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Thursday, February 7, 2019
The Milner-Rado paradox from walks on ordinals
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Let $\kappa$ be a cardinal. The Milner-Rado paradox states: Every ordinal $\beta<\kappa^+$ can be written as $\bigcup_{n<\omega} X_...
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
History at the BGU awards ceremony
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At the BGU department awards ceremony, a certain name appeared with spooky regularity, like subtle clues in a novel. Profs. Miriam Cohe...
Sunday, December 3, 2017
Balogh's small Dowker space, part 2
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We are continuing the construction of Balogh's Dowker space of size continuum. From the paper, he says: "The heart of the proo...
Balogh's small Dowker space, part 1
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A Dowker space is a normal space which is not countably paracompact. Here, a (Hausdorff) space $X$ is normal if for every pair of disjoint ...
Wednesday, November 22, 2017
New material coming
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I have been in Israel at Ben-Gurion University for the past year (and plan to stay here for one more year), and I'm working on some new ...
Thursday, February 25, 2016
UCI Summer School, part 7: Sacks forcing (Brent Cody)
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This lecture will introduce some basic properties of Sacks forcing for uncountable inaccessible cardinals, and examine an Easton support ite...
Friday, February 19, 2016
The rearrangement inequality is everywhere
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Recently, I've been talking with John Susice about some elementary Olympiad-style problems. I told him that in high school I was taught ...
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