Strange Mathematicians
This famous physicist once said he wished he'd become a watchmaker and has interesting hair
Who is Albert Einstein?
First well-known female mathematician
Who is Hypatia?
Country with the longest coastline
What is Canada?
Scrooge's first name
What is Ebenezer?
The 3 things required for a fire
Mathematician famous for squabbling with Leibniz over calculus notation and sitting near a fruit.
Who is Isaac Newton?
Maryam Mirzakhani was the first woman to win this prestigious math award
What is the Fields medal?
22/7 is an evil approximation for this number
What is pi?
The highest-grossing Christmas movie of all time
What is Home Alone?
Obsidian, pumice, and basalt are examples of this type of rock
What is an igneous rock?
Mathematician famous for leading an anti fava bean cult that sacrificed an ox after discovering a famous triangle theorem and drowned someone after they revealed the evil secret of irrational numbers
Who is Pythagoras?
A curve attributed to Maria Gaetana Agnesi is called the Witch of Agnesi due to a mistranslation of "la versiera". Agnesi is from this country.
What is Italy?
Platonic solid with 20 faces
What is an icosahedron?
The country eggnog is from
What is England?
The tallest ride at Canada's Wonderland
What is Leviathan?
Niccolò Tartaglia was in a famous math duel over a certain formula to the roots of this type of equation.
What is a cubic equation?
Poet Lord Byron's famous computer programmer child
Who is Ada Lovelace?
The second largest great lake by surface area
What is Lake Huron?
The holiday on December 26
What is boxing day?
Name of the Toronto neighbourhood bordered by Spadina, College, Bathurst, and Dundas
What is Kensington Market?
Mathematician who claimed to have been paid for the rights to l'Hopital's rule (hint: how airplane wings generate lift)
Who is Johann Bernoulli? (first name not required)
The country that the first woman to earn a doctorate in math is from
Chad has essentially the same flag as this country
What is Romania?
What SN stands for in a METAR report
What is snow?
This Toronto street was once the waterfront border - the land south of this street is man-made.
What is Front street?