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Timothy Gowers


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in Wiltshire, The United Kingdom
November 20, 1963

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Group and semigroup puzzles and a possible Polymath project

An Artin-Tits group is a group with a finite set of generators a_1,\dots a_k in which every relation is of the form (ab)^r=(ba)^r or (ab)^ra=(ba)^rb for some positive integer r, where a and b are two of the generators. In particular, the commutation relation ab=ba is allowed (it is the case r=1 of the first type of relation) and so is the braid relation aba=bab (it is the case r=1 of the second type of relation). This means that Artin-Tits groups include fre

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“It is a remarkable phenomenon that children can learn to speak without ever being consciously aware of the sophisticated grammar they are using.”
Timothy Gowers, The Princeton Companion to Mathematics

“Can we have genuine knowledge of space without ever leaving our armchairs?”
Timothy Gowers, The Princeton Companion to Mathematics

“Roses belong to the set R”
Timothy Gowers, The Princeton Companion to Mathematics



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