Archive for January 25th, 2007
Building aspherical manifolds.
I gave a Farb student seminar talk on a lovely paper, Davis, Michael W. Groups generated by reflections and aspherical manifolds not covered by Euclidean space. Ann. of Math. (2) 117 (1983), no. 2, 293—324. I also used some of the material in Davis, Michael W. Exotic aspherical manifolds. […]
Posted: January 25th, 2007 under Talks, Mathematics.
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Modeling bus ridership.
While on public transportation, my mind wanders… And one might assume the following about me and my buses, The bus travels for one unit of time, I will get on the bus at a random time (uniformly distributed), I will leave the bus at a random time (independent, unformly distributed). Then the probability that I am on the bus […]
Posted: January 25th, 2007 under Personal.
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