Recent Comments
Giving a talk at Eli… on Academic Degrees and Sex Johan Aspegren on To Cheer You Up in Difficult T… To cheer you up in d… on Another sensation – Anni… Gil Kalai on To Cheer You Up in Difficult T… Gil Kalai on To Cheer You Up in Difficult T… Alexander Barvinok on To Cheer You Up in Difficult T… Kevin on To Cheer You Up in Difficult T… Gil Kalai on To Cheer You Up in Difficult T… Arseniy on To Cheer You Up in Difficult T… Alexander Barvinok on To Cheer You Up in Difficult T… uniform on To Cheer You Up in Difficult T… Arseniy on To Cheer You Up in Difficult T…
Monthly Archives: July 2011
In how many ways you can chose a committee of three students from a class of ten students?
The renewed interest in this old post, reminded me of a more recent event: Question: In how many ways you can chose a committee of three students from a class of ten students? My expected answer: which is 120. Alternative … Continue reading
Posted in Mathematics to the rescue, Riddles, Teaching
1 Comment
Joe’s 100th MO question
MathOverflow is a remarkable recent platform for research level questions and answers in mathematics. Joe O’Rourke have asked over MO wonderful questions. (Here is a link to the questions) Many of those questions can be the starting point of a research … Continue reading
Posted in Mathematics over the Internet, Open problems
Tagged Joseph O'Rourke, Mathoverflow, planetMO
5 Comments
A Couple Updates on the Advances-in-Combinatorics Updates
In a recent post I mentioned quite a few remarkable recent developments in combinatorics. Let me mention a couple more. Independent sets in regular graphs A challenging conjecture by Noga Alon and Jeff Kahn in graph theory was about the number of … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Open problems, Updates
Tagged Independent sets in graphs, Roth's theorem
4 Comments
