Ian Maxwell
Kingsbury Hall N309D
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH 03824
iio3@unh.edu
(720) 808-0801
This page is woefully incomplete at the moment.
If the current date is earlier than December 2012,
assume it will soon be improved.
Otherwise, assume I've forgotten about it.
About me
I'm a Ph.D. candidate in pure mathematics
at the University of New Hampshire.
I completed my qualifying exams in August of 2010.
Teaching
This semester I am acting as a teaching assistant for
MATH 426
(Calculus II),
Sections 07 - 09.
Mathematical interests
My primary interests are in category theory and model
theory (and particularly the unification of the two through
model categories), foundations, and topology.
Questions of particular interest include:
- The categorical structure of
Quine's New Foundations.
If the ZF(C) category of sets is a topos,
what is the NF(U) category of sets?
- The incidence geometry of convex open subsets
of the Euclidean plane,
and specifically the conditions
under which two such subsets
have equivalent incidence structures.
Links
Mathematics
- MathOverflow
is a great place for mathematicians to ask questions.
- StackExchange Mathematics
is a great place for non-mathematicians to ask questions.
- Wolfram Alpha
bills itself as a
computational knowledge engine.
It
does calculations, looks up information, and otherwise
makes itself useful.
Software
All of the software on this list is
free as in freedom.
- Ubuntu is the most popular
GNU/Linux-based operating system.
- Vim is my favorite text editor.
- LyX is what I use to typeset most
of my work. It's a visual document processing system based on the
TeX language.
Other
- Less Wrong is a community
blog devoted to refining the art of human rationality.
- Dinosaur Comics
is occasionally educational, but I enjoy it anyway.
