Bonus
The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture concerns the number of rational solutions to equations defining these objects. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these objects that when defined over the rationals are related to modular forms by the Taniyama–Shimura conjecture.
ANSWER: elliptic curves [prompt on partial answer; prompt on ECs; reject “ellipses”; reject “ellipsoid”]
[10e] The Taniyama–Shimura conjecture implies that this theorem is true. A proof of this theorem was released in 1994 by Andrew Wiles more than 350 years after its initial statement.
ANSWER: Fermat’s last theorem [prompt on Fermat’s theorem; prompt on FLT; reject “Fermat’s little theorem”]
[10h] The Taniyama–Shimura conjecture is a special case of a more general set of conjectures named after this mathematician. A group of conjectures named after this mathematician links automorphic forms and representation theory to Galois theory and has been called the “grand unified theory of mathematics.”
ANSWER: Robert Langlands [accept Langlands conjectures or Langlands program]
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Conversion
Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Arizona State | Columbia B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
Chicago A | Michigan | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
Florida | Iowa State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
Georgia State | Ohio State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
Georgia Tech | North Carolina B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
Illinois A | RIT | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
MIT | Illinois B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
Maryland | Vanderbilt | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
Minnesota | Columbia A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
Northwestern | Johns Hopkins | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Ottawa | North Carolina A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
Penn State | Chicago B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
Rutgers | Toronto C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Stanford | UCF | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
Toronto B | British Columbia | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
UC Berkeley A | Waterloo B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
Virginia Tech | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EH |
WUSTL A | Cornell B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
WUSTL B | Winona State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
Waterloo A | Cornell A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
Yale | Indiana | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
Summary
Tournament | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2025 ACF Nationals | Yes | 21 | 22.86 | 100% | 86% | 43% |