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Interesting new homotopy blog: Chromotopy

16 June, 2010 in category english, mathematics, web by Konrad.

I just found, purely by luck, a recent blog about chromatic homotopy theory and various other mathematical topics. It’s a group blog called Chromotopy, written by Brendan Pawlowski, Eric Peterson, Erik Davis and Stephen Checkoway. They started February 2010.
The first posts (from Feb 2010 to June 2010):

Grand opening
Schreier theory
Jordan type of a modular representation
Bundles for [...]

Talk notes on Bott periodicity (in german)

14 June, 2010 in category deutsch, mathematics by Konrad.

Notes from a talk I gave in a student’s seminar in Freiburg: Komplexe K-Theorie: Bott-Periodizität

Why believing in conspiracy theories is wrong

7 May, 2010 in category Mathematics for non-mathematicians, english, life, mathematics by Konrad.

Who thinks conspiracy theories are likely to be true, is a victim of a “Bayesian fallacy”.

A manifold whose functions are the smooth functions on the real line with rational period

31 March, 2010 in category english, mathematics by Konrad.

A solution to exercises 3.17.4, 3.17.5, 3.9.5, 3.28.3 in Jet Nestruev: “Smooth Manifolds and Observables”, Springer, 2003 and similar problems, along explanations.