Tag Archives: Combinatorics

Important formulas in Combinatorics

Posted on August 25, 2015 by

Another spin-off of the Noga-poster-formula-competition is a MathOverflow question:  Important formulas in combinatorics. The question collects important formulas representing major progress in combinatorics. So far there are 31 formulas and quite a few were new to me. There are several areas … Continue reading →

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Amazing: Peter Keevash Constructed General Steiner Systems and Designs

Posted on January 16, 2014 by

Here is one of the central and oldest problems in combinatorics: Problem: Can you find a collection S of q-subsets from an n-element set X set so that every r-subset of X is included in precisely λ sets in the collection? … Continue reading →

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Jerusalem Combinatorics ’93

Posted on May 16, 2008 by

Jerusalem Combinatorics ’93 is the title of a conference I organized that took place fifteen years ago in May 9-17, 1993 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. It was a conference that was devoted to all areas of combinatorics. The other … 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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