Teaching Stuff (for more information, see Rutgers University, the Rutgers Math Department, and its Graduate Math Program.

• My schedule (Addresses, courses, office hours)
• Undergraduate Course Materials, as well as course material for
  • Calculus I (Math 135) and WeBWork
  • Cryptography (Math 348) Spring 2008 (homework)
  • Statistical evidence for the effectiveness of our Calculus Workshop formats
  • Statistical evidence for the effectiveness of web-based homework in Calculus
• Graduate Algebra Supplementary Materials
  • Math 551 course page and Homework Assignments
  • Bilinear forms supplement and the Group representations supplement

Research stuff: Here are some research papers, my research interests and my Ph.D. Students.

• Fall 2006 Lectures on the proof of the Bloch-Kato Conjecture
• Corrections to the Hbook — my textbook ``An introduction to homological algebra'', Cambridge Univ. Press, 1994.
• ``Lectures on motivic cohomology", Clay Monographs in Math 2 (2006), AMS.
• Chapters in my K-book — my book-in-progress ``Algebraic K-theory''

• A History of Mathematics at Rutgers (1766-present), an html file, and
• A History of Homological Algebra, a 40-page dvi file.
• The Development of Algebraic K-theory before 1980, a 28-page pdf file.

• Seminars at Rutgers: Algebra Seminar, Computational Algebra, Topology Seminar and Colloquia
• Calendar of all Math Seminars at Rutgers and Princeton University
• Seminars at the Institute for Advanced Study

• Math Review search
• K-theory preprint server
• American Mathematical Society (Math Calendar)

• Rutgers Library Catalog and University Info
• Front for the Math ArXiv(es)

• Check out the Almgren "Mayday" Race, an annual relay race between Princeton and Rutgers. Next running: May 4, 2008
• Here's a picture of me with my children (Chad and Aubrey) feeding the dolphins at «Sea World» on April 4, 1999.

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  Fun Question: How can you prove that 123456789098765432111 is a prime number?
  Fun Fact: In 1644, a French monk named Marin Mersenne studied numbers of the form N=2^p-1, where p is prime, and published a list of 11 such numbers he claimed were prime numbers. Such prime numbers are called Mersenne primes. (He got two wrong.)
  The 46th known Mersenne prime was discovered in August 2008 by a group in the UCLA mathematics department. It has 13 million digits. As such, it is expected to be awarded the $100,000 prize offered by the Electronic Frontier Foundation for the first known prime with over 10 million digits.
  In 2005, a German eye surgeon found a Mersenne prime (#45) with p=25,964,951. In September 2006, the 44th Mersenne prime was found with p=32,582,657. The prime N has about 9.8 million digits (more exactly, p log₁₀(2) digits). The EFF has a $100,000 prize for the first prime with at least 10 million digits. For more information, check out the Mersenne site.

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  Charles Weibel / weibel @ math.rutgers.edu / January 1, 2008

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