Category Archives: Music

To cheer you up in difficult times 35 combined with Test Your Intuition 48: Alef’s corner – Jazz and Math

Posted on February 1, 2022 by Gil Kalai

Test your intuition: What is the true title of this drawing?

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Dream a Little Dream: Quantum Computer Poetry for the Skeptics (Part II, The Classics)

Posted on October 24, 2021 by Gil Kalai

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 →

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Dream a Little Dream: Quantum Computer Poetry for the Skeptics (Part I, mainly 2019)

Posted on September 19, 2021 by Gil Kalai

Stars shining bright above you, Night breezes seem to whisper “I love you” Birds singing in the sycamore tree. Dream a little dream. (YouTube) Greetings from NYC everybody! Peter Shor pioneered (Nov 26, 2019) quantum poetry for the skeptics over … Continue reading →

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To cheer you up in difficult times 11: Immortal Songs by Sabine Hossenfelder and by Tom Lehrer

Posted on August 29, 2020 by Gil Kalai

Enjoy! To cheer you up in difficult times here are songs by Sabine Hossenfelder and by Tom Lehrer. I like the music and lyrics and the unusual combination of science, humor and satire. Sabine Hossenfelder : Outer space* Tom Lehrer: … Continue reading →

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To cheer you up in difficult times 10: Noam Elkies’ Piano Improvisations and more

Posted on August 27, 2020 by Gil Kalai

For the previous post “quantum matters” click here. Noam D. Elkies piano improvisations Every day since March 27, 2020 Noam Elkies (Noam’s home page) uploaded a new piece of piano improvisation. The Hebrew title of his page is “Music will … Continue reading →

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Timothy Chow Launched Polymath12 on Rota Basis Conjecture and Other News

Posted on February 26, 2017 by Gil Kalai

Polymath12 Timothy Chow launched polymath12 devoted to the Rota Basis conjecture on the polymathblog. A classic paper on the subject is the 1989 paper by Rosa Huang and Gian Carlo-Rota. Let me mention a strong version of Rota’s conjecture (Conjecture … Continue reading →

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The Mystery Piano-Player at the Mittag-Leffler Institute

Posted on April 14, 2013 by Gil Kalai

In a previous post I told you about my Mittag-Leffler 2005 experience, and challenged you, readers, to discover the identity of a mysterious piano player. Coming from Yale, I was jet-lagged, an experience which already worked for me once in 1991 … Continue reading →

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