Joint Number Theory Seminars at Beijing

Friday, April 20, 2007

Timothy Gowers的数学讨论页

只要点击标题,即可进入他的网页,目录如下。

Gowers: Mathematical discussions contents page.

These pages are of various kinds, but they are nearly all attempts to show how mathematical ideas arise naturally, in the hope that some people will find them a useful supplement to university mathematics courses. Often they contain ideas that I have come across in one way or another and wish I had been told as an undergraduate. (Probably I was told several of them, and just wasn't concentrating enough to take them in at the time.)

Algebra

Why study finite-dimensional vector spaces in the abstract when they are all isomorphic to Rn?

The relationship between theory and computation in linear algebra.

Why is multiplication commutative?

How to invent some basic ideas of Galois theory.

1. Algebraic numbers and field extensions.
2. A solution to the cubic.

Lose your fear of tensor products
Analysis

A dialogue concerning the existence of the square root of two.

The meaning of continuity.

What is wrong with thinking of real numbers as infinite decimals?

A dialogue concerning the need for the real number system.

How to solve basic analysis exercises without thinking. (Gradually being revised and expanded.)

Proving that continuous functions on the closed interval [0,1] are bounded.

Finding the basic idea of a proof of the fundamental theorem of algebra.

What is the point of the mean value theorem?

A tiny remark about the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality.
Geometry

What makes non-Euclidean geometry interesting?

What makes it hard?

What makes hyperbolic geometry particularly hard?

What can I do to make it seem less hard?

How can the arc of a circle be considered straight?

Why did people want to prove the parallel postulate?

What is the historical importance of non-Euclidean geometry?

What is geometry?

Why isn't it just obvious that a regular dodecahedron exists?
Logic, set theory etc.

What is naive about naive set theory?

Paradoxes concerning definability.

A beginner's guide to countable ordinals.

Eight metamathematical statements with proofs that can be understood by non-logicians.
Number theory

How to discover a proof of the fundamental theorem of arithmetic.

How to discover the statement and two proofs of Fermat's little theorem.

How to think of the Riemann zeta function and discover the product formula.
Probability

New: Is Cambridge biased against state-school applicants?
Topology

Watch this space.
Miscellaneous

Just-do-it proofs.

The definition of `definition'.

Is the phrase `well-defined' well-defined?

What is `solved' when one solves an equation?

The implication of implication.

Does mathematics need a philosophy? (This is a talk I gave to the new Cambridge University Society for the Philosophy of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences.)

Doron Zeilberger's attitude to computer mathematics.

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