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| | Topology Quasi-polynomial algorithms for telling if a knot is trivial Marc Lackenby announced a quasi-polynomial time algorithm to decide whether a given knot is the unknot! This is a big breakthrough. This question is known to be both in NP and in coNP. See this post, and updates there in the comment section. Topology seminar,...
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| | Boris Tsirelson (or Cirel'son, or ?, or ?) is an Israeli (born Russian) mathematician currently at Tel-Aviv university. Here is the picture from his Wikipedia entry: he has such an incredible stare, he irresistibly reminds me of Orson Welles (picture below). Two great magicians! Tsirelson worked on the mathematical foundations of nonlocality in the early...
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| Homepage of the Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity located at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel