Last time we discovered that the mental picture to view prime numbers as knots in $S^3$ was first dreamed up by David Mumford. Today, we’ll… Related posts: Who dreamed up the primes=knots an...
http://www.neverendingbooks.org/the-birthday-of-the-primesknots-analogy
The Monster is the largest of the 26 sporadic simple groups and has order 808 017 424 794 512 875 886 459 904 961 710… Related posts: coalgebras and non-geometry 2 coalgebras and non-geometry...
If you ever sat through a lecture by Alain Connes you will know about his insistence on the ‘canonical dynamic nature of noncommutative manifolds’. If… Related posts: KMS, Gibbs & zeta fun...
Yesterday, Ed Segal gave a talk at the Arts. His title “Superpotential algebras from 3-fold singularities” didnt look too promising to me. And sure enough… Related posts: coalgebras and no...
http://www.neverendingbooks.org/segals-formal-neighbourhood-result
The problem with criticizing others is that you have to apply the same standards to your own work. So, as of this afternoon, I do… Related posts: non-geometry coalgebras and non-geometry 3 w...
Last time we have seen that the _coalgebra of distributions_ of an affine smooth variety is the direct sum (over all points) of the dual… Related posts: coalgebras and non-geometry non-geomet...
http://www.neverendingbooks.org/coalgebras-and-non-geometry-2
In this series of posts I’ll try to make at least part of the recent (http://www.arxiv.org/abs/math.RA/0606241) a bit more accessible to algebraists. In non-geometry,… Related posts: coalgeb...
Now that my non-geometry post is linked via the comments in this string-coffee-table post which in turn is available through a trackback from the Kontsevich-Soibelman… Related posts: non-geome...
Here’s an appeal to the few people working in Cuntz-Quillen-Kontsevich-whoever noncommutative geometry (the one where smooth affine varieties correspond to quasi-free or formally smooth algebra...
A couple of days ago Ars Mathematica had a post Cuntz on noncommutative topology pointing to a (new, for me) paper by Joachim Cuntz A… Related posts: non-(commutative) geometry NOG master cla...