Monthly Archives: August 2012

Looking Again at Erdős’ Discrepancy Problem

Posted on August 26, 2012 by

Over Gowers’s blog Tim and I will make an attempt to revisit polymath5. Last Autumn I prepared three posts on the problems and we decided to launch them now. The first post is here. Here is a related MathOverflow question. … Continue reading →

Posted in Combinatorics, Mathematics over the Internet, Open problems | 2 Comments

Tokyo, Kyoto, and Nagoya

Posted on August 20, 2012 by

Near Nagoya: Firework festival; Kyoto: with Gunter Ziegler; with Takayuki Hibi, Hibi, Marge Bayer, Curtis Green and Richard Stanly; Tokyo: Peter Frankl; crowded crossing I just returned from a trip to Japan to the FPSAC 2012 at Nagoya and a … Continue reading →

Posted in Combinatorics, Conferences, Convex polytopes | Tagged , , , | 2 Comments