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, (15[1]-5[1])which states that any substantial set has arbitrarily long (15[1])arithmetic progressions. This person is the alphabetically first namesake of a model used to generate random graphs given a fixed number of nodes and edges. Along with George (*) Szekeres (“SEK-eh-resh”), this man (10[1])proved the first upper bound for Ramsey (10[1])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 whose 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 LiSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of DonutShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere31-5
Jananan ArulseelanThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork OrangeYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit3115
Asha BasuI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken4015
Kunaal Chandrashekaras rational as the square root of two power bottomsRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers7110
Aaron Dos RemediosModerator Can't Neg me While in AlphaCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country7810
Nameer QadirShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA InterfereSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut12410

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