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Monthly Archives: January 2012
Fractional Sylvester-Gallai
Avi Wigderson was in town and gave a beautiful talk about an extension of Sylvester-Gallai theorem. Here is a link to the paper: Rank bounds for design matrices with applications to combinatorial geometry and locally correctable codes by Boaz Barak, Zeev … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Computer Science and Optimization, Geometry
Tagged Avi Wigderson, Codes, Greg Kuperberg, Sylvester-Gallai
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A Theorem About Infinite Cardinals Everybody Should Know
Cantor proved and we all know that for every cardinal we have This is a very basic fact about cardinal arithmetic and it is nice that the proof works for finite and infinite cardinals equally well. (For the finite case it … Continue reading
Posted in Mathematical logic and set theory
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