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New Methods Solve Old Problems
Really old ones, in this case Ben Cohen writes the “Science of Success” column for The Wall Street Journal. It is about what makes people, teams and ideas work out in business, culture, and beyond....
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Structure of Polynomials
A feature in the current AMS Notices issue highlighting women in mathematics Marie-Françoise Roy is a French mathematician, emerita of the Institute for Mathematical Research of the University of...
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Dominic Welsh, 1938–2023
My doctoral thesis advisor Geoffrey Grimmett source Dominic Welsh passed away last November 30th. He was my doctoral advisor 1981–86 at Merton College, Oxford University, and a giant in several fields...
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P=NP and Bitcoin
The present value of working on conjectures… Anil Nerode of Cornell University has served over sixty years—he’s believed to be the longest such faculty member in university history. He helped found...
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Does Pi Conspire?
With integers like 222, perhaps his site James Franklin is a mathematician and philosopher at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. He wrote an article in 2016 for the Mathematical...
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Leprechauns Sue Over AI
For domain infringement and IP violations By GPT4 after conversation Neil L. was angry. I had expected him to be bored. Neil is a Leprechaun whose visits to Dick and me have been recounted in St....
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STOC 2024
Including TheoryFest 2024 in a blended 5-day format His NYU page Anupam Gupta just asked us to help announce the next 56th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2024). His own news is a recent...
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Quantum Unproving
Some theorems lose validity after quantum processing Quantum Tarot source Dr. Lofa Polir is a research associate at UCLQ. This is the new University College London Quantum Institute. We have...
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Daniel Kahneman, 1934–2024
With some connections to my chess research Modified from source Daniel Kahneman passed away last week. He won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics, shared with Vernon Smith, and was awarded a...
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The Coming Solar Eclipse
Last Tuesday, April 2nd, the New York Times had its weekly Science section. Its focus was all about the eclipse that happens on Monday, April 8th. When it will exactly happen? How best to watch it?...
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