Still hot from the oven
Not all problems are the same. Some are hard to understand, like the Hodge conjecture, for whose solution they offer a \(1,000,000\$\) prize, but they might as well give \(100,000\$\) for understanding it. Others are […]
Combinatorics
Flowers of the hypergeometric garden
Isaac Newton stated: “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants”. Florian and Sergey our heroes today can say the same. Hypergeometric functions Latin was a nightmare for me. […]
Ramsey numbers
Frank Plumpton Ramsey died at the age of 26 but led a very active life. He excelled in at least three fields Philosophy, Mathematics and Economics. In mathematics he is known for Ramsey’s theorem which […]
Is infinity really necessary?
Two principles on the finite/infinite relation One of the axioms of mathematics is that there exists an infinite set. Without this axiom our mathematics would be much weaker. Many of our theorems would fall like […]
The Happy End Problem
Today we comment on the article On the Erdös-Szekeres convex polygon problem by Andrew Suk published online in the Journal of the American Mathematical Society. Before commenting on the content of the article, we will […]