Famous Mathematicians
These mathematical geniuses both claimed to have invented calculus at almost the same exact time.
(Name either one for the points.)
Who was Isaac Newton/Gottfried Leibniz?
This theorem is the link between integrals and derivatives. It sits at the heart of calculus.
What is the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus?
This expression relates the area of a circle to its radius. (state the formula in full.)
What is Area=pi*r2?
2x is the __ of x^2
What is the derivative?
This is the maximum probability of any event
What is 100%?
This ancient mathematician invented geometry as we know it today in a 13-book treatise.
Who was Euclid?
This theorem is the reason that the roots of nth degree polynomials exist. Without it, high school algebra would be way harder.
What is the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra
This formula provides both solutions to a quadratic equation.
What is the Quadratic Formula?
This is the antiderivative of 2x
What is x^2 + C?
The probability that you would pick a lifetime supply of your favorite pie out of a set.
What is 100%
This 18th century mathematician worked so hard on making maps he said it made him go blind!
Who was Leonard Euler
This ancient theorem purportedly drove the followers of Pythagoras mad, as they had believed every number should be expressible as a finite fraction.
What is the irrationality of 2?
This formula relates the lengths of the sides of a right triangle.
What is Pythagoras's Theorem (a^2+b^2=c^2)?
This rule allows you to take the derivative of compositions of functions f(g(x)).
What is the chain rule?
There are 3 chocolate pies, 2 raspberry pies, and 5 apple pies.
1/5 is the probability of selecting this pie at random.
What is a raspberry pie?
This famous mathematician was the first to formally understand the behavior of curved surfaces, paving the way for everything from Einstein's theory of relativity, to machine learning algorithms.
Who was Bernhard Riemann?
This theorem is the most famous conjecture of all time, taking 357 years to prove correct after its original author died before writing down his solution.
What is Fermat's Last Theorem?
Often called "the most beautiful identity in mathematics." This identity relates pi, e, and the imaginary number i into one very surprising equation.
What is Euler's identity/formula?
This is the derivative of ln(x)
What is 1/x?
Given the following data set: {2, 4, 8, 10}, 6 is what kind of average over the data?
What is the mean? (Arithmetic)
This 20th century mathematician famously worked out wild formulas in his head without writing a single line of work down, sometimes even waking from dreams with answers to the world's most difficult math problems.
Who was Srinivasa Ramanujan?
This 20th century theorem sparked a world-wide debate about the role of computers as proof assistants and the future of mathematics.
What is the Four Color Theorem?
Used extensively in the signal processing algorithms that make wifi, cellular data, gps, phone calls, television and digital sound possible, and in countless physics applications. This formula relates a signal to all its underlying frequencies.
What is the Fourier Transform?
According to the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, if F′(x)=f(x), then ∫f(x)dx equals this expression.
What is F(x)+C?
The probability of rolling a 4 3 times in a row on a 5 sided fair die.
What is 1/125?