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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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[AI summary] A blog archive listing titled 'ThatsMaths' containing over 600 posts from 2002 to 2025 covering mathematical history, problems, applications, and scientific concepts.
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A new way to write mathematics Vladimir Voevodsky won the Fields Medal in 2002 for his work on homotopy theory of algebraic varieties. Using his pioneering methods he proved, among many other things, a deep conjecture of John Milnor, that had been open for decades. Today I want to talk about, no, rant about, a...
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We continue our exploration of what numbers are, and where mathematicians keep finding weird ones. In the first three parts we extended the natural numbers in two ways: algebraically and analytically. Those approaches gave overlapping but distinct sets of numbers. This week we combine them to get the complex numbers, and see some hints of why the complex numbers are so useful-and so frustrating.
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