Thursday, March 10th, 2022: Graduate Student Mini Series: What is General Relativity? Thursday, April 7th, 2022: Graduate Student Mini Series: What is Arithmetic Geometry?

There’s a new book out this week, a biography of Roger Penrose by Patchen Barss, with the title The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the cost of genius. Penrose is one of the greatest ...

If a post-truth field of science is going to keep going, it needs to convince funders and the public that progress is being made, so there’s a continual need for people uninterested in truth ...

Sabine Hossenfelder’s latest video argues There’s no reason for nature to be pretty (5:00) Working on a theory of everything is a mistake because we don’t understand quantum ...

Probability and Mathematical Statistics, Random Processes, Stochastic Analysis, Optimization, Mathematical Economics and Finance.

Curt Jaimungal has a piece out, an interview with Lenny Susskind, with the title The Crisis in String Theory is Worse Than You Think…. Some of what Susskind has to say is the same as in his recent ...

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The spreadsheet presented here tabulates enrollment data for classes at Columbia University that are likely to have enrolled at least one undergraduate. It includes classes offered in Fall 2019, Fall ...

We will be using the following two textbooks: 1) Homotopic topology, by A.Fomenko, D.Fuchs, and V.Gutenmacher. Homotopy and homotopy equivalence. CW complexes. Cellular approximation. Category theory, ...