Tag: Alperin
A footnote was added to Finite Relativity— Background: Weyl on what he calls the relativity problem— "The relativity problem is one of central significance throughout geometry and algebra…
Group Actions, 1984-2009 From a 1984 book review: "After three decades of intensive research by hundreds of group theorists, the century old problem of the classification of the…
For André Weil on the seventh anniversary of his death: A Miniature Rosetta Stone In a 1940 letter to his sister Simone, André Weil discussed a sort of…
Visible Mathematics, continued Today’s mathematical birthdays: Saunders Mac Lane, John Venn, and Sir William Rowan Hamilton. It is well known that the quaternion group is a subgroup of…
The Fano Plane Revisualized: or, The Eightfold Cube Here is the usual model of the seven points and seven lines (including the circle) of the smallest…