Famous Mathematicians
This Greek mathematician created five axioms that became the basis for a branch of geometry named after him.
Who is Euclid?
This type of polynomial equation with integer coefficients where solutions are only in integers.
What are Diophantine Equations?
If today is Monday, what day will it be 3^18 days from now?
What is Tuesday?
The Mustang Math Tournament hasn’t been around forever! This year is when it started.
What is 2020?
While mustangs are horses, there is also a brand of cars known as Mustangs which are produced by this company:
What is the Ford Motor Company?
This Swiss mathematician has a famous identity named after him, which is e^ipi + 1=0
Who is Euler?
The encryption algorithm RSA uses relies on the fact that given a public modulus n, it is very hard to perform _____ factorization with large numbers.
What is prime?
Two side lengths of a right triangle are 8 and 10. What is the average of the two possible areas?
What is 32?
This fractal starts with a large equilateral triangle and then connects the midpoints together to make a smaller central uncolored triangle. The other ones are colored in, and this repeats over and over. This is _____ triangle.
What is Sierpinski?
Although Mustangs live in the American west, they did not originate in America, and they actually came along with ____ explorers.
What is Spanish?
After this mathematician published his version of calculus, Newton accused this mathematician of plagiarizing him.
Who is Leibniz?
In _____ geometry, the sum of angles in a triangle are less than 180 degrees. There are infinitely many parallel lines through a single point.
What is hyperbolic?
If x+y=10 and xy=2, what does x^2+y^2= ?
What is 96?
In these two rounds held only in 2021 and 2022, contestants had to answer questions to get a bingo in a round known as ____ bingo.
The word for mustang comes from the Spanish word mestengo, which has this meaning:
What is “Ownerless” or “wild or masterless beast”?
By manipulating several series and the Riemann zeta function, this mathematician created the false result that 1+2+3+... (to infinity) =-1/12
Who is Ramanujan?
Developed by Arthur Cayley in the branch of abstract algebra, he created Cayley’s Theorem which relates to _____ theory.
Given the sum of 1/3+1/9+1/27+..., what value will it approach if it has infinitely many terms?
What is 1/2?
Along with the puzzle round known as Mounting Mayhem, this is the only round that has been held at every single Mustang Math Tournament.
Mustang horses are free roaming horses in the west and are also incredibly fast, running speeds up to _____ mph!
What is (Accept any number from 35-55)?
This mathematician provided a proof for the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra and introduced the bell curve.
Who is Gauss?
Formed by Kurt Gödel in 1931, these ______ theorems showed that for any given set of axioms, there will always be true facts about numbers that can’t be proved by these axioms.
What is incompleteness?
Rectangles A and B have areas 48 and 39 and they have the same perimeter. What is the area of rectangle C, which has the greatest possible area with the same perimeter?
What is 64?
The set of points lying on a single line segment that has a number of unintuitive properties is known as the ____ set.
What is cantor?
A gait is the way that horse moves and its footfall pattern. A mustang horse’s gait is also known as the Indian _____ gait.
What is Shuffle?