This is an index of posts written for the Generally Interested Lay Audience.
- GILA I: Group actions and equivalence relations
- GILA II: Orbits, stabilizers, and classifying group actions
- GILA III: The orbit-counting lemma and baby Polya
- GILA IV: The unreasonable effectiveness of generating functions in the combinatorial sciences
- GILA V: The Polya enumeration theorem and applications
- GILA VI: The cycle index polynomials of the symmetric groups
Thanks for writing this. I will eventually read all your GILA stuff and looking forward to it.
(I found you through the math.stackexchange, BTW.)
I don’t know if this interests you at all, but I was just perusing some papers by Daron Acemoglu, who works at MIT where you go to school.
http://econ-www.mit.edu/faculty/acemoglu/publication
Someday I would love to understand the connections between P-matrices, Hopf-Poincare theorem, and the dynamics of military dictatorships / revolutions to democracy. He works on all of the above areas.
If you do happen to talk to him, and do happen to blog about it … the Generally Interested Lay Audience would love to know!