WEARMATH.COM has just released two new math t-shirt designs inspired by Leopold Kronecker’s (1823 – 1891) immortal words: “God made the whole numbers, all the rest is man’s work.” For more information, please see the post on WEARMATH.COM about these two new math t-shirt designs or go directly to the WEARMATH.COM store. Possibly Related Posts:First [...]
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First Math T-Shirt Design Available from WEARMATH.COM
In collaboration with a mathematician friend of mine, I’ve created a new site called WEARMATH.COM. Our aim is to make available cool, sophisticated, and meaningful math t-shits and other apparel — designs created by mathematicians for mathematicians. Today we launched our first design: “Support the Axiom of Choice”. You can get your own shirt today [...]
English Translation of the First Part of Niels Henrik Abel’s ‘Recherches sur les fonctions elliptiques’ with Short Historical Introduction
During my first year as a graduate student in the mathematics department at Simon Fraser University (circa 2005-2006), I undertook a reading course, one aim of which was to translate the first part of N. H. Abel’s groundbreaking work on elliptic integrals1 from the French into English. This translation was subsequently published with a short [...]
John Charles Fields: A Sketch of His Life and Mathematical Work
Some of you may know that I wrote my Master of Science thesis in the history of mathematics under the supervision of Prof. Tom Archibald of Simon Fraser University. My thesis was entitled “John Charles Fields: A Sketch of His Life and Mathematical Work“. Here is the abstract: Every four years at the International Congress [...]
