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		<title>WolframAlpha is a useful tool</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Sauvaget</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had not looked too much at WolframAlpha yet, but it looks very handy.  Lots of Mathematica can be done before hitting the time limit, and many nice added features are there. For example, the student wishing to test the correctedness of her solution to some random calculus problem can check it herself by using [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thomas1111.wordpress.com&amp;blog=814354&amp;post=668&amp;subd=thomas1111&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Math projects at 2011 Intel STS and Siemens Competition</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Sauvaget</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The two big events for US high school students with a project in science have now ended: the winners of the 2011 Siemens Competition in Math, Science &#38; Technology have been announced a few days ago, while last march the 2011 Intel Science Talent Search delivered its winners. As usual, there are some very high [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thomas1111.wordpress.com&amp;blog=814354&amp;post=664&amp;subd=thomas1111&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ECM 2012 preview</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 6th European Congress of Mathematics will take place in Poland in early july 2012. Registration will open next month, with a fee of about €250 until march 31.  Mini-symposia applications must be submitted no later than november 30.  There are two rounds of poster application (perhaps for those who want to resubmit?) in february [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thomas1111.wordpress.com&amp;blog=814354&amp;post=658&amp;subd=thomas1111&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Evariste Galois bicentenary</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three days early, and why not, here is a partial list of things related to the celebration of the bicentenary of the birth of Galois: - the official site, with lots of ongoing events - the CNRS has a 14-minutes long film &#8220;Je n&#8217;ai pas le temps&#8221; for purchase, of which there&#8217;s a 6-minutes excerpt [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thomas1111.wordpress.com&amp;blog=814354&amp;post=650&amp;subd=thomas1111&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Revue de &#8220;Petite Initiation aux Mathématiques&#8221;, de Timothy Gowers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Sauvaget</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Il y a quelques jours, je déambulais chez un libraire, passant nonchalamment devant le présentoir des nouveautés du mois pour me diriger vers les romans. Mais, d&#8217;un coup d&#8217;œil furtif et accidentel audit présentoir, je remarque un titre tout à coup qui m&#8217;interpelle: Petite Initiation aux Mathématiques, publié tout récemment le 30 septembre. Tiens, quelle [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thomas1111.wordpress.com&amp;blog=814354&amp;post=637&amp;subd=thomas1111&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MO is two</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:56:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Sauvaget</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As advertised on meta, MO is two today.  Quick stats very much like last year : - &#8220;active users&#8221; (i.e. those with rep): about 4900, so that&#8217;s about 2200 more in a year - 55 users are at or above 10k, compared to 18 a year ago - most prominent senior users who joined roughly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thomas1111.wordpress.com&amp;blog=814354&amp;post=630&amp;subd=thomas1111&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>3 recent themes in logic</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are 3 recent things that I&#8217;d very much like to work on and digest in the next year or so: - Edward Nelson&#8217;s ongoing work (summary here), where he claims he found an inconsistency in Peano Arithmetic (namelly that there are superexponential recursions which do not terminate) , and proposes another weaker system as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thomas1111.wordpress.com&amp;blog=814354&amp;post=626&amp;subd=thomas1111&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Proof? What do you mean, proof?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 08:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Sauvaget</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing which always strikes me is the complete misuse of the word proof in daily life by many people. Surely that should be something which any math curriculum should tend to correct at an early age. For example consider this sentence: &#8220;This suggests a far bigger shock than Lehman if this truth is proven [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thomas1111.wordpress.com&amp;blog=814354&amp;post=623&amp;subd=thomas1111&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Mountain</title>
		<link>http://thomas1111.wordpress.com/2011/06/10/the-mountain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 05:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Sauvaget</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fantastic time-lapse movies by Terje Sørgjerd on vimeo in HD: 1. Aurora 2. The Mountain 3. The Arctic Light (very recent)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thomas1111.wordpress.com&amp;blog=814354&amp;post=615&amp;subd=thomas1111&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Giuga-Agoh redux</title>
		<link>http://thomas1111.wordpress.com/2011/06/09/giuga-agoh-redux/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 06:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Sauvaget</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some years ago I mentionned that conjecture, but didn&#8217;t really make any progress then.  Recently, I&#8217;ve tried again and found what could be a simple proof, which I&#8217;ve put here. There may still be a silly mistake somewhere, but at least that seems to be going in the right direction. Comments welcome&#8230; UPDATE (9 june [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thomas1111.wordpress.com&amp;blog=814354&amp;post=610&amp;subd=thomas1111&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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