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Many of them are part of a standard CS curriculum. Most of them are part of a standard math curriculum. The "level of difficulty" is very uneven, though.

Things like "Many students believe that 1 plus the product of the first primes is always a prime number" (a misunderstandment of Euclid's proof that there exist infinitely many prime numbers) or "If A implies B then B implies A" (difference between a necessary and a sufficient condition) are literally middle-school math.

Things like "If 𝑓(𝑥,𝑦) is a polynomial with real coefficients, then the image of 𝑓 is a closed subset of ℝ" are high-school level.

The top answer about dimensions of vector spaces is a well-known undergraduate-level "trap".

"The Krull dimension of a noetherian integral domain is finite." is, to be brutally honest, not a sentence I understand in the slightest.



The Krull dimension one is one of the few that might not be found in an undergraduate program. You'd probably come across it in an algebra class that straddles the line between upper undergrad and intro graduate coursework (but Noetherian integral domain is something you would usually find in the sophomore/junior undergrad algebra class often taken as a prerequisite for the other hypothetical class).

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> "If 𝑓(𝑥,𝑦) is a polynomial with real coefficients, then the image of 𝑓 is a closed subset of ℝ"

I don't think that this is high school level. Secondary school level math rarely touches anything related to multivariate polynomials (and usually doesn't have a notion of "closed sets" beyond closed intervals, but that's not as relevant apart from how the problem is stated).


Yeah, I studied CS, so my background in algebra beyond elementary concepts is very limited. As you said in another comment this is very math heavy.

I don't doubt that what you're saying is true, it's just something far outside what I personally am familiar with.




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