Appears in collection : Azat Miftakhov Days Against the War

In the last 10-15 years, “bootstrap” was applied to problems as disparate as critical exponents of second-order phase transitions, scattering of elementary particles, chaotic dynamical systems, and Laplacian spectra on hyperbolic manifolds. This produced many new computer-assisted bounds on various quantities of interest. I will explain common features of these problems, and what is this bootstrap method which applies to all of them.