Question

Any five points in the plane contain a convex quadrilateral according to this person’s so-called “happy ending problem.” (15[1])The Green-Tao (15[1])theorem proves a specific case of a conjecture (-5[1])named after this person, (15[1]-5[2])which states that any substantial set has arbitrarily long (15[1])arithmetic progressions. (15[1]-5[1])This person is the alphabetically first namesake of a model used to generate random graphs (15[2])given (15[1])a fixed (15[1]-5[1])number (15[1])of (15[1])nodes and edges. (15[2])Along with George (*) Szekeres (“SEK-eh-resh”), this man (10[1])proved (10[1])the first upper bound for Ramsey (10[1])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 (10[3]-5[1])whose (10[1])namesake “number” quantifies distance (10[1])from him via coauthorship of papers. ■END■ (10[4])

ANSWER: Paul Erdős (“AIR-dish”) [or Erdős Pál; accept Erdős number; accept the Erdős–Rényi model]
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Swapnil GargBerkeleyA is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs1715
Leo TaoClown SquadWashU1915
Eric MukherjeeCLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU!I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire27-5
Coby TranThat Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five DaysBHSU ReFantazio31-5
Sky LiSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of DonutShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere31-5
Jananan ArulseelanThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork OrangeYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit3115
Asha BasuI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken4015
Andrew GaoImport PandasHu up Jinning they Tao42-5
Tim MorrisonStanford+number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku4215
Shiv SeshanCambridgeDefying Suavity5715
Agnijo BanerjeeSimple VibesLimp Franceskit5715
Adam FineThe Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day)Northeast by Northwestern5815
Dan Nihawk two ofMusic to Help You Stop Smoking6015
Sky HongNJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess)Walston et. al.60-5
Max BrodskyWho is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus?Notre Dame6115
Aditya GangradePahkin' the Ahgo|madam|6215
Delia CropperCien Años de QuizboledadGrzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz6515
Natan Holtzmanthrow away your cards, rally in the streetsAw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms6515
Kunaal Chandrashekaras rational as the square root of two power bottomsRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers7110
Conor ThompsonThompson et al.UBC7210
Aaron Dos RemediosModerator Can't Neg me While in AlphaCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country7810
Jordan Brownstein"Powers a question on Stancyzk" that's a clown question broBanned from ARGOS112-5
Todd MaslykClown SenpaisBHSU Rebirth11210
Isaac Kirk-Davidoffjeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan clubCope is the thing with feathers11210
Anuttam RamjiCry of the Common LoonWhere are the ACF Nationals recordings?11210
David Bassjust one more half-dot bro12 Litres of Green Tea11310
Henry BonI wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retireCLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU!11710
Jaimie CarlsonBanned from ARGOS"Powers a question on Stancyzk" that's a clown question bro12410
Dylan MinarikBHSU ReFantazioThat Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days12410
Albert ZhangWalston et. al.NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess)12410
Nameer QadirShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA InterfereSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut12410