Welcome...to a Mathematical site:
Home Page of N J Wildberger
Overview
This website outlines my mathematical
research interests, and describes my new (revolutionary)
book Divine Proportions: Rational
Trigonometry to Universal Geometry.
It is also the location of the new
--a place to collect various information,
papers and examples illustrating rational trigonometry.
You may find (some of) my mathematical
papers and separately various survey
articles, as well as information about my teaching
and service to UNSW (University
of New South Wales). It also contains some views
and opinions that you might find provocative. It
also contains the following applets:
Diophantine
equation solver (Michael Leeming)
This beautiful program uses the power method of
N J Wildberger to solve Diophantine equations over finite
fields of prime order. The power method doesn't always
work, but it does surprisingly well, even for large
complicated equations.
The
mutation and numbers games (Thai Son Huang) These
games embed Lie theory into graph theory. Many beautiful
lattices (in the combinatorial sense) arise.
Ellipson
cross sections (Thai Son Huang)
A simple applet showing the lovely ellipson, arising
from the Triple spread formula in Rational trigonometry
Finite
geometry graphics (Alexander Ma) An applet which
allows you to graph lines, circles and some other conics
in a finite field of prime order.
Brief background
Born and raised in Canada, I now enjoy
the warmer Australian life-style, but still like to
visit my home country. I was educated at Adam Scott
High School in Peterboro Ontario, Richmond Hill High
School in Richmond Hill Ontario, University of Toronto
(BSC 1979) and Yale University (PhD 1984). I taught
at Stanford University (1984-1986) and the University
of Toronto (1986-1989) before coming to UNSW
(University of New South Wales), Sydney, in 1990. My
wife Kim and I have a daughter Alexandra.
Wild Egg Books
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Wild Egg is a new, small publisher of high quality
mathematical texts. I am the director of this fledgling
outfit, and hope to establish in the years to come
a spare but illustrious line of mathematical texts
that break out of the usual mold. The first offering
is Divine Proportions: Rational
Trigonometry to Universal Geometry which was
released on September 2005, and available over the
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You can also check out my official
UNSW website, which is just one page long at
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