A Jean Bourgain quote

“If you have a question which is generally perceived as unapproachable, it’s often you don’t even quite know where to look to find a solution. From that point of view, we are . . . stranded in the desert, hopelessly lost. At the moment you get this insight, all of a sudden you’ll escape the desert and things open up for you. Then we feel very excited. These are the best moments. They make all the suffering, with absolutely no progress, they really make it worth it.” (SOURCE: Jean Bourgain, problem solver by Terence Chi-Shen Tao - PNAS 116 (28) 13717-13718 June 17, 2019,  https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1901965116)

The Math Pontiff

Pope Leo XIV earned a BS in Mathematics from Villanova University in 1977. 

Interesting.

Eurasian Jay in a tree

 Source: Wikimedia Commons

on a busy day - one of my math chalkboards

 

Belief Revision (AGM Basics)

 

Steven Strogatz - Two dimensional linear systems

Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos - Steven Strogatz, Cornell University (MAE 5790 - Introduction to nonlinear dynamics)

Arithmetic dynamics (Joseph Silverman)

 

Rush - Tom Sawyer

 

A short classroom exercise on partially ordered sets

 

Clasa XII C 1982 Liceul Mihai Viteazul Ploiesti

 

Pseudorandomness of the Mobius function - Peter Sarnak

 

Memories - a beautiful campus and an abstract - 27 years ago

I vividly remember that talk. 

People were great! Added bonus: the campus and the nature were amazing. 

I could recover my abstract from https://scholarworks.umt.edu/mathcolloquia/7/

 

So... about 27 years years ago:

 

Presentation Date 10-23-1997 

Abstract A classical problem considered by Davenport asks for the number of occurrences of a certain pattern of quadratic residues and nonresidues among the set of integers modulo a prime p. We will take this problem as a starting point of an itinerary revealing the interplay between quasirandom structures over finite fields, definable subsets of finite fields, character sums and coding theory. 

Additional Details Thursday, October 23, 1997 4:10 p.m. in MA 109 Coffee/Tea/Treats 3:30 p.m. in MA 104 (Lounge)