Carl Friedrich Gauss - 2025 ACF Fall

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It’s not Legendre (“luh-JOND”), but this mathematician names a (-5[1])method of computing the integrals of polynomials, his namesake quadrature. (10[2]-5[2])It’s not (10[1])Ostrogradsky, (10[1])but this man (10[1])sometimes gives his name (10[1])to the Divergence (10[1])Theorem, (10[1])as well as to the set obtained by (10[1])adjoining i to the integers. (10[5])This man (10[2])published (10[1])the (10[1])Theorema (10[1]-5[2])Egregium, (10[2])which concerns (10[1])his namesake (10[1])curvature (10[1])for surfaces. (10[3]-5[2])This man (10[2]-5[1])names (-5[1])a function whose simplest form (10[1])is the exponential of (10[1])minus x (10[1]-5[1])squared. (10[4]-5[2])Systems (10[2])of (10[2])linear (10[3])equations (10[3])can be solved (10[2])by (10[1])this man’s (10[2])namesake elimination, (10[16]-5[1])and (10[1])he also (10[2])names (10[3])a (10[1])distribution (10[1])whose (10[1])graph is a bell curve. (10[3])For 10 (10[1])points, name this (10[1])mathematician (10[1])who gives his name (10[1])to another name for the normal distribution. ■END■ (10[9]0[4])

ANSWER: Carl Friedrich Gauss [accept Gaussian quadrature; accept Gauss’s theorem; accept Gaussian integers; accept Gaussian curvature; accept Gaussian; accept Gaussian elimination]

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Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Charlotte Nicholas	Durham B	Edinburgh C	7	-5
Danny Han	Stanford B	Stanford A	17	10
Rishi Mathur	Claremont B	UCSD B	17	10
Salil Jain	Williams B	Boston College B	17	-5
Logan Van Pelt	Washington Coho	Washington Atlantic	17	-5
Zachary Bornstein	Virginia Tech A	JMU B	19	10
Nate Brown	CWRU C	Ohio State B	20	10
Joseph Wang	UCLA E	Claremont A	23	10
Chris Chang	USC A	UCLA D	27	10
Johnathan Ahdout	Princeton	NYU A	30	10
Eames Weeks	Brown A	Dartmouth B	31	10
Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran	UC Santa Barbara	Claremont C	39	10
Cliodora Selyuzhitsky	UCSD A	UC Irvine	44	10
Anthony Gagliano	McGill A	Ottawa D	44	10
Taran Knutson	Michigan A	Louisville C	44	10
Will Huang	Wisconsin A	Iowa State	44	10
Surya Dinesh	MIT A	UConn A	44	10
Denali Tran-Le	McGill B	Ottawa B	46	10
Aidan Keenan	Rochester	Binghamton A	46	10
Skand Parvatikar	Arizona State B	British Columbia A	47	10
Nghia Khau	VCU A	NCSU B	48	10
Ana Torres	McGill C	Ottawa A	49	10
Aryan Malhotra	Rutgers C	Stony Brook	49	-5
Taiki Takahashi	Dartmouth C	Vermont A	49	-5
Pace Klein	CWRU B	Michigan State C	50	10
Daniel Huang	Georgia Tech D	Vanderbilt C	50	10
Andreas Ktori	Durham A	Edinburgh D	52	10
Ishan Pachauri	UCLA C	UCLA A	54	10
Vijay Hans	Berkeley Boss Bandit	Berkeley Little Prince	55	10
Brian Hobmann	UCLA F	USC B	57	10
Sai Subramanian	CWRU A	Michigan State A	57	-5
Daniel Lu	Washington Pink	Boise State	57	10
Sam Chernoff	Emory A	Clemson B	57	-5
Caleb Slusher	South Carolina A	Clemson A	57	10
Jonathan Ho	Alberta B	Arizona State A	59	10
Doug Frederick	Auburn A	Alabama A	59	-5
Danny Cutbill	RIT A	Binghamton B	59	10
Thaddeus Holmes	Durham C	York	60	-5
Suren Grigorian	Berkeley Mighty Miner	Berkeley Skeleton King	65	10
Bharath Ram	Georgia Tech A	Georgia A	69	10
Aaryan Sumesh	Berkeley Archer Queen	UCSC	71	10
Nick Smemoe	UNC A	JMU A	71	-5
Will Massey	Florida Tech B	ERAU Daytona A	72	-5
Gabe Rosen-Turits	NYU B	George Mason C	72	10
Alex Matchinski	Michigan Tech	Wisconsin B	72	-5
Rafael Gómez	Amherst B	Brandeis Mozart	72	10
Devon Kumar	Tufts C	Williams C	72	10
Coy Mier	Auburn B	Chipola College	72	10
Leonel Rodriquez	Virginia Tech B	UNC C	73	10
Andrew Wu	Columbia A	Rowan	73	10
Vikram Rajmohan	Amherst A	MIT B	74	10
David Xilbille	Georgia Tech C	Vanderbilt B	74	10
Rob Morris	Durham D	Sheffield B	75	10
Alex Forman	Cornell D	Cornell C	75	10
Alex Forman	Cornell D	Cornell C	75	10
June Miller	Florida A	UCF A	76	10
Jesse Mindel	NCSU A	Liberty C	76	10
Suyog Vibhuti	Washington Steelhead	Texas	76	10
Samuel Li	William & Mary A	UNC B	79	10
Pen Hughes	Edinburgh C	Durham B	79	10
Nishad Joshi	Kentucky	Louisville A	80	10
Rohit Chintala	Maryland B	Vassar A	82	10
Steven Su	Harvard	Southern Connecticut State University A	82	10
Ryan Gomes	Florida Tech A	Florida State A	84	10
Peter Zeng	Ohio State A	Louisville D	84	10
Matthew Stall	CWRU D	Michigan D	84	10
Artem Vovchenko	Ohio State C	WVU A	84	-5
Noah Fine	UNC D	Liberty B	84	10
Abigail Lee	Virginia Tech C	William & Mary B	84	10
Eric Morshed	Johns Hopkins	Lehigh A	84	10
Andrew Sklar	Vassar B	NYU C	84	10
Vivian Lu	Wisconsin C	Macalester	84	10
Zach Majorowicz	St. Thomas	Minnesota	84	10
Madeline Strauss	Tufts A	Brandeis Beethoven	84	10
Ethan Young	Williams A	Tufts B	84	10
Tri Lam	Washington Chum	Washington Sockeye	84	10
Niyanthi Yamunan	Georgia Tech E	Clemson C	84	10
Alina Moore	Tennessee A	Sewanne	84	10
Daniel Slater	Tennessee Tech	Vanderbilt A	84	10
Gabriel Nell	Cornell B	RIT B	84	10
Ryan Zhang	Washington State	Washington Masu	85	10
Nicholas Ryan	Lehigh B	Penn	87	10
Lily Katz	Stony Brook	Rutgers C	87	10
Matthew Wozniak	Michigan B	Michigan State B	88	10
Cooper Morris	Columbia B	Rutgers D	88	10
Indigo Khanna	Vermont B	Brown B	88	10
Alex Irvine	Sheffield A	Edinburgh B	89	10
Moses Dong	Georgia Tech F	Montevallo	90	10
Aaron Wang	Cornell A	Binghamton C	91	10
Jason Thieu	Michigan State A	CWRU A	96	10
Owen Gibbs	Boston College B	Williams B	96	10
Benjamin Turner	York	Durham C	96	10
Alden Thompson	Carleton A	Carleton B	98	10
Brandon Wiltse	Washington Chinook	British Columbia B	101	10
Matthew Andersen	Florida B	South Florida A	102	10
Kenner Bailey	Boston University A	Brandeis Bach	106	10
Charlie Rickards	Ottawa C	McGill E	114	10
Heidi Moyer	ERAU Daytona A	Florida Tech B	114	10
Daniel Huang	Michigan C	Pittsburgh	114	0
Zac Stapler	Pittsburgh	Michigan C	114	0
Josue Lopez	WVU A	Ohio State C	114	10
Mason Lambert	JMU A	UNC A	114	0
Nathan Redford	Liberty A	William & Mary C	114	0
Charles Miller	William & Mary C	Liberty A	114	10
Noah Lang	Wisconsin B	Michigan Tech	114	10
Cy Stavros	Vermont A	Dartmouth C	114	10
Jaime Wang	Washington Atlantic	Washington Coho	114	10
Jackson McDonald	Alabama A	Auburn A	114	10
Asheton Wilbanks	Clemson B	Emory A	114	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	TUH	Conv. %	Neg %	Average Buzz
UK (North)	UK	5	100%	40%	78.20
Northern California	US	4	100%	0%	52.00
Southern California	US	7	100%	0%	37.29
Eastern Canada (1)	US	5	100%	0%	70.20
Florida	US	4	100%	25%	94.00
Great Lakes	US	10	90%	20%	73.33
Lower Mid-Atlantic	US	9	89%	11%	72.13
Upper Mid-Atlantic	US	9	100%	11%	76.33
North	US	4	100%	25%	81.50
Northeast	US	12	100%	17%	78.92
Pacific	US	8	100%	13%	77.88
Southeast	US	11	100%	18%	81.09
Upstate NY	US	6	100%	0%	71.67