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Igor Pak's blog

Views on life and math.

  • By Igor Pak
  • Based in United States of America
  • Roughly four posts per year
  • First post on

Posts per year

Data for this chart is available in the table below
Posts per year
Year starting Posts
2021 3
2022 6
2023 2
2024 4

Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.

Most recent posts

Princeton President to Princeton Jews: For the sake of free speech please shut up!
The readers of this blog know know that I stay away from non-math related discussions. It’s not that I don’t have any political opinions, I just don’t think they are especially valuable or original. I …
On , by igorpak, 1,428 words
The bunkbed conjecture is false
What follows is an unusual story of perseverance. We start with a conjecture and after some plot twists end up discussing the meaning of truth. While the title is a spoiler, you might not be …
On , by igorpak, 1,346 words
We deserve better journals
By and large, math journals treat the authors like a pesky annoyance, sort of the way a local electric company treats its customers. As in — yes, serving you is our business, but if you …
On , by igorpak, 5,848 words