AXIOM 2014

Quiz Prelims
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Q1)If the coastline of Great Britain is measured using units 100 km long, then the
length of the coastline is approximately 2,800 km. With 50 km units, the total
length is approximately 3,400 km, differing by 600km. This signifies that coastline
of a land mass doesnt have a well-defined length. What is this mathematical
paradox called?
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Q2)In mathematics, a ___________ is a prime number of the form 2^n -1. This is to
say that it is a prime number which is one less than a power of two. They are
named after the French monk ________ who studied them in the early 17th
century.
Here n is necessarily a prime, though not the only condition. As of May 2014, 48
_____ primes are known.
On the same note, ______ prime numbers are searched by the members of an
internet collaboration X which gave the largest known prime number in April,
2014. FITB and give X.
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Q3)FITB
"Chebyshev said it, but I'll say it again; There's always a prime between __ and
___ ."
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Q4)What is so special about this?
((x/7)2 Sqrt[Abs[Abs[x] - 3]/(Abs[x] - 3)] + (y/3)2 Sqrt[Abs[y + (3
Sqrt[33])/7]/(y + (3 Sqrt[33])/7)] - 1) (Abs[x/2] - ((3 Sqrt[33] - 7)/112) x2 - 3 +
Sqrt[1 - (Abs[Abs[x] - 2] - 1)2 ] - y) (9 Sqrt[Abs[(Abs[x] - 1) (Abs[x] - 3/4)]/((1 -

Abs[x]) (Abs[x] - 3/4))] - 8 Abs[x] - y) (3 Abs[x] + .75 Sqrt[Abs[(Abs[x] - 3/4)

(Abs[x] - 1/2)]/((3/4 - Abs[x]) (Abs[x] - 1/2))] - y) (9/4 Sqrt[Abs[(x - 1/2) (x +
1/2)]/((1/2 - x) (1/2 + x))] - y) ((6 Sqrt[10])/7 + (3/2 - Abs[x]/2)
Sqrt[Abs[Abs[x] - 1]/(Abs[x] - 1)] - (6 Sqrt[10])/14 Sqrt[4 - (Abs[x] - 1)2 ] - y)
== 0
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Q5)X was an English mathematician, philosopher and logician. He worked in the
fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, and is now best known as the
author of The Laws of Thought. In 1841 X published an influential paper in early
invariant theory. He received a medal from the Royal Society for his memoir of
1844,On A General Method of Analysis. In 1847 X published The Mathematical
Analysis of Logic , the first of his works on symbolic logic.
ID X.

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Q6)X was an Ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor,

and astronomer. Generally considered the greatest mathematician of antiquity
and one of the greatest of all time, he anticipated modern
calculus and analysis by applying concepts of infinitesimals and the method of
exhaustion to derive and rigorously prove a range of geometrical theorems,
including the area of a circle, the surface area and volume of a sphere, and the
area under a parabola.
X died during the Siege of Syracuse when he was killed by a Roman soldier
despite orders that he should not be harmed. His tomb is described to be
surmounted by a sphere and a cylinder, which he himself had requested to be
placed on his tomb, representing his mathematical discoveries. Tell X.
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Q7)Although 1 + 2 + 3 is a divergent series yet some summation
methods/manipulations can be used to give it a definite value. What is this
definite value?
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Q8) A X machine is a self-improving computer program invented by Jrgen
Schmidhuber that solves problems in an optimal way. It uses a recursive selfimprovement protocol in which it rewrites its own code when it can prove the
new code provides a more optimal strategy. The machine was invented by
Jrgen Schmidhuber, but is named after X who inspired the mathematical
theories.
Give X.

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Q9) Prove that all primes other than 2 and 5 divide infinitely many numbers in the
sequence {1,11,111,1111.}
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Q10) Find all pairs (m,n) such that m,n are integers and 2m + 3n is a perfect
square.
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Q11) Into how many ways can you place k rooks on a nxn chessboard so that
no rook attacks any other.
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Q12) Find the number of solutions of-

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