Feb 7, 2024
what kind of math you do? what math gets you all hot and bothered. uh. I just mean what kind of math you do?
My PhD research was in number theory, on special values of L-functions. If you want to get hot and bothered you can enjoy my thesis in one commutative diagram:
More recently, I've worked on factorization in numerical monoids. I wrote some about that here.
These days I think a lot about, like, effective teaching, and about how both the idea and the practice of mathematical modeling can help us think about everything else more clearly. That gets me really excited about funny AI failures, optical illusions, Kuhnian paradigm shifts, and political metadiscourse.
