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Roots of Unity

This post is a follow-up on a previous post on the abelian house. For an algebraic integer \(\alpha\), the house \(\overline{|\alpha|}\) is the absolute value of the largest conjugate of \(\alpha.\) Raphael Robinson made a number of conjectures concerning cyclotomic … Continue reading →

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Public Displays of Mathematics

Let me start by saying that I’m in favor of making the effort to both educate the public about mathematics (as well as science more generally) and to convey to them a sense of the excitement of our discipline. But … Continue reading →

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