Written by me
and available on the web

This page collects links to stuff I wrote that is available electronically, either from this web site or from others. Mostly these are notes for courses and/or talks and book reviews written for MAA Online. At the bottom are pointers to material prepared for some of my courses at Colby.

Many of these files are in pdf format. See the note below if you don't know what that means.

Research and Expository

To celebrate Mathematics Awareness Month 2008, I gave a talk at Colby on Mathematics and Voting. The notes and slides are here.
I recently wrote an op-ed piece for the Los Angeles Times. The title was What's It Do? Nothing, but Mathematicians Relish the Quest, and you can read it here.
Final (I hope) form (January 2001) of Where the Slopes Are, a report on computations about the distribution of the p-adic slopes of the U operator. This paper has now appeared in the Journal of the Ramanujan Mathematical Society -- see my publications list for the exact reference.
Tables containing the results of the slope computations so far are also online.
Non-ordinary primes: a story, an article published in Experimental Mathematics. (The link takes you to the journal page and gives access to an abstract and a postscript file.)

Book Reviews

Too many to list here! Visit MAA Reviews or its smaller friend, Read This!.

Course Materials

MA177: In the Fall of 1997 I taught an intro-level course on (some of) the mathematics of the eighteenth century. Many of the course materials are available online.

Note on pdf files

PDF files are viewed with Adobe's Acrobat Reader. You can download this program from Adobe.

Fernando Q. Gouvêa ---- fqgouvea@colby.edu

Last modified: Sat Sep 02 09:55:51 Eastern Daylight Time 2006

Written by me and available on the web

Research and Expository

Book Reviews

Course Materials

Note on pdf files

Written by me
and available on the web