Question
Modifying an earlier statement, Pál Turán noted that weak forms of this substance are “only suitable for lemmas.” For 10 points each:
[10m] A habit of Paul Erdős and a pun on the German word satz may have inspired Alfréd Rényi’s quip that “a mathematician is a machine for turning” what substance “into theorems?”
ANSWER: coffee
[10e] The Scottish Café was a meeting place for mathematicians of topology and functional analysis from this country’s Lwów School, which grew in parallel to its Kraków and Warsaw schools.
ANSWER: Poland [or Republic of Poland or Rzeczpospolita Polska] (Lwów was in Poland at the time, but is located in modern-day Ukraine.)
[10h] Allegedly, stirring a cup of coffee inspired this man to formulate a namesake statement in algebraic topology, which he later used to prove the invariance of domain. This man argued in favor of intuitionism over the formalist “program” of David Hilbert in a 1920s debate.
ANSWER: Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer [or L. E. J. Brouwer]
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Summary
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
Data
| Waterloo Basic | Waterloo Aspidistra | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |