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Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration
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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...RJLipton+KWRegan From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | November 10, 2018 at 01:14 AM
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...RJLipton+KWRegan From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | October 30, 2018 at 11:59 PM
A remark on an open problem with an application of the Lebesgue Density Theorem [ Toeplitz ] Otto Toeplitz was a mathematician who made key contributions to functional...rjlipton From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | October 21, 2018 at 08:26 PM
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...RJLipton+KWRegan From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | October 10, 2018 at 01:54 PM
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...RJLipton+KWRegan From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | September 27, 2018 at 12:23 AM
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...RJLipton+KWRegan From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | September 23, 2018 at 09:54 PM
Simple probabilistic arguments that apply to monoids too Famous Mathematicians source Niels Abel is of course a famous mathematician from the 19th century. Many...RJLipton+KWRegan From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | September 14, 2018 at 12:07 PM
Can 2.3728639 be best? Personal site; note puzzles Josh Alman is a graduate student at a technical school in the Boston area. He is working on matrix multiplication...RJLipton+KWRegan From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | August 31, 2018 at 12:20 AM
Not anything to do with electrical engineering Alexei Miasnikov, Alexander Ushakov, and Dong Wook Won are the authors of a brilliant paper, “Power Circuits, Exponential...RJLipton+KWRegan From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | August 18, 2018 at 11:35 PM
A great choice Cropped from 2016 KTH grant news source Johan Håstad is the winner of the 2018 Donald E. Knuth Prize. We were going to keep you in suspense, but...RJLipton+KWRegan From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | August 16, 2018 at 10:30 PM
A few twists on Turing’s proof of undecidability of predicate calculus Princeton thesis source Alan Turing presaged Stephen Cook’s proof of -completeness of Turing...RJLipton+KWRegan From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | August 6, 2018 at 01:25 PM
Made-to-order statements that are not so simple Harvey Friedman is a long-standing friend who is a world expert on proofs and the power of various logics. This...RJLipton+KWRegan From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | July 28, 2018 at 06:42 PM
Some musings on group theory Isaacs honorary conference source Martin Issacs is a group theorist emeritus from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. I just picked...rjlipton From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | July 18, 2018 at 05:01 PM
How hard is it to prove certain theorems? Maruti Ram Murty is a famous number theorist at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada. He is a prolific author of books...RJLipton+KWRegan From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | July 11, 2018 at 10:02 PM
A pretty neat paper about a pretty neat theorem [ GLL edited ] Mark Villarino, William Gasarch, and Kenneth Regan are terrific writers. Bill is a co-author of a...rjlipton From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | June 8, 2018 at 03:49 PM
Workshop happening this week—anyone can view it live IAS Weyl bio source Hermann Weyl was one of the first members of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton...RJLipton+KWRegan From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | June 6, 2018 at 01:29 PM
A possible source of interesting primes Study.com source Pierre de Fermat was fluent in six languages. Yes I thought we would talk about Fermat today. Something...RJLipton+KWRegan From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | June 1, 2018 at 05:10 PM
A diversion in mathematical consistency Cropped from source Terrence Howard is an actor and singer who has been in a number of films and TV series. He was nominated...rjlipton From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | May 22, 2018 at 04:20 PM
Should we expect simplicity in a theory named for complexity? Amer. Phy. Soc. interview source Sabine Hossenfelder is a physicist at the Frankfurt Institute for...RJLipton+KWRegan From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | May 19, 2018 at 10:34 PM
Triangulating proofs to seek a shorter path Cropped from 2016 Newsday source Mehtaab Sawhney is an undergraduate student at MIT. His work caught my eye on finding...RJLipton+KWRegan From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | May 5, 2018 at 01:56 PM