Like this blog?- New webpage at www.vadimkulikov.org March 24, 2017
- (Ir)rational Behavior of Calculation October 18, 2011
- The Product of Topological Spaces Does Not Obey Cancellation October 12, 2011
- Wild Embeddings October 11, 2011
- Progress October 4, 2011
- Class-metric August 24, 2011
- Intellectual Lazyness August 22, 2011
- Time Limit: One Minute! August 17, 2011
- Douglas Hofstadter: I Am a Strange Loop. August 15, 2011
- 0.999999……=1? (continuation) July 10, 2011
- Walks on Planets July 5, 2011
- 0.999999….. = 1? July 3, 2011
- Prisoners’ problem 6 June 29, 2011
- I am back! June 28, 2011
- A non-associative “group” March 21, 2011
- Why I haven’t blogged March 21, 2011
- Doodling with Fractals and Persistent Worms. January 2, 2011
- Five groups November 23, 2010
- Splitting A Rectangle November 17, 2010
- Sphere November 10, 2010
Monthly Archives: July 2010
Irrational Rectangles
Please comment your solutions, questions and remarks.. This riddle is not easy. I solved it only after I got a hint. I got the hint without wanting it though, and I was already thinking in the right direction; so with … Continue reading
Posted in Geometry, Mathematics, Wednesday Problem
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Uncountable Borel Sets
Here I promised post some tough stuff. Well, I meant some fruits of our recent research by Hyttinen, Friedman and I. I will not go into the subject here, just post a link to the forthcoming paper. There is an … Continue reading
Posted in Logic, Mathematics, Set Theory
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Ambient Isotopy
Note: One is able to do puzzles 2 and 3 without reading or understanding the text before them. In knot theory, people define equivalence of knots using the concept of ambient isotopy. Two knots (embeddings of the unit circle into … Continue reading
Around Jordans Curve Theorem I
There are more or less three theorems that are often called Jordan Curve Theorems, while there is a distinction between them. Let us denote by E the Euclidean plane, [tex]E=\mathbb{R}^2[/tex] and by [tex]E^n[/tex] the Euclidean n-dimensional space, [tex]E^n=\mathbb{R}^n[/tex]. The Jordan … Continue reading
Posted in Mathematics, Topology
Tagged Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem, Jodan's Curve Theorem
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