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"Research for me is something like chasing squirrels. As soon as you spot one and leap
towards it, it darts away, zigging and zagging, always just out of reach.
If you're a little lucky,
you might stick with it long enough to see it climb a tree.
You'll never catch the damn squirrel,
but it'll lead you to a tree. Chasing squirrels is a way to find trees!
In math, the trees are called
theorems." Terry Gannon, Alberta, winner of the 2000 PIMS Research Prize.
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During the Fall Semester, 2009, I am teaching Section 2 of Math 2050
(Linear Algebra I) and Pure Math 2320 (Discrete Mathematics). I am
also, for the second time, teaching Math 2050 by Distance Education.
This department has just started a new course-based masters programme
a key feature of which is a graduate seminar. During the fall semester,
faculty from the Department will give lectures on their research in order
to help students find supervisors for projects which are a requirement
of the new programme. During the winter semester, the students will
talk in the seminar about their proposed work. I am in charge of the
seminar during its first year and eagerly anticipate the experience.
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Visit Memorial University's Homepage
Visit Memorial University's Math/Stats
Department Homepage
Mail to edgar@mun.ca
I've stopped looking for a G-loop of order 15
In March, 1999, Kenneth Kunen of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, announced
that a G-loop of order 15 must be a group. The paper, entitled
G-loops and Permutation Groups, is available from
Dr. Kunen's web site.
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