Related papers: Ken Wilson -- The Early Years
Children can take many paths to become scientists. But they undoubtedly include the following steps Play, play and play; Observe; Ask (themselves). In this paper I will talk about some of my experiences teaching girls and boys, teenagers…
A family of congruences interpolating between those of Wilson and Giuga is constructed. Several elementary results are established, in order to present a possible approach to establishing Giuga's conjecture.
This is part of an unpublished work in collaboration with Ralph Kenna. It was probably not mature enough at the time it was submitted more than ten years ago and it was rejected by the editors, but some of the ideas had later been published…
An NQ-manifold is a non-negatively graded supermanifold with a degree 1 homological vector field. The focus of this paper is to define the Wilson loops/lines in the context of NQ-manifolds and to study their properties. The Wilson…
This is the text of an expository talk given at the May 1997 Detroit meeting of the American Mathematical Society. It is a tale of a famous football player and a subtle problem he posed about the uniform convergence of Dirichlet series.…
Life at Caltech with Murray Gell-Mann in the early 1960's is remembered. Our different paths to quarks, leading to different views of their reality, are described.
This note highlights an interesting connection between Euler sums of even weight and prime numbers.
This is a letter to editor, about a previously published paper and comments.
We treat interpolation for various logics.
A treatment of (generalized) Clemens-Schmid exact sequences from the perspective of weights.
This is a straightforward introduction to the properties of polynomials in many variables that do not vanish in the open upper half plane. Such polynomials generalize many of the well-known properties of polynomials with all real roots.
I write about H\'ector, his contributions to the early work in the quark model, and a general discussion of quantum statistics
A tutorial introduction is given to q-special functions and to q-analogues of the classical orthogonal polynomials, up to the level of Askey-Wilson polynomials.
The aim of this note is to show the existence of a large family of Cantorvals arising in the projection description of primitive two-letter substitutions. This provides a common and naturally occurring class of Cantorvals.
We survey the legacy of L.G. Kov\'acs in linear group theory, with a particular focus on classification questions.
It is pointed out that the language of quotient groups and wrapped distributions allows an elementary discussion of Benford's Law, and adds arguments supporting wide-spread observability of this statistics.
In this paper, a fast and easy-to-deploy method with a strong interpretability for community answer quality ranking is proposed. This method is improved based on the Wilson score interval method [Wilson, 1927], which retains its advantages…
An elementary description of the Eightfold Way for the non-specialist is presented. This article, for publication in {\it Macmillan Encylopedia of Physics, Supplement: Elementary Particle Physics}, is being submitted to the Archive for…
These notes provide a survey of the theory of plane partitions, seen through the glasses of the work of Richard Stanley and his school.
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