Mathematical A-Z #1

Can you answer the maths-related questions, given the starting letter?

Quiz by

Rate:

Last updated: March 13, 2022

You have not attempted this quiz yet.

More quiz info >>

5:00

Enter answer here

/ 26 guessed

The quiz is paused. You have remaining.

Copied!

Scoring

You scored / = %

This beats or equals % of test takers also scored 100%

The average score is

Your high score is

Your fastest time is

Keep scrolling down for answers and more stats ...

	Hint	Answer
A	Self-evident fact that does not need to be proved	Axiom
B	Ancient civilisation who used a base-60 number system	Babylonians
C	Natural, Integer, Rational, Real, ...	Complex
D	He thinks, therefore he is	Descartes
E	Father of geometry	Euclid
F	To write any function as a sum of trigonometric or exponentials	Fourier
G	His teacher told him to add all the numbers between 1 and 100, which he did under a minute.	Gauss
H	A conic section	Hyperbola
I	______ Hotel Paradox	Infinite
J	An upper triangular matrix	Jordan Normal Form
K	A one-sided 'bottle'	Klein
L	Newton rival	Leibniz
M	If f''(x) > 0, then the turning point point is a...	Minimum

	Hint	Answer
N	9 sided polygon	Nonagon
O	Where y=x and y=-x intersect	Origin
P	Orthogonal	Perpendicular
Q	Written at the end of a proof	QED
R	Type of parallelogram	Rhombus
S	1 divided by cosine	Secant
T	1, 3, 6, 10, 15, 21, ...	Triangular numbers
U	The u in suvat (Hint: 2 words, neither begin with u)	Initial Velocity
V	If 18 is the surface area of a cube, 27 would be its...	Volume
W	What was surprising about Monsieur Blanc? He was a ...	Woman
X	Mathematicians least favourite letter to write, used for 'universal set'	Xi
Y	5040 written backward	ytrofdnadnasuohtevif
Z	'To the eighth power'	Zenzizenzizenzic