Counterexample bank
Part C is won by knowing which tempting claims are false. 149 counterexamples; 86 free to read right now. Pick your subject below.
Knowing the claim is false is half of it. The mistakes that cost marks shows the wrong options candidates actually pick, and the reasoning slip behind each one.
Analysis & Linear Algebra
59 claimsFalse — Closed unit ball in or in C[0,1] with sup norm)
False — with the discrete metric
False — (0,1) and
False — Topologist's sine curve {(x, sin 1/x) : 0 < x ≤ 1} ∪ {0}×[−1,1]
False — f(x) = 1/x on (0,1)
Complex Analysis, Algebra & Topology
50 claimsFalse — has no subgroup of order 6
False —
ODE, PDE & Applied Mathematics
18 claimsFalse — y′ = , y(0) = 0
False — y′ = , y(0) = 0
False — |x| on
False — on [0,1] with y(0) = y(1) = 0
False — ẋ , ẏ at the origin
Probability, Statistics & Linear Programming
22 claimsFalse — Two fair coin tosses: A = first is heads, B = second is heads, C = the two agree
False — The standard Cauchy distribution
False — with ~ Exp(1)