精研课程.ppt

* */74 * */74 * */74 * */74 Pizza delivery One can give a call or via internet to order a pizza for dinner We want the hot, fresh and tasty pizzas How should they delivery the pizzas upon the reception of orders?? Immediately or wait some minutes for next orders in the near places? * */74 The Ski problem The Ski problem [Karp 92]: A skier must decide every day she goes skiing whether to rent or buy skis, unless or until she decides to buy them. The skiier doesn’t know how many days she will go on skiing before she gets tired of this hobbie. The cost to rent skis for a day is 1 unit, while the cost to buy the skis is B units. How can she save money? * */74 Lost cow problem A short-sighted cow (or assume it’s dark, or foggy, or ...) is standing in front of a fence and does not know in which direction the only gate in the fence might be. How can the cow find the gate without walking too great a detour? How can two soldiers get together when lost in battlefield ? * */74 Erd?s project – shortest path Paul Erd?s(1913-1996) has an Erd?s number of zero. If the lowest Erd?s number of a coauthor is X, then the authors Erd?s number is X + 1. * */74 Nevanlinna Prize winners NAME YEAR COUNTRY ERD?S NUMBER Robert Tarjan 1982 USA 2 Leslie Valiant 1986 Hungary/Gt Brtn 3 Alexander Razborov 1990 Russia 2 Avi Wigderson 1994 Israel 2 Peter Shor 1998 USA 2 Madhu Sudan 2002 India/USA 2 Jon Kleinberg 2006 USA 3 Daniel Alan Spielman 2010 USA * */74 Other famous people Albert Einstein 1921 Physics 2 Chen Ning Yang 1957 Physics 4 Tsung-dao Lee 1957 Physics 5 John F. Nash 1994 Economics 4 Edmund S. Phelps 2006 Economics