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- To cheer you up in difficult times 21: Giles Gardam lecture and new result on Kaplansky’s conjectures
- Nostalgia corner: John Riordan’s referee report of my first paper
- At the Movies III: Picture a Scientist
- At the Movies II: Kobi Mizrahi’s short movie White Eye makes it to the Oscar’s short list.
- And the Oscar goes to: Meir Feder, Zvi Reznic, Guy Dorman, and Ron Yogev
- Thomas Vidick: What it is that we do
- To cheer you up in difficult times 20: Ben Green presents super-polynomial lower bounds for off-diagonal van der Waerden numbers W(3,k)
- To cheer you up in difficult times 19: Nati Linial and Adi Shraibman construct larger corner-free sets from better numbers-on-the-forehead protocols
- Possible future Polymath projects (2009, 2021)
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- To Cheer You Up in Difficult Times 15: Yuansi Chen Achieved a Major Breakthrough on Bourgain's Slicing Problem and the Kannan, Lovász and Simonovits Conjecture
- To cheer you up in difficult times 21: Giles Gardam lecture and new result on Kaplansky's conjectures
- TYI 30: Expected number of Dice throws
- 8866128975287528³+(-8778405442862239)³+(-2736111468807040)³
- The Argument Against Quantum Computers - A Very Short Introduction
- Answer: Lord Kelvin, The Age of the Earth, and the Age of the Sun
- Amazing: Zhengfeng Ji, Anand Natarajan, Thomas Vidick, John Wright, and Henry Yuen proved that MIP* = RE and thus disproved Connes 1976 Embedding Conjecture, and provided a negative answer to Tsirelson's problem.
- Possible future Polymath projects (2009, 2021)
- Photonic Huge Quantum Advantage ???
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Monthly Archives: February 2011
The AC0 Prime Number Conjecture
Möbius randomness and computational complexity Last spring Peter Sarnak gave a thought-provoking lecture in Jerusalem. (Here are the very interesting slides of a similar lecture at I.A.S.) Here is a variation of the type of questions Peter has raised. The Prime … Continue reading
Believing that the Earth is Round When it Matters
A world map. Canada seems much bigger than Israel. Note, however, that in the map countries near the equator looks smaller than they are. Update: The round-earth hypothesis is clearer to the people of New Zealand; see the comments section. … Continue reading
Mathematics to the Rescue: Computing the Root of all Evil
Michael Joswig pointed my attention to the following unbelievable front page of the Frankfurter Allgemeine.