What are the most common answers to “Name a mathematician”?

Most people start with Pythagoras, Euclid and Isaac Newton. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.

How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name a mathematician”?

24 in all: 3 on The Tip, 5 Below the Surface, 6 in The Deep, 9 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.

The shortest accepted answer is “Euclid” and the longest is “Carl Friedrich Gauss”.

Science trivia

Can you get past the obvious ones? Icillion accepts 24 answers to “Name a mathematician”, and only 3 of them float on the tip of the iceberg.

Say one of these and you stay near the surface, with 10 points.

Second thoughts land here, at 25 points:

The Deep holds 6 answers starting with B, D, E, P and S. The Abyss has 9 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.

24 answers in total, 21 of them longer than one word.
Shortest: “Euclid”. Longest: “Carl Friedrich Gauss”.
A, S and B are the most common first letters; together they start 38% of the answers.

More answers begin with A than with any other letter (4). Run through it first.
Skip Pythagoras, Euclid and Isaac Newton; everybody says them.
Count the small ones: tiny bones, minor moons and lesser-known particles are rare answers.

How deep does your knowledge go?

Seven prompts a day, twenty seconds each. Obvious answers float on the tip of the iceberg; rare ones sink all the way to the trench.