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Monthly Archives: June 2012
Eyal Sulganik: Towards a Theory of “Mathematical Accounting”
The following post was kindly contributed by Eyal Sulganik from IDC (Interdiciplinary Center) Herzliya. Eyal was motivated by our poll on certainty “beyond a reasonable doubt,” which is related to several issues in accounting. Mathematicians, I believe, are always looking … Continue reading
Knighted for Services to Mathematics
The Birthday and Diamond Jubilee Honours 2012 was released on 16 June 2012 in the United Kingdom and Tim Gowers was knighted for “services to mathematics”! So I suppose Tim is now becoming “Sir William.” It is possible that the Queen mainly … Continue reading
What does “beyond a reasonable doubt” practically mean?
(Motivated by two questions from Gowers’s How should mathematics be taught to non mathematicians.)
Posted in Law, Probability, Test your intuition
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A New Polymath Project: Hot Spots in Triangles
A new Polymath7 project proposed by Chris Evans is starting in the polymath blog.
Posted in Mathematics over the Internet, Updates
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Celebrations in Bar-Ilan, HU, and the Technion; A new blog: Windows on Theory; Turing’s celebration on “In Theory”; Graph Limits in Princeton
Last monday we had the annual meeting of the Israeli Mathematical Union (IMU) that took place this year in Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan. (IMU is famously also the acronym of the International Mathematical Union but in this post IMU will stand for “Isreali Mathematical Union.”) … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Updates
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