Question
Any five points in the plane contain a convex quadrilateral according to this person’s so-called “happy ending problem.” The Green-Tao theorem proves a specific case of a conjecture named after this person, which states that any substantial set has arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions. This person is the alphabetically first namesake of a model used to generate random graphs given a fixed number of nodes and edges. Along with George (*) Szekeres (“SEK-eh-resh”), this man proved the first upper bound for Ramsey numbers. This man popularized a technique which proves the existence of objects by showing the chance of choosing them randomly is nonzero called the probabilistic method. For 10 points, name this eccentric Hungarian mathematician whose namesake “number” quantifies distance from him via coauthorship of papers. ■END■
Summary
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 57.00 |
2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 33% | 84.67 |
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 67% | 33% | 67% | 93.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 40% | 20% | 68.80 |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 116.33 |
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 67% | 17% | 72.33 |
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 59.67 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Swapnil Garg | Berkeley | A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | 17 | 15 |
Leo Tao | Clown Squad | WashU | 19 | 15 |
Eric Mukherjee | CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU! | I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire | 27 | -5 |
Coby Tran | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | BHSU ReFantazio | 31 | -5 |
Sky Li | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 31 | -5 |
Jananan Arulseelan | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | 31 | 15 |
Asha Basu | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | 40 | 15 |
Andrew Gao | Import Pandas | Hu up Jinning they Tao | 42 | -5 |
Tim Morrison | Stanford+ | number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku | 42 | 15 |
Shiv Seshan | Cambridge | Defying Suavity | 57 | 15 |
Agnijo Banerjee | Simple Vibes | Limp Franceskit | 57 | 15 |
Adam Fine | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | Northeast by Northwestern | 58 | 15 |
Dan Ni | hawk two of | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | 60 | 15 |
Sky Hong | NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess) | Walston et. al. | 60 | -5 |
Max Brodsky | Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | Notre Dame | 61 | 15 |
Aditya Gangrade | Pahkin' the Ahgo | |madam| | 62 | 15 |
Delia Cropper | Cien Años de Quizboledad | Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz | 65 | 15 |
Natan Holtzman | throw away your cards, rally in the streets | Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms | 65 | 15 |
Kunaal Chandrashekar | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 71 | 10 |
Conor Thompson | Thompson et al. | UBC | 72 | 10 |
Aaron Dos Remedios | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 78 | 10 |
Jordan Brownstein | "Powers a question on Stancyzk" that's a clown question bro | Banned from ARGOS | 112 | -5 |
Todd Maslyk | Clown Senpais | BHSU Rebirth | 112 | 10 |
Isaac Kirk-Davidoff | jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | Cope is the thing with feathers | 112 | 10 |
Anuttam Ramji | Cry of the Common Loon | Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | 112 | 10 |
David Bass | just one more half-dot bro | 12 Litres of Green Tea | 113 | 10 |
Henry Bon | I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire | CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU! | 117 | 10 |
Jaimie Carlson | Banned from ARGOS | "Powers a question on Stancyzk" that's a clown question bro | 124 | 10 |
Dylan Minarik | BHSU ReFantazio | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | 124 | 10 |
Albert Zhang | Walston et. al. | NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess) | 124 | 10 |
Nameer Qadir | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | 124 | 10 |