IF mathematics is to be regarded as the science of classification, a view apparently taken in many recent works, it may be worth while to consider whether mathematical teaching should not begin with ...
The classification of shapes in middle and high school geometry often seems very mysterious to students, featuring strange terms such as isosceles, trapezoids, and kites, which are defined by a ...
This talk will be an introduction to the field of Borel equivalence relations (also called invariant descriptive set theory). No background will be assumed. We will motivate the main object of study: ...