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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 2017
Thilo Weinert: Transfinite Ramsey Numbers
This is first of three posts kindly written by Thilo Weinert Recently Gil asked me whether I would like to contribute to his blog and I am happy to do so. I enjoy both finite and infinite combinatorics and it … Continue reading
Timothy Chow Launched Polymath12 on Rota Basis Conjecture and Other News
Polymath12 Timothy Chow launched polymath12 devoted to the Rota Basis conjecture on the polymathblog. A classic paper on the subject is the 1989 paper by Rosa Huang and Gian Carlo-Rota. Let me mention a strong version of Rota’s conjecture (Conjecture … Continue reading
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Proof By Lice!
From camels to lice. (A proof promised here.) Theorem (Hopf and Pannwitz, 1934): Let be a set of points in the plane in general position (no three points on a line) and consider line segments whose endpoints are in . Then … Continue reading
The seventeen camels riddle, and Noga Alon’s camel proof and algorithms
Three children inherited 17 camels. The will gave one half to one child, one third to a second child and one ninth to the third. The children did not know what to do and a neighbor offered to lend them … Continue reading
Edmund Landau and the Early Days of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Some personal/historical remarks in first minutes of my lecture at 7ECM on July 2016… German-Jewish mathematicians in the early days of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Being invited to give a plenary lecture at the 7ECM was a great honor … Continue reading