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- To cheer you up in difficult times 20: Ben Green presents super-polynomial lower bounds for off-diagonal van der Waerden numbers W(3,k)
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- To cheer you up in difficult times 21: Giles Gardam lecture and new result on Kaplansky's conjectures
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- The Argument Against Quantum Computers - A Very Short Introduction
- Answer: Lord Kelvin, The Age of the Earth, and the Age of the Sun
- Amazing: Zhengfeng Ji, Anand Natarajan, Thomas Vidick, John Wright, and Henry Yuen proved that MIP* = RE and thus disproved Connes 1976 Embedding Conjecture, and provided a negative answer to Tsirelson's problem.
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Joel David Hamkins’ 1000th MO Answer is Coming
Updates (May 2014): The second MO contributor to answer 1000 questions is another distinguished mathematician (and a friend) Igor Rivin. In summer 2015 David Speyer joined the club. (May 2018) Igor is the first MO user to have 2000 posts (Questions+Answers)! … Continue reading
A Theorem About Infinite Cardinals Everybody Should Know
Cantor proved and we all know that for every cardinal we have This is a very basic fact about cardinal arithmetic and it is nice that the proof works for finite and infinite cardinals equally well. (For the finite case it … Continue reading
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