While making a documentary about MSRI, filmmaker Kyung Lee began importing cases of this company’s signature product for UC Berkeley mathematician David Eisenbud. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this Japanese manufacturer of bespoke chalk whose 2015 closure prompted mathematicians to engage in widespread hoarding of its famous Fulltouch brand of blackboard chalk.
ANSWER: Hagoromo Bungu
[10e] Photographer Jessica Wynne’s book Do Not Erase includes photos of this Australian-American mathematician’s chalkboard covered with this former prodigy’s recent work on the twin prime conjecture.
ANSWER: Terence Tao
[10h] Tao is a proponent of the massively collaborative Polymath Project, which grew out of the blog of this Cambridge mathematician whose posts criticizing Elsevier began the Cost of Knowledge boycott.
ANSWER: Timothy Gowers
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