イグノーベル賞 数学部門 受賞者一覧
イグノーベル賞の数学部門では、2015年「モロッコ皇帝が888人の子を持てたかの数学的検証」、2011年「世界終末の予言を外し続けて数学的仮定の危うさを教えたこと」、2009年「紙幣に膨大な桁数を印刷して数に慣れさせたこと」などを扱っています。
受賞研究
モロッコ皇帝が888人の子を持てたかの数学的検証
Elisabeth Oberzaucher [AUSTRIA, GERMANY, UK] and Karl Grammer [AUSTRIA, GERMANY], for trying to use mathematical techniques to determine whether and how Moulay Ismael the Bloodthirsty, the Sharifian Emperor of Morocco, managed, during the years from 1697 through 1727, to father 888 children.
- 受賞者
- Elisabeth Oberzaucher [AUSTRIA, GERMANY, UK] and Karl Grammer [AUSTRIA, GERMANY]
世界終末の予言を外し続けて数学的仮定の危うさを教えたこと
Dorothy Martin of the USA (who predicted the world would end in 1954), Pat Robertson of the USA (who predicted the world would end in 1982), Elizabeth Clare Prophet of the USA (who predicted the world would end in 1990), Lee Jang Rim of KOREA (who predicted the world would end in 1992), Credonia Mwerinde of UGANDA (who predicted the world would end in 1999), and Harold Camping of the USA (who predicted the world would end on September 6, 1994 and later predicted that the world will end on October 21, 2011), for teaching the world to be careful when making mathematical assumptions and calculations.
- 受賞者
- Dorothy Martin of the USA (who predicted the world would end in 1954), Pat Robertson of the USA (who predicted the world would end in 1982), Elizabeth Clare Prophet of the USA (who predicted the world would end in 1990), Lee Jang Rim of KOREA (who predicted the world would end in 1992), Credonia Mwerinde of UGANDA (who predicted the world would end in 1999), and Harold Camping of the USA (who predicted the world would end on September 6, 1994 and later predicted that the world will end on October 21, 2011)
紙幣に膨大な桁数を印刷して数に慣れさせたこと
Gideon Gono, governor of Zimbabwe’s Reserve Bank, for giving people a simple, everyday way to cope with a wide range of numbers — from very small to very big — by having his bank print bank notes with denominations ranging from one cent ($.01) to one hundred trillion dollars ($100,000,000,000,000).
- 受賞者
- Gideon Gono, governor of Zimbabwe’s Reserve Bank
集合写真で全員が目を開けるのに必要な撮影枚数
Nic Svenson and Piers Barnes of the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization, for calculating the number of photographs you must take to (almost) ensure that nobody in a group photo will have their eyes closed
- 受賞者
- Nic Svenson and Piers Barnes of the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization
インドゾウの体表面積の推定
K.P. Sreekumar and the late G. Nirmalan of Kerala Agricultural University, India, for their analytical report “Estimation of the Total Surface Area in Indian Elephants.” [REFERENCE: “Estimation of the Total Surface Area in Indian Elephants (Elephas maximus indicus),” K.P. Sreekumar and G. Nirmalan, Veterinary Research Communications, vol. 14, no. 1, 1990, pp. 5-17.]
- 受賞者
- K.P. Sreekumar and the late G. Nirmalan of Kerala Agricultural University, India
悔い改めない住民が地獄へ行く数の郡別推計
The Southern Baptist Church of Alabama, mathematical measurers of morality, for their county-by-county estimate of how many Alabama citizens will go to Hell if they don’t repent. [Click here for additional details.]
- 受賞者
- The Southern Baptist Church of Alabama, mathematical measurers of morality
ゴルバチョフが反キリストである確率の計算
Robert Faid of Greenville, South Carolina, farsighted and faithful seer of statistics, for calculating the exact odds (710,609,175,188,282,000 to 1) that Mikhail Gorbachev is the Antichrist. [REFERENCE: “Gorbachev! Has the Real Antichrist Come?“]
- 受賞者
- Robert Faid of Greenville, South Carolina, farsighted and faithful seer of statistics