Why Do We Care About Proofs?
The 0th lecture on surviving proofs
The Deranged Mathematician
The personal Substack of mathematician Senia Sheydvasser, all about learning math and its applications.
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A Gentle Introduction to Modular Forms, Part II
The continuation of a herculean effort
How to be Universal and Natural
How category theory gives concrete definitions to seemingly abstract notions
A Gentle Introduction to Modular Forms, Part I
My attempt at an impossible task
A Deranged Mathematician Does Quantum Mechanics
Returning to the namesake of the blog
The Classification of Finite Simple Groups
The single biggest mathematical problem that humanity has put to rest
A Primer on Measure Theory
The story of one of the best PhD theses of all time
Classifying Groups
The 14th group theory lecture
What do Brazil, Auctions, and Multi-Threading Have in Common?
On the different guises that a single mathematical concept can have
How to Count (with Symmetry)
The 13th group theory lecture
Is Category Theory Practical?
Attempts at concrete applications for a decidely non-concrete field
Free Products and Ping-Pong
The 12th group theory lecture
WTF is a Hilbert Space?
An unexpectedly useful notion