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With Avi at Suzanna
To cheer you up even further a new story that breaks new ground about Avi Wigderson and me (and Laci Lovasz) and a couple more famous Isrealis. For another story about Avi and me see Layish. (I told both stories … Continue reading →
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Tagged Avi Wigderson, Taxi-and-other-stories, Uri Geller
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Meeting Michael H. at Rio
After many years, to cheer you up in these difficult times, another story in our corner “taxi and other stories”. Meeting Michael H. at Rio In my early years I used to guess how people looked by their names. I … Continue reading →
A small update from Israel and memories from Singapore: Partha Dasgupta, Robin Mason, Frank Ramsey, and 007
A small update about the situation here in Israel Eight weeks ago I wrote that my heart goes out to the people of Wuhan and China, and these days my heart goes out to people in Italy, Spain, the US, … Continue reading →
Fix a Horse Race…
GK (2019): Can you base world economy on horse races? Here is an old unpublished draft from 2008 that I did not complete, which was inspired by the economic crisis at that time. (It also felt a little over the … Continue reading →
Posted in Economics, Games, Rationality, Taxi-and-other-stories
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Tagged 2008 economic crisis, Bill Benter, Robert Aumann, Taxi-and-other-stories
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Layish
This story is implicitly referred to in the 2008 opening post of this blog. ———– It was high time to raise the level of the discussion, I thought. Princeton, Fall 1995. We were a group of mathematicians at the IAS … Continue reading →
Which Street is More Important: Canner Street or Cold Spring Street
Is it possible that Cold Spring Street is as important as Canner Street? I knew Canner Street from my earlier visits to Yale but Cold Spring Street was new to me. Naturally, I assumed that Canner Street was the important … Continue reading →
Michal Linial: No Witches in Portugal
It gives me great pride to present: Michal Linial: March 2012 No witches in Portugal Landing in LISBOA, Portugal last night. I need to get to my hotel in Cascais. The nice lady in the tourist information ordered a … Continue reading →
Posted in Guest blogger, Taxi-and-other-stories
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Tagged Michal Linial, Portugal, Taxi-and-other-stories
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The Möbius Undershirt
“Look at this brand new undershirt,” my wife said. “I am shaking it and shaking it but still I have this twist. Can you see what to do?” I gave the undershirt a good shake. And another one. And one more. And … Continue reading →
Posted in Mathematics to the rescue, Taxi-and-other-stories
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Tagged Mobius srtip, Taxi-and-other-stories, Topology, Undershirts
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School Bus to Ramle
We had just come back to Israel from Palo Alto after spending a sabbatical year there and my child was starting school. I walked down with him to wait for the school bus. To my great surprise it was a yellow school … Continue reading →
A Little Story Regarding Borsuk’s Conjecture
Jeff Kahn Jeff and I worked on the problem for several years. Once he visited me with his family for two weeks. Before the visit I emailed him and asked: What should we work on in your visit? Jeff asnwered: … Continue reading →
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