Monthly Archives: April 2017

What is a Manifold? (6/6)

Posted on April 27, 2017 by Behnam Esmayli

In posts 1-3 we were able to reduce all of the geometry of a curve in 3-space to an interval along with two or three real-valued functions. We also discussed when two sets of such data give equivalent (overlapping) curves. This … Continue reading →

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Ordered Fields and When You Can’t Order Them

Posted on April 8, 2017 by Tom Gannon

The real numbers have an ordering on them–given two numbers and , we can tell whether  or . So as math people, we like to generalize this to other sets–when can we say that a general set is ordered? In this post, … Continue reading →

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