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...
Hilbert’s Theorem 90 | Abstract Algebra
Hilbert’s Theorem 90
Posted: May 24, 2024 in Basic Algebra, Fields Tags: automorphism group, Hilbert's Theorem 90
In this post, which is one of the oldest posts...
A Construction Unit – Henri’s Math Education Blog
I have written about geometric construction a number of times on this blog, and on my website. I outlined my philosophical outlook on this...
The continuum hypothesis could have been a fundamental axiom, CFORS Grad Conference, Oslo, June 2024
I shall be giving a keynote lecture for the CFORS Grad Conference at the University of Oslo, 19-20 June 2024.
Abstract. I shall describe a simple...
Breaking a Stick to Form a Triangle – ThatsMaths
We consider a simple problem in probability:
A thin rod is broken at random into three pieces.What is the probability that these three piecescan be...
Carnival of Mathematics 227 | The Aperiodical
By Katie Steckles. Posted May 2, 2024 in Carnival of Mathematics
The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the...
Graphs and groups, designs and dynamics
Four and a half year ago there was a conference and summer school on the four topics of the title (part of the G2...