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Math with two X's
Math of Pixar
Punny Math
Math Vocab
Speed Round
100
After Charles Babbage gave a lecture on his analytical engine in 1842, the notes were transcribed in French then given to Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace to translate to English. In doing so, Ada added her own notes and tripled the length of the document, including her own vision of how the engine could be used to calculate Bernoulli numbers, which is now considered to be the first what?
What is Computer Program?
100
In Pixar films like "Cars 2," particle systems are used to create realistic looking effects like explosions. In these effects, the following concept is used to determine where objects go based on their directions and magnitude.
What is vectors?
100
According to the Unsimplifying Fractions for Relaxation Society, one fifth of all Americans are this.
What is "too tense?" (Two tenths)
100
This is the rate of change. Also known as rise over run.
What is the slope?
100
log10000
What is 4?
200
Inspired by the calculus notes that were used as wallpaper in her bedroom, Sofia Kovalevskya showed an aptitude for mathematics at an early age. Being unable to firther her studies in Russia because she was a woman, Sofia obtained a fictitious marriage so she could study abroad, and in 1872, she became the first woman to do what?
What is earn her doctorate in mathematics?
200
In a process first significantly used in "Geri's Game," the animators make a very blocky base to animate for something like Geri's hands, then gradually smooth's it through this process of finding the midpoints between midpoints with weighted averages.
What is subdivision?
200
A poem written by someone who used their knowledge of logical statements to cheat people out of their money would be called this.
What is a Con Verse?
200
Ax + By = C
What is standard form?
200
4!-3!+2!+1!
What is 21?
300
From 1877 to 1919, more than 80 women worked for Harvard Astronomer Edward Pickering as human computers, aiding him in performing numerous calculations to catalog the stars. The calculations of these women provided the empirical foundations for astronomical theory. Though now known as the Harvard Computers, at the time they were given what much less flattering nickname for a group of women subservient to a man?
Pickering's Harem
300
To generate large crowd scenes like this one from "Brave," the animators create a variety of stock features like hair, eyes, tunics, arms, and others, then let the computer randomly pick from these to create the look of a random crowd. To ensure they have enough variety so that the crowd does not appear to repeat, they use these counting techniques where order does or does not matter.
What is permutations and combinations?
300
Why didn't the student want to take a class with the average teacher?
Because he was mean
300
This was first conjectured in 1985 and 1988, and is currently still considered a conjecture, though Mochizuki produced a 500 page proof in 2012 that is currently under review. It takes into consideration the radical of the product of three integers a, b, c, where the radical is defined as the product of the number's distinct prime factors.
What is the ABC Conjecture?
300
Find the derivative of f(x)=3x^24+7x^4-14x^3+12790017+(1/(x^2))+(1/(-3x^4 ))
What is 72x^23+28x^3-42x^2+(-2/x^3)+(12/x^5)?
400
Featuring the movie, "Hidden Figures," African American Katherine Johnston worked for NASA as a human computer and aerospace technologist, and her calculations were so valued that what astronaut refused to fly his orbit around the earth unless the calculations were personally checked by her?
Who is John Glenn?
400
One of the advantages of working with computer animations is that when filming a scene like this from "A Bug's Life," rotating the camera angle is a simple matter of utilizing this family of functions, which you may recall from the mnemonic "SOH CAH TOA."
What is trigonometric functions?
400
When the student was struggling with trying to figure out how many times 7 goes into 35 or 8 goes into 72, why did the teachers suggest he put on his glasses?
Because they improved division (da vision).
400
This process is useful for solving a system of equations – especially when the equations are in standard form. We take two equations and combine the total x and y-values in an attempt to eliminate one variable. Then we solve the new equation, plug the value back in and find our solutions.
What is the elimination method?
400
Sin(pi/6) in radians.
What is 1/2?
500
In 2014, Iranian-American Mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani was recognized for her work on the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces by becoming the first woman to earn what award?
What is the Field's Medal?
500
As is illustrated in the "Science of Pixar" traveling exhibit, when animators are interested in creating lighting effects they often use ray tracing with this type of equations, where lines in two dimensional space are described by a single variable, t.
What is parametric equations?
500
The statistics professor's exam on the amount of antioxidants found in green, earl grey, chamomile, and Darjeeling varieties was a this.
What is a tea test?
500
Though it was quite possibly known by Cotes, DeMoivre, and Johann Bernoulli, it is named after a different mathematician of the time. It is one of the rare formulas that relates what many consider the five most important numbers in all of mathematics to one another.
What is Euler's Identity?
500
∫x^5 +3x^7
What is (1/6)x^6+(3/8)x^7+c