Welcome to Larry King's Home-Page
Mathematics graduate student and teaching assistant,
Department of Mathematics, University of Washington,
Seattle . . .
on leave
Email address: Larry@chronology.org
An Amazing View
Want to see the University of Washington? Click your mouse
here
for a live picture! I mean, it's live right now!
Here's a not-so-breathtaking view of Karthik, Joel, Colleen, and myself,
lurking in the back rafters at
Stoutfest.
Truly Cool Links
Now, it's quite important that we in Mathematics keep everyone else in the
dark about what we REALLY do. So don't expect that I'll give away these
closely-guarded secrets! In fact, just to add more fuel to the absurd
ideas about what we do here in MATH departments, have a look at
this!
Okay, here are the real pages:
"The map R x M --> M is said to be an
action of R on M, and one speaks
of R acting on M.
One should view abelian groups as mathematical objects yearning to be
acted upon, and rings as mathematical objects yearning to act. Apart,
they are incomplete. When placed together in a compatible way,
respecting their own natures, their purpose is realized and they produce
modules."
-- Ronald Irving
"Since many people may find paradoxical the notion that a
large number of good things can add up to a bad thing, we will illustrate
with an
analogy. Suppose Mr. A is playing chess with Mr. B. Mr. C, a Grand Master,
is looking over Mr. A's shoulder.
Mr. A of course wants to win his game, so if
Mr. C points out a good move for him to make, he is doing Mr. A a favor.
But
suppose now that Mr. C tells Mr. A how to make ALL of his moves. In each
particular instance he does Mr. A a favor by showing him his best move, but by
making ALL of his moves for him he spoils the game, since there is not point in
Mr. A's playing the game at all if someone else makes all his moves.
The situation of modern man is analogous to that of Mr. A. The
system makes
an individual's life easier for him in innumerable ways, but in doing so it
deprives him of control over his own fate."
-- The Unabomber Manifesto
The geometry of innocence, flesh on the bone
Causes Galileo's math book to get thrown
At Delilah, who's sitting worthlessly alone
But the tears on her cheeks are from laughter
-- Dylan
Lawrence King's Home Page / Updated 28 April 2002
Send Me E-Mail.