Math Trivia

What's the name of the mathematician who created a formula for the sum of consecutive integers (arithmetic sequence) when solving a challenge in elementary school?

• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

• Leonhard Euler

• Carl Friedrich Gauss

• Amalie Emmy Noether

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Is 36 a perfect number?

• Yes, it is!

• No, it's not!

What's the most famous and prestigious prize a mathematician can get?

• The Abel Prize

• The Nobel Prize in Mathematics

• The Kenneth O. May Medal

• The Fields Medal

What are the first terms of the famous Fibonacci Sequence?

• 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, ...

• 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 22, ...

• 0, 1, 2, 2, 3, 6, 8, 13, ...

• 1, 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 13, 21, ...

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What base did the Babylonian number system use?

• Base 10

• Base 6

• Base 60

• Base 12

Which mathematician published more total pages of mathematics during his lifetime than any other mathematician in history?

• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

• Leonhard Euler

• Carl Friedrich Gauss

• Amalie Emmy Noether

What's the name of the famous problem Euler solved that involved crossing bridges?

• Königsberg Bridge Problem

• Paris Bridge Problem

• Venice's Bridge Problem

• Basel Bridge Problem

Which Indian astronomer is known for discovering (or inventing) the number zero around 600 B.C?

• Srinivasa Ramanujan

• Brahmagupta

• Bhāskara

• Aryabhata

What does Fermat’s Last Theorem say?

• Every even integer greater than 2 is the sum of two primes.

• The Zeta function has its zeros only at the negative even integers and complex numbers with real part 12.

• No three positive integers a, b, and c satisfy the equation

  $a^n+b^n=c^n$ for any integer value of n greater than 2.

• if p is a prime number, then for any integer a, the number $a^p-a$ is an integer multiple of p.

How was the first, and only, Brazilian mathematician to win a Fields Medal?

• Artur Avila

• Jacob Palis

• Marcelo Viana

• Fernando Codá