Question

Any five points in the plane contain a convex quadrilateral according to this person’s so-called “happy ending problem.” (15[1])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. (15[1])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 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 namesake “number” quantifies distance from him via coauthorship of papers. ■END■

ANSWER: Paul Erdős (“AIR-dish”) [or Erdős Pál; accept Erdős number; accept the Erdős–Rényi model]
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Swapnil GargBerkeleyA is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs1715
Tim MorrisonStanford+number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku4215
Anuttam RamjiCry of the Common LoonWhere are the ACF Nationals recordings?11210

Summary

2024 ARGOS @ Stanford02/22/2025Y3100%67%0%57.00
2024 ARGOS Online03/22/2025Y3100%33%33%84.67
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis03/22/2025Y367%33%67%93.00
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster11/17/2024Y5100%40%20%68.80
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia11/23/2024Y3100%0%33%116.33
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago11/23/2024Y6100%67%17%72.33
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College12/14/2024Y3100%100%0%59.67