God Plays Dice
A random walk through mathematics -- mostly through the random part.
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23 June 2010
The ridiculously long match at Wimbledon
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As you may have heard, there's a match at Wimbledon , between John Isner and Nicolas Mahut, in which the last set is tied at 59 games. ...
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28 December 2008
Tao on calibration of exponents
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Terence Tao: Use basic examples to calibrate exponents . This article, for the eventual Tricki , gives many examples of the following basic...
20 November 2008
Tao's blog is soon to be a book
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In the issue of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society, which arrived in the mail today, I learned that Structure and Randomness:...
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28 December 2007
On the Mian-Chowla sequence
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An interesting problem from Additive Combinatorics by Terence Tao and Van Vu. (This is almost a direct quote; I've modified it slightl...
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27 December 2007
A couple articles from the Princeton Companion to Mathematics
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Differential forms and integration (10 pp.), from the forthcoming Princeton Companion to Mathematics . (From Terence Tao , who has also wr...
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19 September 2007
A heuristic look at the crossing number inequality
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Terence Tao gives a (well-known) proof of the crossing number inequality . This inequality states that for a graph of average degree at le...
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