Browsing 2014 by Title
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The Kadison-Singer problem
[SNAP-2014-008-EN] (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2014)In quantum mechanics, unlike in classical mechanics, one cannot make precise predictions about how a system will behave. Instead, one is concerned with mere probabilities. Consequently, it is a very important task to ... -
Matrixfaktorisierungen
[SNAP-2014-002-DE] (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2014)Im Folgenden soll ein kurzer Abriss des Themas Matrixfaktorisierungen gegeben werden. Wir werden darlegen, warum dieses recht simple Konzept zu erstaunlich tiefen mathematischen Gedankengängen führt und auch in der modernen ... -
Operator theory and the singular value decomposition
[SNAP-2014-009-EN] (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2014)This is a snapshot about operator theory and one of its fundamental tools: the singular value decomposition (SVD). The SVD breaks up linear transformations into simpler mappings, thus unveiling their geometric properties. ... -
Le problème ternaire de Goldbach
[SNAP-2014-003-FR] (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2024)Leonhard Euler (1707–1783), l’un des plus grands mathématiciens du XVIIIe siècle et de tous les temps, entretenait une correspondance régulière avec l’un de ses amis: Christian Goldbach (1690–1764), un amateur polymathe ... -
Statistics and dynamical phenomena
[SNAP-2014-006-EN] (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2014)A friend of mine, an expert in statistical genomics, told me the following story: At a dinner party, an attractive lady asked him, "What do you do for a living?" He replied, "I model." As my friend is a handsome man, the ... -
Swallowtail on the shore
[SNAP-2014-007-EN] (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2014)Platonic solids, Felix Klein, H.S.M. Coxeter and a flap of a swallowtail: The five Platonic solids tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, icosahedron and dodecahedron have always attracted much curiosity from mathematicians, not ... -
The ternary Goldbach problem
[SNAP-2014-003-EN] (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2014)Leonhard Euler (1707–1783) – one of the greatest mathematicians of the eighteenth century and of all times – often corresponded with a friend of his, Christian Goldbach (1690–1764), an amateur and polymath who lived and ... -
Das ternäre Goldbach-Problem
[SNAP-2014-003-DE] (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2020)Leonhard Euler (1707–1783) war einer der besten Mathematiker des 18. Jahrhunderts und wohl auch aller Zeiten. Er korrespondierte oft mit seinem Freund, Christoph Goldbach (1690–1764), einem Universalgelehrten, der auch ... -
What does ">" really mean?
[SNAP-2014-004-EN] (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2014)This Snapshot is about the generalization of ">" from ordinary numbers to so-called fields. At the end, I will touch on some ideas in recent research.