Mathematicians
Universities
Fields Medalists
Counting
Independent of ZFC?
200
This prolific mathematician, in fact, did not say, "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."
Who is Paul Erdős?
200
This university has the most competitive math REU program.
What is the University of Minnesota at Duluth?
200
This mathematician declined the Fields Medal.
Who is Grigori Perelman?
200
How many mathematicians are there in the world?
200,000 seems like a good guess.
200
The cardinality of the power set of the natural numbers is the same as the cardinality of the real numbers.
Not independent.
400
This French mathematician died in a duel over his nurse the morning after writing his revolutionary ideas down.
Who is Évariste Galois?
400
Every French Fields Medal winner was educated at this school.
What is École Normale Supérieure (PSL/Ulm)?
400
This number theorists from Oxford won the Fields Medal in 2022.
Who is James Maynard?
400
How many zeroes of the Riemann zeta function have been calculated?
Over 100 billion.
400
There is no uncountable set with cardinality smaller than that of the real numbers.
Independent.
600
This HIV/AIDS denier allegedly wrote a book every summer.
Who is Serge Lang?
600
Dr. Sawon is leading a study abroad program at a university in this Italian city.
What is Firenze?
600
This Korean Fields Medalist famously had a poor undergraduate academic record.
Who is June Huh?
600
How big is the biggest superabundant number that has ever been found?
>10^{10^5}
600
There exist non-measurable sets.
Not independent.
800
This mathematicians lectured on category theory in Vietnam during the Vietnam war.
Who is Alexander Grothendieck?
800
This university likely has the highest amount of math graduate students.
What is the Ohio State University?
800
This is the nationality of the first female winner of the Fields Medal.
What is Iranian?
800
How many legal chess positions are there?
800
There is no definable well-ordering of the real numbers.
Independent!
1000
This mathematician won the inaugural Abel Prize.
Who is Jean-Paul Serre?
1000
This is the first American university that Paul Erdős worked at.
What is the Institute for Advanced Study (for 10 years!)?
1000
This is the number of French mathematicians who have won the Fields Medal.
What is 13?
1000
How many math professors are there at UNC?
41.
1000
If a set X is smaller in cardinality than another set Y, then X has fewer subsets than Y.
Independent!