Night Driving: Notes from a Prodigal Soul, ChadBird, Eerdmans, 2017 (ISBN 978‐0‐8028‐7401‐6), xii + 148 pp., pb $16.99

The Fundamental Group of a Link Notes for Math 148

Associated to every knot or link in R (or in S) we can associate a group, called the fundamental group of the complement of the link, or more simply, the fundamental group of the link. A simple-minded way to approach this is to extend the idea of labeling a link diagram by group elements. Given a group G and an oriented link diagram D, we say that D can be labeled with G if we can label every a...

Impaired alertness and performance driving home from the night shift: a driving simulator study.

Driving in the early morning is associated with increased accident risk affecting not only professional drivers but also those who commute to work. The present study used a driving simulator to investigate the effects of driving home from a night shift. Ten shift workers participated after a normal night shift and after a normal night sleep. The results showed that driving home from the night s...

Soheili. A. Reflections on Persian Grammar: Developments in Persian Linguistic Scholarship I. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars publishing, 2017. 283 pp. ISBN: 1-4438-5070-5

The long dark night of the sports medicine soul.

W hen I first started as a medical student on the wards, I remember very strongly the words of the professor of medicine at the time, who seemed bored with clinical medicine. I can remember very clearly wondering how one could reach this cynical and worldweary state of mind and aimed from that formative stage of my medical career to avoid this end. I look back now, some 25 years down the road, ...

Notes for Juvitop, Spring 2017

Disclaimer: These are notes I took while attending the Juvitop student seminar at MIT. I have made them public in the hope that they might be useful to others, but these are not official notes in any way. In particular, mistakes are my fault; if you find any, please report them to: