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aviwl

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Graduate student at UW with a background in CS and Physics

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Professor Who Solved Fermat's Last Theorem Wins Math's Abel Prize
Sat, Mar 19, 2016, 12:54 AM UTC
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Comment #11309891
What factors do you think contribute to the ability of the US to attract the best?

Fri, Mar 18, 2016, 4:24 AM UTC
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Comment #11309881
By "Jay Scaler" do you mean Jay Chaudhry?

Fri, Mar 18, 2016, 4:21 AM UTC
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Comment #11309400
As stated in the article, those conjectures were made in 1923. The recent quanta article https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160313-mathematicians-disco... involves a new correlation …

Fri, Mar 18, 2016, 2:17 AM UTC
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Comment #11309113
There is no reasonable formula for generating prime numbers. So let's treat primes as if they were empirical data points instead of deterministic mathematical constants. From this …

Fri, Mar 18, 2016, 1:11 AM UTC
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Comment #11309074
The author is making the following reasoning: Conjecture 1 and Conjecture 2 can not both be true. Conjecture 1 is believed to be true. Therefore Conjecture 2 is false, which implie…

Fri, Mar 18, 2016, 1:02 AM UTC