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Sunday Night Dinner: Going Underground
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So much food, so little time. Sunday, July 08, 2007. I started school in the 5th grade when I came to the States. I was never the cool kid. This may be an understatement. Where do I even start… I had a perm (why lord, why), braces, glasses, and absolutely no idea of what kids are supposed to wear. Oh yes, there was also that pesky Russian accent and difficulty understanding humor, sarcasm, and idioms. My friend Maiya and I raided the food underground. Out of their own home. In a mustard vinaigrette. ...
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Namespace Collision: Math Post the Sixth: Isomorphism
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Friday, June 17, 2005. Math Post the Sixth: Isomorphism. To restate the conclusion of the first paragraph in nicer language, we classified all groups of prime order up to isomorphism: a group of order p is isomorphic to a clock arithmetic (or cyclic) group of order p, via the isomorphism defined by taking any nonidentity element to the generator 1. Next time: what groups are homomorphic images of other groups. Posted by Dennis at 3:36 PM. Isn't the short way to say 'one-to-one and onto' just "bijective"?
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Namespace Collision: July 2005
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Thursday, July 21, 2005. Math Post the Eighth: Personal Interlude with Some More Definitions. So I am now officially a doctoral candidate! Also I'm now (or will soon) be attending a lengthy algebraic geometry conference in Seattle, so I'm not even in Michigan anymore. Perhaps most importantly from a blogging perspective, I'm not madly studying every second of my day anymore (merely some seconds), so I should be able to get back to blogging on a more regular basis. So nyah, say I! Making an assumption lik...
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Namespace Collision: Math Post the Eighth: Personal Interlude with Some More Definitions
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Thursday, July 21, 2005. Math Post the Eighth: Personal Interlude with Some More Definitions. So I am now officially a doctoral candidate! Also I'm now (or will soon) be attending a lengthy algebraic geometry conference in Seattle, so I'm not even in Michigan anymore. Perhaps most importantly from a blogging perspective, I'm not madly studying every second of my day anymore (merely some seconds), so I should be able to get back to blogging on a more regular basis. So nyah, say I! Making an assumption lik...
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Namespace Collision: September 2004
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Thursday, September 30, 2004. I'm watching with rapt attention, but I have a problem: I find, and have always found, George W. Bush totally insuffferable in manner. Much though what he says disagrees with my thinking, all those "likeability" things that are supposed to be so much in Bush's favor make him utterly unlikeable to me, and I suspect would even if I agreed with the man. Posted by Dennis at 6:36 PM. Wednesday, September 29, 2004. Antonin Scalia: Confirmed Insanity. Yes, and no, and duh, and none...
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Namespace Collision: August 2004
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Wednesday, August 25, 2004. Hey again guys. Sorry for the lack of posting - I've been off packing spheres and thinking about computing cohomology. But I'm back now. So does anybody have a good, value-neutral definition? Is there one that doesn't inherently tie into a theory of legal interpretation? Posted by Dennis at 11:02 AM. Sunday, August 15, 2004. Posted by Dennis at 11:00 AM. Thursday, August 12, 2004. Posted by Dennis at 11:15 AM. Wednesday, August 11, 2004. I hope my loyal fans (yes, I mean all t...
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Namespace Collision: Of distraction and potato chips
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Friday, September 09, 2005. Of distraction and potato chips. However, via Making Light. I've come across the blog of one Chippie. Taking particular interest in her recent potato-chip making foray. I started trying to comment about it, but it got so long it seemed like at least some of my regular readers might take an interest. So, in the spirit of unsolicited advice from strangers, here's what small wisdom I have about chip making (and I must say I can make some pretty decent chips):. The footnote: this ...
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Namespace Collision: Math Post the Third: Groups and Axioms
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Sunday, June 05, 2005. Math Post the Third: Groups and Axioms. At last, I'm able to tackle my actual topic of interest: group theory. Groups are one of the simplest (not easiest) algebraic structures around, but in spite of the ease of giving an axiomatic definition, I'm going to start with examples before we start; it'll make things much easier. So, a group is a set, say G, with a multiplication, written here by juxtaposition of elements, which has:. It shouldn't take more than a few minutes of thought,...