78. This riddle about Diophantus has survived to our days:
Diophantus' boyhood lasted 1/6 of his life; he married after 1/7 more; his beard
grew after 1/12 more, and his son was born 5 years later; his son lived to half his
father's age, and Diophantus died 4 years after the son.
Some questions to solve:
1. How old was Diophantus when he died?
2. When did he marry?
3. When did he grow his beard?
4. When was his son born
5. When did he die?
82. A
certain man put a pair of rabbits in a place surrounded on all sides by a wall. How many pairs
of rabbits can be produced from that pair in a year if it is supposed that every month each pair
begets a new pair which from the second month on becomes productive?
87. Box of Napier's mathematical calculating tables from around 1680.
88. Euler’s formula for polyhedron F - E +V = 2
This relationship was first described by Descartes, then refined, proved, and
published by Leonhard Euler in 1750.
89. Fermat's Theorem, 1637, was written in the margin of a book.
It states that no three positive integers a, b, and c can satisfy the
equation an
+ bn
= cn
for any integer value of n>2.
Fermat claimed he had a proof too large to fit in the margin.
No successful proof was published until 1995!
90. The name Pascal has been given to:
• The S.I. unit of pressure.
• A programming language.
• Pascal's triangle.
• Pascal's law of hydrostatics.
93. • Translation on Isaac Newton's work “Principes Mathematiques”.
• Discours sur le bonheur, on the nature of happiness, specialized to women.
94. In 1736, Euler solved the problem known as the Seven Bridges of Königsberg on Graph Theory.
Map of Königsberg in Euler's time showing the layout of the
seven bridges, highlighting the river Pregel and the bridges.
96. This curve describes a swinging pendulum that is being
poked or prodded to keep it in motion, like someone
pushing a child on a swing
98. Law of Laplace relates the pressure in a ventricle to the radius of
the ventricle and the tension in the wall of the ventricle.
Note that a dilated ventricle requires more tension in the wall to
generate the same pressure. In other words, the poor, failing
ventricle must work harder to accomplish the same thing.
103. A Mobius strip has an edge
If you continue in the direction of the arrow until you come back to
your starting point, you will find yourself “below” where you started.
104. Abel crater and satellite craters
Abel is an ancient lunar crater that lies near the southeast limb of the Moon's near side.
Coordinates 34°30′S 87°18′E34.5°S
Diameter 122 km
Depth 1.19 km
105. Analytic continuation of a double Dirichlet series from the region of
absolute convergence (dark gray) to the 2-D complex domain
106. HE WAS KILLED IN A DUEL UNDER QUESTIONABLE CIRCUMTANCES
108. The laws of physics in higher spacial dimensions
The Riemann crumpled paper ball has all three type of geometric curvatures in his structure.
109. A
Class of 40 students completed a survey on what pets they like. Everyone
liked at least one pet.
•10 students liked Cats and Birds but not Dogs
•6 students liked Cats and Dogs but not Birds
•2 students liked Dogs and Birds but not Cats
•2 students liked all three pets
•10 students liked Cats only
•9 students liked Dogs only
•1 student liked Birds only
110. Kovalevsky High School Mathematics Day is a grant-making program of the Association for
Women in Mathematics which encourage girls to explore mathematics.
112. Hilbert curve 1st order 1st and 2nd order 1st to 3rd order
A Hilbert space-filling curve is a
continuous fractal space-filling curve.
Hilbert curve is widely used in computer science.
For example, the range of IP addresses used by computers can
be mapped into a picture using the Hilbert curve.
113. The Fields Institute is an international centre for research in
mathematical sciences at the University of Toronto.
The institute is named in John Charles Fields honor.
114. The sum of the angles in a triangle depends on the Geometry:
EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY → sum = 180º
SPHERIC/ELLIPTIC GEOMETRY → sum > 180º
HYPERBOLIC GEOMETRY → sum < 180º
118. The Spanish Federation of Teachers of Mathematics celebrates on May 12, the
Mathematics’ School Day, since the date of birth of Pedro Puig Adam.
119. Hopper invented the compiler–the program that translates computer programs into machine language.
She did so because she was lazy; the compiler did the grunt work and allowed her to focus more on Maths.
Her FLOW-MATIC compiler so greatly influenced COBOL that she is known as the mother of COBOL.
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130. Andrei Okounkov in front of the Logan-Shepp-Vershik-Kerov
limit shape during the programme on Symmetric Functions and
Macdonald Polynomials.
131. LIFE AND TIMES OF TERENCE TAO
• Age 7: Begins high school.
• 9: Begins University.
• 10,11,12: Competes in the Interrnational
Mathematical Olympiads winning bronze,
silver and gold medals.
• 16: Honours degrtee from Flinders University.
• 17: Master degree from Flinders University.
• 21: PhD from Princenton University.
• 24: Professorship at University of California.
• 31: Fields Medal, the mathematical equivalent
of a Nobel prize.
132.
133. YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE
TO THE MATHEMATICS
DEVELOPMENT.
COME AND JOIN US.
FUTURE IS ON OUR SIDE!
134. YOU CAN ONLY
UNDERSTAND THE UNIVERSE
IF YOU KNOW THE LANGUAGE
IN WHICH IT IS WRITTEN
“MATHS”
Galileo