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- Amazing: Jinyoung Park and Huy Tuan Pham settled the expectation threshold conjecture!
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- TYI 30: Expected number of Dice throws
- Answer: Lord Kelvin, The Age of the Earth, and the Age of the Sun
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Monthly Archives: April 2019
Are Natural Mathematical Problems Bad Problems?
One unique aspect of the conference “Visions in Mathematics Towards 2000” (see the previous post) was that there were several discussion sessions where speakers and other participants presented some thoughts about mathematics (or some specific areas), discussed and argued. In … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Conferences, Open discussion, What is Mathematics
Tagged Misha Gromov
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An Invitation to a Conference: Visions in Mathematics towards 2000
Let me invite you to a conference. The conference took place in 1999 but only recently the 57 videos of the lectures and the discussion sessions are publicly available. (I thank Vitali Milman for telling me about it.) One novel … Continue reading
The (Random) Matrix and more
Three pictures, and a few related links. Van Vu Spoiler: In one of the most intense scenes, the protagonist, with his bare hands and against all odds, took care of the mighty Wigner semi-circle law in two different ways. (From … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, People, What is Mathematics
Tagged Alfréd Rényi, András Hajnal, Catherine Rényi, Paul Erdos, Saharon Shelah, Sándor Szalai, Van Vu
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Gothenburg, Stockholm, Lancaster, Mitzpe Ramon, and Israeli Election Day 2019
Lancaster – Watching the outcomes of the Israeli elections (photo: Andrey Kupavskii) Sweden I just came back from a trip to Sweden and the U.K. I was invited to Gothenburg to be the opponent for a Ph. D. Candidate Malin … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Probability, Updates
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