Numbers are Gnarly
This is the only number that has the same number of letters as its meaning.
What is four?
Georg Cantor proved that the set of rational numbers is ___________.
What is denumerable/countable/countably infinite?
Euclid defined this term as "that which has no part."
What is a point?
This professor volunteers at the school where his wife works to assist students with math.
Who is Dr. Timothy Schroeder?
"Jackie says, 'Hey, Diane, would you like to go to the ___________?'
"'Yeah, I am a little hungry, but nothing serious, if you know what I mean!'"
What is Dairy Queen?
You prove that an interval is uncountable by finding a one-to-one and onto function that maps the interval to this famous set.
What is the set of all real numbers/R?
The following theorem is known as the ___________________________.
Let f: X → X be a contraction mapping on a complete metric space (X, d). Then f possesses exactly one fixed point xf ∈ X, and for any point x ∈ X, limx→∞f◦n(x) = xf.
What is the Contraction Mapping Theorem?
A set whose complement is in a given topology is referred to as a ______ set.
This professor was in the United States Marines.
Who is Dr. Justin Taylor?
"Jackie's gonna be a mathematics teacher.
"Diane, she's gonna be a _________________."
If the sum of the digits of a equals b, then b divides a. This number is b.
What is 9?
Isaac Newton proved the ________________, which states that (a + b)n can be expressed as ann + an-1n-1 + ... + a22 + a1 + a0.
What is the Binomial Theorem?
The five Platonic solids are the tetrahedron, the cube, the octahedron, the dodecahedron, and the ___________.
What is the icosahedron?
This professor was a student of a student of Edward Lorenz, a famous meteorologist and the one to coin the term "butterfly effect."
Who is Dr. David Roach?
"The world doesn't need no salad.
"We're here for the Math Club outlet.
"We don't need a __________."
What is a sushi roll?
This number is proven to be irrational by assuming it is rational, showing that the numerator is even, and then showing that the contradiction lies in the even value of the denominator.
What is the square root of 2?
This principle states that, given n boxes and n + 1 items, at least one box will hold two or more items.
What is the Pigeon-Hole Principle?
This adjective describes a certain kind of number, but it may also refer to a proper ideal A of a commutative ring R such that, if a and b are in R and ab is in R, a is in A or b is in A.
What is prime?
This professor was recently promoted to Executive Director of Institutional Research at Murray State.
Who is Dr. Renee Fister?
"I'm on the edge, Newton, Euclid, Riemann, Germain, Fermat, ______!"
Who is Cantor?
This sequence (xn) is equal to xn+1 = xn + xn-1.
What is the Fibonacci sequence?
In 1966, the __________________, which states that, in a party of n people, if every pair of friends has exactly one common friend, then someone in the party is everyone else's friend, was proven.
What is the Friendship Theorem?
This term describes a curve in which the distance from a point increases at a constant rate while circling a point at a constant angular velocity.
What is an Archimedean spiral?
This Statistics professor recently had his first child.
Who is Dr. Gopal Nath?
"The view from here is now so very clear,
"Standing on the ___________________!"
What are the shoulders of triumph?