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Also by Stephen (and previously discussed on HN): https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sd601/papers/mov.pdf https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sd601/papers/mov.pdf As usual, he in
by rjtobin 10y ago
Also by Stephen (and previously discussed on HN): https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sd601/papers/mov.pdf https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sd601/papers/mov.pdf
As usual, he injects just the right amount of humour. Eg. this footnote in his thesis:
"*This paper is out of print, in Russian, and quite difficult to get a hold of, so the interested
reader is directed to a shorter proof by Conway [Con71, p. 105], which is merely out of print."
- myst 10y agoIt's not difficult to get a hold of tho http://umj.imath.kiev.ua/article/?lang=en&article=10002 http://umj.imath.kiev.ua/article/?lang=en&article=10002
- yrhz90 10y agoIt looks like that volume was produced after this thesis was submitted.
- fpoling 10y agoOr this footnote: 1 Eficient in the same sense as ML: tends to run fast, but with some effort pathological cases can be constructed.
- benmos 10y agoI don't think that's really humour - that's an important piece of information.