Mathematics
Across
- 3. Numeral system which uses 0-9 and A-F
- 9. Six-sided polygon
- 12. Numbers 2,13,57 are all ________
- 13. Greek letter used to represent a sum in a series
- 15. repeated exponentiation
- 16. Platonic solid with the most (20) faces
- 18. Simplest platonic solid, also known as a triangular pyramid
- 23. Statement thought to be true but which proof is not yet known
- 25. 2π
- 26. Symbol used for the roots of numbers
- 28. The square root of -1 is ______
- 29. The Pythagoreans believed that all even numbers are _______
- 30. Arabic numbers were invented in _______
Down
- 1. The Abel-Ruffini theorem states a formula for solving _______ functions cannot exist
- 2. Self-contradictory statement
- 4. Founder of set theory
- 5. This polygon cannot be constructed with a compass and a ruler
- 6. Ten to the power of hundred
- 7. The ______ conjecture is the only Millenium Prize Problem solved so far. It was solved in 2003 by Grigori Perelman, who later declined the $1,000,000 prize money.
- 8. Famous philosopher, who invented the convention of representing unknowns in equations by x and y
- 10. By gluing together two sides of a tape you get a one sided surface named the _______ strip
- 11. This number has no roman numeral representation
- 14. In _____ arithmetic numbers "wrap around" when reaching a certain value. It is often called clock arithmetic.
- 17. Statement assumed to be true
- 19. Field of mathematics in which a donut and a cup are considered equal
- 20. The plus sign (+) originally stood for this Latin word
- 21. Less than zero
- 22. Written at the end of a proof
- 24. Earliest known mathematician
- 27. Lemniscate is the shape of what mathematical symbol?
- 29. Number of colours required to colour any map so that no adjacent regions have the same colour