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- Joshua Hinman proved Bárány’s conjecture on face numbers of polytopes, and Lei Xue proved a lower bound conjecture by Grünbaum.
- Amazing: Jinyoung Park and Huy Tuan Pham settled the expectation threshold conjecture!
- Combinatorial Convexity: A Wonderful New Book by Imre Bárány
- Chaim Even-Zohar, Tsviqa Lakrec, and Ran Tessler present: The Amplituhedron BCFW Triangulation
- Ehud Friedgut: How many cubes of 2×2×2 fit into a box of size 8×4×3? (TYI 49)
- Is HQCA Possible? A conversation with Michael Brooks
- To cheer you up in difficult times 35 combined with Test Your Intuition 48: Alef’s corner – Jazz and Math
- Reflections: On the Occasion of Ron Adin’s and Yuval Roichman’s Birthdays, and FPSAC 2021
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- Amazing: Jinyoung Park and Huy Tuan Pham settled the expectation threshold conjecture!
- Joshua Hinman proved Bárány's conjecture on face numbers of polytopes, and Lei Xue proved a lower bound conjecture by Grünbaum.
- TYI 30: Expected number of Dice throws
- Game Theory 2021
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- Telling a Simple Polytope From its Graph
- Bálint Virág: Random matrices for Russ
- Past and Future Events
- Answer: Lord Kelvin, The Age of the Earth, and the Age of the Sun
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Monthly Archives: October 2021
Alef’s Corner: QED (two versions)
QED: Version 2
Dream a Little Dream: Quantum Computer Poetry for the Skeptics (Part II, The Classics)
Quantum poetry for the skeptics had long roots, and, also here, Peter Shor along with Jennifer Shor had a pioneering role. Volker Strassen’s response is the earliest poem known to me on the skeptics’ side. We will start with Jennifer … Continue reading
Giving a talk at Eli and Ricky’s geometry seminar. (October 19, 2021)
One of my favorite seminars in the world is the Courant Institute (NYU) Geometry seminar that Eli Goodman and Ricky Pollack started in the 1980s (I think). On Tuesday October 19, I will give a seminar, details follow. Jacob Eli … Continue reading
To cheer you up in difficult times 32, Annika Heckel’s guest post: How does the Chromatic Number of a Random Graph Vary?
This is a guest post kindly written by Annika Heckel. We first reported about Annika Heckel’s breakthrough in this post. A pdf version of this post can be found here. Pick an -vertex graph uniformly at random. Pick another one. … Continue reading