Question
Thurston proved that a knot must have this property if it is not a torus knot or a satellite knot. A space with this property has as its orientation-preserving isometries the group of real Möbius transformations with determinant one. Spaces with this property have curves called horocycles, can be modeled in two dimensions by Poincaré’s half-plane and disk, and have constant negative curvature. This property is the first word in a class of functions derived from the pair “e-to-the-x plus-or-minus e-to-the-negative-x all over two.” Lobachevsky names a non-Euclidean geometry with this property, which breaks the parallel postulate and has triangles whose angles sum to less than 180 degrees. For 10 points, what property derives from the name of a conic section exemplified by the function one-over-x? ■END■
Summary
Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 99.33 |
Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 85.50 |
Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 0% | 88.00 |
Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 90.50 |
North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 76.67 |
Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 73.40 |
Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 50% | 111.67 |
Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 79.50 |
South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 80.50 |
Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 99.50 |
Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 78.56 |
Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 90.33 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Rasheeq Azad | UNC B | William & Mary | 49 | 10 |
Alex Akridge | Indiana A | WashU B | 55 | 10 |
Philip Yao | Brown A | Tufts A | 57 | 10 |
Matthew Westley | Purdue | Iowa | 57 | -5 |
Cade Reinberger | RIT A | Cornell D | 57 | 10 |
Conor Thompson | Iowa State | Carleton | 62 | 10 |
Luke Robitaille | MIT A | UMass Boston | 62 | 10 |
Noah Chen | Columbia B | Yale A | 62 | 10 |
Danny Han | Penn A | Rutgers A | 62 | 10 |
Isaac Mammel | Maryland A | Johns Hopkins A | 62 | 10 |
Matthew Sumanen | Georgia Tech B | Vanderbilt A | 63 | 10 |
Henry Bon | Winona State | Minnesota B | 77 | 10 |
Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Carnegie Mellon A | 78 | 10 |
Karan Gurazada | Texas A | TAMU | 78 | 10 |
Coby Tran | Chicago C | Illinois A | 79 | 10 |
Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | Chicago D | 79 | 10 |
Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford B | Northwestern A | 79 | -5 |
Sophie Higgs | UW A | UBC | 79 | 10 |
Anne Fjeld | Alberta | UW B | 80 | 10 |
Vedh Ramesh | Penn B | Haverford A | 81 | 10 |
Ivan Stanisavljevic | Duke | Liberty A | 82 | 10 |
Joy An | Harvard A | Brandeis B | 82 | 10 |
Aditya Patnaik | Ohio State B | Michigan D | 83 | 10 |
Nikhil Nair | BU | Brandeis A | 83 | 10 |
Jerry Zhang | Harvard B | Dartmouth A | 83 | 10 |
Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Georgetown A | 83 | 10 |
Bryan Ugaz | ASU | Texas B | 83 | 10 |
Rohan Dalal | Georgia Tech C | Louisville A | 83 | 10 |
Zaid Asif | NYU B | George Washington B | 83 | 10 |
Richard Niu | Cornell B | NYU A | 83 | 10 |
William Broker | Haverford B | George Washington A | 83 | 10 |
Bill Zhao | Florida B | UCF C | 84 | 10 |
Sai Subramanian | Case Western A | Ohio State A | 84 | 10 |
Mitchell Indek | Michigan B | Michigan State | 84 | 10 |
Jiping Fang | Illinois C | Missouri | 84 | 10 |
Patrick Rivas-Giorgi | Columbia C | John Jay College | 84 | 10 |
Dennis Yang | Michigan C | Carnegie Mellon B | 85 | 10 |
Leo Law | Florida A | Valencia A | 88 | 10 |
Alec Riso | Cornell C | Binghamton A | 88 | 10 |
Chase Woodson | Virginia A | UNC D | 90 | 10 |
Ruchir Kodihalli | Case Western B | Kenyon | 91 | -5 |
Will Huang | Wisconsin A | Wisconsin B | 91 | 10 |
Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | UNC C | 98 | 10 |
Ian Switzer | Kenyon | Case Western B | 99 | 10 |
Sam Macchi | Vassar A | Maryland B | 107 | 10 |
Liam Starnes | Chicago B | Illinois B | 120 | 10 |
Miller Doerr | Liberty B | South Carolina | 121 | 10 |
Juan Landaeta | Florida State A | UCF B | 126 | 10 |
Adam Pascoe | Wake Forest | Liberty C | 126 | 0 |
Alexandra Knight | Liberty C | Wake Forest | 126 | 0 |
Collin Nadarajah | WashU A | Indiana B | 126 | 10 |
Patrick Boyle | Notre Dame C | Notre Dame B | 126 | 10 |
Nikhil Chellam | Northwestern A | Stanford B | 126 | 10 |
Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Georgia Tech A | 126 | 0 |
Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Tennessee A | 126 | 10 |
Jackson McDonald | Alabama A | Bruin A | 126 | 10 |
Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Alabama A | 126 | 0 |
Jared Schwartz | RIT B | ESF A | 126 | 10 |