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| | | | Although it was from only a couple of people, I had an enthusiastic response to a very tentative suggestion that it might be rewarding to see whether a polymath project could say anything useful about Frankl's union-closed conjecture. A potentially worrying aspect of the idea is that the problem is extremely elementary to state, does | |
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| | | | The Ramsey number $latex R(s, t)$ is the smallest $latex n$ such that every graph on $latex \geq n$ vertices either contains a clique of size $latex s$ or an independent set of size $latex t$. Ramsey's theorem implies that these numbers always exist, and determining them (precisely or asymptotically) has been a major challenge... | |
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| | | | In my post about the myth that Logicians are crazy I mentioned in passing that Whitehead and Russell spend 300 pages proving 1+1=2 (but we... | |
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daniellefong.com
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| | The following occurred to me on a run about two years ago: It's not given much press, but the the Halting Problem is intimately related to Gödel's First Incompleteness Theorem. Indeed it produces it as a correllary. Historically, Gödel's incompleteness results were proved by hacking arithmetic into a Turing complete system, and this is still... |