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At the AustMS conference
This week I was in my home town of Adelaide, Australia, for the 2009 annual meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society. This was a fairly large meeting (almost 500 participants). One of the highli… more →
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At the AustMS conference
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Terence Tao wrote 1 month ago: This week I was in my home town of Adelaide, Australia, for the 2009 annual meeting of the Australia … more →
More Mahler lectures
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Terence Tao wrote 3 months ago: I am posting here four more of my Mahler lectures, each of which is based on earlier talks of mine: … more →
Determinantal processes
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Terence Tao wrote 3 months ago: Given a set , a (simple) point process is a random subset of . (A non-simple point process would all … more →
Random matrices: Universality of local eigenvalue statistics up to the edge
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Terence Tao wrote 3 months ago: Van Vu and I have just uploaded to the arXiv our paper “Random matrices: Universality of local … more →
Selberg's limit theorem for the Riemann zeta function on the critical line
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Terence Tao wrote 4 months ago: The Riemann zeta function , defined for by and then continued meromorphically to other values of by … more →
Benford's law, Zipf's law, and the Pareto distribution
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Terence Tao wrote 4 months ago: A remarkable phenomenon in probability theory is that of universality – that many seemingly un … more →
Bulk universality for Wigner hermitian matrices with subexponential decay
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Terence Tao wrote 5 months ago: One further paper in this stream: László Erdős, José Ramírez, Benjamin Schlein, Van Vu, Horng-Tzer Y … more →
Talagrand's concentration inequality
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Terence Tao wrote 5 months ago: In the theory of discrete random matrices (e.g. matrices whose entries are random signs ), one often … more →
Probably Nonsense
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camnc wrote 5 months ago: In poker, hands are ordered by how likely they are to appear in play. For instance, a Royal Flush i … more →
Random matrices: universality of local eigenvalue statistics
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Terence Tao wrote 5 months ago: Van Vu and I have just uploaded to the arXiv our paper “Random matrices: universality of local … more →
Szemeredi's regularity lemma via the correspondence principle
Terence Tao wrote 6 months ago: In a previous post, we discussed the Szemerédi regularity lemma, and how a given graph could … more →
At the Fefferman conference
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Terence Tao wrote 6 months ago: I am currently at Princeton for the conference “The power of Analysis” honouring Charlie … more →
Probabilistic Number Theory
Yaqiao Li wrote 6 months ago: 任选两个数,互素的概率是 (established by Cesaro in 1881) 在数字比较小的时候, , square-free的概率()约是prime概率的倍. square-free的概 … more →
Szemeredi's regularity lemma via random partitions
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Terence Tao wrote 7 months ago: In the theory of dense graphs on vertices, where is large, a fundamental role is played by the Szeme … more →
The power of convex relaxation: near-optimal matrix completion
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Terence Tao wrote 8 months ago: Emmanuel Candés and I have just uploaded to the arXiv our paper “The power of convex relaxatio … more →
Random matrices: The distribution of the smallest singular values
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Terence Tao wrote 9 months ago: Van Vu and I have just uploaded to the arXiv our paper “Random matrices: The distribution of t … more →
A sharp inverse Littlewood-Offord theorem
Terence Tao wrote 9 months ago: Van Vu and I have just uploaded to the arXiv our preprint “A sharp inverse Littlewood-Offord t … more →
From the Littlewood-Offord problem to the Circular Law: universality of the spectral distribution of random matrices
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Terence Tao wrote 1 year ago: Van Vu and I have just uploaded to the arXiv our survey paper “From the Littlewood-Offord prob … more →
Oded Schramm
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Terence Tao wrote 1 year ago: I am very saddened (and stunned) to learn that Oded Schramm, who made fundamental contributions to c … more →
