Evariste Galois did die on the eve of his 21st birthday in a duel. What other romantic myth about Galois is, in fact, true?

He was denied entrance to the Ecole Polytechnique because he embarrassed the examiner

Famous mathematicians lost not one, but two of his manuscripts

He wrote down a long treatise about group theory the night before he died

The royalists set him up for his fatal duel.

Georg Cantor's greatest contribution to mathematics was probably his Diagonal Method, which has been borrowed to prove, among other things, the impossibility of a solution to the halting problem. What did Cantor use this method to prove?

That there are more real numbers than integers

That there are as many real numbers as integers

That there are more fractions than integers

That there are as many fractions as integers

Sticking with Goedel, which of the following oddities about Goedel is false?

Started every class with a prayer

Never showed up for appointments

What is the claim to fame of Hippasus of Metapontum?

measured the circumference of the earth

proved the irrationality of the square root of two

Finally, a question about pseudo-mathematics. 'The Great Pyramid' by Basil Stewart is still in print today. Why is this surprising?

Basil Stewart himself admits that the book was a hoax.

It is written entirely in mathematical symbols.

It predicts the end of the world in 1953.

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