Ian Agol
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Mathematician at UC Berkeley
Mathematician at UC Berkeley
907 followers
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An Elegant Lesson in Physics Told Through Blowing Bubbles http://twistedsifter.com/videos/blowing-bubbles-physics-lesson/
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Trippy rotating square tilings. See also: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWExZNfqROF3jLVwG9YWiug
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It's tragic that her life has ended at such a young age. I can't imagine how it will be for her young daughter Anahita and husband Jan.
My first memory of her was at a conference at Brown on Teichmuller theory. She stood in the back of the lecture hall due to pain from a back injury. After many talks, one would hear a voice pipe up from behind with insightful questions. During her talk, she spoke very quickly, as if she had a lot of information to communicate (which she did). I was impressed with the elegance of her viewpoint, but usually got lost partway through when she got to topics far from my area of knowledge.
In the fall of 2015, we convinced her to come to the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton for a couple of months. Our daughters played together at a couple of the events and I got to meet her husband. She had the adjacent office to mine, and spent much of the time with Alex Eskin hashing through the 70 pages of referee comments on their 200+ page preprint. We chatted about math a few times when she asked me some questions about negatively curved surfaces. I quickly realized she knew way more than me about the problems, so I wasn't much help.
I'm saddened not just for her family, but also that she was cut short at the peak of her powers. We had so much more to learn from her.
My first memory of her was at a conference at Brown on Teichmuller theory. She stood in the back of the lecture hall due to pain from a back injury. After many talks, one would hear a voice pipe up from behind with insightful questions. During her talk, she spoke very quickly, as if she had a lot of information to communicate (which she did). I was impressed with the elegance of her viewpoint, but usually got lost partway through when she got to topics far from my area of knowledge.
In the fall of 2015, we convinced her to come to the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton for a couple of months. Our daughters played together at a couple of the events and I got to meet her husband. She had the adjacent office to mine, and spent much of the time with Alex Eskin hashing through the 70 pages of referee comments on their 200+ page preprint. We chatted about math a few times when she asked me some questions about negatively curved surfaces. I quickly realized she knew way more than me about the problems, so I wasn't much help.
I'm saddened not just for her family, but also that she was cut short at the peak of her powers. We had so much more to learn from her.
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Computational complexity and 3-manifolds and zombies arxiv.org/abs/1707.03811
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It would be interesting to have such a document by many famous mathematicians.
history of representation theory folk: new paper by George Lusztig
Comments on my papers
https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.09368
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lusztig)
[I just poked around at his website -- http://www-math.mit.edu/~gyuri/ -- which is spartan, but there is, and perhaps +John Baez will want to look at, this illustration: http://www-math.mit.edu/~gyuri/picture.html]
Comments on my papers
https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.09368
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lusztig)
[I just poked around at his website -- http://www-math.mit.edu/~gyuri/ -- which is spartan, but there is, and perhaps +John Baez will want to look at, this illustration: http://www-math.mit.edu/~gyuri/picture.html]
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Eponymous inventor of Massey products passed away last month.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massey_product?wprov=sfsi1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massey_product?wprov=sfsi1
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