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Here a list of pdf-files of NeverEndingBooks-posts on general topics, in reverse chronological order.
Stalking the Riemann hypothesis
Why mathematicians cannot write
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Artistic (and other) frustrations
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NeB not among 50 best math blogs
about 3 months ago - 4 comments
Via Tanya Khovanova I learned yesterday of the 50 best math blogs for math-majors list by OnlineDegree.net. Tanya’s blog got in 2nd (congrats!) and most of the blogs I sort of follow made it to the list : the n-category cafe (5), not even wrong (6), Gowers (12), Tao (13), good math bad math (14),
Return to LaTeX
about 6 months ago - 5 comments
To most mathematicians, a good LaTeX-frontend (such as TeXShop for Mac-users) is the crucial tool to get the work done. We use it to draft ideas, write papers and courses, or even to take notes during lectures. However, after six years of blogging, my own LaTeX-routine became rusty. I rarely open a new tex-document, and
Where’s Bourbaki’s Escorial?
about 6 months ago - 2 comments
Early 1936, Andre Weil and Evelyne Gillet made a pre-honeymooning trip to Spain and visited El Escorial. Weil was so taken by the place that he planned the next Bourbaki-conference to be held in a nearby college. However, the Bourbakis never made it to to Spain that summer as the Spanish Civil War broke out
big Witt vectors for everyone (1/2)
about 7 months ago - 2 comments
Next time you visit your math-library, please have a look whether these books are still on the shelves : Michiel Hazewinkel‘s Formal groups and applications, William Fulton’s and Serge Lange’s Riemann-Roch algebra and Donald Knutson’s lambda-rings and the representation theory of the symmetric group. I wouldn’t be surprised if one or more of these books
The odd knights of the round table
about 7 months ago - No comments
Here’s a tiny problem illustrating our limited knowledge of finite fields : “Imagine an infinite queue of Knights , waiting to be seated at the unit-circular table. The master of ceremony (that is, you) must give Knights and a place at an odd root of unity, say and , such that the seat at the
Olivier Messiaen & Mathieu 12
about 8 months ago - 5 comments
To mark the end of 2009 and 6 years of blogging, two musical compositions with a mathematical touch to them. I wish you all a better 2010! Remember from last time that we identified Olivier Messiaen as the ‘Monsieur Modulo’ playing the musical organ at the Bourbaki wedding. This was based on the fact that
Seriously now, where was the Bourbaki wedding?
about 9 months ago - 3 comments
A few days before Halloween, Norbert Dufourcq (who died december 17th 1990…), sent me a comment, containing lots of useful information, hinting I did get it wrong about the church of the Bourbali wedding in the previous post. Norbert Dufourcq, an organist and student of Andre Machall, the organist-in-charge at the Saint-Germain-des-Prés church in 1939,
Where was the Bourbaki wedding?
about 10 months ago - 7 comments
I’m pretty certain I got the intended date & time of the Bourbaki-Pétard wedding right : June 3rd 1939 at 12h. Finding the exact location of the wedding-ceremony is an entirely different matter. And, quite probably, we are reading way too much in these pranks of the Weil-clan. Still, it’s fun trying to find an
Where is the Royal Poldavian Academy?
about 10 months ago - No comments
Among the items found on Andre Weil at the time of his arrest was “a packet of calling cards belonging to Nicolas Bourbaki, member of the Royal Academy of Poldavia”. But then, where is the Royal Poldavian Academy situated? Well, surely in the Kingdom of Poldavia, which is a very strange country indeed, its currency
Snow leopard + wordpress + latex problem
about 11 months ago - No comments
Ever since I’ve upgraded to Snow Leopard I’ve been having problems with the webserver. At first there were the ‘obvious’ problems : mysql-connection lost and php-error message. These were swiftly dealt with using the excellent Snow Leopard, Apache, PHP, MySQL and WordPress! advice from ‘tady’. Right now, access to this blog is extremely slow (and
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