Author Archives: randomprojection
Back Where It All Started
I am very happy to share that I am starting as a tenured Associate Professor at the University of Crete. The University of Crete has a remarkable scientific community and a long tradition of strong research in computer science and mathematics. I feel grateful and excited to become part of this environment. Academic trajectories are […]
Καλωσόρισες στη ζωή
Και γεννήθηκε ο γιος — μες απ’ τα σπλάχνα της γης, αμίλητος σαν όρκος, σιωπηλός σαν προσευχή, λαμπρός σαν αυγή. Καλώς ήρθες Δημήτρη!
A drunk man will find his way home, but a drunk bird may get lost forever
This elegant quote, which captures the essence of the mathematical fact that a 2-dimensional random walk is recurrent while in higher dimensions it is not, is attributed to Shizuo Kakutani. However, the original proof is due to George Pólya [1]. A -dimensional lattice is defined as a graph whose vertices are all points in with […]
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