Moxie, by Jennifer Mathieu

Jennifer Rohn

for honesty.” So much for Amotz Zahavi’s “Handicap Principle” and Alan Grafen’s mathematical support for it, in which the costs of exaggerated signals promote their evolution. In Wiley’s model, “honesty and exaggeration in noisy communication evolve despite costs, rather than because of them.” Wiley goes so far as to claim that, despite their dominant infl uence on the fi eld, previous studies ...

P. Mathieu

Mathieu Groups

In this essay, we will discuss some interesting properties of the Mathieu groups, which are a family of five sporadic finite simple groups, as well as some closely related topics. One construction of the Mathieu groups involves Steiner systems, so we will begin by discussing Steiner systems.

Jennifer Paulhus

My primary research interests lie in two distinct branches of number theory. I explore decompositions of Jacobian varieties of curves and related arithmetic geometry problems. I also study questions about the parity of kth powers of residues in Z/pZ for primes p and related topics on exponential sum bounds and finite Fourier series. Brief overviews of both of these areas may be found immediatel...

Reason Knows Not Jennifer

There is something deeply puzzling about the idea that we can be ignorant of our own reasons. Whereas Pascal attributed certain reasons to the heart versus the mind, we may attribute such reasons to the emotional versus the cognitive mind or to the unconscious versus the conscious mind, but the central conviction remains the same: we may be moved by reasons without ever consciously thinking of ...