Keith Conrad
Job coordinates
Address:
Math Dept. UConn,
196 Auditorium Road Unit 3009
Storrs, CT 06269-3009
Office: MSB 318
E-mail: kconrad at math dot uconn dot edu.
Some mathematics
Published papers
Expository papers
UConn Math Club
MathSciNet
Number theory web
The math
resources
page at Penn State
JSTOR
NUMDAM, in
english
or
french
The GTM test
Greek alphabet review for
reading
and
writing
in math
A
parody
of Green Eggs and Ham by Kevin Wald
A
song
parody.
Another
song
.
Excerpts
from the New York Times
Read very carefully the course description of MAT 311
here
. (This is not made up.)
An interesting lesson in
probability
. The start of
this page
indicates the story is not made up.
Another lesson in
probability
. (The event described there took place on March 3, 1983. Go to the end of
this page
for more.)
Current courses
Math 3231
Math 5211
Summer program courses
Analogies between integers and polynomials (Dubna, Summer 2012)
Lectures
What is a Reciprocity Law? (Yaroslavl, Summer 2011):
Lecture
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
Number Theory in Quadratic Fields (Lisbon, Summer 2011)
Diophantine Equations (Ross program, Summer 2008)
Elliptic Curves and Arithmetic Progressions of Squares (Ross program, Summer 2007)
Sums of squares (USA/Canada Mathcamp, Summer 2005)
Quaternion algebras (Ross program, Summer 2004)
Analogies between integers and polynomials (Ross program, Summer 2003)
Zeta and
L
-functions (PROMYS program, Summer 2000)
Some pictures
Mesmerized by a
magic
trick.
Dogsitting
.
The
garden
of constants. (5 seems a bit sleepy.)
Kazan
.
Myshkin
.
Russian Vending Machines
.
A
car
in Connecticut.
A
car
near Boston.
A street I
don't
live on in Berlin. And
another
one in Clemson.
Numbers
I don't use.
An application of advanced math to
cooking
. Read the label carefully. (Taken from Crisco olive oil spray.)
A good example of bad
kerning
.
If you are an amateur and think you solved a famous problem, look here
Scott Aaronson
Sean Carroll
Henry Cohn
Greg Kuperberg
math.stackexchange
here
and
here
Terry Tao
Some links
Page about
recommendation letters
My
brother's
page
Math
contests
An interesting lesson in
negative numbers
. (If the link is broken, go
here
.)
A great
optical illusion
. (The figures are not really moving. This is due to Akiyoshi Kitaoka. See
here
for more information.)
Another
optical illusion
. (Partial explanation is
here
.)
A
database
of field extensions.
Some html commands for special symbols, both (Roman)
alphabetical
and
mathematical
. (For a more general site, go
here
or
here
.)
