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Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Joyal's proof of Cayley's formula for the enumeration of trees

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That formula of Cayley asserts that there are $n^{n-2}$ trees with vertices labeled $1,\dots,n$. This is a chapter in graph theory, in which...
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Friday, February 13, 2026

Associated prime ideals and regular elements in polynomial rings

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This post is here to record a fact that ought to be better known and for which I ought to have known a proper proof beforehand. Let's s...
Sunday, November 30, 2025

The determinant of transvections (an update)

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In the previous post , I had explained how I could prove a general version of the classic fact that transvections have determinant 1. Recall...
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Thursday, November 6, 2025

The determinant of transvections

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A transvection in a $K$-vector space $V$ is a linear map $T(f,v)$ of the form $x\mapsto x + f(x) v$, where $f\in V^*$ is a linear form and ...
Saturday, September 6, 2025

The two adjunctions of the preimage

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Sometimes in mathematics, you are told about very elementary things of which you hadn't even thought. I was well aware of some “duality”...
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

The Krull dimension of the semiring of natural numbers is equal to 2

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Let $R$ be a ring. Its Krull dimension is the supremum of the lengths $n$ of chains $P_0\subsetneq P_1 \subsetneq\dots\subsetneq P_n$ of pri...
Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Autoformalization of mathematical theorems? No shit!

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I've been formalizing mathematical theorems in Lean for some years now, and one of the major blocks is the difficulty of formalizing ele...
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