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Just in time for the holidays, Colleen Robichaux and I wrote this paper on positivity of Schubert coefficients. This paper is unlike any other paper I had written, both in the content and the way we obtained the results. To me, writing it was a religious experience. No, no, the paper is still mathematical, it’s just, uhm, different. Read this post till the end to find out how, or go straight to the paper (or perhaps both!) Mathematicians rarely if ever discuss the subject. When they do, they get either apologetic about it “there are no contradictions…”, or completely detached as if you can be deeply religious on Sunday morning and completely secular on Tuesday afternoon. See e.g. Robert Aumann’s extensive interview or this short clip by Freeman Dyson, two of the most admired people in their respective fields. I have neither a religious education nor a specialized knowledge to speak on the subject, obviously. But in the age of Twitter (uhm, X.com, sorry) that minor issue never stopped a

Igor Pak's blog | Views on life and math Igor Pak's blog Views on life and math Home About Igor Pak On faith, religion, conjectures and Schubert calculus December 29, 2024 igorpak 6 comments Just in time for the holidays, Colleen Robichaux and I wrote this paper on positivity of Schubert coefficients . This paper is unlike any other paper I had written, both in the content and the way we obtained the results. To me, writing it was a religious experience. No, no, the paper is still mathematical, it’s just, uhm, different. Read this post till the end to find out how, or go straig

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