Famous Mathematicians
Definitions/Equations
Calculus/Analysis
Algebra/Topology
Applied Math/Stats
100
This mathematician famously died a virgin.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
100
The equation represents the unit circle.
What is x2 + y2 = 1?
100
You solve this to find the area under a curve.
What is an integral?
100
Roots of the characteristic equation.
What are eigenvalues?
100
The probability of drawing two cards of the same suit from a standard deck.
What is
12/51
200
This triangle is named after a famous French mathematician.
Who is Pascal?
200
A function where each input value is mapped to a unique output.
What is a one-to-one function?
200
This series, named after a French mathematician, expresses a periodic function as an infinite sum of sines and cosines.
What is the Fourier Series?
200
The ninth number of the Fibonacci sequence.
What is 21?
200
The base-10 value of this binary number 10110.
What is 22?
300
Einstein said the best part of his day was walking home from work with this mathematician.
Who is Kurt Gödel?
300
This mathematical structure is a set equipped with two binary operations that satisfy associativity, distributivity, and the existence of additive and multiplicative identities.
What is a ring?
300
This theorem asserts that any bounded sequence in R^n has a convergent subsequence.
What is the Bolzano–Weierstrass Theorem?
300
Rank of the coefficient matrix is the same as the augmented matrix
What is consistent?
300
The rule for finding the probability of an event A given event B.
What is P(A|B) = P(A, B)/P(B)?
400
This mathematician moved from society, became a wizard, and created modern algebraic geometry.
Who is Alexander Grothendieck?
400
The condition that occurs when in a topological space, every open cover of the space has a finite subcover.
What is compactness?
400
What is a Cauchy sequence?
400
This theorem states that every continuous map from a closed disk to itself has at least one fixed point.
What is the Brouwer Fixed Point Theorem?
400
The effects of two variables on the response cannot be distinguished from each other.
What is confounding?
500
This mathematician was tricked into defending their doctoral thesis after 10 years of work.
Who is Stefan Banach?
500
In algebraic topology, this property describes a space in which every map from the unit interval I=[0,1] into the space can be homotoped to a constant map, making it a contractible space. This property implies that the space has trivial fundamental and higher homotopy groups.
What is contractibility?
500
This is an example of this phenomenon?
What is Cantor dust?
500
Determines homomorphism of cyclic group.
What is the generator of the cyclic group?
500
This distribution has the special property that the expectation and the variance are the same.
What is a Poisson distribution?