Hello, my name is Michael O’Connor. I received my Ph.D. in mathematics from Cornell in August 2008. It was in mathematical logic, an area of mathematics that has a number of interesting nuggets, some of which I hope to explicate (for my sake as much as for anyone else’s). I now work in finance.
The header image is by Benjamin Esham and is used on the Wikipedia page on the Banach-Tarski paradox. Benjamin was kind enough to give me a version resized for this blog, so thanks a lot!
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hi.. i am just starting grad school at Cornell in CS and have been following your blog for quite sometime. If you are around in Ithaca, will be nice to meet up.Cheers!
Hereby humbly requesting “Non-Rigorous Arguments 2: …” (the highly anticipated second installment of the now-classic series)!