Written by me
and available on the web

This page collects some links to stuff I wrote that is available online. I've also written lots of book reviews, especially for the MAA Reviews (of which I am the editor); those are not listed here.

Research and Expository

Rigid Calabi-Yau Threefolds over Q are Modular: A Postscript to Serre, with Noriko Yui, posted February 2009.
To celebrate Mathematics Awareness Month 2008, I gave a talk at Colby on Mathematics and Voting. The notes and slides are here.
Final 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 are also online.

General Public

Some time back the Los Angeles Times asked me to write an op-ed piece on mathematics. Specifically, they wanted to know why mathematicians bothered with such things as finding large Mersenne primes. The resulting short article appeared in the LA Times and in several other papers. You can read it here. Most of the feedback I got was from other mathematicians, so I'm not sure whether this actually was of any interest to the mythical "general public."

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.

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

Last modified: Wed Aug 20 11:26:47 Eastern Daylight Time 2008

Written by me and available on the web

Research and Expository

General Public

Course Materials

Written by me
and available on the web