Beginnings of Math
The oldest atrifacts of Math were found in this large southern continent
What is Africa?
The earliest Greek mathematical arguments go back how far?
What is 600 B.C.?
India was one of the the countries in the Islamic empire, who was the other one?
What is Spain?
This scholar is known as a "natural philosopher" of his time
Who is Galileo Galilei
In 1994, this Last Theorem was proven
What is Fermat's Last Theorem?
The Egyptians wrote Math on this
What is Papyrus?
This document dated back to 300 B.C. is one of the earliest witnesses to early Greek Math
What is Euclid's Elements?
This city became the cultural center for the Islamic empire
What is Baghdad?
This scholar is best known with his work with derivatives
Who is Gottfired Wilhelm Leibniz
In 2004, Green and Tao proved that one can find long arithmetic progressions made up of what
What are prime numbers?
The Egyptians Math was based on groups of this number
What are tens?
The Greek Math system was based on this
What are Ratios?
This famous book from Euclid was translated into Arabic
What is Euclid's elements?
Maria Gaetana Agnesi was the first women to have worked on these
Textbooks on algebra, coordinate geometry, and calculus
This Theory has brought up new and deep Mathematical questions
What is String Theory?
The Egyptians were not the only ones who could solve linear equations, who were the other early group of people who could?
Who are the Babylonians?
The Greeks helped give us this irrational number that is often used to find the Area of a Circle
What is pi?
Al-Khwarizmi book was called “al-jabar w’al muqābal”. Now when this book was translated into Latin what does the first word become?
What is Algebra?
This scholar is known as the greatest mathematician of all time
Who is Leonard Euler
People are looking for mathematical causes to this financial hardship of the 00's
What is the financial crisis of 2008?
These Chinese texts were studied by civil servants who were expected to solve math problems to get jobs
What are the "Ten Mathematical Classics"?
This Greek Scholar was credited with solving numerical problems in his work Arithmetica
Who is Diophantus?
Arabic Math used only these
What are words?
Jean le Rond d’Alembert is credited with this famous quote to a student
What is "Persist, and faith will come"?
There is more and more crossover between Math and another field
What is Science?