Post by rubl on Nov 27, 2015 6:19:24 GMT 7
I 'm just reading a bit and stumbled over an article on the proof of the 54 year old Kadison-Singer problem.
I must admit even the layman terms explanation doesn't help me much.
"Srivastava offers a layman's explanation of what he, Marcus, and Spielman have achieved.
"We proved a very fundamental and general statement about quadratic polynomials that was conjectured by [mathematician] Nik Weaver and that, he showed, implies Kadison-Singer. The proof is based on a new technique we developed, which we call the 'method of interlacing families of polynomials.'"
Read more at: phys.org/news/2013-07-indian-math-conjecture-1950s.html
The real stuff is even scarier with
"Interlacing Families II: Mixed Characteristic Polynomials and the Kadison-Singer Problem"
arxiv.org/abs/1306.3969v3
I must admit even the layman terms explanation doesn't help me much.
"Srivastava offers a layman's explanation of what he, Marcus, and Spielman have achieved.
"We proved a very fundamental and general statement about quadratic polynomials that was conjectured by [mathematician] Nik Weaver and that, he showed, implies Kadison-Singer. The proof is based on a new technique we developed, which we call the 'method of interlacing families of polynomials.'"
Read more at: phys.org/news/2013-07-indian-math-conjecture-1950s.html
The real stuff is even scarier with
"Interlacing Families II: Mixed Characteristic Polynomials and the Kadison-Singer Problem"
arxiv.org/abs/1306.3969v3
