... To clarify my sentence, the type of `research' by amateur mathematicians that I was referring to as `trivial, unscholarly or naive' is, e.g., `proofs that...
Hello everyone, Perhaps something along the lines of what Bill Lampe proposed (reminding the audience that we pay dues too) would not be too immoderate. I...
This sounds like a fascinating idea. We could pose as a question to each of the candidates how they feel about the question of whether editorial boards of non...
Melvin's approach to the matter could very well be the right one. Best, Jiri Sichler...
Jiri Sichler
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Mar 3, 2007 5:46 am
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Dear Colleagues, It is my first message to you, and I therefore hesitate a bit to enter such a long conversation concerning the publication of an important...
To members of the univalg group. Call for signatures. Our letter to the Notices (concerning the rejection by JAMS of F. Wehrung's solution to Dilworth's...
Brian Davey
B.Davey@...
Mar 16, 2007 4:21 am
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In 2005 I wrote the editors of Algebra Universalis, suggesting that they send a joint letter to the editorial boards of the AMS journals, reminding these...
Dear all, For two years I have been the advisor of a young and brilliant doctoral student in lattice theory/universal algebra and I often find myself worrying...
Brian Davey
B.Davey@...
Mar 24, 2007 12:37 pm
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I learned yesterday [2007-03-23] that we will have at least one opening for a one-year teaching & research visiting faculty member, beginning in the Fall 2007....
Dear Colleagues, We received over 100 signatures so far and put up their list on the CLP website, http://clp.stanford.edu/Signatures.html Keep'em coming! Petar...
Dear George, Congrats for your hard and swift work! Best regards, Fred...
Friedrich Wehrung
wehrung@...
Mar 31, 2007 11:16 am
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More good news. ... This is the same issue of the Notices in which George Gratzer's article is scheduled to appear. Although the Notices will only publish four...
Vaughan Pratt
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Apr 4, 2007 6:53 pm
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Hi, Is there an easy way to show that up to isomorphism you have at most 2^n (weak upper bound) groups of order n. Or n Yes/No questions you can ask to...
... If n is bigger than 560 billion, then the argument in Gallagher, Patrick, Counting finite groups of given order. Math. Z. 102 1967 236--237. proves that...
Dear All, Our letter to the Notices of the AMS has appeared. See an online version at: http://www.ams.org/notices/200706/tx070600694p.pdf ...
Brian Davey
B.Davey@...
Jun 21, 2007 6:10 pm
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What should a Wikipedia article on the syntactic (equational deduction) aspects of Boolean algebra be called? Currently there are a number of articles related...
Vaughan Pratt
pratt@...
Jul 10, 2007 8:42 am
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I forgot to say that a common though not consistently used Wikipedia convention for disambiguating two topics naturally named the same is a parenthetical...
Vaughan Pratt
pratt@...
Jul 10, 2007 3:15 pm
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I vote for "Boolean algebra (logic)". \B ____________________________________________ Dr Brian A. Davey Reader and Associate Professor Department of...
Brian Davey
B.Davey@...
Jul 10, 2007 11:01 pm
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... I have the following opinion based on the citations above. (A) I think, "1. Boolean logic" would be one of the right titles, since it is an important...
Prohle Peter
prohlep@...
Jul 11, 2007 11:34 am
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Roughly speaking... (I mean, disregarding a lot of subtle points) Bourbaky classified the mathematical structures in three categories: algebraic, order, and...
Jorge Petrúcio Viana
petrucio@...
Jul 13, 2007 11:23 am
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... Initially I was sceptical that these constituted distinct notions---my reaction was, aren't algebraic, order, and logical BAs all the same? (Topological...
Vaughan Pratt
pratt@...
Jul 15, 2007 5:32 pm
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Hi. We stumbled across the following results, and wonder if anyone has already found them. They certainly feel like things that could have been done 50 to 100...
David Hobby's question about absolute nonassociativity prompts me to ask the following question that's been on my mind lately about some nonassociative...
Vaughan Pratt
pratt@...
Aug 18, 2007 7:01 am
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i request you to tell me what is the exact definition of a Stone Space and some examples of it. with regards srinivas srinivasa rao...
Dear Srinivasa, Various equivalent definitions. Simplest probably is that it is a compact topological space such that for any two distinct points x and y,...
s.j.vickers@...
Aug 20, 2007 8:39 am
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Dear all, I was recently given the following link, which I read with much enjoyment: http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/Opinion81.html Many congratulations...
Friedrich Wehrung
wehrung@...
Aug 26, 2007 11:53 am
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Hello, as a new member of this group, I'd like to pose a question: Does anybody know, why the algebraic ring is called ring and the field called a field (in...
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