Logic
I am an odd number. Take away one letter and I become even.
What is seven? (Take away the `s' and it becomes `even')
The Mathletic Competition's winning answer, given by Cady Heron.
What is “The limit does not exist"?
This is the year that Phillips Hall opened.
What is 1919? (established in 1918)
This subset of the real numbers is known as the “counting numbers”, and is the subject of the Archimedean Property.
What are the natural numbers?
This number was computed in 7.5 million years by the fictional computer Deep Thought, and it is the meaning of life.
What is 42?
This logician created the “algebra of logic." His contributions are vital to modern computing.
Who is George Boole?
This 2015 movie chronicled the mathematical partnership between Srinivasa Ramanujan and G.H. Hardy.
What is The Man Who Knew Infinity?
This is sitting at the top of the tree by the Phillips Hall main entrance.
What is a notebook that you sign when you graduate?
A function possessing this property at a point must also be continuous there.
What is differentiability?
This number can be written as 4(1 - 1/3 + 1/5 - 1/7 + ...).
What is pi?
This British mathematician found a paradox with the idea of having a set of Sets.
Who is Bertrand Russell?
The title character of this 1997 Oscar-winner anonymously provided solutions at MIT while working there as a janitor.
What is Good Will Hunting?
This is the office number of Professor Mark Williams.
What is Chapman Hall 442?
A set with an associative binary operation, an identity, and inverses is called this.
What is a group?
These numbers count valid arrangements of matched parentheses.
What are the Catalan numbers?
This logical statement is equivalent to an English phrase “P unless Q", where P, Q are propositions.
What is P <=> ~Q? (Also accepted: XOR(P,Q).)
In this 2016 film, three black women broke many barrier to work for NASA, being some of the minds behind a NASA project that sent the first American into space.
What is Hidden Figures?
This is the current number of grad students in the math department (±5)
What is 77?
A square matrix with a basis consisting entirely of eigenvectors is described by this term.
What is diagonalizable?
Introduced by John Conway, these numbers are recursively expressed as {L | R}, with every member of L less than every member of R.
What are the surreal numbers?
Counting the natural numbers 1, 2, 3, . . . in English, your lips fully close for the first time when saying this value.
What is one million?
In this 2011 sports movie, Billy Beane uses advanced statistical methods to improve his team's performance.
What is Moneyball?
This animal lives in the basement of Phillips and targets BME students.
What is a minotaur?
An integer greater than 1 that cannot be expressed as the sum of two abundant numbers.
What is a non-abundant sum?
This is the smallest integer whose factorial ends in exactly 100 zeros.
What is 405?