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Tag Archives: eigenvalues
More on derangements
Francis Bacon, in The New Organon, developed a famous metaphor: Those who have handled sciences have been either men of experiment or men of dogmas. The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners … Continue reading
Solution to the Clebsch puzzle
Here is the solution to the puzzle about the Clebsch graph I posed at the weekend. Since Gordon and Tony (and probably others) have already solved it, I am giving you my solution now. The puzzle was: Suppose we delete … Continue reading
Partitions into Petersens
There is a lovely algebraic argument to prove that the complete graph on ten vertices (which has 45 edges) cannot be partitioned into three copies of the Petersen graph (which has 15 edges). Sebastian Cioaba asked me: for which m … Continue reading
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Tagged doubly transitive groups, eigenvalues, Ramsey's theorem
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Fibonacci numbers, 3
The Fibonacci recurrence, an = an−1+an−2 is linear. This might suggest either of two things to you, depending on your background: Like a linear differential equation, its solutions obey the superposition principle; the sum of solutions is a solution, and a multiple … Continue reading