Question
An object named for this mathematician transforms with conformal metric changes by adding two derivative terms and subtracting an inner product times the gradient. In orbital mechanics, this mathematician names the 2D case of a regularization scheme accomplished with the Kustaanheimo–Stiefel transformation. Parallelograms in curved spaces are named for this formulator of the notion of parallel transport. The fundamental theorem of Riemannian geometry asserts the existence of a natural (*) connection named for this mathematician, which is torsion-free and compatible with the metric. The Leibniz formula for the determinant is most compactly written as a sum with coefficients given by a pseudo-tensor named for this mathematician, which takes the value plus one, minus one, or zero depending on the parity of a permutation. For 10 points, name this Italian differential geometer and namesake of a “symbol” denoted epsilon. ■END■
Summary
2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 13 | 85% | 8% | 23% | 95.55 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Arya Karthik | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | We Need New Names | 56 | -5 |
Jorrest Weintraub | The Jeam Team | var merchants | 56 | 15 |
Jerry Vinokurov | The Oldest Men in the World | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | 70 | -5 |
Swapnil Garg | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | The Oldest Men in the World | 71 | 10 |
Iain Carpenter | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | 73 | 10 |
Richard Niu | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | 73 | 10 |
Eric Bobrow | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 76 | 10 |
Billy Busse | BHSU B | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | 76 | 10 |
Rasheeq Azad | Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | 78 | 10 |
Ryan Westbrook | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | 128 | -5 |
Raul Passement | The Dyatlov Passement incident | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 137 | 10 |
Alex Akridge | We Need New Names | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | 137 | 10 |
Andrew Wang | Punished "Venom" BHSU | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | 137 | 10 |
Daniel Ma | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 137 | 10 |
Michael Hunding | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | The Empire Bikes Back | 137 | 0 |
Henry Atkins | The Empire Bikes Back | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | 137 | 0 |
Conor Thompson | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 137 | 0 |