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100

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

100

This 1966 Fields Medalist revolutionized algebraic geometry with ideas such as schemes and étale cohomology.

Who is Grothendieck

100

In the system
x+y=24
x−y=10
This is the value of x

What is 17

200

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

200

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

200

If
3x+2y=267
and
x+y=100
this is the value of x.

What is 67

300

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


300

This French mathematician gave his name to the criterion that determines the convergence behavior of sequences in metric spaces.  

Who is Cauchy

300

This number is the smaller of the two real solutions of the following system

x + y = 5

xy=6.

What is 2

400

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

S= n2 + 5n

What is 106


400

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

400

This is the larger real solution of the following system

x + y = 8

x2 + y= 50

What is 7

500

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

500

This Clemson University mathematician works in algebra, combinatorics, discrete dynamical systems, and mathematical biology.

Who is Matthew Macauley

500

For the nonlinear system

x2 + y= 5/9

xy=2/9

Every real solution has coordinates whose sum equals this number.

What is 1