HTTP/2 301 server: nginx date: Wed, 31 Dec 2025 03:02:43 GMT content-type: application/rss+xml; charset=UTF-8 location: https://simpletonsymposium.wordpress.com/comments/feed/ x-hacker: Want root? Visit join.a8c.com/hacker and mention this header. host-header: WordPress.com vary: accept, content-type, cookie last-modified: Wed, 31 Dec 2025 03:02:43 GMT etag: "5d701e7705312a1d67c2eeeec634e40c" x-redirect-by: WordPress x-ac: 3.bom _dca MISS alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400 strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000 server-timing: a8c-cdn, dc;desc=bom, cache;desc=MISS;dur=351.0 HTTP/2 200 server: nginx date: Wed, 31 Dec 2025 03:02:44 GMT content-type: application/rss+xml; charset=UTF-8 vary: Accept-Encoding x-hacker: Want root? Visit join.a8c.com/hacker and mention this header. host-header: WordPress.com vary: accept, content-type, cookie last-modified: Wed, 31 Dec 2025 03:02:44 GMT etag: W/"0ea9fa09b7d3ff64b92786344d18606c" content-encoding: gzip x-ac: 4.bom _dca MISS alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400 strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000 server-timing: a8c-cdn, dc;desc=bom, cache;desc=MISS;dur=337.0 https://simpletonsymposium.wordpress.com ἓν οἶδα ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα Sat, 22 Jul 2017 18:34:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.com/ https://simpletonsymposium.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/monskys-theorem-or-the-genius-of-bizarre-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-328 Sat, 22 Jul 2017 18:34:13 +0000 https://simpletonsymposium.wordpress.com/?p=35#comment-328 I love your explanation of the 2-adic valuation. (However I’ve googled it several times so I’m not a great test case.)

Overall I think this is too jargon-y to appeal to “the laiety” — and if you want to do that, you should pick an application domain that’s relevant/interesting to normal people and then show how using these lemmas and isomorphisms you can infer something un-intuitive about the thing they are familiar with. (The result should be stated in plain language, and be interesting.)

]]> https://simpletonsymposium.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/monskys-theorem-or-the-genius-of-bizarre-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-327 Sat, 22 Jul 2017 18:28:55 +0000 https://simpletonsymposium.wordpress.com/?p=35#comment-327

(This post will be at a lower level than most of my other writing here — it should be understandable by math undergrads and ideally even the Laity. Let me know how I’m doing!)

Well, if you’re writing for “the laiety”, then these are wasted words.

]]> https://simpletonsymposium.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/monskys-theorem-or-the-genius-of-bizarre-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-52 Sat, 30 Nov 2013 23:07:14 +0000 https://simpletonsymposium.wordpress.com/?p=35#comment-52 […] theorem, that we cannot dissect the unit square into an odd number of triangles of equal area. The proof is reasonably short, but amazingly ingenious. I very much recommend reading […]

]]> https://simpletonsymposium.wordpress.com/2013/08/01/more-on-finite-group-schemes/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Sat, 10 Aug 2013 00:16:48 +0000 https://simpletonsymposium.wordpress.com/?p=71#comment-36 […] the last two posts, we made some basic constructions with finite group schemes (which are always assumed flat and […]

]]> https://simpletonsymposium.wordpress.com/2013/07/14/finite-flat-commutative-group-schemes-with-an-eye-towards-p-divisible-groups/comment-page-1/#comment-35 Sat, 10 Aug 2013 00:16:46 +0000 https://simpletonsymposium.wordpress.com/?p=62#comment-35 […] the last two posts, we made some basic constructions with finite group schemes (which are always assumed flat […]

]]> https://simpletonsymposium.wordpress.com/2013/07/14/finite-flat-commutative-group-schemes-with-an-eye-towards-p-divisible-groups/comment-page-1/#comment-31 Fri, 02 Aug 2013 03:12:51 +0000 https://simpletonsymposium.wordpress.com/?p=62#comment-31 […] the last post, we discussed finite flat commutative group schemes (henceforth, ‘finite group schemes’ […]

]]> https://simpletonsymposium.wordpress.com/2012/12/08/arithmetic-topology/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 12:09:38 +0000 https://simpletonsymposium.wordpress.com/?p=24#comment-12 Nice post! I hope to read more from you.

]]> https://simpletonsymposium.wordpress.com/2012/12/08/arithmetic-topology/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Sun, 09 Dec 2012 03:15:26 +0000 https://simpletonsymposium.wordpress.com/?p=24#comment-2 This is fucking awesome and we should talk in person about this some time. I would be interested in learning a bit more about this. Also, is this going to turn into a group blog? (hint)

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