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Part of 2013 Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament

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2013 HMMT Guts #36: Mathematicians Born Apart

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3/26/2013
(Mathematicians A to Z) Below are the names of 26 mathematicians, one for each letter of the alphabet. Your answer to this question should be a subset of {A,B,⋯ ,Z}\{A,B,\cdots,Z\}, where each letter represents the corresponding mathematician. If two mathematicians in your subset have birthdates that are within 2020 years of each other, then your score is 00. Otherwise, your score is max⁡(3(k−3),0)\max(3(k-3),0) where kk is the number of elements in your set.
\begin{tabular}{cc}Niels Abel & Isaac Newton\\Etienne Bezout & Nicole Oresme \\ Augustin-Louis Cauchy & Blaise Pascal \\ Rene Descartes & Daniel Quillen \\ Leonhard Euler & Bernhard Riemann\\ Pierre Fatou & Jean-Pierre Serre \\ Alexander Grothendieck & Alan Turing \\ David Hilbert & Stanislaw Ulam \\ Kenkichi Iwasawa & John Venn \\ Carl Jacobi & Andrew Wiles \\ Andrey Kolmogorov & Leonardo Ximenes \\ Joseph-Louis Lagrange & Shing-Tung Yau \\ John Milnor & Ernst Zermelo\end{tabular}
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