I had an interesting interaction on Twitter today. I’m doing some research with a student that involves a little graph theory. We needed some graph theory terminology that I was sure was well-known (but not known to us), so I turned to Twitter. Let be a vertex of directed graph. Define to be the set…
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Mathematical cousins and collaboration numbers
A couple days ago Michael Lugo at God Plays Dice shared a link to a mathematical relationships search. Enter the names of two people with PhDs in mathematics and it will spit out their academic relationship. For example, my advisor, John Franks, is my academic father and my good friend and collaborator Jim Wiseman is my academic…
David Richeson: Division by Zero 