Noncommutative Analysis

This morning I woke to WhatsApp message from a friend: the Navier-Stokes problem has been solved.

There is nothing new under the sun.

A couple of weeks ago I attended the 30th International Conference in Operator Theory, that took place at West University in Timisoara, Romania.

Yesterday, Marcel Scherer (a postdoc in our group here at the Technion) published his new exciting preprint “A Three-Dimensional Operator System without the Smith–Ward Property“.

Last week Ian Thompson published an exciting preprint on the arxiv: “On the universal commuting dilation constant“.

Marcel Scherer, Eli Shamovich and I have recently uploaded to the arxiv our new paper “On the spectral radius of operator tuples“.

I have recently seriously written on “The Unreasonable Flakiness of Assessment in the Mathematical Sciences“, and today I want to look at our flaky business from another angle.

Following up on my commitment from the last post, I am coming back with a final report of the Brown’s Philosophy of Mathematics: A Contemporary Introduction to the World of Proofs and Pictures.

Is there any better escape from reality than mathematics?

Of course, this is a rant.