Complete disorder is impossible. – T.S. Motzkin*
I first encountered Ramsey Theory in Sol Golomb’s combinatorics class, and I thought there was something pretty damn cool about it. The result we covered in class was: given an arbitrary graph of six nodes, you will be sure to find a clique of three people or an anti-clique [...]
Archive for June, 2009
26 Jun
Order out of chaos
23 Jun
The Presaging Genome
The sequencing of the human genome is surely one of the greatest achievements of mankind. This was first accomplished at the turn of the millenium, and we were told that we were on the cusp of a major revolution in medicine – perhaps the major revolution. With the capability to analyze the source code of [...]
19 Jun
A Midsummer Midday’s Muse
I’m not travelling around beautiful Europe this summer, but I’m part of this amazing adventure, my work. I may be trapped in the grime and grit of central LA, butI’m off wandering the mystical, pristine sierras of mathematics; I’m navigating uncharted oceans of science, sighting new lands of thought. I feel obliged to quote Mr. [...]
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