Which is the highest award of the I.M.

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bestowed on a person for his outstand-
ing contributions to mathematics
a) Copley medal
b) Field’s medal
c) Fisher’s medal
d) Russel’s medal

Ans. ( b )
Who was supposed to win the latest
Fields Medal (2006), but declined it?

a) Andrei Okounkov
b) Wendelin Werner
c) Terence Tao
d) Grigory Perelman

Ans. (d)
Of the following famous problem tell
which one has been solved recently

a) Four square problem

b) Fermat’s last Theorem
c) Warning’s problem
d) Dido’s problem

Ans. ( b )
Who said the following famous quote
"Mathematics is the Queen of all Sciences
and the Theory of Numbers is the Queen o
Mathematics

b) Andrew Wiles
c) Paul Erdos
d) Carl Frienderish Gauss
e) Leonhard Euler

Ans. (c)
Any positive integer that may be expressed
as the sum of four squares . Which is this
theorem ?
a) Four Square Theorem
b) Floquet Theorem
c) Dirichlet’s Theorem
d) Lagrange’s Theorem

Ans. ( a )
“God made the … all the rest is the work of
man” said Leopold Kronecker about
a) Zero
b) Complex Numbers
c) Primary Numbers
d) Integers

Ans. ( d )
The Pythagorean Theorem only applies to right-angled
triangles. However, there is a more general "law" that
governs all triangles in a relationship similar to that of
the Pythagorean Theorem. What is the name of this
law?
• The sine law
• The cosine law
• The tangent law
• The triangle law

Ans. ( b )
If 20< y < 30 and x and y are both integers.
What is the greatest possible value for x ?

a) 75
b) 76
c) 79
d) 80

Ans. ( c )
 A point on the wheel of a bicycle draw
one of the following curve :

a) Logarithmic spiral
b) Ellipsoid
c) Cycloid
d) Hyperbola

Ans. ( a )
Who is the first person to give stage
performance for his mental calculation
abilities ?
a) Shakuntala Devi
b) Zerah Colburn
c) Parker Bidder
d) Alexander Craig Aitken

Ans. ( b )
What is equivalent of the Roman numeral
“D” in the number system
a) 1000
b) 500
c) 50
d) 10

Ans. ( b )
Which decimal number is equivalent to
the Roman numeral “C”
a) 50
b) 1000
c) 10
d) 100

I (one) , V (five), X (ten), L (fifty) ,

C (one hundred), D ( five hundred ), M (one thousand)

Ans. ( d )
How many triangles are there in the
diagram ?
How many equilateral triangles are there in
this figure?

a) 4 b) 6 c ) 16 d) 8
Where is the Ramanujan Institute of
Mathematics located ?

a) Tiruchirapalli
b) Trivandrum
c) Lucknow
d) Madras

Ans. ( d )
Zero is denoted by several names in ancient
India . Tell which one is the old one out of
the following:
a) Gagana
b) Sunya
c) Gati
d) Kha

Ans. ( c )