Loaded Questions 5/12/22 - Math
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1. In logic, what term describes a proposition which follows easily from the proof of another proposition?
2. Gauss's area formula is also called the formula of what specific clothing item, named for how the cross-multiplication of corresponding coordinates can create the area?
3. Isaac Newton's discovery of calculus is called the "method of" what things, which were derivatives of a function? George Berkeley attack Newton for this method?
4. What unit of length is 1/10 of a nautical mile, or 120 fathoms?
5. In number theory, Euclid's theorem elaborates that there are what?
6. In the equation 9 - 3 = 6, the number 6 is the difference. What words represent the 9 and the 3?
7. In a matrix, the trace is equal to the sum of what values?
8. What female French mathematician who wrote many letters to Gauss is the namesake of the prime number "2n+1" when n is also a prime number?
9. "Every simply connected, closed 3-manifold is homeomorphic to the 3-sphere" is the precise formulation of what conjecture, named for a French mathematician, and is the only Millennium Prize Problem that has been solved?
10. "An integer solution to a set of congruence relations if the moduli are pairwise relatively prime" states what theorem, first proposed in the 3rd century by mathematician Sun-tzu?
11. What Latin words are represented by the initialism QED?
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1. In logic, what term describes a proposition which follows easily from the proof of another proposition? Corollary
2. Gauss's area formula is also called the formula of what specific clothing item, named for how the cross-multiplication of corresponding coordinates can create the area? Shoelace formula
3. Isaac Newton's discovery of calculus is called the "method of" what things, which were derivatives of a function? George Berkeley attack Newton for this method? Fluxions
4. What unit of length is 1/10 of a nautical mile, or 120 fathoms? Cable length
5. In number theory, Euclid's theorem elaborates that there are what? Infinite number of primes
6. In the equation 9 - 3 = 6, the number 6 is the difference. What words represent the 9 and the 3? Minuend, Subtrahend
7. In a matrix, the trace is equal to the sum of what values? Numbers on the main diagonal and/or Eigenvalues
8. What female French mathematician who wrote many letters to Gauss is the namesake of the prime number "2n+1" when n is also a prime number? Sophie Germain
9. "Every simply connected, closed 3-manifold is homeomorphic to the 3-sphere" is the precise formulation of what conjecture, named for a French mathematician, and is the only Millennium Prize Problem that has been solved? Poincare conjecture
10. "An integer solution to a set of congruence relations if the moduli are pairwise relatively prime" states what theorem, first proposed in the 3rd century by mathematician Sun-tzu? Chinese remainder theorem
11. What Latin words are represented by the initialism QED? Quod erat demonstrandum