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Tag Archives: surreal numbers
Moonlighting
In the last week of August, I attended for the first time a virtual conference. This was the 2020 Ural Workshop on Group Theory and Combinatorics, organised by Natalia Maslova at the Ural Federal University in Yekaterinburg and her colleagues. … Continue reading
Posted in events
Tagged axial algebras, big Ramsey degrees, Deza graphs, dual Seidel switching, EPPA, Greenberg's theorem, Hardy fields, Helmut Wielandt, indivisibility, integral graphs, Latin cubes, Markov numnbers, Miguel Couciero, Natalia Maslova, profile, strongly 2-closed groups, surreal numbers, Thompson groups, twin-width
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The infinite lottery
Probability is a mathematical subject where the application of the results to the real world remains controversial, and different schools of thought flourish. Littlewood, in his Miscellany, discusses this, and comes firmly to the conclusion that probability theory can say … Continue reading
Posted in exposition
Tagged Kolmogorov's axioms, logic, measure theory, probability, surreal numbers
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