Math Society Trivia Night

Which field of mathematics can be used to solve the Rubik's cube?

Which mathematician went blind towards the end of his life?

Who proved the incompleteness of mathematics?

The spectral theorem says that eigenvalues of a Hermitian matrix are

How many times would you have to fold a paper in half for its thickness to reach the moon?

No computer can factor integers in polynomial time.

What is the sum of the first 100 positive integers?

Who started the field of Algebra?

Which function is continuous everywhere but nowhere differentiable?

Who was the youngest person to win a fields medal?

How many full-time professional rank faculty members are in AUB's Department of Mathematics?

What year was the Turing Machine introduced?

The determinant of an orthogonal matrix is always

The Riemann Hypothesis concerns the zeros of

Which mathematician is known as the Father of Geometry?

Which of the following has been proved?

Who was the first person to find a general formula for cubic polynomials?

Which mathematician was a judge?

Who showed that a set containing all sets cannot exist?

Which of the following is NOT an open problem?

The squared norm of a point in R^2 whose coordinates are chosen iid according to the standard normal distribution is

Which Indian mathematician approximated pi and introduced early forms of trigonometry in the 5th century CE?

When was Bliss Hall established?

Which of the following sets is NOT dense in (0, 1)

Which of the following is not a prime number?

Which famous conjecture was solved by Andrew Wiles in the 1990s?

Which of the following fields is not necessarily complete?

The famous "Elements" of geometry was written by

Who is considered the father of modern mathematics in Lebanon?

What is the expected of dice rolls until the number 4 appears?

The Fibonacci sequence was first introduced to Europe through the book

What does the H-index measure?

In a group of 22 people, it is more likely than not (>50% chance) that at least 2 people share the same birthday.

A metric space is said to be complete if

Who introduced the = sign in mathematics in 1557?

Which civilization created a positional number system and used zero as a numeral?

Which function grows asymptotically faster?

Which mathematician died in a duel at the age of 20?

Who was the first to prove that there are infinitely many primes?

Which mathematician was chemically castrated after being convicted of gross indecency?

Approximately how many students are enrolled at AUB's Mathematics Department programs?

The sum of 1/p (p prime) converges.

Who is the only Lebanese to have won a Field Medal?

Which problem can no computer solve?

Which mathematical tool would be helpful to add time on a clock?

What is the square root of a quarter?

Every polynomial with complex coefficients has at least one complex root.

64 is the smallest positive integer which is both a square and a cube.

What is the speed of light? (nearest integer in m/s)

Which field deals with the classification of surfaces and spaces up to continuous deformation?