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In addition to reading weblogs, as some comments have suggested, you should consider starting your own blog.. If you are discreet about it, you could place the occasional link to your writings in oth …

In brief, you should talk to your dissertation advisor and/or the chair of your department. If you have a graduate assembly or similar student resource, you should avail yourself of it. They will be …

I would not put lattices (in the sense of universal algebra) in a role that was "central" to all of mathematics. Nor would I do that with a Denjoy Integral, or distributions, generating functions, no …

I paraphrase with italics from the original post to give my perspective: My naïve expectation would be that metamathematicians * might take a difficult construction or proof, and clarify it by iso …

I have been intrigued by results of Shelah's classification theory. My interpretation of the situation is as follows ( it is full of simplifications, nonstandard terminology, and likely technical err …

I imagine it took Cole longer than he said. If I were to undertake the project, here is how I would proceed: I would start sifting the set of numbers {134k + 1} for primes. One can modify the Sieve …

210=14*15=5*6*7 I may have the title wrong. It is about the simultaneous solution of some Pell-like equations. I will provide more detail as my memory permits. Gerhard "Email Me About System Desi …

A great mathematics colloquium is one which satisfies many if not all of its goals, and may have additional benefits which make it great. A list of potential goals/benefits: accessibility: many if …

Questioning assumptions is one aspect of mathematical endeavour that is useful in other areas of society to improve or understand why things are the way they are, or change to how they might be. Havi …