Math
How many sides does an icositetragon have?
24
This ensures that iid variables converge to Normal
Central Limit Theorem
This equation encompasses the fundamental postulate of Quantum Mechanics.
Schroedinger's equation
This nearby mountain features a skiing/snowboarding resort and a vibrant forest.
Mount Lemmon
Calculus is the Latin word for a small one of these, which were used on ancient counting boards.
Stone
This is the probability of rejecting a false null hypothesis
Power
In computer science, this data structure maps keys to values in constant time.
Hash map/function/table
This hiking trail in the west of Tucson features an abandoned stone house which one is free to explore.
Yetman trail
For what positive integers n does x^n + y^n = z^n have a positive integer solution?
1,2
The name of this method originates from a saying popularized by one of the 18th century tales of the Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
Bootstrap
This natural mechanism is encoded into automatic air-conditioners: When the temperature cools beyond a point, the heating switches on. When the temperature rises beyond another point, the cooling switches on.
The Hysteresis Effect
These hairy pig-like creatures like to wander around the outskirts of Tucson and in washes.
Javelinas
This term can be used to describe either an illicit spirit or the connection between the monster group and modular functions.
(monstrous) moonshine
This inventor of the student T-test worked as a head experimental brewer at Guiness.
William Gossett
In finance, Harry developed this portfolio optimization model in 1952 that assists in the selection of the most efficient portfolio by analyzing various possible portfolios of the given securities
The Markowitz Model
This plant which is seen very frequently in Tucson produces large white-flowers in the spring.
Saguaro cactus
This notable French algebraist died at the age of 20 from wounds suffered in a dual.
Evariste Galois
Let U be a chi-square random variable with p degrees of freedom and V be an indepedent chi-square random variable with q degrees of freedom. What is the distribution of the statistic equal to (U / p) / (V / q)?
It is F(p, q) distributed.
In Machine Learning, this unsupervised learning technique returns the natural representation accounting for variance of data using eigenvectors of the covariance matrix
Principal Component Analysis
This weather system brings regular rain and lightning storms to Tucson during the summer months.
Monsoon