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Valuation rings: A better algebraic treatment of Boolean algebras
June 1, 2024 by
This is Chapter 11 in my book: Ellerman, David. 1995. Intellectual Trespassing as a Way of Life: Essays in Philosophy, Economics, and Mathematics. Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Talk: New Foundations for Information Theory
November 28, 2017 by
These are the slides for a number of talks on logical information theory as providing new foundations for information theory.
Gian-Carlo Rota’s Probability Course: The Guidi Notes
June 13, 2016 by
This is a copy of the Guidi Notes for Gian-Carlo Rota’s Probability course at MIT the last time Rota gave the course. A copy of the Rota-Baclawski text used as course material can also be downloaded here.
Gian-Carlo Rota’s Combinatorial Theory Course: The Guidi Notes
June 13, 2016 by
This is a copy of the Guidi Notes for Gian-Carlo Rota’s famous Combinatorial Theory course at MIT taken the last time Rota taught the course.
Ellerman-Rota Mathematics Paper
December 7, 2012 by
This was my only math paper co-authored with Gian-Carlo Rota who in many respects was my mentor in mathematics. It reduced my Erdos number from infinity to 3.
The implication operation on partitions
February 2, 2010 by
Partitions and equivalence relations In a 2001 commemorative volume for my mathematical mentor, Gian-Carlo Rota, three of his associates noted that “the only operations on the family of equivalence relations fully studied, understood and deployed are the binary join and meet operations.” This note defines the apparently new operation of implication for partitions, an operation […]