ABSTRACT
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How far can a stack of n bricks hang over the edge of a table? It took 5 mathematicians (Mike Paterson, Yuval Peres, Mikkel Thorup, Uri Zwick and the speaker) to get the asymptotic answer to this 150-year-old problem---and the result is not what most people thought. Return to DMTCS home page. |