This Greek astronomer was the first to compose a table of trigonometric functions (based on the chords

in a circle), which he calculated at increments of 7° 30′. Who is he?

Answer: Hipparchus

Pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. In other words, pi equals the
circumference divided by the diameter (π = c/d). Conversely, the circumference of a circle is equal to pi
times the diameter (c = πd). Pi is an irrational number, which means that it is a real number that cannot
be expressed by a simple fraction. That's because pi is what mathematicians call an "infinite decimal" —
after the decimal point, the digits go on forever and ever.
Give the value of pi(13 significant figures).

Answer: 3.141592653589

Her name was listed in the '1995 Guinness Book of World Records' edition for her outstanding
mathematical feat where she beat the world's fastest computer at multiplying two thirteen digit
numbers. In 1977, she received a standing ovation from an audience of erudite mathematicians, when
she gave the answer of the 23rd root of a 201-digit number in 50 seconds. The most powerful computer
at the time, took exactly 62 seconds. Who is she?

Answer: Shakuntala Devi

Together with 25, what is this special two digit number whose integer powers end with the same two
digits.

25²=625

25³=15625

25⁴=390625

Answer: 76

76²=5776

76³=438976

76⁴=33362176

These are solids that have congruent faces. There are only five of them: regular tetrahedron, cube,
octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron. What are these solids called?

Answer: Platonic solids

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It is a fractal and attractive fixed set with the overall shape of an equilateral triangle, subdivided
recursively into smaller equilateral triangles. Also,

by shading all odd numbers in the Pascal's Triangle, you can form a pattern of triangles like this. What is
this triangle called?

Answer: Sierpinski triangle or Sierpinski gasket or Sierpinski sieve

Its unit of measurement equals a Fahrenheit degree and on which the freezing point of water is 491.67°
and the boiling point 671.67°. Aside from three well known temperature measurements (Celsuis,
Farenheit, and Kelvin), name the 4th temperature measurement.

Answer: Rankine

What do you call a 99-sided polygon or 99-gon?

Answer: enneacontakaienneagon

If a year is a normal year, what two days falls in the same day?

Answer: January 1 and December 31

All primes of the form 4n+1 can be expressed as a sum of two squares. What do you call these primes?

4(1)+1=5; 1²+2²=5

4(3)+1=13; 2²+3²=13

4(4)+1=17; 1²+4²=17

4(7)+1=29; 2²+5²=29

Answer: Pythagorean primes

In mathematics, the factorial of a positive integer n, denoted by n!, is the product of all positive integers
less than or equal to n. The factorial operation is encountered in many areas of mathematics, notably in
combinatorics, algebra, and mathematical analysis. Its most basic use counts the possible distinct
sequences – the permutations – of n distinct objects: there are n!. Who introduced the notation n! ?

Answer: Christian Kramp

It is well known that the first derivative of position with respect to time is velocity and the second is
acceleration. It is a little less well known that the third derivative, i.e. the rate of increase of
acceleration, is technically known as _______.

Answer: jerk

He is a Russian mathematician who is well known for his theorem, which extends the properties of
normal distributions to other, non-normal distributions with the formula (1 – (1 / k^2 )), as long as the
distribution’s z score‘s absolute value is less than or equal to k and the standard deviation is more than
1.

Answer: Pafnuty Chebyshev

These are prime numbers that consist of only 1s. For example, 11, 1111111111111111111, and
11111111111111111111111 (2, 19, and 23 digits). There are nine known of such primes up to date, but
an infinite number of such primes are conjectured. What do you call these prime numbers.

Answer: repunit prime numbers

How many squares can you make in an 8×8 chessboard?

Answer: 204 squares

It consists of an 8×8 square, 4 7×7 squares, 9 6×6 squares, 16 5×5 squares, 25 4×4 squares, 36 3×3
squares, 49 2×2 squares, and 64 1×1 squares.

He solved the well-known Poincaré conjecture, which is one of the seven Millenium problems. This
Russian mathematician was able to publish his proof in 2006, and was awarded various prizes such as
the Fields Medal and the Millenium Award. However, he rejected both of them, saying that having the
proof correct is already an award for him and no more awards are needed. Who is he?

Answer: Grigori Perelman

Originally, a fast food chain sold this in packs of 9 and 20. Math enthusiasts were curious to find the
largest number of these that could not have been bought with these packs, thus creating the (the
answer worked out to be 151). This theorem has also been called the Frobenius Coin Problem or the
Frobenius Problem, after German mathematician Ferdinand Frobenius inquired about the largest
amount of currency that could not have been made with certain types of coins. What is this theorem
called?
Answer: Chicken McNugget Theorem

It is the term called for the iteration that follows exponentiation.

n
a = a^a^a^a... with an n number of a's.

Also, it is referred to as "a to the superpower of n"

Answer: tetration

The International Mathematical Olympiad, a world championship competition for high school students
around the world, is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year. The competition has grown dramatically
since it was first held in 1959 in Brasov, Romania, with just seven participants. In 2019, contestants from
111 countries took home gold medals, silver medals, and bronze medals. What is the rank of the
Philippines in the 2019 International Mathematical Olympiad where they garnered 1 silver medal and 5
bronze medals?

Answer: 31st/31

He made notable contributions still associated with his name in many fields of mathematics. In number
theory he proved the existence of an infinite number of primes in any arithmetic series a + b, 2a + b, 3a
+ b, . . ., na + b, in which a and b are not divisible by one another. He developed the general theory of
units in algebraic number theory. His Vorlesungen über Zahlentheorie (1863; “Lectures Concerning
Number Theory”), with later addenda, contains some material important to the theory of ideals. In 1837
he proposed the modern concept of a function y = f (x) in which for every x, there is associated with it a
unique y. In mechanics he investigated the equilibrium of systems and potential theory, which led him to
the problem concerning harmonic functions with prescribed boundary values. Who is he?

Answer: Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet

or Lejeune Dirichlet

Each row of beads on an abacus stands for a different power of what number?

Answer: 10

Ever since the ancient Babylonians, people have been calculating the digits of π, the ratio of the
circumference of a circle to its diameter that starts as 3.1415… and goes on forever. In honor of Pi Day,
today March 14 (represented as 3/14 in many parts of the world), Emma Haruka Iwao her team in
Google successfully computed π to 31.4 trillion decimal places—31,415,926,535,897 to be exact. This
has broken the Guinness World Record title. In line with this, give the last two digits of the computed
value of pi.

Answer: 40

Pierre de Fermat used methods for finding tangents to curves and their maximum and minimum points
led him to be regarded as the inventor of the differential calculus. Through his correspondence with this
mathematician, he was a co-founder of the theory of probability. Who is this mathematician?

Answer: Blaise Pascal

Aside from the Fibonacci sequence, there is another sequence with the same property. However, it
begins with L₁=2 and L₂=1, and the next term is obtained by adding the two previous terms. 2, 1, 3, 4, 7,
11, 18, 29, ... are its first terms. What is this sequence called

Answer: Lucas sequence