According to the Mathematics Genealogy Project, my mathematical genealogy is: Luca Pacioli Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara Nicolaus Copernicus Georg Joachim von Leuchen Rheticus Caspar Peucer Salomon Alberti Ernestus Hettenbach Ambrosius Rhodius Christoph Notnagel Johann Andreas Quenstedt Michael Walther, Jr. Johann Pasch Johann Andreas Planer who doesn’t have a Wikipedia page Christian August Hausen Abraham Gotthelf Kästner Johann Friedrich Pfaff Carl Friedrich Gauss Christian Ludwig Gerling Julius Plücker C. Felix (Christian) Klein William Edward Story Solomon Lefschetz Norman […]

In seminar today, Okun pointed out the following interesting observation; for any finitely generated group , you can define its growth series , where is the length of the shortest word for . The first observation is that is often a rational function, in which case makes sense. The second […]

I’ve been thinking for a while that I ought to start a research blog—something just to keep myself organized about the things I am thinking about, my thoughts on the papers I’ve read, my ideas, my questions. I figure I might as well make it public, though I seriously doubt anyone is going to read […]