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k a My Retirement & New Leadership at AoPS
rrusczyk   1571
N Mar 26, 2025 by SmartGroot
I write today to announce my retirement as CEO from Art of Problem Solving. When I founded AoPS 22 years ago, I never imagined that we would reach so many students and families, or that we would find so many channels through which we discover, inspire, and train the great problem solvers of the next generation. I am very proud of all we have accomplished and I’m thankful for the many supporters who provided inspiration and encouragement along the way. I'm particularly grateful to all of the wonderful members of the AoPS Community!

I’m delighted to introduce our new leaders - Ben Kornell and Andrew Sutherland. Ben has extensive experience in education and edtech prior to joining AoPS as my successor as CEO, including starting like I did as a classroom teacher. He has a deep understanding of the value of our work because he’s an AoPS parent! Meanwhile, Andrew and I have common roots as founders of education companies; he launched Quizlet at age 15! His journey from founder to MIT to technology and product leader as our Chief Product Officer traces a pathway many of our students will follow in the years to come.

Thank you again for your support for Art of Problem Solving and we look forward to working with millions more wonderful problem solvers in the years to come.

And special thanks to all of the amazing AoPS team members who have helped build AoPS. We’ve come a long way from here:IMAGE
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Mar 24, 2025
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k a March Highlights and 2025 AoPS Online Class Information
jlacosta   0
Mar 2, 2025
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N 14 minutes ago by cursed_tangent1434
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The diagonals of a cyclic quadrilateral $ABCD$ intersect at $P$, and there exist a circle $\Gamma$ tangent to the extensions of $AB,BC,AD,DC$ at $X,Y,Z,T$ respectively. Circle $\Omega$ passes through points $A,B$, and is externally tangent to circle $\Gamma$ at $S$. Prove that $SP\perp ST$.
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Dih(28)
aRb   2
N 5 hours ago by ihatemath123
Source: Sylow p-subgroups
$ Dih(28)$

Need to find elements of order $ 2, 4, 7$.

$ 28= 2^2*7$

14 reflections (of order 2) and 14 rotations.

First look at $ n_7$.

$ n_{7}$ $ \equiv$ 1 (mod 7)

A unique Sylow 7-subgroup of order 7. No reflections in this subgroup (as they are of order 2).

There are 7 rotations (including identity).

So, if <x> are rotations and <y> are reflections, then in the Sylow 7-subgroup of order 7 there are only elements generated by x.

$ {1, x^7}$ are of order 2. $ x^2$ is of order 7? No elements of order 4 in in the Sylow 7-subgroup.



Looking at $ n_2$.

$ n_{2}$ $ \equiv$ 1 (mod 2)

The Sylow 2-subgroup is of order 4.

as we have $ 2^2$, does this mean that there are no elements of order 2 in the Sylow-2 subgroup, but only elements of order 4.

I need to find:

(1) elements of order $ 2, 4, 7$ in Dih(28)
(2) list the Sylow 2-subgroups and the Sylow 7-subgroups.

Not sure if I am going in the right direction with this...

Any help would be appreciated!
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Let \( A = (a_{ij}) \) be a nonzero square matrix of order \( n \) satisfying
\[
a_{ik} a_{jk} = a_{kk} a_{ij}, \quad \text{for all } i, j, k.
\]Denote by \( \operatorname{tr}(A) \) the trace of \( A \), which is the sum of the diagonal elements of \( A \).

a) Prove that \( \operatorname{tr}(A) \neq 0 \).

b) Compute the characteristic polynomial of \( A \) in terms of \( \operatorname{tr}(A) \).
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RenheMiResembleRice   1
N Yesterday at 4:20 PM by Mathzeus1024
$\begin{pmatrix}X\left(t\right)\\ Y\left(t\right)\end{pmatrix}=\begin{pmatrix}\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}&-\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\\ \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}&\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\end{pmatrix}\begin{pmatrix}x\left(t\right)\\ y\left(t\right)\end{pmatrix}$

$X\left(t\right)=a_1e^t+a_2e^{-t}+a_3$
Find $a_1$, $a_2$, and $a_3$.
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N Yesterday at 3:10 PM by rchokler
Q) We know that the PDF of normal distribution of $X$ id defined by
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how to integrate ${-\infty} \to x$
please help
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2025 Caucasus MO Seniors P6
BR1F1SZ   1
N Mar 26, 2025 by pco
Source: Caucasus MO
It is known that from segments of lengths $a$, $b$ and $c$, a triangle can be formed. Can it happen that from segments of lengths$$\sqrt{a^2 + bc}, \quad \sqrt{b^2 + ca}, \quad \sqrt{c^2 + ab}$$an obtuse triangle can be formed?
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2025 Caucasus MO Seniors P6
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BR1F1SZ wrote:
It is known that from segments of lengths $a$, $b$ and $c$, a triangle can be formed. Can it happen that from segments of lengths$$\sqrt{a^2 + bc}, \quad \sqrt{b^2 + ca}, \quad \sqrt{c^2 + ab}$$an obtuse triangle can be formed?
Second triangle obtuse means square of one side is greater than sum of squares of the two others.
So WLOG $a^2+bc>b^2+ca+c^2+ab$

This is $\left(a-\frac {b+c}2\right)^2>\frac{5b^2+5c^2-2bc}4$
But $b+c>a>0$ implies $\left|a-\frac{b+c}2\right|<\frac{b+c}2$ and so $\left(a-\frac {b+c}2\right)^2<\frac{(b+c)^2}4$

And so we have $\frac{(b+c)^2}4>\frac{5b^2+5c^2-2bc}4$

Which is $b^2+c^2<bc$, which is impossible.

So No.
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