Monthly Archives: June 2012

Eyal Sulganik: Towards a Theory of “Mathematical Accounting”

Posted on June 19, 2012 by Gil Kalai

The following post was kindly contributed by Eyal Sulganik  from IDC (Interdiciplinary Center)  Herzliya. Eyal was motivated by our poll on certainty “beyond a reasonable doubt,” which is related to several issues in accounting. Mathematicians, I believe, are always looking … Continue reading →

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Knighted for Services to Mathematics

Posted on June 17, 2012 by Gil Kalai

The Birthday and Diamond Jubilee Honours 2012 was released on 16 June 2012 in the United Kingdom and Tim Gowers was knighted for “services to mathematics”! So I suppose Tim is now becoming “Sir William.” It is possible that the Queen mainly … Continue reading →

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What does “beyond a reasonable doubt” practically mean?

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Gil Kalai

(Motivated by two questions from Gowers’s How should mathematics be taught to non mathematicians.)

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A New Polymath Project: Hot Spots in Triangles

Posted on June 10, 2012 by Gil Kalai

A new Polymath7 project proposed by Chris Evans is starting in the polymath blog.

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Celebrations in Bar-Ilan, HU, and the Technion; A new blog: Windows on Theory; Turing’s celebration on “In Theory”; Graph Limits in Princeton

Posted on June 3, 2012 by Gil Kalai

Last monday we had the annual meeting of the Israeli Mathematical Union (IMU) that took place this year in Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan. (IMU is famously also the acronym of the International Mathematical Union but in this post IMU will stand for “Isreali Mathematical Union.”) … Continue reading →

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