Dr Grant Cairns' other works and activities
Translation of Pierre Molino's book 'Riemannian Foliations' from French to English. This appeared in the Birkhauser Progress in Mathematics Series (Volume 73) in 1988.
Book Review: 'Elementary Differential Geometry', by A. Pressley, Gazette Aust. Math. Soc. 28, no. 2 (2001), 103-104.
I'm the convener of the "Quintessentialist Society", which is a group of people who meet fortnightly over dinner, in the back room of a Melbourne cafe, to share their enjoyment of mathematics in a relaxed and friendly environment. Each year is devoted to a special theme:
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1998: Galois Theory
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1999: Probability and Measure Theory
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2000: the Riemann Hypothesis
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2001: the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra
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2002: the Continuum Hypothesis
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2003: Group Representations
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2004: Celestial Mechanics
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2005: Nonstandard Analysis
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2006: Hilbert's Nullstellensatz
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2007: Quaternions and Octonions
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2008: Integer Partitions
- 2009: The Mathematics of Voting