Hi all, I realized that many current math and physics communities don’t really have a “shared activity” that is low commitment and allows members to have something to talk about. For example, there are 300,000 members in the Mathematics discord, but many do not participate and just drop off. Usually this happens if there isn’t a shared activity for members to engage in.
Recently, I built a NYT-Connections-Style game. It’s basically connections but all concepts are graduate and research level topics from math and physics. The physics part will cover everything (condensed matter, quantum gravity, particle physics, etc). The math part will be heavily algebra (think Langlands program), number theory and topology. (Why doesn’t the math part cover more topics? That’s a personal failing.) I also intend to sprinkle in some applications and relations with other fields (probably mainly biology, neuroscience and some poetry) to keep the trivia aspect interesting. Hopefully we can all learn something.
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Games will not be daily. They will be released at 8 PM EST Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. Four daily attempts are allowed, for now. Answers will be released on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, naturally.
Scoring: All categories are worth 1 point but using only 1 attempt earns you a multiplier of 3.1415 (pi). 2 attempts, 3 (speed of light). 3 attempts, 2.718 (Euler's number). 4 attempts, 1.602 (charge of the electron).
Example categories:
- Bulk edge correspondence
- Objects that do not vanish in the Langlands Conjecture
- Theorized but unobserved particles
- Types of L functions
- Discrete functions in number theory
- Entropy formulas and theorems
- Manifestations of nontrivial topology
- Parts of an MRI machine
Notes:
- The hardest categories will be based on semi-well-known papers, use specific techniques (ex: some specific kind of integral transform like the Mellin transform) or be a play on words.
- No calculations will ever be needed.
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If you have any questions, comment or DM me. Or email me at felex AT mathandphysicsconnections DOT com
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