| FIBONACCI | Italian mathematician who gave his name to a sequence of numbers (9) |
| DYNASTIC | Relating to a sequence of hereditary rulers (8) |
| PYTHAGORAS | Greek philosopher and mathematician who gave his name to a theorem relating to triangles (10) |
| ORDINAL | Indicating position in a sequence of numbers (7) |
| LOOSELEAF | Kind of paper ... and a hint to a sequence, each starting with a different letter, found in four other puzzle answers |
| BERNOULLI | Surname of the Swiss mathematician and scientist who gave his name to a principle about the speed of flow of a liquid |
| CAVALIERI | Bonaventura ___, Italian mathematician whose principle in geometry partially anticipated integral calculus (9) |
| DONATELLO | Florentine sculptor who gave his name to one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (9) |
| PARKINSON | English physician James who gave his name to a disease |
| BOLTZMANN | Austrian scientist who gave his name to a fundamental constant in physics |
| JAMESWATT | Inventor who gave his name to the SI unit of power (5,4) |
| FULBRIGHT | J William ___, US Senator who gave his name to a fellowship program giving merit-based grants for international educational exchange |
| ANDYPANDY | Puppet character who gave his name to a children's BBC TV series first aired in 1950 (4,5) |
| HOCHIMINH | Vietnamese statesman who gave his name to the city formerly known as Saigon (2,3,4) |
| LAGRANGE | Italian mathematician who was a contemporary of Euler |
| CARDANO | Girolamo ___, Italian mathematician who first published the solution to the general cubic equation |
| LEONARDO | Italian mathematician who popularised the decimal system in Europe |
| MEDIAN | The middle number in a given sequence of numbers |
| GALILEO | Italian mathematician who developed the astronomical telescope |
| CHARACTERSTRING | Protagonist could be tied up when shown sequence of numbers and letters |