Category
Trivia
The names, facts, and curiosities every mathematician collects.
Mathematics has a history, a cast of characters, and a stock of names, constants and famous results that every mathematician picks up eventually, mostly by accident.
These questions cover notation and where it came from, constants and their values, famous theorems and open problems, and the people behind them. They are short by design — a warm-up, or a way to fill in the gaps nobody teaches directly.
Latest problems
52 problems
Co-Inventor of Calculus
667
11
Counting a polyhedron's parts
1167
12
Fermat's Last Theorem, finally proven
667
7
Non-collinear Points and a Plane
560
27
What AMC stands for
588
18
Pell equation
1083
8
Property of Polynomials
1218
19
Number theorem
1005
36