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Monthly Archives: March 2021
What is mathematics (or at least, how it feels)
(I suppose that this amazing picture can serve as a metaphor also for life, for science, for human rights, for happiness and for a variety of other things.) Picture: AFP Suez Canal: the Ever Green ship blockage.
Alef’s Corner
After Picasso 1955. Happy Passover to all our readers. More from Alef’s corner
To cheer you up in difficult times 22: some mathematical news! (Part 1)
To cheer you up, in these difficult times, here are (in two parts) some mathematical news that I heard in personal communications or on social media. (Maybe I will write later, in more details, about few of them that are … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Convex polytopes, Convexity, Geometry
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Cheerful News in Difficult Times: The Abel Prize is Awarded to László Lovász and Avi Wigderson
The Abel Prize was awarded earlier today to László Lovász and Avi Wigderson “for their foundational contributions to theoretical computer science and discrete mathematics, and their leading role in shaping them into central fields of modern mathematics.” Congratulations to Laci … Continue reading
Amazing: Feng Pan and Pan Zhang Announced a Way to “Spoof” (Classically Simulate) the Google’s Quantum Supremacy Circuit!
Feng Pan and Pan Zhang uploaded a new paper on the arXive “Simulating the Sycamore supremacy circuits.” with an amazing announcement. Abstract: We propose a general tensor network method for simulating quantum circuits. The method is massively more efficient in … Continue reading
Posted in Computer Science and Optimization, Physics, Quantum
Tagged Feng Pan, Pan Zhang, Quantum computation
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Combinatorics and more 