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Mathematics by Picture

Can you name the people, objects, shapes and theorems associated with the field of Mathematics?
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Last updated: May 16, 2018
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First submittedMay 16, 2018
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number
person famous for his sequence of numbers
theorem
Fermat's Last Theorem
object
drawing tool
person
counting tool
binomial coefficients
theorem
Pascal's Triangle
Pythagoras' Theorem
non-orientable object
symbol
person
angle tool
non-orientable object
field of numbers
Complex Numbers
nichster
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Level 55
May 16, 2018
The infinity number looks like an eight sideways. And it seems to go on forever...
Stewart
+2
Level 68
May 16, 2018
Hmm... It's like it's going on... infinitely?
Abc85
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Level 48
May 16, 2018
I ought to have got 14 but didn't recognise Fibonacci's picture.

Pascal's Triangle, just forgot the name, I'd first seen it on some 1970s Open University episode on statistics and probability distributions.

Never heard of a Klein Bottle though! Anyway thanks for another enjoyable quiz :o)

Stewart
+1
Level 68
May 17, 2018
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it :)
sumguy
+2
Level 84
Aug 31, 2021
Weird that you don't accept the more common name for the Pythagorean theorem.
Stewart
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Level 68
Aug 31, 2021
Because the image stated on the first line is not Pythagoras' theorem. That strictly applies to when n=2. Fermat's Last Theorem is for when the power is generalised. (This is also why I included "last theorem" as a visible part of the clue, since that is famously part of what it is called, never used for Pythag's one).

Also, two rows later you have Pythagoras' theorem anyway, which does accept Pythagorean as an answer (even though it doesn't make grammatical sense with the apostrophe)

Djak
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Level 65
Aug 31, 2021
Thank God for Cliff Stoll!
PeregrineFalcon
+3
Level 76
Aug 31, 2021
Why Einstein? He was a physicist, not a mathematician. Also, how are people supposed to recognize Fibonacci from some random portrait made centuries after his death? I would add a hint, like 'introduced Arabic numbers to Europe' or something
mrputter
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Level 81
Oct 14, 2023
Ok, so I definitely didn't recognize Fibonacci from his portrait, which... eh, maybe that's on me. I probably should have.

But going from just the caption alone, that question was incredibly vague. There are plenty and plenty of people who are famous for their "numbers."

Admittedly several of these I know to look nothing like the picture, but still, just from the caption, it could be Abel, Cayley, Descartes, Euclid, Euler, Gauss, Hamilton, Hilbert... and we're only at H. The the list goes on.

I guess what I'm saying is that I think of it as being the Fibonacci Sequence more than just his "numbers", and including that word would make for a slightly more specific hint that would probably have helped me get to where you were coming from.

Any chance of making that change?

(Other than that, I enjoyed the quiz!)

Stewart
+1
Level 68
Oct 14, 2023
Change made, thanks for the feedback!
Fianchetto
+1
Level 73
Oct 14, 2023
Can you accept unreal? And maybe donut?
izna
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Level 68
Oct 15, 2023
Excellent quiz!
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