Tag Archives: Jean Bourgain

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Posted on January 2, 2019 by Gil Kalai

Jean Bourgain and Joram Lindenstrauss. I was very sad to hear that Jean Bourgain, among the greatest mathematicians of our time, and a dear friend, passed away.  I first met Jean about forty years ago and later we  became friends … Continue reading →

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Three Conferences: Joel Spencer, April 29-30, Courant; Joel Hass May 20-22, Berkeley, Jean Bourgain May 21-24, IAS, Princeton

Posted on April 20, 2016 by Gil Kalai

Dear all, I would like to advertise three  promising-to-be wonderful mathematical conferences in the very near future. Quick TYI. See if you can guess the title and speaker for  a lecture described by  “where the mathematics of Cauchy, Fourier, Sobolev, … Continue reading →

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Influence, Threshold, and Noise

Posted on June 14, 2014 by Gil Kalai

  My dear friend Itai Benjamini told me that he won’t be able to make it to my Tuesday talk on influence, threshold, and noise, and asked if I already have  the slides. So it occurred to me that perhaps … Continue reading →

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The Kadison-Singer Conjecture has beed Proved by Adam Marcus, Dan Spielman, and Nikhil Srivastava

Posted on June 19, 2013 by Gil Kalai

…while we keep discussing why mathematics is possible… The news Adam Marcus, Dan Spielman, and Nikhil Srivastava posted a paper entitled “Interlacing Families II: Mixed Characteristic Polynomials and the Kadison-Singer Problem,” where they prove the 1959 Kadison-Singer conjecture. (We discussed part … Continue reading →

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Celebrations in Sweden and Norway

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Gil Kalai

Celebrations for Endre, Jean and Terry Anders Bjorner presents the 2012 Crafoord Prize in Mathematics  I am in Sweden for two weeks to work with colleagues and to take part in two celebrations. Jean Bourgain and Terence Tao are the 2012 laureates … Continue reading →

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The AC0 Prime Number Conjecture

Posted on February 21, 2011 by Gil Kalai

Möbius randomness and computational complexity Last spring Peter Sarnak gave a thought-provoking lecture in Jerusalem. (Here are the very interesting slides of a similar lecture at I.A.S.) Here is a variation of the type of questions Peter has raised. The Prime … Continue reading →

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Roth’s Theorem: Tom Sanders Reaches the Logarithmic Barrier

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Gil Kalai

Click here for the most recent polymath3 research thread. I missed Tom by a few minutes at Mittag-Leffler Institute a year and a half ago Suppose that  is a subset of of maximum cardinality not containing an arithmetic progression of length 3. Let . … Continue reading →

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