Do you remember problems like 2+2*2=? We have a more difficult problem to solve. How much is 5+5*5=?
Since there are no parenthesis, the sequence is as follows: 1. Multiplication: 5*5 = 25. 2. Addition: 25 + 5 = 30.
10
30
40
50
Nowadays, we're using Arabic digits. What does the word "digit" mean in Arabic?
Now this name is applied to all digits as a category.
Minus
One
Zero
Infinity
Which of these facts has nothing to do with the number 666?
Washington is located in the north-west of the USA, about 53 km from the Atlantic shore.
Sum of all numbers on a roulette wheel
In the European Parlament, nobody sits in the chair with this number.
People are afriad of this number
Distance between Washington to the outmost north-western and south-western points of the USA is 666 km
According to some sources, these numbers were invented by the Indians in the 6-11 th centuries but had not been used until the 13th century, when an Italian merchant Leonardo Pisano started to apply them. What are these numbers?
Leonardo Pisano, also known as Fibonacci, used negative numbers to register his debts.
Decimals
Negative numbers
Irrational numbers
Imaginary numbers
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was an unknown British mathematician that became a world famous writer under this name.
Mathematics adds magic and mystery to "Alice in Wonderland", which makes it an undying literary classic.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Charles Dickens
William Shakespeare
Lewis Carroll
He is one of the most mysterious mathematicians. However, we know partically nothing about him as a person (no accurate date of birth, no personal details). The only thing we know is that he lived in Alexandria in the 3rd century BC. Which mathematical system is named after him?
Euclidean geometry is a mathematical system described by Euclid in his textbook "The Elements" (3rd century BC). In the picture, you can see a part of the Euclid statue in the Museum of Natural History at the Oxford University.
Arithmetics
Trigonometry
Geometry
Mathematical analysis
In 1897, the General Assembly of Indiana passed the Bill 246, according to which this number was rounded upwards. Which number was that?
In 1897, the American state of Indiana passed a bill that set the number π, which is a mathematical constant defined as the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, at 3.2 (instead of the standard 3.14). But thanks to the interference of a local professor, the bill never became a law.
Fi
Xi
Pi
Psi
This mathematical symbol was first used by a Welsh doctor and mathematician Robert Record in 1557.
It's the equality sign.
Mathematicians like to watch films like everyone else. The research by Michael Vedeimo-Johansson from the Royal Institute of Technology was inspired by the film "Matrix", where he saw a curious item of clothing. As a result, he got the number 177 147. What was the item that caught the attention of the mathematician?
He found out that a tie can be tied in 177 147 different ways. The Merovingian from "The Matrix Roloaded" (2003) has a complex and fairly unknown Ediety knot, which was later dubbed "the Merovingian knot." It has two loops in its upper part. The movie's fans tried to tie the Merovingian knot and posted their videos on Youtube. After seeing one of the videos, Michael Vedeimo-Johansson got interested in the topic.
Shoe laces
Watch
Tie
Belt
Who was the first to win a Nobel Prize in mathematics?
Alfred Nobel decided not to award a Nobel Prize for the accompishments in mathematics. As a result, no mathematician has ever received a Nobel Prize.
Alan Turing
Andrew Wiles
Grigory Perelman
All answers are wrong
Write the number MCMI in Arabic digits.
By the way, it's the year in which the first Nobel Prize Award Ceremony took place.
91
191
1901
1991
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