Aug 15, 2024 · Galois Theory Posted by Tom Leinster. I’ve just arXived my notes for Edinburgh’s undergraduate Galois theory course, which I taught from 2021 to 2023.. I first shared the notes …

Oct 26, 2024 · I’m writing a short column about this paper: W. P. Thurston, Shapes of polyhedra and triangulations of the sphere. Let me describe one of the key ideas as simply as I can.

Dec 4, 2024 · Submission Important dates . All deadlines are AoE (Anywhere on Earth). February 26: title and brief abstract submission; March 3: paper submission

Aug 8, 2024 · Ancient Greek mathematicians, so I’ve heard, understood multiplication geometrically. To reason about A × B A \times B they would draw line segments of length A A …

Nov 22, 2024 · Previously: Part 9. The course is over! The grand finale was the theorem that. X × Y ≅ X + Y ≅ max (X, Y) X \times Y \cong X + Y \cong max(X, Y) . for all infinite sets X X and Y …

Feb 4, 2025 · Next: Part 2 In this post and the next, I want to try out a new idea and see where it leads. It goes back to where magnitude began, which was the desire to unify elementary …

I see; very interesting! So in this kind of situation, it can be easier to work with a Poisson random variable with mean n n than it is to work with the plain old number n n itself. I like it. To …

Jul 20, 2024 · Those other quantities are important, but they’re not called ‘temperature’. They’re called the ‘thermodynamic conjugates’ of the conserved quantities in question. I haven’t heard …

Feb 3, 2025 · I hope you’ve read the news: Ethan Singer, Thousands of U.S. government web pages have been taken down since Friday, New York Times, 2 Feburary 2025. Many of the …

The WebTeX Examples include more examples of superscripts and subscripts, as well as an example of tensor notation. Prescripts. Superscripts and subscripts may also be placed before …