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“In highschool I was very excited that alog(b)=blog(a), and still find it useful today.”

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Noga Alon is an Israeli mathematician known for his contributions to combinatorics and graph theory. Born on February 17, 1956, he is a distinguished scholar in the fields of theoretical computer science and algorithm design. more

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