About me
After completing my undergraduate degree at Clare College in Cambridge, I spent three years at QMW in London (less several months in Aarhus, Denmark) preparing my PhD. This was then followed by a year working in Oxford, and six months in Stuttgart, and Bielefeld. I am currently working at City University in London.
Other pictures of me also exist, at a conference in Charlottesville, Virginia, a summer school in Picquigny, France, and at meetings in Oberwolfach, Germany, and Manchester.
My Erdös number is 4 - for example, via the chain
- A. G. Cox, J. J. Graham and P. P. Martin
- The blob algebra in positive characteristic
- J. of Algebra 266 (2003), 584-635.
- J. J. Graham and G. I. Lehrer
- Cellular algebras
- Inventiones Math. 123 (1996), 1-34.
- M. Herzog and G. I. Lehrer
- A note concerning Coxeter groups and permutations
- in: Group Theory, Proc. Miniconf. Canberra 1975, Lect. Notes Math. 573 (1977), 53-56.
- P. Erdös, M. Herzog and J. Schönheim
- An extremal problem on the set of noncoprime divisors of a number
- Isr. J. Math. 8 (1970) 408-412.
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The mathematicians....claim to have....reconciled boldness with stability. It is only under the aegis of algebra that these two words can meet. From Charles-François Viel: De l'Impuissance des mathématiques pour assurer la solidité des bâtiments [On the Uselessness of Mathematics for Assuring the Stability of Buildings] (Paris 1805) |
...as quoted by Walter Benjamin in Das Passagen-Werk Convolute F (6a, 3) [The Arcades Project: English translation by Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin]. He adds: ...it remains to be determined whether this last sentence is meant ironically, or whether it distinguishes between algebra and mathematics. |
Anton Cox
(A.G.Cox@city.ac.uk)
Last modified: Tue 31 Aug 2010