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Tag Name "Combinatorics" (7)

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Counting pairs is the oldest trick in combinatorics... Every time we count pairs, we learn something from it.
Gil Kalai
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Computers are here to stay. It is a major challenge for the future to use computers efficiently in combinatorics without losing its special appeal.
Noga Alon
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Journalists say that when a dog bites a man, that is not news, but when a man bites a dog, that is news ... Thanks to the mathematics of combinatorics, we will never run out of news.
Steven Pinker
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'You might think of combinatorics as a machine too', the major says. 'A different sort of machine, though. Have you heard of Babbage's analytic engine? He never built it. ... I have an analytic machine of my own-right here.' He taps his own skull.
David Leavitt
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We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.
Larry Wall
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... combinatorics, a sort of glorified dice-throwing.
Robert Kanigel
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Cryptography has generated number theory, algebraic geometry over finite fields, algebra, combinatorics and computers.
Vladimir Arnold