- What mathematical symbol did math whiz Ferdinand von Lindemann
determine to be a transcendental number in 1882?
- What do you call an angle more than 90 degrees and less than
180 degrees?
- What's the top number of a fraction called?
- What Greek math whiz noticed that the morning star and evening
star were one and the same, in 530 B.C.?
- What's a polygon with four unequal sides called?
- What's a flat image that can be displayed in three dimensions?
- What number does "giga" stand for?
- What digit did Arab mathematician al-Khwarizmi give to the
West around 800 B/B.?
- What word describes a number system with a base of two?
- How many equal sides does an icosahedron have?
- What do mathematicians call a regular polygon with eight
sides?
- What T-word is defined in geometry as "a straight line
that touches a curve but continues on with crossing it"?
- What geometrical shape forms the hole that fits and allen
wrench?
- What number is an improper fraction always greater than?
- What two letters are both symbols for 1,000?
- What's short for "binary digit"?
- What century did mathematicians first use plus and minus
signs?
- What number, a one followed by 100 zeros, was first used by
nine-year-old Milton Sirotta in 1940?
- What handy mathematical instrument's days were numbered when
the pocket calculator made the scene in the 1970s?
Trivia Answers
- Pi.
- Obtuse.
- The numerator.
- Pythagoras.
- A quadrilateral.
- A hologram.
- One billion.
- Zero.
- Binary.
- Twenty.
- An octagon.
- Tangent.
- The hexagon.
- One.
- K and M.
- Bit.
- The sixteenth.
- Googol.
- The Slide rule's.
