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Test Your Intuition 53 by Ehud Friedgut: Which Way to Ride Your Bike
This post was kindly written by Ehud Friedgut. Shana Tova (= Happy New Jewish Year) to all our readers. The following is a real-life question. I recently rode my bike around a closed track. The track consists of a flat … Continue reading
Posted in Guest post, Sport, Test your intuition
Tagged Ehud Friedgut, Guest blogger, Test your intuition
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Ehud Friedgut: How many cubes of 2×2×2 fit into a box of size 8×4×3? (TYI 49)
This blog post is kindly written by Ehud Friedgut. My daughter, Shiri, who’s in seventh grade, had the following question in a math exam: How many cubes of 2×2×2 fit into a box of size 8×4×3? Shiri divided the volumes, … Continue reading
Posted in Geometry, Riddles, Test your intuition
Tagged Alef's corner, Ehud Friedgut, Shiri Friedgut, Test your intuition
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Open problem session of HUJI-COMBSEM: Problem #3, Ehud Friedgut – Independent sets and Lionel Levine’s infamous hat problem.
Here are the two problems presented by Ehud Friedgut. The first arose by Friedgut, Kindler, and me in the context of studying Lionel Levine’s infamous hat problem. The second is Lionel Levine’s infamous hat problem. Ehud Friedgut with a few … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Computer Science and Optimization, Probability
Tagged Ehud Friedgut, Guy Kindler, Lionel Levine
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Preview: The solution by Keller and Lifshitz to several open problems in extremal combinatorics
Peter Frankl (right) and Zoltan Furedi The news A new paper by Nathan Keller and Noam Lifshitz settles several open problems in extremal combinatorics for wide range of parameters. Those include the three problems we mention next. Three central open … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Open problems, Updates
Tagged David Ellis, Ehud Friedgut, Michel Deza, Nathan Keller, Noam Lifshitz, Paul Erdos, Peter Frankl, Zoltán Füredi
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Ehud Friedgut: Blissful ignorance and the Kahneman-Tversky paradox
Tversky, Kahneman, and Gili Bar-Hillel (WikiPedia). Taken by Maya Bar-Hillel at Stanford, summer 1979. The following post was kindly contributed by Ehud Friedgut. During the past week I’ve been reading, and greatly enjoying Daniel Kahneman’s brilliant book “Thinking fast … Continue reading
The Simonovits-Sos Conjecture was Proved by Ellis, Filmus and Friedgut
Simonovits and Sos asked: Let be a family of graphs with N={1,2,…,n} as the set of vertices. Suppose that every two graphs in the family have a triangle in common. How large can be? (We talked about it in this post.) … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Open problems
Tagged David Ellis, Ehud Friedgut, Simonovits-Sos conjecture, Yuval Filmus
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Ehud Friedgut: Murphy’s Law of Breastfeeding Twins
This post is authored by Ehud Friedgut. Congratulations to Keren, Ehud and Michal for the birth of Shiri and Hillel! Murphy’s law of breastfeeding twins, like all of Murphy’s laws, is supported by strong empirical evidence. The twins’ feeding rhythm … Continue reading
Extremal Combinatorics on Permutations
We talked about extremal problems for set systems: collections of subsets of an element sets, – Sperner’s theorem, the Erdos-Ko-Rado theorem, and quite a few more. (See here, here and here.) What happens when we consider collections of permutations rather than … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics
Tagged David Ellis, Ehud Friedgut, Erdos-Ko-Rado theorem, Extremal combinatorics, Haran Pilpel, Permutations
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Combinatorics and more 