Major Open Problems
- Axis-parallel rectangles in dimensions three and higher (Folklore)
- Komlós conjecture
- The three permutations problem (Beck) - disproved by Newman and Nikolov.
- Erdős discrepancy problem - Homogeneous arithmetic progressions (Erdős, $500)
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