Abstract: For several years I ran a blog called Visual Insight, which was a place to share striking images that help explain topics in mathematics. In this talk I’d like to show you some of those ...

Most representations are not permutation representations, since every permutation representation has a vector fixed by all elements of G G, namely the vector that’s the sum of all elements of X X. In ...

In the beginning, there were hardly any spaces whose magnitude we knew. Line segments were about the best we could do. Then Mark Meckes introduced the technique of potential functions for calculating ...

Applied category theorists are flocking to AI, because that’s where the money is. I avoid working on it, both because I have an instinctive dislike of ‘hot topics’, and because at present AI is mainly ...

This is the homepage for the UT Geometry and Quantum Field Theory Seminar. At the organizational meeting we will flesh out the details of our plans for the semester. Below are some suggestions to get ...