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...
Measuring Area in 3rd Grade
In 3rd grade, students are learning to measure length in fraction units. This skill combined with understanding perimeter and the attributes of 2-dimensional shapes...
Calculus Limits – Fun Digital Resource!
I'm really working hard to up my digital game this year - and what better way than to start with a quick formative assessment.In...
Order of general linear groups over finite commutative rings
For a ring with identity, we denote by the Jacobson radical of the group of units of the ring of...
Functions from Tables – Henri’s Math Education Blog
At some point, maybe thirty years ago, it became fashionable to emphasize functions and their multiple representations in secondary school math. This was in...
Forcing is simply the iterative conception undertaken with multivalued logic, ForcingFest, Oslo, June 2024
I shall be speaking at the ForcingFest meeting at the University of Oslo, 21 June 2024.
Abstract. I will explain how the forcing construction...
The Many Schools of Mathematical Thought – ThatsMaths
Mathematics is used widely, playing a central role in science and engineering and, increasingly, in the social and biological sciences. But users seldom consider...