Way back in 2007, I got my first taste of mathematical research. I was in an REU at the University of West Georgia run by Professors Bruce Landman and Abdollah Khodkar. They taught us some basics of graph theory and Ramsey theory, and then presented … Continue reading A Silver Cube of Order 11
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The Guy-Selfridge Conjecture
I recently collaborated with Boris Alexeev, Evan Conway, Matthieu Rosenfeld, Andrew Sutherland, Terence Tao, and Markus Uhr on a problem posed in this blog post by Tao, which has now culminated in a joint paper. While the paper and posts give a more detailed treatment, I wanted … Continue reading The Guy-Selfridge Conjecture
Fast Exact Integer Roots
Suppose you knew that 9,273,284,218,074,431 was a perfect 7th power. How would you compute the 7th root? This is a long overdue sequel to the previous post, in which the author promised to derive an efficient algorithm for computing exact k-th roots of integers. That … Continue reading Fast Exact Integer Roots
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