Rhyme Time
A prehistoric reptile named after a commonly used algorithm to solve a linear program
What is Simplex T-Rex?
Trevor Lawrence's jersey number; a product of even primes
What is 16?
If φ: G → H is a homomorphism of groups, then G/ ker(φ) is isomorphic to φ(G)
What is the First Isomorphism Theorem?
The mathematician who first proved that there are infinitely many primes
Who is Euclid?
I will stop at nothing to avoid these if I'm positive
What are Negative Numbers?
When the error from terminating an infinite series goes to the beach
What is Truncation Vacation?
Victory margin of the 2018 Clemson football team over Alabama at the National Championship game; the square root of 784
What is 28?
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?
The pair p and p+2 where both are prime numbers
What are Twin Primes?
The reason an obtuse angle always fails to answer questions correctly
What is It's Never Right?
The dimension of the column space of an empty matrix
What is a Blank Rank?
The number of Friday Flyers, metal paper airplanes statues, on campus; the smallest perfect number
What is 6?
Let A1, A2, . . . , Ak be ideals in a ring R. Then R/(A1A2...Ak) is isomorphic to R/A1 x R/A2 x ... x R/Ak
What is the Chinese Remainder Theorem?
The last year that was a prime number
What is 2017?
A number that can't stay in one place
A Roamin' Numeral
If my version of "I see dead people" is knowing when the closure of a set is the set, I have this
What is the Dense Sense?
Number of grad student offices; product of an even prime and the 2nd Mersenne prime
What is 14?
In a linear regression model in which the errors are uncorrelated, have equal variances and expectation value of zero, the best linear unbiased estimator of the coefficients is given by the ordinary least squares estimator, provided it exists
What is the Gauss-Markov Theorem?
The number of integers less than or equal to n that are coprime to n
What is Euler's Phi Function?
A man who spent all summer at the beach
The unique decomposition of a Hermitian positive-definite matrix that costs nothing
What is a Free Cholesky?
Number of bells in the Carillon on top of Tillman; smallest number with exactly 10 divisors
What is 48?
Let (X,d) be a nonempty complete metric space. Then X cannot be written as a countable union of nowhere dense sets in X
What is the Baire Category Theorem?
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)?
The chicken crossed this to get to the same side
What is a Mobius Strip?