Princeton University Math Club

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Chinese speaker in Princeton over the summer?
There’s a group of students from a prestigious Chinese high school who are interested in PUMaC (possibly the Power Competition). They’re planning on visiting Princeton (and other places around here) sometime in the beginning of August, and they’d like to meet someone (ideally) involved with PUMaC. Basically, they want to chat about what life is like at an Ivy League university (corny, I know) and what PUMaC is like. If any Chinese-speaking people will be around during August and would be willing to do this, please send an email to Sterling.

Math Tutor – summer and beyond
“I’m wondering if you might know of someone who could help tutor me in Calculus, Linear Algebra and Advance Calculus–hopefully, someone who has a good grasp of Analysis AND has the ability to explain things well. My goal is to work through the problems in Rudin’s Principles of Mathematical Analysis textbook. I’m looking to start at the end of the month and go straight through the summer. If things go well, then I would continue in September.”
If you’re around and interested, his name is Ed Chang.

PUMaC T-shirt design
If anyone has any ideas for a design for the PUMaC shirt, please send an email to Minh-Tam Trinh.

Hi everyone,

First, I want to announce the students who were selected to compete in the IMC this summer:

Adam Hesterberg
Arjun Landes
Daniel Kriz
Cosmin Pohoata
Andy Zhu

Results from the banquet:

(1) Feng Zhu won with the number 7. (The next smallest unique number was 14; the mode was 1.)

(2) Andrew Ardito won with the number 25. (2/3 of the average was 25.517).

(3) Adam Hesterberg wrote the largest number – taking the maximum over the number of steps a Turing machine with a large number of states can run for before halting. Runners-up are Erick Knight and Jennifer Tang.

For the third, as always, there were many solutions that were declared invalid by not being well-defined:
- Some people tried to call everyone else’s submissions, including submissions that were not well-defined.
- One person tried to take the product of everyone else’s well-defined submissions, but another individual had submitted 0.
- Another decided to try and create an exponential tower of factorials of other submissions, which was not well-defined for non-natural number submissions.
- Another wrote out a couple of lines of Knuth up-arrow notation and said that the “pattern should be repeated n times”, but there was not information to determine what the pattern should be.
- A couple of people tried to reference last year’s winner, but there was not a (unique) winner last year.
- Most other solutions attempting to reference other submissions were deemed invalid. Some did not make sense (e.g., John Pardon + 1 is not a number), and most others were too vague (a popular choice was Adam Hesterberg’s number + 1, but “Adam’s Hesterburg’s number” is again not a well-defined quantity).
- Sam Shideler also would have had a winning entry but neglected to mention a proper unit of measure.

Sarah

Hi everyone,

The end of the year math club banquet is a little over a week away.  It will be on Thursday May 5 at 6 pm in the PL.  If you want to attend, please RSVP as soon as possible by emailing Ashwath or Sarah.  Food will be from Shanghai Park, and there is no cost to attend.