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Determinacy of Borel games I 23 Aug 2013 | 06:37 pm
I’m trying to understand the famous result of Donald Martin that Borel games are determined, and by that I mean not just understand the proof line by line, but also understand why the lines are as the...
The selected-papers network 16 Jun 2013 | 08:21 pm
This post is to report briefly on a new and to my mind very exciting venture in academic publishing. It’s called the Selected Papers Network, and it has been designed and created by Christopher Lee. I...
The selected-papers network 16 Jun 2013 | 08:21 pm
This post is to report briefly on a new and to my mind very exciting venture in academic publishing. It’s called the Selected Papers Network, and it has been designed and created by Christopher Lee. I...
Elsevier journals: has anything changed? 28 May 2013 | 02:59 am
Greg Martin, a number theorist at UBC (the University of British Columbia in Vancouver) doesn’t think so, so he has decided to resign from the editorial board of Elsevier’s Journal of Number Theory. H...
Elsevier journals: has anything changed? 28 May 2013 | 02:59 am
Greg Martin, a number theorist at UBC (the University of British Columbia in Vancouver) doesn’t think so, so he has decided to resign from the editorial board of Elsevier’s Journal of Number Theory. H...
Answers, results of polls, and a brief description of the program 14 Apr 2013 | 10:32 pm
I have now closed the polls in the second mathematical writing experiment. Here are the results. I have also published the comments on the first and second experiments, which shed further light on the...
Answers, results of polls, and a brief description of the program 14 Apr 2013 | 10:32 pm
I have now closed the polls in the second mathematical writing experiment. Here are the results. I have also published the comments on the first and second experiments, which shed further light on the...
A second experiment concerning mathematical writing. 3 Apr 2013 | 12:10 am
The time has come to reveal what the experiment in the previous post was about. As with many experiments (the most famous probably being that of Stanley Milgram about obedience to authority), its real...
A second experiment concerning mathematical writing. 3 Apr 2013 | 12:10 am
The time has come to reveal what the experiment in the previous post was about. As with many experiments (the most famous probably being that of Stanley Milgram about obedience to authority), its real...
Another test 2 Apr 2013 | 05:37 pm
This time I want to test whether I can have polls where the results are not visible until the poll closes. So if you have a few seconds to vote, that would be very helpful. If the facility works, then...
