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Apology. This is a 20 minutes talk. Necessarily, it will be superficial.
Abstract. The zombies need to compute a quantity, the zombian, that pertains to some structure - say, a columbarium. But unfortunately (for them), a part of that structure will only be known in the future. What can they compute today with the parts they already have to hasten tomorrow's computation?
That's a common quest, and I will illustrate it with a few examples from knot theory and with two examples about matrices - determinants and signatures. I will also mention two of my dreams (perhaps delusions): that one day I will be able to reproduce, and extend, the Rolfsen table of knots using code of the highest level of beauty.
URL: http://drorbn.net/ott23.
Handout: Zombian.html, Zombian.pdf.
Talk Video (also at
YouTube).
Sources: pensieve.