This introduction to recent developments in algebraic combinatorics illustrates how research in mathematics actually progresses. The author recounts the dramatic search for and discovery of a proof of a counting formula conjectured in the late 1970s: the number of n x n alternating sign matrices, objects that generalize permutation matrices. While it was apparent that the conjecture must be true, the proof was elusive. As a result, researchers became drawn to this problem and made connections to aspects of the invariant theory of Jacobi, Sylvester, Cayley, MacMahon, Schur, and Young; to...
This introduction to recent developments in algebraic combinatorics illustrates how research in mathematics actually progresses. The author recounts t...
Asian Americans are emerging as a political force and yet their politics have not been systematically studied by either social scientists or politicians. Asian American politics transcend simple questions of voting behavior and elective office, going all the way back to early immigration laws and all the way forward to ethnic targeting. For the first time, this book brings together original sources on key topics influencing Asian American politics, knit together by expert scholars who introduce each subject and place it in context with political events and the greater emerging literature....
Asian Americans are emerging as a political force and yet their politics have not been systematically studied by either social scientists or politicia...
"You're fired " became the catch phrase in the spring of 2004 as NBC's The Apprentice captured public and media attention. Even though The Apprentice was not exclusively about race, it communicated and reinforced racial messages that are part and parcel of the dominant American ideology. No matter which minority group is represented, the media in America offer the same bill of fare: first, exclusion; followed by stereotyping that makes a sharp distinction between "good" minority members and "bad" ones; and finally, the telling of stories that justify racial inequality in American society....
"You're fired " became the catch phrase in the spring of 2004 as NBC's The Apprentice captured public and media attention. Even though The Apprentice ...
Presents a full and frank biography of a mathematician recognised as one of the principal figures in the 20th Century progression of the American school of point set topology. R.L. Moore was equally well known as creator of the Moore Method in which there is a current and growing revival of interest and modified application under inquiry-based learning projects in both the US and the UK.
Presents a full and frank biography of a mathematician recognised as one of the principal figures in the 20th Century progression of the American scho...
