I have begun teaching two, not one, but two sections of differential equations this quarter, and immediately, the classes are different from each other. In [...]
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Link: Gelfand Passes The mathematician Israel Gelfand died today. His obituary contrasts the direction of his work—fundamental and tool developing—with his [...]
One of the remarkable things about learning math is that steps forward in understanding require a kind of forgetting. Everything always looks simple in [...]
I had a little progress on my thesis work, recently. Essentially, I was able to prove what form a composition of transformations would take in the most [...]