Math I Ought to Learn

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I know so little math for someone in my position that frankly I sometimes feel like a fraud. And much of what I do know is the half-wrong physicist's version. Abstract algebra (beyond group theory): universal algebra, category theory, lattice theory, Galois lattices. Functional analysis (for real, not just the rudiments needed for probability and Markov processes). Algebraic geometry (for algebraic statistics). Matroids. permanent link for this note RSS feed for this note

Math I Ought to Learn Notebooks Math I Ought to Learn Last update : 21 Jul 2026 14:12 First version : 11 December 2000 (if not before) Some of you may have had occasion to run into mathematicians and to wonder therefore how they got that way... --- Tom Lehrer , " The Great Lobachevsky " I know so little math for someone in my position that frankly I sometimes feel like a fraud. And much of what I do know is the half-wrong physicist's version. Abstract algebra (beyond group theory): universal algebra, category theory , lattice theory, Galois lattices . Functional analysis (for real, not just th

Math I Ought to Learn

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