[math-fun] Old Math-Fun at Arizona disconnected
I've disconnected the forwarding from the old Math-Fun address at Arizona to the new list at Xmission. This should help with the recent spam problems. (Xmission recently "upgraded" the mailing list software, but apparently lost the spam filtering feature from forwarded mailing lists.) The posting address is math-fun@mailman.xmission.com; the old Arizona address will forward to me (only). I'm discarding spam complaints that were sent to the group; we don't need meta-spam. Complain to me if you must, or if you have something helpful to say. --- The new results on prime gaps are nice, but I think "major step on the twin prime problem" is an exaggeration. Chen's result from the 1970s seems to be "best so far". Rich rcs@cs.arizona.edu
Out of curiousity, what has the big math news been, in the various fields? I can split out various things. 1. Huge results. A field of math changes. 2. Nice results. Everyone in that field should know about the result. 3. New experiment results. Someone tries something that should have been tried earlier. Euler was the master of these. 4. For The Book results. A known result is proved again, but in an exceptionally clever way (something for what Erdos called The Book). 5. Explainable results. It may not be that great, but it's easily explained to non experts, and is still interesting. Are there any 2-5 items that haven't been mentioned here, but are causing conversions among mathematicians in some speciality? --Ed
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Richard Schroeppel