Category Archives: Blogging

A New Appearance

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Gil Kalai

I have changed the appearance of the blog. The main feature of the new appearance that I like is that the comments are with the same size fonts as the posts themselves. This is especially useful for the polymath3 posts. … Continue reading →

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Budapest, Seattle, New Haven

Posted on October 15, 2010 by Gil Kalai

Here we continue the previous post on Summer 2010 events in Reverse chronological order. Happy birthday Srac In the first week of August we celebrated Endre Szemeredi’s birthday. This was a very impressive conference. Panni, Endre’s wife, assisted by her … Continue reading →

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Mabruk Elon, India, and More

Posted on October 15, 2010 by Gil Kalai

I am starting this post in Jaipur. My three children are watching a movie in our Jaipur hotel room and I watch them while I begin to write this post. Hagai is in the middle of a long-planned three-month trip … Continue reading →

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Math Overflow

Posted on November 12, 2009 by Gil Kalai

So I did try mathoverflow a bit and it is a cool site. Over the few days I spent there I gained 593 reputation points, and no less than 9 bronze badges. The first answer I proposed gave me a badge as “teacher”,  … Continue reading →

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Gina Says Part two

Posted on July 23, 2009 by Gil Kalai

Download the second part of my book “Gina Says.” Link to the post with the first part.       “Gina Says,” Adventures in the Blogosphere String War selected and edited by Gil Kalai   Praise for “Gina Says”    After having … Continue reading →

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My Book: “Gina Says,” Adventures in the Blogosphere String War

Posted on June 23, 2009 by Gil Kalai

Update (November 2017): I received an advanced copy. How exciting! Update (October 2017): The much changed version of the book with beautiful drawing by my daughter Neta Kalai is soon to appear in print. It is published by World Scientific. Here … Continue reading →

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Two Fractal Vegtables Found on Blogs

Posted on April 16, 2009 by Gil Kalai

Physicists and mathematicians think alike:  From Kowalski’s blog From asymptotia

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Exciting New Blogs and New Posts

Posted on April 12, 2009 by Gil Kalai

There are new exciting blogs and all sort of nice things on old blogs. In Avzel’s journal you can find a post with the words and a link to the performence of a beautiful Leonard Cohen’s song “everybody knows”;  and you can … Continue reading →

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Jerusalem Tour

Posted on April 8, 2009 by Gil Kalai
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Polymath1: Success!

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Gil Kalai

“polymath” based on internet image search And here is a link to the current draft of the paper. Update:  March 26, the name of the post originally entitled “Polymath1: Probable Success!” was now updated to “Polymath1: Success!” It is now becoming … Continue reading →

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