Algebra
Gödel incompleteness, graduate course, Notre Dame, Fall 2024
This will be a graduate course at the University of Notre Dame.
Course title: Gödel incompleteness
Course description. We shall explore at length all aspects...
Mileva Marić and the Special Theory of Relativity – ThatsMaths
The year 1905 was Albert Einstein’s “miracle year”. In that year, he published four papers in the renowned scientific journal Annalen der Physik. The...
Hidden in Plane Sight | The Aperiodical
This is a guest post by Elliott Baxby, a maths undergraduate student who wants to share an appreciation of geometrical proofs.
I remember the days...
A talk by Gareth Jones
Today I attended (remotely) a nice talk by Gareth Jones in the Ural Workshop on Group Theory and Combinatorics, about prime powers in permutation...
Aperiodical News Roundup – March/April 2024
By Katie Steckles. Posted May 2, 2024 in News Roundup
Here’s a round-up of mathematical news from the last couple of months.
Awards
The 2024 Abel Prize...
British Combinatorial Conference | Peter Cameron’s Blog
The British Combinatorial Conference returns to Queen Mary Univesity of London in the first week of July. The web page is here.
Last time when...
Measuring Length in 3rd Grade
Students in 1st and 2nd grade work to learn about measuring length to the nearest whole unit.
They learn to use measurement tools that...
Spice Up Math Class with Logic Puzzles
High school math class doesn't have to be a dry slog of equations and formulas. In fact, it can be a thrilling adventure in...
R a local ring but R[1/r] not semilocal for some r in R; an example
Let be a commutative domain with identity, and Let be the localization of with respect to the set i.e....
Manipulatives – Henri’s Math Education Blog
Liz Caffrey is a master middle school math teacher in the Boston area. She is the author of last year’s Lab Gear, the...