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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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TEDx Time In Buffalo
Our own Ken joins the team for TEDx Adrienne Bermingham is the manager of this year’s TEDx Buffalo event, which will be held this Tuesday at the Montante Center...
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How To Add Numbers
It’s harder than you think William Kahan is a numerical analyst and an expert on all things about floating point numbers. He won the 1989 Turing award for his pioneering...
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A Challenge From Dyson
A reversal question Freeman Dyson celebrated his birthday last December. He is world famous for his work in both physics and mathematics. Dyson has proved, in work...
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Who Invented Pointers, Amortized Complexity, And More?
Some algorithmic tricks were first invented in complexity theory Andrey Kolmogorov, Fred Hennie, Richard Stearns, and Walter Savitch are all famous separately;...
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The Derivative Of A Number
Are you kidding? Edward Barbeau is now a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Toronto. Over the years he has been working to increase the interest...
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The 3SUM Assumption Is Wrong?
A new result on our three body problem Allan Grønlund and Seth Pettie are leaders in algorithm design and related problems. Today I want to give a quick follow...
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Our Three Body Problem
The three body problem, computer theory style Ellis Horowitz is one of the founders of the theory of algorithms. His thesis with George Collins in 1969 had the...
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Laplace’s Demon
Demons and other curiosities Pierre-Simon Laplace was a French scientist, perhaps one of the greatest ever, French or otherwise. His work affected the way we look...
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Diagonalization Without Sets
Avoiding actual infinities Carl Gauss is of course beyond famous, but he had a view of infinity that was based on old ideas. He once wrote in a letter to Heinrich...
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The Cantor-Bernstein-Schröder Theorem
And whose theorem is it anyway? Georg Cantor, Felix Bernstein, and Ernst Schröder are each famous for many things. But together they are famous for stating, trying...
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An Old Galactic Result
A cautionary tale Karl Sundman was a Finnish mathematician who solved a major open problem in 1906. His solution would have been regarded as paradigm-“shifty” had...
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High School Theorems
Taking a conjecture about identities to college Alex Wilkie is a Fellow of the Royal Society, and holds the Fielden Chair in Mathematics at the University of Manchester...
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Remembering Ann Yasuhara
Ann will be missed Ann Yasuhara was a mathematician and a complexity theorist, who passed away this June 11th. She lived over half of her 82 years in Princeton,...
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Remembering Ann Yasuhara
Ann will be missed Ann Yasuhara was a mathematician and a complexity theorist, who passed away this June 11th. She lived over half of her 82 years in Princeton,...
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The Problem of Catching Chess Cheaters
The detection game Howard Goldowsky is the author of this month’s Chess Life cover story. Every month this magazine is mailed to about a quarter of a million players...
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Avoiding Monsters and Non-Monsters
A new insight into the structure of some exotic mathematical objects Karl Weierstrass is often credited with the creation of modern analysis. In his quest for rigor...
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Avoiding Monsters and Non-Monsters
A new insight into the structure of some exotic mathematical objects Karl Weierstrass is often credited with the creation of modern analysis. In his quest for rigor...
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The Easiest Impossible Problem
A simple problem that seems impossible to solve Péter Frankl is a “Hungarian mathematician and street performer”—quoting our friends at Wikepedia. He is also a...
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Bell’s Fifty Year Old Mistake
My Missed Chance For Fame: The 1964 New York World Fair Robert Moses was known as New York’s “Master Builder.” He was hired to run the 1964 New York Fair, for many...
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