Category: links
Jie Liu on projective space
Exciting news! Jie Liu has proven a conjecture of mine -- thereby resolving an old conjecture of Sommese. I'll briefly explain his result in this post.
What's wrong with the world?
In 1910, G.K. Chesterton (one of my favorite authors -- I highly recommend The Man Who Was Thursday and the Father Brown mysteries) diagnosed all the world's problems. You can read his famous diagnosis, What's Wrong With the World , at P…
Rationalia, USA
In June 2016, Neil deGrasse Tyson proposed (not entirely seriously, as this series of tweets should make obvious) the creation of a new country: Rationalia, governed by the dictum " All policy shall be based on the weight of evidence ."…
-Lemmas
A dilemma is a difficult choice between two alternatives. I recently learned that there is a word for a choice between three alternatives: trilemma. But what if I have a hard choice between four options? I was curious, so I did some goog…
The Typographical Equivalent of a Knife Fight
I've been thinking recently about typefaces -- the four to eight readers of this blog may have noticed that the font used in the body text of these posts has changed. I've also been thinking about best practices for mathematical typesett…