Monthly Archives: September 2011

Locro, adapted to French circumstances

Posted on 2011/09/30 by valuevar

Note: I am not claiming this is the only or the best possible solution. What follows is just the description of a solution that proved itself successful last evening. Locro (Peruvian/Ecuatorian, i.e., “nature”, pas “à la viande”) serves 1 person … Continue reading →

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Purity

Posted on 2011/09/29 by valuevar

Using the modularity of elliptic curves is fine, and, if anything, makes a diophantine result more interesting. However, using the Classification of Finite Simple Groups leaves me feeling slightly dirty. Discuss.

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Hungary, Poland, and thought in dreams

Posted on 2011/09/22 by valuevar

I recently came back from a trip to Hungary and Poland. The Hungarian part centred on a large and well-organised conference in Budapest, where I saw many old friends. Such conferences inevitably devolve into something very similar to what I … Continue reading →

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The diameter of permutation groups

Posted on 2011/09/20 by valuevar

Ákos Seress and I have recently uploaded to the arxiv our new preprint, “On the diameter of permutation groups”. In it we prove that the diameter of the symmetric group is always small, irrespectively of the set of generators. By … Continue reading →

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