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
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.
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
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&
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&
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
I'm in my office fighting with the notation on a paper I'm writing. Portrayed on television, Math is: Furiously writing long equations on a whiteboard. Then pausing and look thoughtfully at an integral. Then
M: Wow. That's your aura? It's way brighter than it used to be. G: I'm in heaven now. So I'm in my natural state-- glowing.
