Introduction to additive combinatorics lecture 1.0 --- What is additive combinatorics?

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This is an introductory video to a 16-hour course on additive combinatorics given as part of Cambridge's Part III mathematics course in the academic year 2021-2. After a few remarks about practicalities, I informally discuss a few open problems, and attempt to explain what additive combinatorics is and how it differs in emphasis from combinatorial number theory.

Notes for the course, which will be updated as I give it, are available here.

0:00 Introduction
3:35 Description of combinatorial number theory.
7:44 The Erdös additive basis problem.
14:03 The growth rate of infinite Sidon sets.
22:00 Statement of Szemerédi's theorem.
25:14 The Erdös-Szemerédi sum-product problem.
30:33 The difference between additive combinatorics and combinatorial number theory.

At around 29:33 I forget the details about the state of the art on the sum-product problem. The current best known exponent is 4/3+2/1167 and it is due to Misha Rudnev and Sophie Stevens.
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You are the OG. Thanks for the lectures!!!

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Dear Prof. Gowers,
would there be any way to obtain the problem sheets for this lecture without being a student at Cambridge?
Sincerely, Jonathan Dahlke

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Dear Prof. Gowers
The link is not public yet, I can't access the notes

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