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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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Do two polynomials whose coefficients are the same up to permutation satisfy this relation?
Mar 14, 2025
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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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Polynomial taking only 0 and 1 values at many consecutive integers
Dec 7, 2025
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Has the mathematics research community ever been led astray by a dumb mistake?
Oct 21, 2024
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Is this differential identity known?
Jun 7, 2015
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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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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, 2023
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What's the real central limit theorem?
Mar 2, 2025

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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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Is $\operatorname{arctanh}(x^2)/\operatorname{arctanh}(x)$ increasing?
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Conjectured formula for the Fabius function
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Does the following inequality hold true?
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About nonnegative polynomials