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Comment on Kadison-Singer: solved? by Orr Shalit

Orr Shalit — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:21:07 +0000

Thanks for bringing it up. I saw the preprint on the arxiv mailing list, but had no time to look deeper. Looking forward to your updates on the solution.

Comment on Interlude: an “analyst” does some finite group theory by Yemon Choi

Yemon Choi — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 00:22:51 +0000

On second thoughts, that talk mentioning "just-P" groups must have been 2004 or 2005, not 2006. I *think* it was given by John Wilson but my memory is very hazy here.

Comment on The central amenability constant of a finite group: Part 1 of n by The central amenability constant of a finite group: Part 2 of n | Since it is not ...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 02:31:24 +0000

[…] continues from the previous post. I’ll also continue the experiment of writing things up in an anecdotal style, rather than in […]

Comment on L’esprit d’escalier? by Ronnie Brown

Ronnie Brown — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:43:51 +0000

It is maddening not to think of the right reply at the right moment! But when a visitor from Strasbourg to Bangor said to me in 2001 “You are not mainstream!” I came out with the reply: “Not yet!”. Actually I felt the work in which I had been involved since the 1960s went back to the root intuitions or sources of algebraic topology (What is a cycle? What is a boundary? Is there a higher dimensional nonabelian version of the fundamental group?etc, etc, …), so the question of where is the main stream has debatable answers.

Comment on So what was Dr. Blind’s question, then? by Ronnie Brown

Ronnie Brown — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:27:42 +0000

I think many might find the fable about a table given on

http://pages.bangor.ac.uk/~mas010/carpntry.htm

relevant. Or not?

Comment on So what was Dr. Blind’s question, then? by Yemon Choi

Yemon Choi — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 01:42:01 +0000

Excellent suggestion!

Comment on So what was Dr. Blind’s question, then? by Orr Shalit

Orr Shalit — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:23:52 +0000

The question was as follows: “Consider the following ‘proof’ of that every operator on a Hilbert space has an invariant subspace: ….”
then a three page argument, followed by the words “Is there a gap in the above proof?”

Comment on Any other word would smell as sweet by vel nias

vel nias — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 09:45:00 +0000

Intermediately Slithy.

Comment on Je veux qu’on rie, je veux qu’on danse, je veux qu’on s’amuse comme des fous by Izabella Laba

Izabella Laba — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 16:22:29 +0000

We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun…

Comment on Tinned fruit, tinned meat, tinned milk, tinned beans by Leonid Kovalev

Leonid Kovalev — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:21:12 +0000

Not auto-generated or collated, simply grabbed from a Google book, specifically this one: http://books.google.com/books?id=X1DosUQFhfcC