Famous Mathematicians
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
Honeybees use this geometric shape when constructing their hives as a way of maximizing space in a mathematically efficient way.
Hexagon
Rounded off after two decimal places, the mathematical constant pi (π) is often approximated as this number.
In a quadrilateral, the sum of all interior angles always adds up to this many degrees.
360
The sum of the interior angles in a triangle will always equal this number.
180
This famous French physicist and mathematician is best known for formulating Pascal’s Triangle.
Blaise Pascal
Mathematical in nature, ocean waves often follow this type of function, which is used to describe cyclic oscillations.
Sine wave
This mathematical constant is used as the base value of the natural logarithm and can be approximated to 2.72.
e (Euler's Number)
This three-dimensional shape has six faces, but unlike a cube, its faces can be rectangles of different sizes.
rectangular prism
What's the classic geometry named after an ancient Greek that explores shapes and spaces in 2D and 3D?
Euclidean Geometry
This famous British computer scientist and mathematician is known for leading the team of cryptographers who broke the German Enigma Code during World War II.
Alan Turing
Natural objects, such as ferns, often exhibit these patterns of similar structures at smaller and larger scales.
Fractals
This mathematical constant represents the ration between a circle’s circumference and its radius.
τ (Tau)
This branch of mathematics studies properties of space that remain unchanged under continuous deformations, such as stretching or bending, but not tearing.
topology
This value is the only whole number that can not be represented using Roman Numerals.
0
This famous German mathematician has a rival claim to Sir Issac Newton as the inventor of calculus.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Found naturally in pinecones and sunflowers, the spiral arrangement of structures and seeds follow this geometric sequence.
The Fibonacci Sequence
This mathematical constant is equal to approximately 6.674 × 10⁻¹¹ N(m/kg)².
G (Gravitational Constant)
A regular dodecahedron is one of the five Platonic solids. It has this many faces.
12
This unimaginably large number can be represented by 10 raised to the power of 100.
Googol
In the 2001 film, A Beautiful Mind, Russell Crowe plays this real-life mathematician who is best known for his contributions in the field of game theory.
John Nash
Due to surface tension and air resistance, raindrops form this geometric shape as they fall.
Oblate spheroid
Truncated after 6 decimal places, the Golden Ratio (φ) is often approximated as this number.
1.618033
The Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler discovered a famous formula that relates the number of vertices (V), edges (E), and faces (F) of a convex polyhedron: V - E + F = ?
2
Which famous yet unproven math mystery claims that every even number over 2 is just two primes teaming up?
Goldbach's Conjecture