Monthly Archives: June 2011

Around Borsuk’s Conjecture 1: Some Problems

Posted on June 30, 2011 by

Greetings to all! Karol Borsuk conjectured in 1933 that every bounded set in can be covered by sets of smaller diameter. In a previous post I described the counterexample found by Jeff Kahn and me. I will devote a few posts … Continue reading →

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The Combinatorics of Cocycles and Borsuk’s Problem.

Posted on June 15, 2011 by

Cocycles Definition:  A -cocycle is a collection of -subsets such that every -set contains an even number of sets in the collection. Alternative definition: Start with a collection of -sets and consider all -sets that contain an odd number of members … Continue reading →

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Tentative Plans and Belated Updates II

Posted on June 14, 2011 by

  Elementary school reunion: Usually, I don’t write about personal matters over the blog, but having (a few weeks ago) an elementary school reunion after 42 years was a moving and exciting event as to consider making an exception. For now, … Continue reading →

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Another way to Revolutionize Football

Posted on June 9, 2011 by

The angle of Victoria Beckham’s hat (here in a picture from a recent wedding) is closely related to our previous post on football One of the highlights of the recent Newton Institute  conference on discrete harmonic analysis was a football … Continue reading →

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