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Brendan McKay
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Emeritus Professor of Computer Science Australian National University Specialties: combinatorics, algorithms

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Awfully sophisticated proof for simple facts
Feb 24, 2013
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Non-enumerative proof that there are many derangements?
Jan 20, 2012
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What advantage humans have over computers in mathematics?
Mar 13, 2016
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History of the four-colour problem
Jan 12, 2012
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How many $p$-regular graphs with $n$ vertices are there?
Oct 10, 2011
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A conjecture on planar graphs
Jul 4, 2017
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finding the parity of a permutation in little space
Aug 11, 2011
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Titles composed entirely of math symbols
Dec 16, 2011
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Examples of seemingly elementary problems that are hard to solve?
Sep 18, 2011
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Probability of zero in a random matrix
Jun 3, 2012

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Is it appropriate to ask a research-level question that is not part of a research problem?
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What about the question "does Grothendieck have any pseudonymous paper"
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TexShop will not compile without trashing aux files after every error
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How many numbers in the matrix?
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Nauty software package and weighted graphs
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Why is this SAT problem hard and what can I do about it?
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Number of certain (0,1)-matrices, Stanley's Enumerative Combinatorics