Math General Knowledge #2

A polychoron is a 4-dimensional polyhedron. Alternate names for those are accepted.
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Number of regular plane tesselations
3
Number of semi-regular plane tesselations
8
Number of Archimedean solids
13
Regular polychora
Pentachoron
Octachoron
Hexadecachoron
Icositetrachoron
Hecatonicosachoron
Hexacosichoron
Reflection of the median across the angle bisector
Symmedian
Isogonal conjugate of the circumcentre
Orthocentre
Circumcircle of the midpoints of the sides of a triangle
Nine point circle
Result of colouring Pascal's triangle by parity
Sierpinski's triangle
Pascal's first name
Blaise
States that Pythagorean triples with higher exponents do not exist
Fermat's Last Theorem
States that a^b - c^d = 1 has only 1 integer solution when all 4 variables are greater than 1
Catalan's Conjecture
Mihăilescu's Theorem
A prime p, where 2p+1 is prime
Sophie Germain prime
States that there exist arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions of prime numbers
Green-Tao Theorem
What the "fi" in Fibonacci stands for
filius
Fibonacci sequence, but starting with 2, 1, ...
Lucas numbers
States that a spherical triangle on a unit sphere has area equal to the sum of its angles, minus pi
Girard's Theorem
States that two triangles are in perspective axially if and only if they are in perspective centrally
Desargues' Theorem
Namesake of the Cartesian plane (first name required)
René Descartes
Reflection of a complex number across the real axis
conjugate
States that any continuous function mapping a compact convex non-empty set into itself maps a point to itself
Brouwer's fixed point theorem
4-dimensional extension of complex numbers
Quaternions
Euler Characteristic of a torus
0
Loop that, when chopped in half, remains a loop
Möbius strip
Object that, when chopped in half, gives the previous answer
Klein bottle
The product of a gross, a dozen, and a score
34560
A non-disjoint graph whose vertices all have even degree contains an...
Eulerian circuit
French Mathematician; died aged 20 from a duel
Évariste Galois
Alice in Wonderland author (pen and real names)
Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
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Level 88
Aug 7, 2015
The empty set is both convex and compact, but no continuous function maps a point of it to itself.
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Level 63
Aug 7, 2015
The empty set is an interesting edge case...I'll modify the description