Paradoxes
In order to get somewhere, you must first travel half the distance to get there, then half the remaining distance, and so on. At every point, there are still infinitely many tasks left to complete.
What is Zeno's paradox?
a2 + b2 = c2
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
____: A Space Odyssey (1968)
What is 2001?
The day of too much happenings
What is Reading Day (today)?
The scalar associated with an eigenvector.
What is an eigenvalue?
Does "the set of all sets that do not contain themselves" contain itself?
(name the paradox)
What is Russell's paradox?
Einstein's equation describing mass-energy equivalence
What is E = mc2?
____ (British war film)(2019) - ___ Dalmations (1961) - __ Candles (1984)
What is 1800?
This strategy was used to prevent water from dripping from the ceiling.
What is a tarp and a hose?
A number with each of its prime factors having multiplicity at most one.
What is square-free?
You can take a solid ball, decompose it into a finite number of pieces, and then reassemble those pieces to form two identical copies of the original ball.
What is the Banach-Tarski Paradox?
Euler's formula, of which Euler's identity is but a special case.
eix = cos(x) + i*sin(x)
___ (Spartan action)(2006) / __ Angry Men (1957)
What is 25?
Yesterday's party
What is Richard Porter's Retirement party?
An object with fractional dimension, often exhibiting self-similarity.
What is a fractal?
What is the fewest number of people you need to have at least a 50% chance that two of them share a birthday?
What is 23?
(This is the birthday paradox.)
g(ω) = ∫-∞∞ f(x)e-i2πωxdx
What is the Fourier Transform?
The product of the two numbers in ____ Dark ______ (2012)
What is 0?
This seminar is held on Thursdays, and has hosted speakers from Canada and France, as well as local researchers.
A statement we take to be true in our mathematical model.
E.g. 1973 UC Berkeley admissions somehow had men admitted at a higher rate, but women were more likely to get into nearly every department.
What is Simpson's Paradox
∂v/∂t + 1/2 σ2S2 ∂2V/∂S2 + rs ∂V/∂S - rV = 0
What is the Black Scholes equation?
cot[__ (psychological thriller)(1998)/The ___th Sense (1999)]
What is sqrt(3)?
The current most likely incoming chair of the math department
Who is Kenneth Duffy
A class of objects with arrows between the objects satisfying a list of rules.
What is a category?