A description of the ruins of Rome by Poggius, in the reign of Pope Eugenius IV (first half of the 15th century), quoted by Edward Gibbon in the final chapter of his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Her primeval state, such as she might appear in a remote age, when Evander entertained the…

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25.04.2025

An ADElphabet | Peter Cameron's Blog

Some things involved in the ADE affair. A is for asymptotically locally Euclidean spaceB is for binary polyhedral groupC is for Clifford algebra, or cluster algebraD is for Du Val singularityE is for eigenvalue, or exceptional Lie algebraF is for Fischer groupG is for generalized line graphH is for Hurwitz unitsI is for icosahedral groupJ…

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04.05.2025

Gender and collaboration | Peter Cameron's Blog

Recently I was browsing Jerry Grossman's beautiful Erdős Number Project website, when I came across an article by Kirsten Menger-Anderson. She begins by attempting to determine the gender of all mathematicians who have Erdős number 1. I was a bit surprised at first. I have quite a few coauthors (261 by my count, though not…

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07.05.2025

Hold the date! | Peter Cameron's Blog

The date: 12 August 2025, afternoon. The place: St Andrews, Mathematical Institute, Lecture Theatre C The event: A little do to celebrate Rosemary's and my retirement. We are very fortunate to have two former St Andrews students both now making their way in the academic world, who were taught by us as undergraduates here: Scott…

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