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Exploring Mathematics: The World of Mathematicians

This quiz tests your knowledge about various aspects of mathematics, the contributions of mathematicians, and their broader impact on science and theory. Answer questions ranging from titles to significant theories explored in the field.

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1 Which of the following titles did Mathematician have?

2 Similarly, a mathematician does not restrict his study of numbers to the integers; rather he considers more abstract structures such as rings, and in particular number rings in the context of ________.

3 Mathematicians are concerned with particular problems related to ________, space, transformations, numbers and more general ideas which encompass these concepts.

4 Likewise, analysis, geometry and topology, although considered pure mathematics, do find applications in theoretical physics - ________, for instance.

5 Instead, the most prestigious award in mathematics is the ________, sometimes referred to as the "Nobel Prize of Mathematics".

6 These fields comprise both pure mathematics and ________, as well as establish links between the two.

7 Reprint edition, ________, 1992; ISBN 0-521-42706-1

8 Memoir, with foreword by ________.

9 Thus one can understand equations by a pure understanding of abstract topology or geometry - this idea is of importance in ________.

10 Some scientists who research other fields are also considered mathematicians if their research provides insights into mathematics—one notable example is ________.

đź’ˇ Interesting Facts

  • because of Salvatore Pincherle, German mathematicians could attend the Third International Congress of Mathematicians despite a ban imposed during World War I.
  • in surgery theory, the Spivak normal bundle is named after Michael Spivak, a mathematician specializing in differential geometry.
  • refugee mathematician Emil Grosswald's first three scientific papers were published under a pseudonym.
  • as a student, mathematician Audrey Terras was steered into math away from her other choice, history, by a post-Sputnik program that paid students to study mathematics.
  • an American consul in Riga examined Russian-American mathematician Jacob Tamarkin in analytic geometry in order to verify his identity.
  • American mathematician and classical pianist Leonard Gillman received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1953, a decade after completing the required coursework.
  • although Harold McCarter Taylor was a theoretical physicist and mathematician who worked with Ernest Rutherford, he is best known for a three-volume work on Anglo-Saxon architecture.
  • the Ancient Greek mathematician Polybius invented the Polybius square, a cryptographic technique.
  • the mathematician W. T. Tutte refused to admit that Blanche Descartes was a collective pseudonym.
  • the American mathematician Yudell Luke wrote two books on the probabilities of winning at the card game of cribbage.
  • the traditional account of the papal conclave, 1513 has been judged extremely improbable by a modern mathematician.
  • the Barnsley fern (pictured) was first described by and named after a mathematician, and despite its name, it is not a real fern.
  • the American mathematician Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler married a former professor, who was actually a Russian double agent named Sergei Degaev.
  • the mathematician Alexander Kronrod thought female computing staff members were more accurate than males and was known for helping terminal cancer patients.
  • the Romanian mathematician Simion Stoilow was ambassador to France and a delegate to the Paris Peace Conference in 1946, just prior to serving as founding director of the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy.
  • Tito Livio Burattini explored the Great Pyramid of Giza with English mathematician John Greaves.
  • quartic reciprocity was first conjectured by Swiss mathematician Euler in 1748–1750, but not proved until 1836–37 by Prussian mathematician Jacobi.
  • Japanese mathematician Yozo Matsushima received the Asahi Prize for his research on continuous groups in 1962.
  • Luxembourger mathematician Joseph Neuberg founded the journal Nouvelle correspondance mathĂ©matique in honour of the earlier journal Correspondance mathĂ©matique et physique.
  • mathematician Paul ErdĹ‘s called the Hadwiger conjecture, a still-open generalization of the four-color problem, "one of the deepest unsolved problems in graph theory".
  • German mathematician Friedrich Heinrich Albert Wangerin wrote an important two-volume treatise on potential theory and spherical functions in 1909 and 1921.
  • English mathematician and geographer Robert Hues served his master Thomas Grey, the last Baron Grey de Wilton, while Grey was imprisoned in the Tower of London.
  • Austrian mathematician Wilhelm Wirtinger (1865–1945) showed how to compute the fundamental group of a knot.
  • Elizabethan mathematician and cartographer Edward Wright is said to be "the only Fellow of Caius ever to be granted sabbatical leave in order to engage in piracy".
  • mathematician Harald Bohr, brother of Niels Bohr, won a silver medal in football at the 1908 Summer Olympics.
  • mathematician Herbert Busemann was awarded 2,000 Russian rubles for winning the Lobachevsky Medal in 1985, the first American to do so.
  • Iya Abubakar, a Nigerian mathematician, served as his country's Minister of Defence.
  • Marcia P. Sward, who created the children's environmental education program GreenKids, started her career as a mathematician.
  • Russian-born Israeli mathematician Aryeh Dvoretzky is the first graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to become a full professor there.
  • Norwegian mathematician Bernt Michael Holmboe played an important role in the career of Niels Henrik Abel.
  • mathematician Nathan Mendelsohn was on the first Putnam Competition-winning team in 1938, but also won second prize in an International Brotherhood of Magicians contest.
  • New York City-born mathematician Judith Roitman serves as the guiding teacher of the Kansas Zen Center.
  • "Fight Fiercely, Harvard" is a satirical college fight song written by a mathematician.
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