The Accidental Mathematician

Congratulations to Hong Wang on winning the Fields Medal!!

A root of unity is a complex number such that for some positive integer .

The Coven-Meyerowitz conjecture is a tentative characterization of finite sets that tile the integers by translations.

I had a blog once, right?

This is the HTML version of my submission to the Proceedings of the JHU Workshop on Professional Norms in Mathematics, organized by Emily Riehl in September 2019.

Well… it’s been a break.

This post is for the men in mathematics who have been disturbed by the recent wave of disclosures and pushback against sexual harassment.

Popular entertainment stories about prodigies tend to follow certain common threads.

Leonard Cohen died on November 7, 2016.