Mochizuki
In the middle of Alan Frieze's talk, Mathias pulls out a gum and sticks it in his big mouth. Takuro Mochizuki, in his talk, refers to a result about flat bundles as 'deep'. I
ICM
I head up to Seoul for the ICM, the International Congress of Mathematics. I'm nervous. Both Lee Sang-june, and his life-long crush, Ben Green, will be there. Dr. Green is a plenary speaker, and Sang-june is
Shelah
In Rodl's Extremal Graph Theory class, Gerry is presenting van der Waerden's Theorem. He says that he will present a proof by the Israeli Magician Shelah.
Mathematicians
April! Tax month. It's the busiest time of the year for mathematicians. Tax is about summing things up, and taking percentages. This calls for a mathematician. The calls I get from accountants at this time of
The jester
I'm in my office late at night. A herd of students have just noisily left the building, and now all is quiet, except for the Pell Mell instrumental playing lightly on my computer. But I can&
Scott Carter
Professor Bae brings his visitor, Professor Carter into the staff meeting to introduce him to everyone. "Hi, I'm Mark. " I say, when he is introduced to me. "Yeah," he says, "We&
Semi-lattice polymorphisms
Pavol is visiting from Vancouver, and we are talking about a problem with a paper. We would like a polynomial algorithm to decide if a graph has a semilattice polymorphism. I say that I think a Lexicographic breadth