Tag Archives: Avi Wigderson

Fractional Sylvester-Gallai

Posted on January 20, 2012 by

Avi Wigderson was in town and gave a beautiful talk about an extension of Sylvester-Gallai theorem. Here is a link to the paper: Rank bounds for design matrices with applications to combinatorial geometry and locally correctable codes by Boaz Barak, Zeev … Continue reading →

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Combinatorics, Mathematics, Academics, Polemics, …

Posted on April 29, 2008 by

1. About: My name is Gil Kalai and I am a mathematician working mainly in the field of Combinatorics.  Within combinatorics, I work mainly on geometric combinatorics and the study of convex polytopes and related objects, and on the analysis of Boolean functions … Continue reading →

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