best known for his contributions in the field of game theory.
A Beautiful Mind
Developed by Alfred Wegener, this mathematical model explains the movements related to plate tectonics.
Continental Drift
This type of symmetry can be found in butterflies, whose wing patterns form a vertical mirror image.
This famous German mathematician is best known for his contributions in the field of statistics and the Gaussian distribution, which we know today as the normal distribution curve.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
This classification refers to any number that can not be expressed as a fraction with an integer in the numerator and an integer in the denominator.
Irrational Number
In this 2014, Benedict Cumberbatch plays famous mathematician and computer scientist, Alan Turing, and highlight’s how his team cracked the German Enigma Cold during WWII.
The Imitation Game
Between 4:00 PM and 4:50 PM, the minute hand on Big Ben covers this many degrees.
300
Due to surface tension and air resistance, raindrops form this geometric shape as they fall.
Oblate spheroid
This famous mathematician and philosopher developed the Cartesian coordinate system in the 17th-century.
René Descartes
This number is the smallest positive integer that is divisible by both 6 and 8.
24
According to the film The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, this number is associated with life, the universe, and everything.
42
True or False: -40ᵒ Celsius is equal to -40ᵒ Fahrenheit.
True
Mathematical in nature, ocean waves often follow this type of function, which is used to describe cyclic oscillations.
Sine wave
This famous German mathematician has a rival claim to Sir Issac Newton as the inventor of calculus.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
This number is the product of every prime number that is less than 10.
210
In the famous Netflix show Stranger Things, the young characters frequently refer to this branch of mathematics as it relates to an alternate dimensions, which they call the upside down.
Quantum Mechanics
This statistical measure of central tendency represents the middle value in a data set when the numbers are arranged from smallest to largest.
Median
The atoms in a methane molecule are arranged as a Platonic Solid with four triangular faces, six edges, and four vertices, also known as this type of 3D figure.
Tetrahedron, or triangular pyramid.