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Iosif Pinelis
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My main interests are in inequalities and extremal problems in probability theory.

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Does Pinelis' inequality (1994) exist?
Nov 3, 2020
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$\mathbb{E}[X^4]=1$, $X,Y$ iid, what's the best upper bound of $\mathbb{E}[(X-Y)^4]$?
Apr 29, 2018
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How can a mathematician handle the pressure to discover something new?
Mar 11, 2018
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When are Fourier coefficients monotonic?
Dec 25, 2020
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Is this differential identity known?
Jun 7, 2015
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Conjecture: Given any five points, we can always draw a pair of non-intersecting circles whose diameter endpoints are four of those points
Nov 29
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Why doesn't mathematics collapse even though humans quite often make mistakes in their proofs?
Aug 18, 2019
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"Insanely increasing" $C^\infty$ function with upper bound
Nov 26, 2018
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Conjecture: If circular coins of any sizes are in a convex polygonal frame, with each coin touching exactly one edge, then all the coins can move
Jan 11
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Ruling out the existence of a strange polynomial II
Nov 24, 2022
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Conjecture: Given any five points, we can always draw a pair of non-intersecting circles whose diameter endpoints are four of those points.
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Conjectured formula for the Fabius function
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Does the following inequality hold true?
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creating delimiters and inequality signs
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