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| | A major progress on an old standing beautiful problem.Aubrey de Grey proved that the chromatic number of the plane is at least 5. (I first heard about it from Alon Amit.) TheHadwigerNelson problem asks for the minimum number of colors required to color theplanesuch that no twopointsat distance one from each other have the
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| | I am writing a short survey on connections between additive combinatorics and computer science for SIGACT News and I have been wondering about the "history" of the connections. (I will be writing as little as possible about history in the SIGACT article, because I don't have the time to research it carefully, but if readers...
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| | Gowers, Green, Manners and Tao. They reminded me of the A-team of the 1980s television series: "If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire... the A-Team." A conjecture of Marton, widely known as "the polynomial Freiman-Ruzsa conjecture" was certainly a holy grail
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| Everyone's heard about chatGPT, the latest and most sophisticated chatbot to date.We all know it can bs proficiently about 'soft' topics like English literature. I decided to quiz it about a hard topic, mathematics. As you probably know, I have a PhD in math, so I won't go easy. Let's start with some basic high...