Tag Archives: Discrepancy

Open Collaborative Mathematics over the Internet – Three Examples

Posted on August 19, 2013 by

After much hesitation, I decided to share with you the videos of my lecture: Open collaborative mathematics over the internet – three examples, that I gave last January in Doron Zeilberger’s seminar at Rutgers on experimental mathematics. Parts of the 47-minutes … Continue reading →

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The Quantum Debate is Over! (and other Updates)

Posted on October 15, 2012 by

Quid est noster computationis mundus? Nine months after is started, (much longer than expected,) and after eight posts on GLL, (much more than planned,)  and almost a thousand comments of overall good quality,   from quite a few participants, my … Continue reading →

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Alantha Newman and Alexandar Nikolov Disprove Beck’s 3-Permutations Conjecture

Posted on August 29, 2011 by

Alantha Newman and Alexandar Nikolov disproved a few months ago one of the most famous and frustrating open problem in discrepancy theory: Beck’s 3-permutations conjecture. Their paper  A counterexample to Beck’s conjecture on the discrepancy of three permutations is already on … Continue reading →

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Discrepancy, The Beck-Fiala Theorem, and the Answer to “Test Your Intuition (14)”

Posted on August 28, 2011 by

The Question Suppose that you want to send a message so that it will reach all vertices of the discrete -dimensional cube. At each time unit (or round) you can send the message to one vertex. When a vertex gets the … Continue reading →

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