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The Fourth World - *Is consciousness the last moral world?* Imagine trying to explain to a virus why suffering matters. A virus is a simple self-replicating molecule: unsop...

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