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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September 24, 2008 at 5:40 pm
[...] infinitely many coin tosses Russell’s paradox and symmetry September 24, 2008 Michael O’Connor has a very interesting post on symmetry as a way out of the set theoretic paradoxes. The paper he [...]
August 14, 2009 at 11:12 pm
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!