Math & Computer Science Flashcards
“Father of Supercomputing”
Founded a “Research” division
SEYMOUR CRAY
NASA mathematician
Calculated orbital trajectories
Played by Taraji P. Henson in Hidden Figures
KATHERINE JOHNSON
“Father of Geometry”
Greek mathematician, ~300 BCE
“Elements” contains postulates & axioms on plane & solid geometry
Lived in Alexandria
Said to Ptolemy “There is no royal road to geometry.”
Lends his name to a kind of geometry (and a non-him kind)
EUCLID
According to Euclid’s “Elements”, it is defined as “That which has no part”
A POINT
1-word title of Euclid’s treatise on geometry
Sounds like chemistry
ELEMENTS
Day of the week for sharing old pictures
Hashtag
THROWBACK THURSDAY
#TBT
Apple’s virtual assistant
Named for the SRI that helped develop it
SIRI
Greek mathematician of Samos (~500s BCE)
Known for his “theorem” - that the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides
PYTHAGORAS
(PYTHAGOREAN THEOREM)
Greek for “stretching under”
The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle
HYPOTENUSE
Reciprocal of sine
COSECANT
Reciprocal of cosine
SECANT
Reciprocal of tangent
COTANGENT
Latin, “agreeing”
Shapes or angles that are identical
Euclid said “all right angles are” this
CONGRUENT
SOH CAH TOA helps to remember these functions
TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS
(Sine = Opposite/Hypotenuse, etc.)
Machine learning tech used to swap or imitate individual’s faces or voices, so they appear to say and do things that they never have
DEEPFAKE
(from DEEP LEARNING + FAKE)
