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From planar graphs to the five Platonic solids
Count vertices, edges, and faces; add a point at infinity; then discover why there are exactly five regular convex polyhedra.
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Strong Measurability and Adapted Approximations with Applications to Non-Markovian Control
Measurability and adapted approximation tools for metric-space-valued maps, with applications to path-dependent stochastic control.
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University of Calgary
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