Rhyme Time
Applications
Prime Time
Algorithms & Theorems
Clemson
100

When the error from terminating an infinite series goes to the beach

What is Truncation Vacation?

100

The probability of picking a vowel from the word "probability". 

What is 4/11? 

100

The mathematician who first proved that there are infinitely many primes

Who is Euclid?

100

If φ: G → H is a homomorphism of groups, then G/ ker(φ) is isomorphic to φ(G)

What is the First Isomorphism Theorem?

100

Cade Klubnik's jersey number; The smallest prime number. 

What is 2? 

200

An investigator whose ratio of cases given to cases solved is 1:1

What is an Injective Detective?

200

A function that models the slope of the curve for all x-values for which it exists.

What is the definition of a derivative?

200

The number of Chick-fil-A's in Clemson

What is 3? 

200

An algorithm that determines if two numbers have any divisors in common

What is the Euclidean Algorithm?

200

The amount of paper airplane sculptures on Clemson's campus; The smallest perfect number

What is 6?

300

The dimension of the column space of an empty matrix

What is a Blank Rank?

300

This number is the total number of members the House of Representatives has and has factors 1,3,5,15,29,87, and 145

What is 435? 

300

The last year that was a prime number

What is 2017?

300

Every polynomial equation of degree n with complex number coefficients has n roots, or solutions, in the complex numbers.

What is the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra?

300

The last time before 2024 Clemson basketball was in the Elite 8 in the NCAA Tournament; A number whose prime factors sum to 26

What is 1980?

400

A witch's spell who's Hessian is positive semi-definite. 

What is a Convex Hex? 

400

There are 3 parts to a boxed lunch: sandwiches, chips, drink. There are 3 different sandwich types, 5 different chips types, and 4 different drink types. How many various combinations can we have in total?

What is 60? 

400

The total amount of prime numbers from 400 – 500

What is 17? 

400

Let A be an mxn matrix and b a length m column vector. Then, exactly one of the following two alternatives holds:  

(a) There exists x>=0 such that Ax=b

(b) There exists some vector p such that p^TA >= 0 and p^Tb < 0

What is Farkas' Lemma?


400

Number of bells in the Carillon on top of Tillman; smallest number with exactly 10 divisors

What is 48?

500

An evil, divergent infinite series

What is a Demonic Harmonic?

500

If the inflation rate is 2% and the nominal interest rate is (2 x 7 - 4 + 4! - 29)%, what is the real interest rate?

What is 3%? 

500

The approximation of pi(x)/x as x goes to infinity, where pi(x) is the number of primes less than x

What is 1/ln(x)?

500

xk+1 =xk −λk*∇f(xk)

What is the Steepest/Gradient Descent Algorithm?

500

The year in which Harvey Gantt was admitted to Clemson (the University's first African-American student); the base 10 version of the binary 11110101011

What is 1963?

M
e
n
u