Today: 2008 T-shirt text

[sniffnoy]

Picture on the front is a Sieve of Eratosthenes in Z[i]. Front quote:

By day we experience; by night we describe.
G. H. Stevens

The back! It begins "20!=243290" and then there is a massive "2008" (in two rows) that makes up the main text, concluded by "176640000" and then a picture of an icosahedron. You'll notice there's a lot of 20s on this thing, because it's PROMYS's 20th year. Anyway...

We make mistakes when we think, but that's not a reason not to think • Stephan Aelmore • Harry Altman₁ • Potato • Ruslan Ardashev • Andrew Ardito • Byoung Tae Bae • Should we check associativity? Never. Never in public • Margy Baruch • Rebecca Bellovin₂ • Satvik Beri₃ • Tim, you don't get to decide whether or not you're happy • Katrina Biele • Jason Bland₄ • Jeremy Booher₅ • Ideals are contagious under multiplication • Ethan Cecchetti • Peter Cha • K Chah • e^π-π • Yehna Chang • Jeff Chen • Jerry Chen • PROMYS needs sleep! • Joy Chen • Ashley Cho • Eugene Choi • Ian Choi • Is there a janitor in U₈? • Zev Chonoles • Daway Chou-Ren • It's not the size of your cube that matters, it's how you use it • Sam Connolly • Keith Conrad • Kate Coughlin • Our strategy is to find small numbers and exploit them • Lucas Jesus Culler₆ • Krishnan Dasaratha • I was dancing on the line between genius and insanity, but now I'm pretty far into the insane part • Andrew Ding • Shanshan Ding • I have invented five new ways to eat a banana • Evan Dummit₈ • I want to grow up to be a crazy cat lady and throw bricks at children • Gabby Ehrlich • Win a date with • Phil Engel₉ • Crazy Carl Erickson₁₀ • Peter Fedak • Page 17. GO! • Ahram Feigenbaum • Contact • Tony Feng • Explanations cease to be explanations when they become understandable • Fergie₁₁ • David Fried • Allan Gardner • mm-ah when the little green frog one day, mm-ah went the little green frog • Adam Gleitman • Keren Gu • Warning: May Contain Nuts • Nadir Hajouji • Pigs in Love • Taejun Ham • Haley Han • Dave Hansen₁₂ • Philip Huang • Jonathan Hung • Ben Hsu • R Kelly • Young-Soo Jang • I believe I can fly • Ha-young Kang • Sangwoo Kim • Jeremy Booher, 2007 • Erick Knight • Kevin Koh • Tim Kunisky • The division algorithm is moving at a breakneck pace today • Watson Ladd • Hyoung-Gyu Lee • Jean Lee • Kyumin Lee • Bran-bran • Brandon Levin₁₃ • Victor Li • Lei M. Lim • Li-. Lim • Li-Mei Lim₁₄ • Sam Lite • Yani Lu • Christine McMeekin₁₅ • Adam Merberg₁₆ • If chickens grew out of the ground, would vegetarians eat them? • Djordjo Milovic₁₇ • Jake Mirra • I miss conics • Sam Mundy • Kanna Nakamura₁₈ • Katie O'Malley • Where's my hot pot?! • Jungsoo Park • Will Perry • Anne Petit • Introducing... the PROMYS Girls! • Jocelyn Pitman • Victoria Png • Rob Pollack • It's an important theorem, called the Orbit-Stabilizer Theorem. It was a joint work • Zach Rivkin • Steve Rosenberg • Don't be fooled by the late-night commercials for group actions • Anir Sankar • Jenny Shen • Sachin Shinde • Aaron Silberstein • Give us a smile, you're the Smillie-man • Peter Smillie₁₉ • Young-hyun Song • Alison Sonnenschein • Vlad Sotirov • These are the pitfalls of rigor. Don't fall into them • Will Steadman • Ander Steele • Jason Steinberg • I am Batman! • Glenn H. Stevens • Eyes help us tell the difference between Z and a walrus • Matt Tanzer • Dora Tao • Patrick Tenorio • Jamie Tsao • Amy Ravioli • Ila Varma₂₀ • Raku Watari • Daniel Wu • If everything else fails, WOP it • Melody Wu • Jay Yang • Paul Yuan • If a man jumps off a cliff, and there is a lattice of spikes below him... • Josh Zelinsky • Richard Zhang • Kevin Zhao • Andy Zucker • Q.E.Disaster ∎

Notes and explanations:
"Harry Altman₁": Hey, there's 20 counselors, so to get in another 20, they numbered them.
"Ideals are contagious...": I'd just like to note that I introduced this statement.
"Is there a janitor...": Apparently this was a mispronunciation of "generator"?
"Lucas Jesus...": Despite the repeated assertion that "everyone" calls him "Jesus", I never heard a single person actually do this.
"mm-ah went the little green frog...": From the "frog song" Allan performed at the talent show.
"Warning:": I have no idea what this is referring to.
"Jeremy Booher, 2007": Apparently they accidentally left him off the 2007 shirt.
"The division algorithm...": By which he meant the conveyor belt. Not as good, I think, as the Tim quote I tried to get on - "Did you just call me odd? I'm not odd! I'll BURN you!"
"Introducing...": A dance act at the talent show.
"I am Batman!": Exclaimed by Glenn during lecture in reference to a certain diagram.
"Amy Ravioli": A reanalysis of "amravali".

-Harry

Comments

[ramennoodle463.livejournal.com]

krishnan dasaratha was in my calc class.

[sniffnoy.livejournal.com]

The same one? Because you're about to be a third-year, while this kid is going into 12th grade, IIRC. That puts 3 years between you. So if we assume it's the same guy, either this kid was taking calculus classes as a freshman in high school, or he was somehow taking classes at Uchicago. I guess the latter isn't so ridiculous, but I hadn't heard of high school kids in the classes here before, so unless you can provide more detail, my thinking would be it's probably not the same guy.

[ramennoodle463.livejournal.com]

it is i talked to him

he was also in my geometry and precalc classes. he would get driven over from the middle school.

[sivakrytos.livejournal.com]

there was a labbie in honors analysis this last year