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Question 1

Which two politicians foster the French-German relations in this picture?

Question 2

Which two famous mathematicians follow the spirit of th Traité de l’Elysée ?

Question 3

Participants from how many different countries have registered for the CFG07 in Heidelberg?

Question 4

Sort the following mathematicians according to their birth dates (earliest first)!

• Carl Friedrich Gauß

• Ludwig Otto Hesse

• Carl Gustaf Jacob Jacobi

Question 5

How many CFG attendants have to meet in a pub in Untere Straße such that three know each other XOR three don't

know each other?

Question 6

Name the people in the foreground (left to right)!

Question 7

Which of the following works is not due to Bernardus Placidus Johann Nepomuk Bolzano?

1. Anti-Euklid

2. Der binomische Lehrsatz (The binomial theorem)

3. Athanasia oder Gründe für die Unsterblichkeit der Seele (Athanasia or Reasons for the Immortality of the Soul)

4. Disputatio Inauguralis De Casibus Perplexis In Jure

Question 8

How old was Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier when first appointed professor?

Question 9

How far is Heidelberg from the geodesic between Paris and Prague?

1. Less than 20 km

2. Between 20 km and 40 km

3. Between 40 km and 60 km

4. Between 60 km and 100 km

5. More than 100 km

Question 10

What does not fit together?

1. Smetana – My Fatherland

2. Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody

3. Tchaikovsky – The Nutcracker

4. Mozart – La Bohème

5. Dandy Warhols – Bohemian Like You

Question 11

• What or who was the cause of the final destruction of the Heidelberg castle?

Question 12

Add the three founding years of the Sorbonne, the Univerzita Karlova, and the Ruperto-Carola!

Question 13

From which university did Carl Friedrich Gauß receive his PhD?

Question 14

Name the following optimizers (left to right)!

Question 15

Which three Williams are necessary for optimality?

Question 16

• Name the latest Nobel Prize Winners of

– France

– Germany

– Czech Republic

Question 17

About which mathematician did Felix Klein say:

„He fell for the charm of the Neckar city that in fact is a place of intellectual stimulation, much less however of exhausting work [...] And his mathematical efficiency went to pieces about it. [...] In München he went back to productive occupations, with limited success, however. He had lost the security to divide right from wrong.“

Question 18

• The last name of the famous

Lev Semenovich

is of course …?

Question 19

• Whose PhD thesis has the title

“On the method of conjugate gradients for function minimization”?

Question 20

• Which countries have the following histories of alcohol consumption (per capita)?

Question 20

• A)

Question 20

• B)

Question 20

• C)

AnswersAnswers

Question 1

Which two politicians foster the French-German relations in this picture?

Answer 1

Which two politicians foster the French-German relations in this picture?

BertrandDelanoe

KlausWowereit

Question 2

Which two famous mathematicians follow the spirit of the Traité de l’Elysée ?

Answer 2

Helmut Maurer Jean-Baptiste Hiriart-Urruty

Question 3

Participants from how many different countries have registered for the CFG07 in Heidelberg?

Answer 3

Participants from how many different countries have registered for the CFG07 in Heidelberg?

23

Question 4

Sort the following mathematicians according to their birth dates (earliest first)!

• Carl Friedrich Gauß

• Ludwig Otto Hesse

• Carl Gustaf Jacob Jacobi

Answer 4

Sort the following mathematicians according to their birth dates (earliest first)!

1. Carl Friedrich Gauß (1777-1855)

2. Carl Gustaf Jacob Jacobi (1804-1851)

3. Ludwig Otto Hesse (1811-1874)

Question 5

How many CFG attendants have to meet in a pub in Untere Straße such that three know each other XOR three don't

know each other?

Answer 5

How many CFG attendants have to meet in a pub in Untere Straße such that three know each other XOR three don't

know each other?

66

Question 6

Name the people in the foreground (left to right)!

Answer 6

Name the people in the foreground (left to right)!

Stefan UlbrichStefan Ulbrich Michael UlbrichMichael Ulbrich

Question 7

Which of the following works is not due to Bernardus Placidus Johann Nepomuk Bolzano?

1. Anti-Euklid

2. Der binomische Lehrsatz (The binomial theorem)

3. Athanasia oder Gründe für die Unsterblichkeit der Seele (Athanasia or Reasons for the Immortality of the Soul)

4. Disputatio Inauguralis De Casibus Perplexis In Jure

Answer 7

Which of the following works is not due to Bernardus Placidus Johann Nepomuk Bolzano?

1. Anti-Euklid

2. Der binomische Lehrsatz (The binomial theorem)

3. Athanasia oder Gründe für die Unsterblichkeit der Seele (Athanasia or Reasons for the Immortality of the Soul)

4. Disputatio Inauguralis De Casibus Perplexis In Jure (Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz)

Question 8

How old was Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier when first appointed professor?

Answer 8

How old was Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier when first appointed professor?

18

Question 9

How far is Heidelberg from the geodesic between Paris and Prague?

1. Less than 20 km

2. Between 20 km and 40 km

3. Between 40 km and 60 km

4. Between 60 km and 100 km

5. More than 100 km

Answer 9

How far is Heidelberg from the geodesic between Paris and Prague?

2: 27 km

Question 10

What does not fit together?

1. Smetana – My Fatherland

2. Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody

3. Tchaikovsky – The Nutcracker

4. Mozart – La Bohème

5. Dandy Warhols – Bohemian Like You

Answer 10

What does not fit together?

1. Smetana – My Fatherland

2. Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody

3. Tchaikovsky – The Nutcracker

4. Mozart – La Bohème (Giacomo Puccini)

5. Dandy Warhols – Bohemian Like You

Question 11

• What or who was the cause of the final destruction of the Heidelberg castle?

Answer 11

• What or who was the cause of the final destruction of Heidelberg castle?

• Lightning

(no, not the French)

Question 12

Add the three founding years of the Sorbonne, the Univerzita Karlova, and the Ruperto-Carola!

Answer 12

Add the three founding years of the Sorbonne, the Univerzita Karlova, and the Ruperto-Carola!

1268 + 1348 + 1386 = 4002

Question 13

From which university did Carl Friedrich Gauß receive his PhD?

Answer 13

From which university did Carl Friedrich Gauß receive his PhD?

Universität Helmstedt

Question 14

Name the following optimizers (left to right)!

Answer 14

Name the following optimizers (left to right)!

KantorovichKantorovich DantzigDantzig KarmarkarKarmarkar

Question 15

Which three Williams are necessary for optimality?

Answer 15

Which three Williams are necessary for optimality?

William Karush

Harold William Kuhn

Albert William Tucker

Question 16

• Name the latest Nobel Prize Winners of

– France

– Germany

– Czech Republic

Answer 16

• F: Yves Chauvin (Chemistry, 2005)

• D: Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch (Physics, 2005)

• Cz: Jaroslav Seifert (Literature, 1984)

Question 17

About which mathematician did Felix Klein say:

„He fell for the charm of the Neckar city that in fact is a place of intellectual stimulation, much less however of exhausting work [...] And his mathematical efficiency went to pieces about it. [...] In München he went back to productive occupations, with limited success, however. He had lost the security to divide right from wrong.“

Answer 17

Ludwig Otto Hesse

Question 18

• The last name of the famous

Lev Semenovich

is of course …?

Answer 18

• Lev Semenovich Pontryagin

Question 19

• Whose PhD thesis has the title

“On the method of conjugate gradients for function minimization”?

Answer 19

• Whose PhD thesis has the title“On the method of conjugate gradients for function minimization” (1978)?

• Jorge Nocedal

Question 20

• Which countries have the following histories of alcohol consumption (per capita)?

Answer 20

• A) Germany

Answer 20

• B) Czech Republic

Answer 20

• C) France