Jeffery Mensah

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I am a recent MIT graduate ('24) with a BS in Mathematics and Physics.

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The homotopy extension property

August 9, 2025~2500 words

In this post, we discuss equivalent characterizations of the homotopy extension property of a topological pair (X,A)(X, A), which states that a homotopy...

In this post, we discuss an invariant of a complex representation of a finite group, and show how this yields a connection between irreducible real and complex representations...

Čech cohomology and illusions

January 19, 2025∼2500 words

This post builds off of Roger Penrose's article On the Cohomology of Impossible Figures, in which he shows a remarkable connection between impossible drawings, such as the Penrose triangle, and nontrivial cohomology groups...

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