Mathworld Game

Magnara

Okay, so here are the rules. You give someone a starting place and an ending place. They have to navigate from the first mathworld page to the last one using only the part on the bottom of the page that says "See Also: ..." You may not simply use one of the links in the text. It has to be in the See Also section. If you solve one, post another challenge for the next person. Oh, and before giving a challenge, work through it and make sure it can be done.

This one took me a while to get. It's a hard one.

Fuzzy Logic to Sine

**Posted:** Mon Jul 18, 2005 4:27 pm

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mathclass · Poincare Conjecture Offline Joined: 17 Mar 2004 Posts: 160

eh? I don't get it...

**Posted:** Mon Jul 18, 2005 4:29 pm

paladin8

Wow. That took a long time... there are probably multiple solutions, too. Here's one:

Fuzzy Logic -> False -> Undecidable -> Richardson's Theorem -> Zero -> Division by Zero -> Complex Number -> Complex Argument -> Inverse Tangent -> Tangent -> Sine

NEXT:

Complex Projective Plane to Equilateral Triangle (another relatively difficult one IMO)

**Posted:** Mon Jul 18, 2005 8:58 pm

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Go to www.mathworld.com, search the first phrase, then try to use the "see also"s to connect to the second given phrase

**Posted:** Mon Jul 18, 2005 10:13 pm

jmadsen

Complex Projective Plane > Projective Plane > Real Projective Plane > Nonorientable Surface > Orientable Surface > Regular Surface > Regular Patch > Patch > Gauss Map > Curvature > Multivariable Calculus > Calculus > Area > Triangle Area > Triangle > Equilateral Triangle

Problem 3:
600-Cell > Prime Number

**Posted:** Tue Jul 19, 2005 6:42 am

math92

this is too hard for me because i don't know ihgh school terms.

**Posted:** Tue Jul 19, 2005 4:35 pm

Palytoxin

math92, most of the terms are not even high school terms, they are college level terms!!!

**Posted:** Tue Jul 19, 2005 4:39 pm

tetrahedr0n

600-cell - Hypercube - Cube - Cubic Number - Partition - Prime Partition - Goldbach's Conjecture - Chen's Theorem - Prime Number

Whew.

How about:

Ramanujan Constant > Butterfly Lemma

(What would be interesting is to play a "six degrees of separation" kind of game with mathworld. That is, make all the articles vertices, and if two are linked under "See as," they share an edge. Is the graph connected? What diameter does it have?

**Posted:** Tue Jul 19, 2005 5:13 pm

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Magnara

Six degrees of separation is what inspired this little game Smile

. I just figured that six would be much too hard, and usually impossible.

**Posted:** Tue Jul 19, 2005 5:19 pm

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The game of life is to keep the SF's score low. If you do something bad in life, the SF gets two points. If you don't do something good that you should have done, the SF gets one point. You never score, so the SF always wins.

-Erdos

Magnara

Ramanujan Constant>j-function>monster group>sporadic group>finite group>jordan-holder theorem>Butterfly Lemma

This one isn't bad.
Square root>Ribet's Theorem

**Posted:** Tue Jul 19, 2005 5:27 pm

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The game of life is to keep the SF's score low. If you do something bad in life, the SF gets two points. If you don't do something good that you should have done, the SF gets one point. You never score, so the SF always wins.

-Erdos

paladin8

Square Root -> Square Number -> Diophantine Equation -> FLT -> Ribet's Theorem

NEXT:

Cauchy Inequality to Prime Number

(This game is awesome... there are a lot of ways to get to each one, too, completely different ones)

**Posted:** Tue Jul 19, 2005 5:50 pm

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