Question
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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Summary
| 2023 Chicago Open | 08/05/2023 | Y | 9 | 14.44 | 89% | 33% | 22% |
Data
| I would prefer not to | Romanos IV Diogenes’ Macaroni Grill | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Quasicrystal Silence | remembrance of lost time | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Saint Peter Andre 3000 | Hang et al., Robert Browning | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Teach Us to Outgrow Our Ladness | Curse you, Periplus the Platypus! | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Don't be Afraid, the Clown's Afraid Too | Team Name Think Detail | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| I prefer really not to speak. If I speak I’m in big trouble | The Canadians | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| The Plague (anime)" was redirected to: "Oran High School Host Club | The Catastrophic Implosion of Packet Sub | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| BHSU | wave2: trimming membership codes 9655377758gp | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Evans Hall destruction awaiters | [moderator voice] yes that is so tenpointscore! is your team feeling bonuspilled? | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |