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Polymath10: The Erdos Rado Delta System Conjecture
The purpose of this post is to start the polymath10 project. It is one of the nine projects (project 3d) proposed by Tim Gowers in his post “possible future polymath projects”. The plan is to attack Erdos-Rado delta system conjecture also known as the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandr Kostochka, Joel Spencer, Paul Erdos, Richard Rado
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EDP Reflections and Celebrations
The Problem In 1932, Erdős conjectured: Erdős Discrepancy Conjecture (EDC) [Problem 9 here] For any constant , there is an such that the following holds. For any function , there exists an and a such that For any , … Continue reading
Some old and new problems in combinatorics and geometry
Paul Erdős in Jerusalem, 1933 1993 Update: Here is a link to a draft of a paper* based on the first part of this lecture. Some old and new problems in combinatorial geometry I: Around Borsuk’s problem. I just came back from … Continue reading
Erdős’ Birthday
Paul Erdős was born on March 26, 1913 2013 a hundred years ago. This picture (from Ehud Friedgut’s homepage) was taken in September ’96 in a Chinese restaurant in Warsaw, a few days before Paul Erdős passed away. The other diners are Svante Janson, Tomasz Łuczack and … Continue reading
Extremal Combinatorics I: Extremal Problems on Set Systems
The “basic notion seminar” is an initiative of David Kazhdan who joined HU math department around 2000. People give series of lectures about basic mathematics (or not so basic at times). Usually, speakers do not talk about their own research and not even … Continue reading
