Jan Gutt

Mathematics Department
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794

jgutt at math dot sunysb dot edu

Office hours:

Mondays 11²⁰-12²⁰ in the MLC (Math building basement)

Tuesdays 10⁴⁰-11⁴⁰ in the MLC (Math building basement)

Fridays 11²⁰-12²⁰ in D126 (Physics building, D floor)

Teaching:

MAT132 in Fall 2009.
MAT126 in Summer I 2009.
MAT125 in Spring 2009.
MAT132 in Fall 2008.

Past research:

I received a Master degree in physics from Warsaw University in 2008, having written a thesis on Special Riemannian geometries and the Magic Square of Lie algebras under the supervision of Pawel Nurowski. The paper is available as arXiv:0810.2138 [math.DG].

An assortment of links:

avantgardeproject.org: more than a hundred out of print modern & contemporary classical LPs digitized and shared losslessly and legally
Zorn's Lemma (the Hollis Frampton film)
Everyone's favourite mathematical proto-blogger
Higher categorification of a blog
Abstract nonsense videos
Tons of workshop footage from MSRI
J. S. Milne's mathematical apocrypha
rigtriv

If I were a Springer-Verlag Graduate Text in Mathematics, I would be Saunders Mac Lane's Categories for the Working Mathematician.

I provide an array of general ideas useful in a wide variety of fields. Starting from foundations, I illuminate the concepts of category, functor, natural transformation, and duality. I then turn to adjoint functors, which provide a description of universal constructions, an analysis of the representation of functors by sets of morphisms, and a means of manipulating direct and inverse limits.

Which Springer GTM would you be? The Springer GTM Test

GTMs I own so far: 5, 52, 82, 133, 150, 166, 187, 197, 211.