Good News and Bad News
The good news is that I am now gainfully employed in a full time job doing mathematics research. The bad news is that I have a lot less spare time to write new entries here. While the long term goal of eventually developing enough mathematics to motivate category theory and topos theory is firmly in place, the rate at which we get there will be drastically reduced. In the new year I am afraid that you can expect fewer entries, each of which will likely be shorter. Hopefully by reducing the quantity of work per entry and I can still keep them somewhat frequent (I am aiming for about 1 per month), and continue to advance toward the goal of motivating and explaining some of the truly interesting and inspiring ideas in modern mathematics.
April 1st, 2008 at 2:17 am
We miss you. Was kinda hoping you’d wind up writing a book.
August 2nd, 2008 at 5:39 pm
I am a retired professor of psychology (of all things) trying to get a process started in which the ideas spewed out on a listserv and ground down and refined through a wiki and ultimately become a web publication or … even… gasp …. a collaborative book. The list serve in question is the FRIAM list, whose home base is in Santa Fe. We have recently tried to become an actual as well as a virtual organization and are forming something called the Santa Fe Complex (www.sfcomplex.org). This organization seems essential in the Santa Fe context because there are so many organizations around Santa Fe –Sandia, LANL, SFI — which are scientifically charismatic, but which are of necessity too restrictive to satisfy all the interest they generate. They are on the heights; we are in the Village; they must be surrounded by walls and moats; we have open doors. Think of us as the community workspace of the Santa Fe regional complexity community.
Why the hell am I writing? Well, as part of the above project I have been trying to stimulate a collaborative book review of Rosen’s book. That project led me to your excellent — for the layman — article on mathematical groups, and THAT made me want to be in touch.
You clearly are busy, but could you respond?
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