Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2022 iii Paper 115 2 c Solution 2026-09-28
On the Euclidean unit ball ,The outward unit normal along is the radial vector field , so part b givesLet on the ball and put . Direct use of the exterior derivative gives . Therefore the Generalized Stokes theorem yieldsThis proves the volume of a Euclidean unit sphere formula.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 iii Paper 216 1 c Solution 2026-09-28
For a decision in the unit ball, conditional expectation under the posterior givesThe symmetric positive semidefinite matrix has a Rayleigh quotient maximized over by any unit eigenvector corresponding to its largest eigenvalue. Bayes decision rule therefore chooses any such eigenvector for the stated utility.