What Do You Know About The Mountain Climbing Problem?
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Having received the Mathematical Association of America's Lester R. Ford Award, the mountain climbing problem is a prominent problem in the field of mathematics. It revolves around finding the conditions that two different functions would form profiles of a two-dimensional mountain. To find out more, take this short quiz.
- 1.In which year did the mountain climbing problem receive the Mathematical Association of America's Lester R. Ford Award?
- A.
1985
- B.
1990
- C.
1995
- D.
1999
- 2.What defines a dimension?
- A.
Area of space
- B.
Number of planes
- C.
Size of angles
- D.
Number of coordinates
- 3.How many parts does a complex number have?
- A.
1
- B.
2
- C.
3
- D.
4
- 4.The mountain climbing problem makes sure that two climbers always have an identical factor. What is this factor?
- A.
Height
- B.
Surface
- C.
Area
- D.
Base
- 5.When was the mountain climbing problem named?
- A.
1965
- B.
1966
- C.
1967
- D.
1977
- 6.What is a real-valued function explicated on the real numbers, whose graph is composed of straight-line section?
- A.
Piecewise linear function
- B.
Minima function
- C.
Absolute linear function
- D.
Absolute function
- 7.Which is an example of four-dimensional objects?
- A.
Tesseract
- B.
Coffee cups
- C.
Spheres
- D.
Prisms
- 8.Who named the mountain climbing problem?
- A.
James V. Whittaker
- B.
Talithia Williams
- C.
Freeman Dyson
- D.
Scott W. Williams
- 9.How can you find an approximation to a known curve? By...
- A.
Sampling the curve
- B.
Sampling the area
- C.
Sampling the surface
- D.
Interpolating the surface
- 10.How many dimensions does the surface of a cylinder have?
- A.
2
- B.
4
- C.
6
- D.
8
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