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Just Use Bayes: Sleeping Beauty and Monty Hall - There's a question that's held my fascination for months. At times, it's had me spinning in circles, caught up in seemingly impossible contradictions. An...

Local Bernstein theory, and lower bounds for Lebesgue constants - I’ve just uploaded to the arXiv my paper “Local Bernstein theory, and lower bounds for Lebesgue constants“. This paper was initially motivated by a problem...

Group and semigroup puzzles and a possible Polymath project - An Artin-Tits group is a group with a finite set of generators in which every relation is of the form or for some positive integer , where and are two of t...

The Golden Rational Tetrahedra in Zome - [image: The Golden Rational Tetrahedra in Zome preview image]

Blade of the Immortal Bakumatsu Arc 07 - Act 7

Ten Years of Polymath - Ten years ago on January 27, 2009, Polymath1 was proposed by Tim Gowers and was launched on February 1, 2009. The first project was successful and it foll...

Comsos : Review - [image: Cosmos]Cosmos by Carl Sagan My rating: 5 of 5 stars Carl Sagan's beautiful words transform you to outside the earth, into the cosmos and lets you ...

Irrationality Of E - Prove that e is irrational. Problem ID: 377 (17 Oct 2010) / Difficulty: 4 star