In Rodl's Extremal Graph Theory class, Gerry is presenting van der Waerden's Theorem. He says that he will present a proof by the Israeli Magician Shelah.

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April! Tax month. It's the busiest time of the year for mathematicians. Tax is about summing things up, and taking percentages. This calls for a mathematician. The calls I get from accountants at this time of

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I'm in my office late at night. A herd of students have just noisily left the building, and now all is quiet, except for the Pell Mell instrumental playing lightly on my computer. But I can&

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Professor Bae brings his visitor, Professor Carter into the staff meeting to introduce him to everyone. "Hi, I'm Mark. " I say, when he is introduced to me. "Yeah," he says, "We&

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Pavol is visiting from Vancouver, and we are talking about a problem with a paper. We would like a polynomial algorithm to decide if a graph has a semilattice polymorphism. I say that I think a Lexicographic breadth

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I'm in my office fighting with the notation on a paper I'm writing. Portrayed on television, Math is: Furiously writing long equations on a whiteboard. Then pausing and look thoughtfully at an integral. Then

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‌M: Wow. That's your aura? It's way brighter than it used to be.‌ ‌G: I'm in heaven now. So I'm in my natural state-- glowing.‌

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We host a combinatorial seminar. A certain David is giving a talk on 1-factorisations of graphs. He makes the absurd claim that "It is hard to decide if a graph has a 1-factorisation." "Not cliques,

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