Today I heard from David Benson that Jack Morava died yesterday. This comes as such a huge shock that I can’t help but hope Benson was somehow misinformed. Morava has been posting comments to the ...

August 2025's Entries (BT) Diversity from (LC) Diversity Jack Morava Random Past Entries TeXnical Issues Sage advice on viewing this blog and posting comments thereon. Categories, Logic and Physics in ...

Announcing the Clowder Project: a wiki and reference work for category theory built using the same general infrastructure and tag system of the Stacks Project.

Note: These pages make extensive use of the latest XHTML and CSS Standards. They ought to look great in any standards-compliant modern browser. Unfortunately, they will probably look horrible in older ...

Quick question. Classically the harmonic oscillator Hamiltonian is often written 1 2 ( p 2 + q 2), while quantum mechanically it gets some extra ‘ground state energy’ making the Hamiltonian ...

Why Mathematics is Boring I don’t really think mathematics is boring. I hope you don’t either. But I can’t count the number of times I’ve launched into reading a math paper, dewy-eyed and eager to ...

The discussion on Tom’s recent post about ETCS, and the subsequent followup blog post of Francois, have convinced me that it’s time to write a new introductory blog post about type theory. So if ...

I want to talk about some attempts to connect the Standard Model of particle physics to the octonions. I should start out by saying I don’t have any big agenda here. It’d be great if the octonions — ...

In this year’s edition of the Adjoint School we covered the paper Triangulations, orientals, and skew monoidal categories by Stephen Lack and Ross Street, in which the authors construct a concrete ...

Most recently, the Applied Category Theory Seminar took a step into linguistics by discussing the 2010 paper Mathematical Foundations for a Compositional Distributional Model of Meaning, by Bob Coecke ...

To give an indication of where I’m at, here’s what I think I know about the Langlands programme: it’s a fantastically bold, fantastically sweeping set of ideas linking together many parts of ...

A mathematician hands out a pack of cards to a group of five people. They repeatedly cut the deck and then take a card each. The mathematician tries to use telepathy to divine the cards that the ...