Mathematics Trivia

It's summertime. We're at least it is in the Northern Hemisphere and summer is when it's time to head out of school and let all that knowledge fall out of your brains. But we here at dorky geeky. Nerdy are going to help keep your brain sharp over the summer break. Hey there this is your host Brian Rollins and over this summer dorky geeky. Nerdy will be featuring Summer School episodes. Every Saturday in addition to our usual Wednesday up episodes, while our Wednesday episodes will still focus on sci-fi fantasy and other geeky. Pursuits Saturday's, will be for more academic topics. This first summer, school episode is all about mathematics. As always, we'll have three rounds of 10 questions, each each round is harder than the last. If you're looking for ways to score your game, point your browser at dorky geeky nerdy.com. / rules, if you're a teacher and want to use this, in your classroom, the rules and score sheets. On that page, will be a huge help. Okay, class settle down. It's time to begin. The dorky round. Number one. What is the only even prime number? To all other prime numbers, numbers, divisible by 1 and itself, are odd. Number two, when you divide a chart into four sections, what are those sections called? Quadrants. Number three, this field of study focusing on the relationship between angles and side. Lengths of right. Angles can be taught almost in. Its entirety in high school. That would be trigonometry. Number for this operation. In calculus uses an infinite sum to find the area under a curve. Integration. Number 5, using standard orders of operations. What's the last operation? You perform on an equation? Addition and subtraction. number 6, this is the mnemonic to Aid in Remembering which trigonometric function is, which some of you may remember from high school so cat toá--, Number seven, the Cartesian coordinate system is named after which French mathematician. Rene Descartes. Number 8, what is the measure of a right angle expressed in degrees? Ninety Degrees. Number 9 in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. The Scarecrow says the sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles, triangle is equal to the square. Root of the remaining side, which famous theorem. Did he get wrong in this quote? The Pythagorean theorem. Number 10, follow-up question what correction needs to be made for the Scarecrow statement to be true? He should have referred to a right triangle. Not an isosceles triangle. The geeky round. Number one, 10. Followed by 100 zeros. Is called what? A Google. Number two, which field of math is named for a mispronunciation of an Arabic phrase, meaning reunions of broken parts. Algebra. Number three, Parabola hyperbola, circles, and ellipses are all part of which class of relations. Conic functions. Number for this, broad category can be subdivided into studies of group rings and Fields. Algebra. Number 5 to be considered a function, a relation must pass this test. The vertical line test. Number 62, fully study this field. One will need to be able to write in at least four colors. Topology. Number 7, this term is used to describe a detailed study of real numbers often being used to justify calculus. Real analysis. Number 8, this number is denoted by a lowercase, j in electrical engineering and a lowercase, i in virtually every other context. The square root of negative one. number 9, what function created by Paul Dirac accidentally spawned the theory and study of distributions The Dirac Delta function. Number 10, which branch of math deals exclusively with terms of a single variable with the exponent one or constants. Linear algebra. Okay, let's take a quick break for the book of the week. This time around, we're recommending the math book by Clifford a pic over Matt's infinite Mysteries and Beauty unfold in this follow-up to the best-selling. The science book beginning millions of years ago with ancient ant. Odometers and moving through time to our modern-day quest for New Dimensions. It covers over 250 milestones in mathematical history among the numerous Delights readers will learn about as they dip into this inviting Anthology cicada generated. Prime numbers magic squares from centuries ago. The discovery of Pi and calculus and the butterfly effect. Each topic gets a lavishly Illustrated spread with stunning color art along with formulas and Concepts, fascinating facts, about scientists lives and real world applications of the theorems. You can find a link to this or any other book recommendation at dorky geeky nerdy.com / book, okay, kids recess is over back to class. Ass. The nerdy round number one, a number. Where each number is equal to the sum of the two previous numbers is called what. A Fibonacci sequence. Number two. What is the mathematical name for the number or hashtag sign? And octothorpe. Number three, though. Known as Arabic numerals, the numbers, used in mathematics, originated in what country They originated in India around 700 AD. number four, who is the most prolific mathematician in history publishing over 50 papers per year, when the average mathematician published five Leonhard Euler. Number five, which mathematicians thirteen books of the elements birth the modern approach to mathematics. Euclid of Alexandria. number six, which function involving partial, differential equations, allows us to extend the definition of the factorial 2, fractions and negative numbers, The gamma function. Number 7, what is the name of the line between the numerator and the denominator in a fraction? It's called the vinculum. Number 8. What Hebrew letter is used to denote a specific size of infinity? An aleph. Number 9. What critical component of Newton's formulation of calculus, was not formally verified until Abraham Robinson published. Non-standard analysis in 1966. The existence of infinitesimals. Number 10, what mathematical object similar to, but different from a matrix is needed to define the topology of a non-euclidean space. The metric tensor. That's the Bell class. When you add up your points, be sure to show your work. Don't forget to study for next week. By the way, here's a hint for next week's class. Charles Darwin is considered the father of modern. What I hope you enjoyed this new adventure and trivia podcasting, it does mean twice as many episodes per week, which several people have requested, will see how will I manage the new load? A huge shout-out to blame Dowler who wrote nearly all of the questions for this episode. He hosts a variety of very geeky podcast over at Bureau 42.com. I'll drop a link on the show notes for this episode. They are worth a listen. He goes into some insane depth on topics like Mathematics, X-Files and much much more. So to sum up. I'm your host Ryan Rollins. Thanks for listening. Tyler has a problem. 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