Jeffery Mensah
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I am a recent MIT graduate ('24) with a BS in Mathematics and Physics.recent posts
The homotopy extension property
In this post, we discuss equivalent characterizations of the homotopy extension property of a topological pair , which states that a homotopy...
Real representations and the Frobenius-Schur indicator
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
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...