http://www.mathpages.com/ contains an interesting collection of essays about a lot of mathy subjects. According to a hard to find note, they were written by "Kevin S. Brown." I can't vouch for them all, and there also are some broken links unfortunately,... but some seem highly insightful, and the amount of work it took to write all these was very large. Also, you can buy book version -- he self-publishes books.
Anyone know if Dave Rusin's _Mathematical Atlas_ is available in print? http://www.math.niu.edu/~rusin/known-math/welcome.html On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Warren Smith <warren.wds@gmail.com> wrote:
contains an interesting collection of essays about a lot of mathy subjects. According to a hard to find note, they were written by "Kevin S. Brown." I can't vouch for them all, and there also are some broken links unfortunately,... but some seem highly insightful, and the amount of work it took to write all these was very large.
Also, you can buy book version -- he self-publishes books.
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Here is Kevin Brown's list of open problems he wants us to solve. Some no longer open. http://www.mathpages.com/home/mwlist.htm
Yes, very interesting pages. Unfortunately, as we discussed at [math-fun] in February 2011, it seems impossible to reach Kevin Brown. Some people exchanged some emails with him, but it was more than ten years ago. His old email addresses are no more valid. The @gte.net address given by www.who.is does not work, and his address at Seattle is a joke. Christian. -----Message d'origine----- De : math-fun-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:math-fun-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] De la part de Warren Smith Envoyé : jeudi 3 mai 2012 00:36 À : math-fun Objet : [math-fun] The "math pages" http://www.mathpages.com/ contains an interesting collection of essays about a lot of mathy subjects. According to a hard to find note, they were written by "Kevin S. Brown." I can't vouch for them all, and there also are some broken links unfortunately,... but some seem highly insightful, and the amount of work it took to write all these was very large. Also, you can buy book version -- he self-publishes books. _______________________________________________ math-fun mailing list math-fun@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/math-fun
Christian Boyer:
Unfortunately, as we discussed at [math-fun] in February 2011, it seems impossible to reach Kevin Brown...
At the time Robert Munafo wrote that "he is deliberately isolating himself from the world, and we should probably just pretend he does not exist." I think the isolation is restricted to the internet, possibly because of the mannerless methods that electronic communication often affords: http://www.androcles01.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Sagnac/SagnacIdiocy.htm
The @gte.net address given by www.who.is does not work, and his address at Seattle is a joke.
It's not too difficult to find a non-electronic contact point, although one cannot (without attempting contact) determine its currency.
On 5/3/12, Hans Havermann <gladhobo@teksavvy.com> wrote:
At the time Robert Munafo wrote that "he is deliberately isolating himself from the world, and we should probably just pretend he does not exist." I think the isolation is restricted to the internet, possibly because of the mannerless methods that electronic communication often affords:
http://www.androcles01.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Sagnac/SagnacIdiocy.htm
It's not too difficult to find a non-electronic contact point, although one cannot (without attempting contact) determine its currency.
I think what I had in mind was more like how we would treat Ramanujan. Ramanujan is dead, but left behind a lot of work that clearly has value. It's up to the people who are still alive to figure out what to do with Ramanujan's work. We could treat the Math Pages that way. Perhaps there's a mistake or something that doesn't make sense. Perhaps an entire essay seems out of whack. We can't ask the author, so we just treat it like finding a mistake in Ramanujan's notebooks. Either omit the result entirely, or make a list of errata telling where the mistakes were found, or whatever. -- Robert Munafo -- mrob.com Follow me at: gplus.to/mrob - fb.com/mrob27 - twitter.com/mrob_27 - mrob27.wordpress.com - youtube.com/user/mrob143 - rilybot.blogspot.com
I corresponded with him over ten years ago (probably closer to 20!). I thought that his stuff was very good. The most I found out about him is that he was an engineer with Boeing near Seattle. Victor On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 3:17 AM, Christian Boyer <cboyer@club-internet.fr>wrote:
Yes, very interesting pages.
Unfortunately, as we discussed at [math-fun] in February 2011, it seems impossible to reach Kevin Brown. Some people exchanged some emails with him, but it was more than ten years ago. His old email addresses are no more valid. The @gte.net address given by www.who.is does not work, and his address at Seattle is a joke.
Christian.
-----Message d'origine----- De : math-fun-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:math-fun-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] De la part de Warren Smith Envoyé : jeudi 3 mai 2012 00:36 À : math-fun Objet : [math-fun] The "math pages"
contains an interesting collection of essays about a lot of mathy subjects. According to a hard to find note, they were written by "Kevin S. Brown." I can't vouch for them all, and there also are some broken links unfortunately,... but some seem highly insightful, and the amount of work it took to write all these was very large.
Also, you can buy book version -- he self-publishes books.
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Victor Miller:
The most I found out about him is that he was an engineer with Boeing near Seattle.
Kevin S. Brown received a BS (1977) and MS (1978) in mechanical engineering at the University of Minnesota. He became interested in fault-tree analysis methods as a result of his involvement in the certification of flight-critical avionic control systems. He authored an article, Evaluating Fault Trees (AND & OR Gates Only) with Repeated Events, in 'IEEE Transactions on Reliability' (1990), and another, A Note on Recurrence Relations for Simulating ODEs, in 'Communications in Applied Numerical Methods' (1992), and shares, with three others, a 'thrust control malfunction accommodation system and method' patent (#6704630: filed 2002, issued 2004). Also in 2004, he appears to have become a new member of the 'Aero Club of Washington' where his affiliation is given as 'Boeing Air Traffic Management'. One of the many patent sites on the 'net gives his full address, which corresponds exactly to his Washington state white pages listing. All of this has been gleaned via Google.
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