Naughty and Nice

This book deals with two fundamental objects attached to a surface S and how they relate to each other: a group and a space. The group is the mapping class group of S, denoted by M...

This chapter considers how the lyrics and music of Cole Porter songs might be thought of in relation to one another in essentially musical and poetic structural terms. The goal is ...

When Major Michael Donnelly was instructing his U.S. Air Force student pilots, he used to tell them three things: Timing is everything; it's nice to be lucky; and there is no justi...