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Yoav Kallus

Santa Fe, New Mexico

http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~yoav

Omidyar Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute

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Top Questions
35 votes

What measurable quantity can constrain the number of odors human can discriminate?

coding-theory packing combinatorial-designs biomathematics asked Nov 8, 2014 at 0:34
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13 votes

Simple way to switch inline asymptote figures on and off

macros graphics conditionals asymptote asked May 1, 2013 at 1:52
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11 votes

Sequential addition of points on a circle, optimizing asymptotic packing radius

nt.number-theory mg.metric-geometry diophantine-approximation packing geometry-of-numbers asked Jul 10, 2017 at 22:22
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10 votes

Identifying lattices

quadratic-forms euclidean-lattices sphere-packing asked May 14, 2012 at 0:55
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8 votes

Translative packing constant strictly larger than lattice packing constant

mg.metric-geometry lattices convex-geometry tiling packing asked Oct 3, 2014 at 1:04
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6 votes

Bound on the determinant of a quadratic form restricted to a subspace

mg.metric-geometry lattices quadratic-forms geometry-of-numbers euclidean-lattices asked Sep 9, 2016 at 16:29
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6 votes

Generalization of the non-existence of a monostatic planar body

mg.metric-geometry mp.mathematical-physics convex-geometry classical-mechanics asked Aug 27, 2012 at 21:09
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6 votes

Local minimum from directional derivatives in the space of convex bodies

convexity convex-geometry geometry fa.functional-analysis mg.metric-geometry asked Jan 25, 2012 at 20:42
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5 votes

Integral of the exponential of a homogeneous quartic - reference request

reference-request definite-integrals tensors asked Jun 15, 2015 at 23:29
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Top Answers
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"The Two Sheriffs" puzzle
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What recent discoveries have amateur mathematicians made?
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Bodies of constant width?
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Covering a Cube with a Square
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What are some mathematical sculptures?
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Closest 3D rotation matrix in the Frobenius norm sense
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Examples of conjectures that were widely believed to be true but later proved false
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(A question about)${}^3$ 3-dimensional convex bodies
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Two (probably) equal real numbers which are not proved to be equal?
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Open problems in mathematical physics
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Distributing points evenly on a sphere
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limit of : $a_{n+2} =\frac{1}{a_n} + \frac{1}{a_{n+1}}$
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General Isoperimetric Inequality via Representation Theory of SO(n)
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Nontrivially fillable gaps in published proofs of major theorems
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Important open problems that have already been reduced to a finite but infeasible amount of computation
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2-layer tilings with a center-of-gravity constraint
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A convex curve inside the unit circle
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The smallest disk containing all sides of an $n$-gon
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Are the primary parallelotopes classified? (equivalently, Voronoi cells of lattices)
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Tangled Knot Function
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A function that is defined everywhere but has unknown values
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Undecidable infinite analogs of NP-complete problems?
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Undecidable puzzles
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There are at most four mutually visible lattice points—?
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How many unit cylinders can touch a unit ball?
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metric condition forcing convex position
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Nearest symmetric matrix, of a given spectrum, to a given diagonal matrix
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On packing axisymmetric bodies in 3D
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Package for the Closest Vector Problem (CVP)?
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Can samples be compressed?
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