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Network Coding Yields Lower Bounds

Practice leads theory Peyman Afshani, Casper Freksen, Lior Kamma, and Kasper Larsen have a beautiful new paper titled “Lower Bounds for Multiplication via Network...

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Why Check A Proof?

Why check another’s proof? [Russell and Whitehead ] Bertrand Russell and Alfred Whitehead were not primarily trying to mechanize mathematics in writing their famous...

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P=NP Proofs

Advice to claimers The Claimers The Claimers are a gang on the hit AMC television series The Walking Dead. They are the main antagonists in the second half of the...

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A Reason Why Circuit Lower Bounds Are Hard

And a possible approach to avoid this obstacle Valentine Kabanets is a famous complexity theorist from Simon Fraser University. He has been at the forefront of...

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Seeing Is Believing

Introducing a notion that captures information flow [ Her own hall ] Anita Jones is, of course, a famous computer scientist, a famous Carnegie Mellon University...

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Avi Wins The Knuth Prize

Wigderson wins the well deserved Knuth Prize From Avi’s 60Fest at IAS Avi Wigderson is this year’s selection for the ACM/IEEE Donald E. Knuth Prize. Today Ken and...

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The Breakthrough Result Of 2019

Our nomination for best result of the year Cropped from source Faadosly Polir has had an incredible year of research success. A year ago we covered his research...

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The Shortest Path To The Abel Prize

While melding topology, geometry, and analysis IAS page Karen Uhlenbeck is a mathematician who has won a number of awards in the past and has just now been announced...

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Leprechauns Go Universal

Facing nonexistential realities Neil L. is a Leprechaun. He has graced these pages before. Today, the day before St. Patrick’s Day, we ponder universal riddles...

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Phrases That Drive Me Crazy

Some nasty phrases that appear on the web [ Jimmy Wales ] Jimmy Wales is the co-founder of Wikipedia. Of course this is the wonderful online non-profit encyclopedia...

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Making A Mapping Injective

Finding a set of nearly independent objects Wikipedia bio source Giuseppe Vitali was the mathematician who famously used the Axiom of Choice, in 1905, to give the...

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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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An Old But Cool Result

Solving a type of Fermat Equation Leo Moser was a mathematician who worked on a very varied set of problems. He for example raised a question about “worms,” and...

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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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