Mosca
Mosca
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April 3rd, 2017 at 6:44:52 PM permalink
For my math friends here.

Statistician proves Gaussian Correlation Inequality, no one notices

"As he was brushing his teeth on the morning of July 17, 2014, Thomas Royen, a little-known retired German statistician, suddenly lit upon the proof of a famous conjecture at the intersection of geometry, probability theory and statistics that had eluded top experts for decades...."
A falling knife has no handle.
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