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Monthly Archives: April 2020
Harsanyi’s Sweater
Today is the Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel. Here is a moving story from the paper about John Harsanyi, Harsanyi’s Sweater, by Robert J. Aumann. It is 1944 in Budapest, and John is in his early twenties. He has been … Continue reading
To cheer you up in difficult times II: Mysterious matching news by Gal Beniamini, Naom Nisan, Vijay Vazirani and Thorben Tröbst!
Matching is one of the richest gold mines for ideas and results in mathematics, computer science and other areas. Today I want to briefly tell you about a curious, surprising, mysterious, and cheerful recent result by Gal Beniamini and Noam … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Computer Science and Optimization
Tagged Gal Beniamini, Naom Nisan, Thorben Tröbst, Vijay Vazirani
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Trees not Cubes! Memories of Boris Tsirelson
This post is devoted to a few memories of Boris Tsirelson who passed away at the end of January. I would like to mention that a few days ago graph theorist Robin Thomas passed away after long battle with ALS. … Continue reading