History of Mathematicians
He is known as the “Father of Geometry” and wrote Elements, one of the most influential math books of all time.
Who is Euclid?
She was the first known female mathematician in history, teaching in Alexandria around the 4th century CE.
Who is Hypatia?
This branch of mathematics, named after a Greek word meaning “earth measurement,” deals with the size and shape of the Earth.
What is geometry?
This shape has 3 sides and the sum of its angles is always 180°
What is a triangle?
A pencil costs 50¢. If you buy 4 pencils, how much do you spend?
What is $2.00?
This Greek mathematician shouted “Eureka!” after discovering the principle of buoyancy, but he also made important contributions to geometry.
Who is Archimedes?
This 18th-century French mathematician and physicist translated Newton’s Principia into French and worked alongside Voltaire.
Who is Émilie du Châtelet?
Latitude and longitude lines on maps are examples of this mathematical system used to describe positions on Earth.
What is a coordinate system?
If a pizza is cut into 8 equal slices and you eat 3, you’ve eaten this fraction of the pizza.
What is 3/8?
A rectangle has a length of 10 cm and a width of 6 cm. What is its area?
What is 60 square cm?
A Persian mathematician of the Islamic Golden Age, he wrote The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing and gave us the word “algebra.”
Who is Al-Khwarizmi?
Known as one of the greatest abstract algebraists, she made groundbreaking contributions to ring theory and group theory in the early 20th century.
Who is Emmy Noether?
The mathematician Eratosthenes, living in ancient Egypt, was the first to calculate the circumference of this planet.
What is Earth?
The distance around a circle is called this
What is circumference?
A bag contains 3 red balls, 2 blue balls, and 5 green balls. If one ball is chosen at random, what is the probability it is blue?
What is 1/5?
This 17th-century mathematician and philosopher co-invented calculus and is famous for his laws of motion and universal gravitation.
Who is Isaac Newton?
An American mathematician at NASA, she was a key figure in orbital mechanics and her calculations helped launch John Glenn into space.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
Spherical trigonometry, a mathematical tool for navigation, was essential for explorers crossing this vast ocean.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
The probability of flipping a coin four times and landing all on heads is this.
What is 1/16?
A sweater is originally $80. The store gives a 25% discount, then adds 10% tax on the discounted price. What is the final price?
What is $66?
This mathematician, known as the “Prince of Mathematicians,” made contributions to number theory, astronomy, and statistics, and his Disquisitiones Arithmeticae remains a cornerstone of math.
Who is Carl Friedrich Gauss?
This Soviet mathematician made important contributions to partial differential equations and functional analysis, and has an institute named in her honor in Moscow.
Who is Olga Ladyzhenskaya?
Named after a French mathematician, this type of mathematical curve describes how Earth’s shape can be approximated more accurately than a perfect sphere.
What is an ellipsoid (Clairaut’s theorem)?
A right triangle with side lengths 3, 4, and 5 is called this special type of triangle.
What is a Pythagorean triple?
A box has a square base with side length "k" and a height of "k + 2". If its volume is 432 cubic units, write and solve the equation for k.