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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Have Ten Years Brought Us Closer?
To solving the big questions, that is Cropped from Device Plus source Tetsuya Miyamoto is a mathematics teacher who divides his time between Tokyo and Manhattan...
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A Strange Horizon
Data science of many things including citations Amazon India source Paul Allison is an emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and the...
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Primes And Polynomials
A result on the prime divisors of polynomial values Cropped from source Issai Schur was a mathematician who obtained his doctorate over a hundred years ago. He...
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A Simple Fact
Can we find a simplest proof? Composite crop from src1, src2 Joseph Wedderburn and Leonard Dickson proved Wedderburn’s “Little” Theorem: that every finite ring...
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Jean Bourgain 1954–2018 and Michael Atiyah 1929–2019
A tribute to two premier analysts From Flanders Today src1 and Ryle Trust Lecture src2 Baron Jean Bourgain and Sir Michael Atiyah passed away within the past three...
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Predictions For 2019
The problem of predicting ‘when’ not just ‘what’ Cropped from Toronto Star source Isaac Asimov was a prolific writer of science fiction and nonfiction. Thirty-five...
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ACM Great Results
A Puck-ish take on promised technological advances Wikimedia Commons source Knecht Ruprecht accompanies Santa Claus in Germany. He brings gifts to good children...
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Explanations and Explorations
Comparing proofs for the Jaccard metric BetterExplained source Kalid Azad is the founder of the website Better Explained. It is devoted to explaining mathematical...
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Explaining The Jaccard Metric
Why is it a metric? Composite of source 1, source 2 Paul Jaccard was a botanist who worked at ETH in Zurich during much of the first half of the 20th century. He...
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A Tiebreak Win and the Problem of Draws
Carlsen impressed in fast chess, but what of classical? Cropped from AFP/Getty source (Irish Times) Magnus Carlsen retained his title of World Chess Champion on...
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Far From a Turkey Shoot
Chess and draws and explainable AI Guardian Live source Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana have drawn the first eleven games of their world championship chess match...
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A Thanksgiving Treat
Another proof that there are an infinite number of primes of a special form Cropped from Packard Fellow src Trevor Wooley is a professor of mathematics at the University...
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A Mathematical Auction
A real auction that is happening soon. Crop from BestArts auction history source Samuel Baker and James Christie founded the two premier auction houses in the world...
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A Dumb Group Theory Question
A question on finite simple groups Cropped from Schock Prize src Michael Aschbacher is a professor of mathematics at Caltech. He was a leading figure in the classification...
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Micro Barriers To Diversity
And perhaps how to remove them Cropped from Monash interview src Elizabeth Croft is Dean of Engineering at Monash University in Australia. She was previously at...
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London Calling
For chess and science: a cautionary tale about decision models Clarke Chronicler blog source Marmaduke Wyvill was a British chess master and Member of Parliament...
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Watching Over the Zeroes
How confident should we be that the Riemann Hypothesis is true? Composite of src1, src2 Andrew Odlyzko and Herman te Riele, in a 1985 paper, refuted a once widely...
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Reading Into Atiyah’s Proof
The Todd function method MacTutor biography source John Todd was a British geometer who worked at Cambridge for most of his life. Michael Atiyah took classes from...
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Preview of the Atiyah Talk
Why the Riemann hypothesis is hard and some other observations. ICM 2018 “Matchmaking” source Michael Atiyah, as we previously posted, claims to have a proof that...
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