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Igor Pak's blog

Views on life and math.

  • By Igor Pak
  • Based in United States of America
  • Roughly three 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 3

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

Most recent posts

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, 1,331 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
Two constructions
In the past two weeks I posted on the arXiv two very different papers. One is in Discrete Geometry (joint with Karim Adiprasito) and another is in Asymptotic Group Theory (joint with Martin Kassabov). Both …
On , by igorpak, 1,146 words