Memorization Strategies
Hand Trick
How to find the answer to a trig equation
a^2 + b^2 = c^2
The pythagoreom Theorem
In the movie 'The Wizard of Oz', Dorothy, The Lion, The Tin Man and The Scarecrow wanted a gift from the great Wizard of Oz. The Scarecrow wanted a brain. When he finally got one, he pronounced, 'The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side.' What was The Scarecrow referring to?
The Pythagoreom Theorem
This mathematician is known for a calculus rule named after him and for finding the limit of a rational function whose numerator and denominator tend to zero at a point.
Guillame de L'Hopital
Represented by a Greek letter, this mathematical constant is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.
Pi
Don't kill the cat
Don't take something out unless it can be taken out of everything
A=pie r^2
Area of a circle
What movie was based on a young man who had a troubled life but had a hidden yet incredible talent for mathematics?
Good Will Hunting
The father of geometry, he is most famous for his work "The Elements".
Euclid
This famous mathematical constant appears everywhere, from biology to astronomy. The origin of its name is somewhat mysterious; many claim that it got its name from the first letter of the last name of Leonhard, who first proved that the constant was irrational. What is this number, the base of the natural logarithm (ln)
e
Sexy Tan
How to find the derivative of tan
quadratic equation
quadratic equation
Which movie is about a mathematician with schizophenia who made significant contributions to the game theory in the 1950s, which became the basis for much of modern economics?
A Beautiful Mind
Probably one of the most famous mathematician/physicists of our time, this man was confined to a wheel chair because he suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. He is best known to the general public for the book "A Brief History of Time".
Stephen Hawking
Amedeo was an Italian chemist with a famous hypothesis and a famous number. He didn't actually determine the constant that's named after him, but he did predict it when he hypothesized that equal volumes of gas, under the same conditions of temperature and pressure, contain equal numbers of molecules. What constant, the number of atoms in a mole, is named after him?
Avogadro's number
CSI
How to find integral using initial condition
E=mc^2
Mass Energy Equivalence
In 'Rushmore', Max Fisher (Jason Schwartzman) solves what his teacher calls 'just about the hardest ________ problem in the world.' What type of math problem was it?
Geometry
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was a famous British mathematician who worked mainly in the field of logic. He is much better known by his pen name that he used to write children's books, of which many included logic puzzles. Name him.
Lewis Carroll
Max was advised against pursuing physics: "In this field, almost everything is already discovered," a professor told him in 1874. Max proved him wrong with his theory of blackbody radiation in 1900. According to this theory, electromagnetic energy could only be emitted in quantized form. The energy of a photon is then equal to its frequency times what constant, named for Max?
Planck's Constant
PVA
Schrödinger's Equation
Schrödinger's Equation
In 'Little Big League', Billy Haywood (Luke Edwards) needed help to solve a rate problem for his algebra homework. The question was, 'Bill can paint a house in five hours and Mary can paint a house in three hours. How many hours did it take both to paint the house?' What was the answer?
1 7/8 Hrs
She was the first woman known to have made a substantial contribution to the development of mathematics in recorded history.
Hypatia
Niels was one of the fathers of quantum mechanics, although his model of the atom was more classical than not. In this theory, released in 1913, electrons traveled about the nucleus in distinct orbits which affected the atom's chemical properties. The radius of the innermost electron orbit is named after him; what is it?
Bohr Radius