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Category Archives: Combinatorics
Are Natural Mathematical Problems Bad Problems?
One unique aspect of the conference “Visions in Mathematics Towards 2000” (see the previous post) was that there were several discussion sessions where speakers and other participants presented some thoughts about mathematics (or some specific areas), discussed and argued. In … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Conferences, Open discussion, What is Mathematics
Tagged Misha Gromov
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An Invitation to a Conference: Visions in Mathematics towards 2000
Let me invite you to a conference. The conference took place in 1999 but only recently the 57 videos of the lectures and the discussion sessions are publicly available. (I thank Vitali Milman for telling me about it.) One novel … Continue reading
The (Random) Matrix and more
Three pictures, and a few related links. Van Vu Spoiler: In one of the most intense scenes, the protagonist, with his bare hands and against all odds, took care of the mighty Wigner semi-circle law in two different ways. (From … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, People, What is Mathematics
Tagged Alfréd Rényi, András Hajnal, Catherine Rényi, Paul Erdos, Saharon Shelah, Sándor Szalai, Van Vu
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Gothenburg, Stockholm, Lancaster, Mitzpe Ramon, and Israeli Election Day 2019
Lancaster – Watching the outcomes of the Israeli elections (photo: Andrey Kupavskii) Sweden I just came back from a trip to Sweden and the U.K. I was invited to Gothenburg to be the opponent for a Ph. D. Candidate Malin … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Probability, Updates
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Is it Legitimate/Ethical for Google to close Google+?
Update April 2, 2019: the links below are not working anymore. Google Plus is a nice social platform with tens of millions participants. I found it especially nice for scientific posts, e.g. by John Baez, Moshe Vardi, or about symplectic … Continue reading
News on Fractional Helly, Colorful Helly, and Radon
My 1983 Ph D thesis was on Helly-type theorems which is an exciting part of discrete geometry and, in the last two decades, I have had an ongoing research project with Roy Meshulam on topological Helly-type theorems. The subject found … Continue reading
Bob Sedgewick’s Free Online Courses on Analysis of Algorithms and Analytic Combinatorics.
Philippe Flajolet 1948-2011 I am happy to forward the announcement on two free online courses (Mooks) by Bob Sedgewick Analysis of Algorithms and Analytic Combinatorics. Analysis of Algorithms page provides access to online lectures, lecture slides, and assignments for … Continue reading
Karim Adiprasito: The g-Conjecture for Vertex Decomposible Spheres
J Scott Provan (site) The following post was kindly contributed by Karim Adiprasito. (Here is the link to Karim’s paper.) Update: See Karim’s comment on the needed ideas for extend the proof to the general case. See also in the … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Convex polytopes, Geometry, Guest blogger
Tagged g-conjecture, J Scott Provan, Karim Adiprasito, Leonid Gurvits, Lou Billera
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Attila Por’s Universality Result for Tverberg Partitions
In this post I would like to tell you about three papers and three theorems. I am thankful to Moshe White and Imre Barany for helpful discussions. a) Universality of vector sequences and universality of Tverberg partitions, by Attila Por; Theorem … Continue reading
