Older Material from Barry Mazur

Course notes: (Harvard; Fall 1993) on Hecke curves and Galois deformations. Paper in pdf format: [pdf].

Notes on conformal field theory (with Beilinson and Feigin). Paper in pdf format: [pdf].

Questions about Number (an expository lecture on the ABC conjecture). Paper in pdf format: [pdf].

An article with Federica la Nave entitled Reading Bombelli appeared in February 2002 in the "Mathematical Intelligencer". Here are local [pdf] [dvi] versions of this article.

I wrote a trade book called Imagining Numbers (Particularly the Square Root of Minus Fifteen) by Barry Mazur, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003. Hardcover, 288 pp., ISBN 0374174695. Order it from Amazon. Order it from Rbookshop.com. A review by Jonathan Heawood A review by Keith Devlin Some Reactions Discussion in Slashdot "Math and Art without the filters". Comment in Los Angeles Times, which appeared on May 18, 2003.

Other materials at request from Barry Mazur, mazur@math.harvard.edu