Monday, November 2nd, 2009


On Math Overflow, I just saw an “answer” to a question, given by Scott Morrison, that I just had to share with anyone who hadn’t seen it.  The Message of the Day, on Oct 2, at Berkeley was the following:

Warning: Due to a known bug, the default Linux document viewer
        evince prints N*N copies of a PDF file when N copies requested.
        As a workaround, use Adobe Reader acroread for printing multiple
        copies of PDF documents, or use the fact that every natural number
        is a sum of at most four squares.

Yesterday, we defined cycles, cycle classes, and the abelian groups in which they live.  Today, we’re going to fiddle with them a bit.  We’ve got a proper pushforward map, so today, we’ll start by figuring out when we have a pullback.

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