#ATTENDANCE QUIZ FOR LECTURE 8 of Dr. Z.'s Math454(02) Rutgers University

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THE NUMBER OF ATTENDANCE QUESTIONS WERE:

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#Attendance problem #1

#Q: Where was the founder and president of OEIS Born? What is the Date of birth?

#A: OEIS was created and maintained by Neil Sloane who was born October 10th 1939


#Attendance problem #2

#Q: Who is the most famous colleague of Tutte in WWII

#A: Tutte in WWII worked closly with Alan Turing who worked out how to break the version of the enigma code used by the german navy.


#Attendance problem #3

#Q: M.C. "Marko" Schutzenberger  is considered by many people a "Crackpot" even though he is a respected mathematician/CS/Linguist. Why?

#A: M.C. "Marko" Schutzenberger was considered a crackpot by many due to his stance against evolution. He concludes that biology cannot explain the complex set of circumstances for life to occur, and how life can go from small bacteria to humans.


#Attendance problem #4

#Q: Why was Dr.z disappointed at the great Sir W. Thimoty Gowers

#A: Gower's commiteg a grave gategory error. Specifically, "Gowers abused his reputation as a great mathematician to trash a paper outside his field of expertise" - Dr. Zeilberger