The program announced at this post is finally happening, here is
the official schedule etc.
Two of my graduate students at NTU, Svetlana Obraztsova and Nick Gravin, received their PhDs in the past 12 months.
And, on a personal note, there is Jacob Victor, a.k.a. Yasha, born in August 2012 :-)
Weak Nullstellensatz says, that for an algebraically closed field 
![{R=\mathbb{K}[X_1,\dots,X_n]}](https://s0.wp.com/latex.php?latex=%7BR%3D%5Cmathbb%7BK%7D%5BX_1%2C%5Cdots%2CX_n%5D%7D&bg=ffffff&fg=000000&s=0 "{R=\mathbb{K}[X_1,\dots,X_n]}")
Theorem 1 Let
Proof: The first step is to show that 
![{f\in\mathbb{K}[z]}](https://s0.wp.com/latex.php?latex=%7Bf%5Cin%5Cmathbb%7BK%7D%5Bz%5D%7D&bg=ffffff&fg=000000&s=0 "{f\in\mathbb{K}[z]}")
is linearly dependent, i.e. there exist 
where ![{P\in\mathbb{K}[z]}](https://s0.wp.com/latex.php?latex=%7BP%5Cin%5Cmathbb%7BK%7D%5Bz%5D%7D&bg=ffffff&fg=000000&s=0 "{P\in\mathbb{K}[z]}")
Next, we observe that 
Here one can find reduction of the general case (not assuming non-countability of 
One cannot always triangulate a non-convex polyhedron using only its vertices, sometimes one need to add more of them. A simple example of this phenomenon is Schonhardt polyhedron. Here is a picture illustrating how one builds it that I drew for a forthcoming paper, using Tikz LaTeX package, which is awesome, but totally overwhelming.
It fact, it’s easy to see that the 6 vertices and 12 edges it has are not enough. Indeed, each pair of non-intersecting edges determines a simplex, but it’s easy to observe that any such selection will include one the forbidden pairs of vertices AC, A’B, or B’C’. (The LaTeX source of the picture is here).
The paper I mention is related to a topic of the program on inverse moment problems at IMS (NUS/Singapore) in late 2013-early 2014 which I co-organize.
Sage (not the accounting software, but sagemath.org) is accepted to Google Summer of Code 2012, and I will be one of many mentors.
Dima:
This is just SO wrong, that I find it hard to believe. I cannot boycott Springer, at least not yet, given that I have a number of papers under submission in Springer journals, but OK, I’m going to boycott Elsevier.
Originally posted on Azimuth:
The battle is heating up! Now Elsevier, Springer and a smaller third publisher are suing a major university in Switzerland, the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, or ETH Zürich for short. Why? Because this university’s library is distributing copies of their journal articles at a lower cost than the publishers themselves.
Aren’t university libraries supposed to make journal articles available? Over on Google+, Willie Wong explains:
My guess is that they are complaining about how the ETH Library (as well as many other libraries in the NEBIS system) offers Electronic Document Delivery.
It is free for staff and researchers, and private individuals who purchase a library membership can ask for articles for a fee. It is a nice service: otherwise most of us would just go to the library, borrow the printed journal, and scan it ourselves (when the electronic copy is not part of the library’s subscription). This…
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We are to embark upon teaching a 2nd year undergraduate course Experimental Mathematics, which will cover computer algebra basics, and refresh concepts from 1st year linear algebra, calculus, and combinatoris, with few more advanced things thrown in. The course will be based on Sage, with the actual software running on dedicated servers, and accessible via Sage web notebook interface (i.e. basically nothing but a web browser running on the student’s computer/laptop/ipad, etc).
Given the enrollment of about 120, this will be interesting…
PS. Most students did not appreciate the freedom given, and complained, complained, complained…
I was very glad today to receive an email from Akihiro Munemasa (from Tohoku university at Sendai), my long-term collaborator and friend. He says he’s OK, but has no electricity/water/gas…
And, as we see, they have internet, at least some kind of service (email went via me.com, a web-mail service run by Apple).
Well, I can only wish a lot of strength to Akihiro, and all the people affected by this disaster!
PS: today (14th March) he also sent me photos of his office:
