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Gauss
Archimedes
Apollonius
Koch
Miscellaneous
100
Gauss's mathematic specialty
What is number theory and algerbra?
100
Archimedes's mathematic specialty
What is geometry and engineering?
100
Apollonius' mathematic specialty
What is Geometry and Conic sections?
100
Koch's mathematical specialty
What is number theory?
100
Koch's full name
What is Niels Fabian Helge von Koch?
200
Gauss's famous works
What are Disquisitiones arithmeticae (Arithmetic disquisitions) and Theoria motus corporum coelestium?
200
Archimedes's famous works
What is The Works of Archimedes?
200
Apollonius' famous eight volume treatise
What is Conics?
200
One of Koch's most famous works of writing
What is Une méthode géométrique élémentaire pour l'étude de certaines questions de la théorie des courbes plane?
200
Gauss's inventions
What are a regular 17-gon using just a ruler and compass, a heliotrope, and a primitive telegraph that could send messages over 5,000 feet?
300
Gauss's birthplace
What is Brunswick, Germany?
300
Archimedes's birthplace
What is Syracuse, Sicily?
300
Apollonius's place of origin
What is Perga, now Turkey?
300
Koch's birthplace
What is Stockholm, Sweden?
300
Apollonius studied with ____.
Who are Euclid's pupils?
400
Gauss's mathematical contribution
What is heavily influencing number theory and algebra (mostly prime and complex numbers)?
400
Archimedes's mathematical contributions
What are the buoyancy principle, the volume of a sphere, and the death ray?
400
Apollonius' mathematical contribution
What is the idea that Conic sections could form the curves parabola, ellipse, and hyperbola by intersecting it with a plane?
400
Koch's mathematical contribution
What is the Koch curve?
400
The popular word that Archimedes came up with
What is "eureka"?
500
Gauss's claim to fame
What is finding a formula for adding numbers 1-100 and making a prediction about the appearance of the comet Ceres?
500
Archimedes's claim to fame
What is solving the problem of the gold versus silver crown of King Hiero?
500
Apollonius' claim to fame
What is the idea that a plane intersecting a cone can for a parabola, ellipse or hyperbola?
500
One of Koch's formulas
What is x = f (t), y = g(t) where -1 ≤ t ≤ 1? (This formula was used to make the Koch snowflake.)
500
Some of Gauss's formulas
What are n(n+1)/2, the quadrature formula, the interpolation formula, and a+bi where i is the square root of -1?