Avi
Wigderson, Herbert H. Maass Professor in the School of
Mathematics, gave a Friends Forum in October 2011, entitled
Randomness and Pseudo-randomness. Is the universe inherently
deterministic or probabilistic? Perhaps more importantly, can we
tell...
We present a unified approach to various topics in mathematics
including: Ergodic theory, graph limit theory, hypergraph
regularity, and Higher order Fourier analysis. The main theme is
that very large complicated structures can be treated as...
In settings of incomplete information, we put forward (1) a very
conservative ---indeed, purely set-theoretic--- model of the
beliefs (including totally wrong ones) that each player may have
about the payoff types of his opponents, and (2) a new and...
What is the relationship between the idiom of the observer
(historian, anthropologist) and the idiom of the actors, dead or
alive? This question, which has been addressed from widely
different (and usually unrelated) points of view, provides
an...
