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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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Ladies and Gentlemen, Stan Wagon: TYI 32 – A Cake Problem.
The following post was kindly contributed by Stan Wagon. Stan (Wikipedea) is famous for his books, papers, snow-sculptures, and square-wheels bicycles (see picture below) ! A round cake has icing on the top but not the bottom. Cut out a … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Guest blogger, Test your intuition
Tagged Guest blogger, Stan Wagon, Test your intuition
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Eran Nevo: g-conjecture part 4, Generalizations and Special Cases
This is the fourth in a series of posts by Eran Nevo on the g-conjecture. Eran’s first post was devoted to the combinatorics of the g-conjecture and was followed by a further post by me on the origin of the g-conjecture. Eran’s second post was about … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Convex polytopes, Guest blogger, Open problems
Tagged Eran Nevo, g-conjecture
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Thilo Weinert: Transfinite Ramsey Numbers
This is first of three posts kindly written by Thilo Weinert Recently Gil asked me whether I would like to contribute to his blog and I am happy to do so. I enjoy both finite and infinite combinatorics and it … Continue reading
Stefan Steinerberger: The Ulam Sequence
This post is authored by Stefan Steinerberger. The Ulam sequence is defined by starting with 1,2 and then repeatedly adding the smallest integer that is (1) larger than the last element and (2) can be written as the sum of two … Continue reading
Ehud Friedgut: Blissful ignorance and the Kahneman-Tversky paradox
Tversky, Kahneman, and Gili Bar-Hillel (WikiPedia). Taken by Maya Bar-Hillel at Stanford, summer 1979. The following post was kindly contributed by Ehud Friedgut. During the past week I’ve been reading, and greatly enjoying Daniel Kahneman’s brilliant book “Thinking fast … Continue reading
Taking balls away: Oz’ Version
This post is based on a comment by Oz to our question about balls with two colors: “There is an interesting (and more difficult) variation I once heard but can’t recall where: You have a box with n red balls … Continue reading
Posted in Guest blogger, Probability, Test your intuition
Tagged Oz, Probability, Test your intuition
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Karim Adiprasito: Flag simplicial complexes and the non-revisiting path conjecture
This post is authored by Karim Adiprasito The past months have seen some exciting progress on diameter bounds for polytopes and polytopal complexes, both in the negative and in the positive direction. Jesus de Loera and Steve Klee described simplicial polytopes which are not … Continue reading
Posted in Convex polytopes, Guest blogger
Tagged Convex polytopes, Flag complexes, Hirsch conjecture, Karim Adiprasito
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Eyal Sulganik: Towards a Theory of “Mathematical Accounting”
The following post was kindly contributed by Eyal Sulganik from IDC (Interdiciplinary Center) Herzliya. Eyal was motivated by our poll on certainty “beyond a reasonable doubt,” which is related to several issues in accounting. Mathematicians, I believe, are always looking … Continue reading
