Bit behind with KITP program events, mostly due to my deplorable inability to be in two or more places at the same time.
Bit on multiple populations, and then gravitational radiation sources.
Franca d'Antona's talk on multiple stellar populations is here - thought we knew simple main sequence stars?
Hah!
Worried?
You ought to be...
I'll be getting back to multiple populations and why some of us are worried later.
Richard on gravitational waves here follow by Ilya here
Another topic due to get heated.
More on that next week.
More like this
I've been getting peppered with requests to comment on a recent argument that's
been going on about math education, particularly with respect to multiplication.
We've got a fairly prominent guy named Keith Devlin ranting that
One of the more advanced topics in topology that I'd like to get to is homology. Homology is a major topic that goes beyond just algebraic topology, and it's really very interesting.
When I first talked about rings, I said that a ring is an algebraic
abstraction that, in a very loose way, describes the basic nature of integers. A ring is a full abelian group with respect to addition - because the integers
Some of the commenters to yesterday's post raised some interesting questions on the subject of dividing by zero. So interesting, in fact, that I felt the subject deserved another post.