Zbigniew Fiedorowicz

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Contact Information
   Office: mw504
   Phone: 614-292-0724
   Fax: 815-364-0611 (EFAX fax-to-email gateway)
   Mailing address:
     Department of Mathematics
     Ohio State University
     Columbus, OH 43210
   email: fiedorow@math.ohio-state.edu

Autumn Quarter Schedule
   Teaching Math. 860, MWF 11:30-12:30
   Advisory Committee, Tues. 10:30-11:30
   CENT, Tues. 3:30-2:30
   Office hours: MWF 1:30-3:00

If you are curious about the pronunciation of my name, click here.

Course Pages

Math. 152 WebCT Page

Math 860	Math 153	Math345	Math 656
Math 152	Math 254	Math 655	Math 657

Research Interests

Algebraic topology, algebraic K-theory, quantum groups, category theory

Curriculum Vitae and Publications

Survey Talk - Oberwolfach - Nov 95 (latex) - revised

Survey Talk - Oberwolfach - Nov 95(dvi) - revised

Survey Talk - Oberwolfach - Nov 95 (ps) - revised

Iterated Monoidal Categories - tex.gz

Iterated Monoidal Categories - dvi

Iterated Monoidal Categories - ps.gz

Symmetric Bar Construction (ps.gz)

Tensor Products of A_\infty Operads (pdf) ps

My Mathematical Ancestors

Carl Gottfried Neumann(?) begat William E. Story (Leipzig, 1875, On the Algebraic Relations Existing Between the Polars of a Binary Quantic)
William E. Story begat Solomon Lefschetz (Clark, 1911, On the Existence of Loci with Given Singularities)
Solomon Lefschetz begat Norman E. Steenrod (Princeton, 1936, Universal Homology Groups)
Norman E. Steenrod begat George W. Whitehead, Jr. (Chicago, 1941, Homotopy Properties of the Real Orthogonal Groups)
George W. Whitehead, Jr. begat John C. Moore (Brown, 1952, Some Applications of Homology Theory to Homotopy Problems)
John C. Moore begat J. Peter May (Princeton, 1964, The Cohomology of Restricted Lie Algebras and of Hopf Algebras: Application to the Steenrod Algebra)
J. Peter May begat Zbigniew Fiedorowicz (Chicago, 1975, The Homology of the Orthogonal Groups over Finite Fields and Their Associated Infinite Loop Spaces)

If you are interested in such things, check out the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

Mathematical Humor

Nasty Index Tricks

Paul R. Halmos - Finite Dimensional Vector Spaces, D. Van Nostrand, Inc., 1958.
Béla Kerékjartó - Vorlesungen über Topologie, Springer-Verlag, 1923. (For further amusement click here.)

Miscellaneous

Applications of Topology to Psychoanalysis and Cinema Criticism - from Sokal, A. "Transgressing the Boundaries. Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity," Social Text, 46 (1996, #1,2): 217-252.

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