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One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left behind by the eccentric and ...

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Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to gain a better understanding of the structure of undecidable problems in automata theory by investigating the degree of unsolvability of these problems. This ...

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Word problems try and tell students a story about the math problem in front of them. They are a useful way to connect abstract numbers to concrete situations, so students can learn early on to apply ...

The Post Correspondence Problem (PCP) is an undecidable problem. It asks whether a set of domino-like pairs of strings can be arranged in a sequence so that the top and bottom strings match. There's ...