Selected posts

Here are the nicest posts in this blog:

Why a “scientific approach” to science education is something I reject

The Unreasonable Flakiness of Assessment in the Mathematical Sciences

Who (or what) could have written a better book

Our new baby book

The disc trick (and some other cute moves)

Mathematics on mathematics

William Arveson

The perfect Nullstellensatz

My teaching statement

Introduction to functional analysis

Why an introduction to functional analysis is needed

Arveson memorial article

A sneaky proof of the maximum modulus principle

Matt Kennedy wins CMS doctoral prize

Michael Hartz awarded Zemanek Prize in functional analysis

Forty five years later, a major open problem in operator algebras is solved

Measure theory is a must (part I)

Measure theory is a must (part II)

Hilbert, Poincare, and us

One of the most outrageous open problems in operator/matrix theory is solved!

Hal-moss, not Hal-mush

A proof of Holder’s inequality

A First Course in Functional Analysis (my book) and the preface to it

Tapioca on page 49

The nightmare

Why a “scientific approach” to science education is something I reject