Jimmy Mathews
mathewj2@mskcc.org
jimmy@jmath.read-books.org
I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Previously, I was a PhD student in the mathematics department at Stony Brook University, until the summer of 2017.
I am also an anarchist, a luddite, a communist, and a utopian. I believe in the future promise of technological instrumentalism and democratic engineering to end poverty, end disenfranchisement, and promote free scholarship.
Programming
gman, a general-purpose text-mode graph navigation and annotation tool (I'm also working on a fork of gman that is an OWL ontology explorer)
Macaulay2 program to calculate 4d tensor invariants using the umbral calculus
Perspective cube drawing in geogebra, and a note explaining how to draw cubes, drawn from George Francis' A Topological Picturebook
Matt Genkin's project to see geodesic configurations on hyperbolic surfaces
Projects
Agent-oriented "natural language" programming
The public mandate
Let me think, the web log of the secular monastery project
Papers
2017. My PhD thesis, Curve jets, submanifolds families, and envelopes
2016. Multi-focal tensors as invariant differential forms
Teaching
MAT 200
MAT 211
MAT 312/AMS 351
MAT 514
Talks
September 28 2017 handout about curve jets, from a talk at TU Berlin
July 31 2017. Multi-focal tensors as invariant differential forms, and envelopes of line congruences (SIAM mini-symposium on algebraic vision, at Atlanta, Georgia)
September 27 2016. Computing for mathematics, 1st- and 2nd-year student seminar at SBU
Images and videos
Math graphics
Solar car
Chess
Box house
Unaffiliated links:
CMU Link Grammar
XTAG project
Attempto Project
Machine Intelligence Research Institute
OpenCog Foundation
OpenAI
Free Software Foundation
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Digital Government Society
Center for Democracy and Technology
Open Technology Institute
Participatory Budgetary Project
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Bell Policy Center