Category: G-Notes

The Simplest Situation

Thanks to a Harvard math major for the following V. I. Arnold quote  in a weblog post yesterday titled "Abstraction and Generality"— "… the author has attempted to adhere…

Thursday December 5, 2002

Sacerdotal Jargon From the website Abstracts and Preprints in Clifford Algebra [1996, Oct 8]: Paper:  clf-alg/good9601 From:  David M. Goodmanson Address:  2725 68th Avenue S.E., Mercer Island, Washington 98040…

Tuesday September 3, 2002

Today's birthday: James Joseph Sylvester "Mathematics is the music of reason." — J. J. Sylvester Sylvester, a nineteenth-century mathematician, coined the phrase "synthematic totals" to describe some structures…