"There is an
underlying timelessness
in the basic conversation
that is mathematics."
— Barry Mazur (pdf)
It's Quarter to Three
(continued):
underlying timelessness
in the basic conversation
that is mathematics."
— Barry Mazur (pdf)
It's Quarter to Three
(continued):
"I could tell you a lot
but you gotta be
true to your code."
— Sinatra
but you gotta be
true to your code."
— Sinatra
Today is the birthday of Helmut Wielandt (Dec. 19,
"In his speech accepting membership of the Heidelberg Academy in 1960 he said:-
It is to one of Schur's seminars that I owe the stimulus to work with permutation groups, my first research area. At that time the theory had nearly died out. It had developed last century, but at about the turn of the century had been so completely superseded by the more generally applicable theory of abstract groups that by 1930 even important results were practically forgotten – to my mind unjustly."
Permutation groups are still not without interest. See today's updates (Notes [01] and [02]) to Pattern Groups.