Tag Archives: Topology
Dr. Herman Lyle Smith: LSU’s First Math Doctoral Mentor and the Architect of Modern Convergence
Herman Lyle Smith helped launch LSU math’s earliest Ph.D. tradition in 1929. He was the co-creator of nets, the deep framework of generalized convergence that reshaped modern topology and analysis. This post discusses his life, legacy, and the mathematical idea that made him one of America’s best-known mathematicians. Continue reading
Tim Nguyen: The Perturbative Approach to Path Integrals
In this video, Tim Nguyen gives an awesome explanation of part of a subject that Richard Feynman once claimed, “If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don’t understand quantum mechanics.” Continue reading
Mathematician Pallavi Dani – Divergence in Right-angled Coxeter Groups
LSU mathematician Pallavi Dani talks about using geometry to study problems in algebra and vice versa in her research. Continue reading
Clayton Shonkwiler: Research Seminar on Applications of Geometry and Topology to Random Walks
Clayton Shonkwiler gives an advanced seminar on applications of geometry and topology to random walks/polygons and polymer physics. Continue reading
Mathematician Clayton Shonkwiler: An Advanced Perspective
In this episode, Clayton Shonkwiler discusses random polygons at a graduate level, including why roughly 84% of all triangles are obtuse. Continue reading
Mathematician Clayton Shonkwiler talks about Polymer Science
In this episode, we meet Clayton Shonkwiler, a mathematician from Colorado State University, who talks to us about applications of geometry and topology to the study of random polygons and polymer science. Continue reading
Scott Baldridge 