Tom Braden, Professor of Mathematics and the Director of the Graduate Program here at UMass will give a presentation on applying to graduate school in mathematics. We will meet in LGRT 147.
9/24 – Jeff Hatley: “p-adic numbers”
This is an after-the-fact post. Jeff gave a great talk on the p-adic numbers. We learned lots of cool things! A couple of my favorites: in the world of the p-adics every triangle is isosceles, and every point in the interior of a disk is a center of the disk!