The Office
This is the number of Jim's office in Long Hall, computed as the 34th term of the arithmetic sequence 1, 7, 13, 19,…
What is 205
This 1966 Fields Medalist revolutionized algebraic geometry with ideas such as schemes and étale cohomology.
Who is Grothendieck
In the system
x+y=24
x−y=10
This is the value of x
What is 17
This is the number of the well-known April's office and is the 14th partial sum of the series 1 + 2 + 3 +...
What is 105
This British mathematician helped break the Enigma code in World War II and gave his name to a theoretical machine central to computer science.
Who is Alan Turing
If
3x+2y=267
and
x+y=100
this is the value of x.
What is 67
This is the room number of the Grad student lounge in E section, and is the number of terms needed for the geometric series 1+2+4+...2n-1 to have a partial sum 2101-1.
What is 101
This French mathematician gave his name to the criterion that determines the convergence behavior of sequences in metric spaces.
Who is Cauchy
This number is the smaller of the two real solutions of the following system
x + y = 5
xy=6.
What is 2
This is the number of the office in Martin, right in front of a color printer, and is given by the 51st term of a sequence an in which its partial sum satisfies
Sn = n2 + 5n
What is 106
Known as a modern prodigy, this UCLA mathematician won the Fields Medal in 2006 and is famous for work across analysis, number theory, and combinatorics.
Who is Terence Tao
This is the larger real solution of the following system
x + y = 8
x2 + y2 = 50
What is 7
This is the office number of hyped Grad students in the 3rd floor of Martin Hall and given by the value of the infinite series of
51n2/2n
What is 306
This Clemson University mathematician works in algebra, combinatorics, discrete dynamical systems, and mathematical biology.
Who is Matthew Macauley
For the nonlinear system
x2 + y2 = 5/9
xy=2/9
Every real solution has coordinates whose sum equals this number.
What is 1