Question

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

ANSWER: Paul Erdős (“AIR-dish”) [or Erdős Pál; accept Erdős number; accept the Erdős–Rényi model]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Sky HongNJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess)Walston et. al.60-5
Isaac Kirk-Davidoffjeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan clubCope is the thing with feathers11210
David Bassjust one more half-dot bro12 Litres of Green Tea11310
Albert ZhangWalston et. al.NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess)12410

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