Monthly Archives: August 2016

An exceptional review about inner model theory

Posted on August 27, 2016 by Edward Dunne

Today I’m making two blog posts about exceptional reviews: one review of a book and one of a paper.  This post is about Grigor Sargsyan‘s exceptional review of a paper:  John Steel‘s chapter, An outline of inner model theory, in the … Continue reading →

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An exceptional review about expansion in groups

Posted on August 27, 2016 by Edward Dunne

Today I’m making two blog posts about exceptional reviews: one review of a book and one of a paper. This post is about Harald Helfgott‘s review of Terry Tao‘s book, Expansion in finite simple groups of Lie type, published by the … Continue reading →

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Jonathan Borwein

Posted on August 3, 2016 by Edward Dunne

Jonathan Borwein passed away on August 1st.  He was a prolific mathematician, with 427 publications as of this writing.  He was also quite broad, publishing in number theory, operations research, calculus of variations, and many other subjects.  Many people knew … Continue reading →

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