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Re:‘Outsiders’ who cracked the 50-Year-Old Kadison-Singer Pr... by sp332 on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @10:48AM (#10627720)
Word spread quickly through the mathematics community that one of the paramount problems in C * -algebras and a host of other fields had been solved by three outsiders — computer scientists who had barely a nodding acquaintance with the disciplines at the heart of the problem.
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Re:‘Outsiders’ who cracked the 50-Year-Old Kadison-Singer Pr... by Ar-Curunir on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @01:24PM (#10628655)
Theoretical computer science is mathematics
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Re:‘Outsiders’ who cracked the 50-Year-Old Kadison-Singer Pr... by seba_dos1 on Saturday December 05, 2015 @08:11PM (#10683966)
But it's not "discipline at the heart of the problem".
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