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...
R is local ⟹ R[x]/(f(x)) is semilocal
Let be a commutative ring with identity. Recall that we say is local if has only one maximal ideal, and we...
Fractions – Henri’s Math Education Blog
Last weekend, I shared my thoughts about teaching fractions with teachers of grades 3-5 at the Asilomar meeting of the California Math Council. After...
Daniel Solow Author’s Award 2024
My book, Proof and the Art of Mathematics (MIT Press 2020), has been awarded the 2024 Daniel Solow Author’s Award by the Mathematical Association...
Resonant Vibrations from Atoms to the Far Horizons of the Cosmos – ThatsMaths
Tuned mass damper in the Taipei 101 building .Panta Rhei — everything flows — said Heraclites, describing the impermanence of the world. He might...
Carnival of Maths 228 | The Aperiodical
By Katie Steckles. Posted June 5, 2024 in Carnival of Mathematics
The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the...
My first doctoral student | Peter Cameron’s Blog
One of the hardest things for a supervisor of a new doctoral student is to choose a research topic. It should be one which...