Thomas Zaslavsky
Teaching Schedule
- Spring and fall term sabbatical
Quotations of the Month
Proclaim Liberty throughout all the Land
unto all the Inhabitants Thereof
The Liberty Bell
(from Leviticus 25:10)
They that can give up
essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin, 1755
"Those who can't do, preach."
'Tis better to have loved and flossed
Than never to have flossed at all.
- -- after S.J. Bruskin, July 2014
Past quotations of the month.
Research
Other Places, On and Off Site
- Fraktur (German) letters, printed and handwritten forms, from Sheila MacIntyre and Edith Witte, German-English Mathematical Vocabulary, Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh and London, 1956; second ed. 1966. Higher resolution (2 MB).
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Combinatorics Seminar
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Combinatorics News
- Gian-Carlo Rota (Our Hero!)
Beautifully written biography at the National Academy of Sciences.
- eXtreme Combinatorics: Design theory schedules the XFL season. (February 3, 2001.)
- A Hat Problem: It sounds like a parlor game -- but it's mathematical coding theory. (April 10, 2001.)
- Our professors have their own number.
- The End of a Reign in Graph Theory: W.T. Tutte Dies, May 2, 2002.
- Archimedes did combinatorics 2200 years ago! Read all about it!
- Sphere packing: Solved at last? or, What is a proof, really?
- A statistical analysis of The New Yorker's fiction. (Not combinatorics, but it's an unusual senior thesis!)
- Obituary of Frank Harary, who liked to be called "Mr. Graph Theory".
- A book on probability that sounds like fascinating fun, full of anecdotes and math: CHANCES ARE... Adventures in Probability, by Michael Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan (New York Times review).
- Was Pythagoras really a mathematician at all? Read the controversy in the London Review of Books: "Other Lives", by M.F. Burnyeat.
- The New York Times discovers signed graphs! Actually, it's the math column by Steven Strogatz (Cornell) called "The Enemy of My Enemy".
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African Mathematics, Multicultural Math, and Math Education
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Historical
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