Tag Archives: Terry Tao

Marton’s “Polynomial Freiman-Ruzsa” Conjecture was Settled by Tim Gowers, Ben Green, Freddie Manners and Terry Tao

Posted on November 13, 2023 by Gil Kalai

Gowers, Green, Manners and Tao. They reminded me of the A-team of the 1980s television series: “If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire… the A-Team.” A … Continue reading →

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Dan Romik Studies the Riemann’s Zeta Function, and Other Zeta News.

Posted on February 28, 2019 by Gil Kalai

Updates to previous posts: Karim Adiprasito expanded in a comment to his post on the g-conjecture on how to move from vertex-decomposable spheres to general spheres. Some photos were added to the post: Three pictures. Dan Romik on the Zeta … Continue reading →

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News (mainly polymath related)

Posted on January 20, 2016 by Gil Kalai

Update (Jan 21) j) Polymath11 (?) Tim Gowers’s proposed a polymath project on Frankl’s conjecture. If it will get off the ground we will have (with polymath10) two projects running in parallel which is very nice. (In the comments Jon Awbrey gave … Continue reading →

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EDP Reflections and Celebrations

Posted on October 22, 2015 by Gil Kalai

The Problem In 1932, Erdős conjectured: Erdős Discrepancy Conjecture (EDC)  [Problem 9 here] For any constant , there is an such that the following holds. For any function , there exists an   and a   such that For any , … Continue reading →

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Quantum computing: achievable reality or unrealistic dream

Posted on January 10, 2015 by Gil Kalai

  Michel Dyakonov’s View on QC                                     My view (based on Michel’s drawing*) Update: Alexander Vlasov’s view (based on Michel and Mikhail’s drawing) … Continue reading →

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Navier-Stokes Fluid Computers

Posted on February 7, 2014 by Gil Kalai

Smart fluid Terry Tao posted a very intriguing post on the Navier-Stokes equation, based on a recently uploaded paper Finite time blowup for an averaged three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equation. The paper proved a remarkable negative answer for the regularity conjecture for a certain … Continue reading →

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Polymath 8 – a Success!

Posted on September 20, 2013 by Gil Kalai

Yitang Zhang Update (July 22, ’14). The polymath8b paper “Variants of the Selberg sieve, and bounded intervals containing many primes“, is now on the arXiv. See also this post on Terry Tao’s blog. Since the last update, we also had here … Continue reading →

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Celebrations in Sweden and Norway

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Gil Kalai

Celebrations for Endre, Jean and Terry Anders Bjorner presents the 2012 Crafoord Prize in Mathematics  I am in Sweden for two weeks to work with colleagues and to take part in two celebrations. Jean Bourgain and Terence Tao are the 2012 laureates … Continue reading →

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Combinatorics, Mathematics, Academics, Polemics, …

Posted on April 29, 2008 by Gil Kalai

1. About: My name is Gil Kalai and I am a mathematician working mainly in the field of Combinatorics.  Within combinatorics, I work mainly on geometric combinatorics and the study of convex polytopes and related objects, and on the analysis of Boolean functions … Continue reading →

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