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quomodocumque.wordpress.com
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| | | | | As the old joke goes, "Who's that guy next to Mazur?" Barry Mazur, my Ph.D. advisor, was awarded the National Medal of Science last week. It's hard to overstate the extent to which his work and his outlook have affected the direction of number theory. And of course my own way of doing math is... | |
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gilkalai.wordpress.com
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| | | | | What will be our next polymath project? A polymath project (Wikipedia) is a collaboration among mathematicians to solve important and difficult mathematical problems by coordinating many mathematicians to communicate with each other on finding the best route to the solution. The project began in January 2009 on Timothy Gowers's blog when he posted a problem... | |
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gilkalai.wordpress.com
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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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www.benstopford.com
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| | | Intuitions for Scaling Data-Centric Architectures (14th Oct 11.20) This talk will examine the various intuitions and trade-offs needed to scale a data-centric application or architecture. Building from the fundamentals of data locality, immutability and parallelism, attendees will gain a sense for how fully blown architectures can be sewn together. The result: a balance of real-time ... | ||
