Acknowledgements

The Purple Comet! Math Meet is run by the AwesomeMath Summer Program. We wish to acknowledge the many years of support it received from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Department of Mathematical & Computer Sciences.

We also thank Hudson River Trading for their generous financial backing. Hudson River Trading is one of the world’s leading quantitative trading firms, powered by a community of curious and technical minds who share a passion for complex problems, cutting-edge tech, and elegant code. They welcome deep thinkers from a range of backgrounds—whether your expertise lies in math, computer science, physics, or beyond.

Thank you to the proofreaders for our 2025 contest.

• David Altizio
• Chris Jeuell
• Daniel Kane
• David Wells

Thank you to the translators for our 2025 contest.

• Abdul Samad Shams
• Abdulaziz Obaid
• Yagub Aliyev
• Ashraful Al Shakur
• Mariya Soskova
• Yunzhi Zou
• Michaela Hlasek
• Janne Nurminen
• Christelle Vincent
• Steffen Lempp
• Ilias Diakonikolas
• Kamal Lohia
• Tamas Szabo
• Toshihiko Nakazawa
• Oh Hoon Kwon
• Soheil Farshbaf
• Roman Sznajder
• Carlos Shine
• Robert Rogozsan
• Ilya Gurevic
• Jelena Diakonikolas
• Erik Novák
• Gordon Swain
• Nathadon Sukkaew
• Sibel Cansu
• Merdangeldi Bayramov
• Hoang Nguyen