1) Which day of the year is observed as Pi day?
March 14th (3/14) to commemorate the mathematical constant Pi (3.14). It is also Albert Einstein’s birthday
2) What term describes the difficulty in learning or comprehending mathematics?
Dyscalculia
3) What is often described as the Nobel Prize of Mathematics?
The Fields Medal
4) It was not until 1976 that the four-colour conjecture was finally proven by Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken at the University of Illinois. Who proposed it in 1852 while trying to colour the counties of England on a map?
Francis Guthrie
5) 1729 is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways. What is this number famously known as?
The Hardy-Ramanujan Number
6) Name the Czech born mathematician who in 1931 published the Incompleteness Theorem, which is widely held to be the most important contribution of 20th Century mathematics.
Kurt Gödel
7) Name the 8th Century Arab mathematician who is considered as the father of algebra and from whose name the word algorithm is derived.
Al-Khwarizmi
8) What term coined by Benoit Mandelbrot in 1975 describes non-regular geometric shapes that have the same degree of non-regularity on all scales?
Fractal
9) For discovering what mathematical entities is the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the first civil liberties group dedicated to protecting the health and growth of the Internet, sponsoring cooperative computing awards, with over half a million dollars in prize money?
Prime Numbers
10) Name the 17th Century French friar who is best remembered today because of his name being associated with a certain class of Prime Numbers?
Marin Mersenne
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