December 19, 2005

•  “There is an
  underlying timelessness

  in the basic conversation

  that is mathematics.”

  – Barry Mazur (pdf)
  
  It’s Quarter to Three
  (continued):
   

  “I could tell you a lot
  but you gotta be
   true to your code.”
  – Sinatra

  Today is the birthday of Helmut Wielandt (Dec. 19, 1910 - Feb. 14, 2001).

  From MacTutor:

  “In his speech accepting membership of the Heidelberg Academy in 1960 he said:-

  It is to one of Schur’s seminars that I owe the stimulus to work with permutation groups,
  my first research area. At that time the theory had nearly died out. It
  had developed last century, but at about the turn of the century had
  been so completely superseded by the more generally applicable theory
  of abstract groups that by 1930 even important results were practically forgotten – to my mind unjustly.“

  Permutation groups are still not without interest.  See today’s updates (Notes [01] and [02]) to Pattern Groups.

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