Monthly Archives: December 2024

It’s not a Lemma, it’s a Proposition!

Congratulations to Ken for winning the the Steele prize. I first met Ken on the Hearst mining circle. It was September of 1997, during the time I was applying for graduate schools. I was visiting Danny on the way to … Continue reading

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“Fields of definition”

Can you help settle a disagreement? This is a debate about notation I am having with a colleague; I will try to present it without prejudice (and probably fail). Let \(G\) be a group, and let \(V\) be a finite … Continue reading

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