4th of July Photo Shoot & Trivia Game (Ends July 4th)

[Brooks_]

Do you remember what you did the rest of that day? 10000% not trying to start anything here, genuinely curious. I do, it was one of those "lifetime events" you hear people talk about for me.

I had skipped school. I was watching from the back yard when it happened. I watched the news until friends were home to call.

 

[EmmaRainboe]

In the 1630s ____________proposed a system of geometry using letters in math.

“At the end of the 16th century, François Viète introduced the idea of representing known and unknown numbers by letters, nowadays called variables, and the idea of computing with them as if they were numbers—in order to obtain the result by a simple replacement.”

 

[azurbanclucker]

Descartes and Fermat

They adapted Viete's work. I think all 3 are right

 

[Kiki]

Descartes and Fermat

.5 a point because you threw in an F word.

 

[Kiki]

They adapted Viete's work. I think all 3 are right

No.
My book is right today.
Just one.

 

[EmmaRainboe]

In the 1630s ____________proposed a system of geometry using letters in math.

Leibniz and Newton argued over which of the two invented calculus?

 

[Kiki]

Descartes and Fermat

+.5

Does your book say Descartes?

+1

 

[R2elk]

No.
My book is right today.
Just one.

When was your book published?

 

[Kiki]

When was your book published?

 

[EmmaRainboe]

What was the name of General Robert E. Lee’s horse