Monthly Archives: May 2020

To cheer you up in difficult times 5: A New Elementary Proof of the Prime Number Theorem by Florian K. Richter

Posted on May 30, 2020 by Gil Kalai

Here is a piece of news that will certainly cheer you up: Florian Richter found A new elementary proof of the prime number theorem. (I thank Tami Ziegler for telling me about the new result.) From left to right: Atle Selberg, … Continue reading →

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To cheer you up in difficult times 4: Women In Theory present — I will survive

Posted on May 11, 2020 by Gil Kalai

An amazing video (Update, May18 2020). I failed to explain what WIT is and this may have caused some misunderstanding. Here is a description from the Simons Institute site. “The Women in Theory (WIT) Workshop is intended for graduate and … Continue reading →

Posted in Academics, Combinatorics, Computer Science and Optimization, Convexity, Games, Philosophy, Poetry, What is Mathematics, Women in science | 14 Comments

To cheer you up in difficult times 3: A guest post by Noam Lifshitz on the new hypercontractivity inequality of Peter Keevash, Noam Lifshitz, Eoin Long and Dor Minzer

Posted on May 8, 2020 by Gil Kalai

This is a guest post kindly contributed by Noam Lifshitz. My short introduction: There is nothing like a new hypercontractivity inequality to cheer you up in difficult times and this post describes an amazing new hypercontractivity inequality.  The post describes … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis, Combinatorics, Computer Science and Optimization, Guest post, Poetry, Probability | Tagged , , , , | 4 Comments