Here are the answers to the issue 03 launch quiz. The questions are here if you haven’t tried them already.
Round zero: The picture round
Definitions
- open set
- continuity
- prime
- convergence to a limit
Maths Departments
- Oxford
- UCL
- Manchester
- Warwick
Mathematicians on money
- Michael Faraday
- Leonhard Euler
- Rene Descartes
- Carl Gauss
Shapes
- Trapezium
- Rectangle
- Kite
- Parallelogram
Round one: In the news
- Nigeria
- 22 million (22,338,618)
- black holes
- Artur Avila
- Majul Bhargava
- Martin Hairer
- Maryam Mirzakhani
- Hannah’s sweets
- being the “world’s hottest maths teacher”
- pizza
Round two: Two-for-one round
- Peter Dirichlet
- Sophie Germain
- 0
- 1
- Carl Neumann
- Peter Dirichlet
- David Hilbert
- David Hilbert
- 1
- Carl Neumann
- Sophie Germain
- 0
Round three: The wipeout round
The following are real papers:
- On the coupling of boundary integral and finite element methods
- The fluid dynamics of the chocolate fountain
- Modular elliptic curves and Fermat’s Last Theorem
- Nineteen dubious ways to compute the exponential of a matrix
- Cutting down trees with a Markov chainsaw
- When zombies attack!: Mathematical modelling of an outbreak of zombie infection
- Generalized Calabi-Yau manifolds
- A mathematical theory of communication
- Ring theoretic properties of certain Hecke algebras
- Quasi-steady-state approximates for chemical reaction networks
Round four: Numbers
- 8
- 16
- 23
- 42
- 59
- 111
- 127
- 220
- 1666
- 1729
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