Bill Goldbloom Bloch

Professor of Mathematics

Office: Science Center 105B
Office Hours: Monday, 2-3:20; Tuesday, 2-4:50;
Phone: 508.286.3972
Fax: 508.286.8278
Email: bbloch@wheatoncollege.edu
Personal web page

Degrees

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
B.A., Reed College

Research Interests

Discontinuous Open Maps
Gromov's Theory of Metric Spaces
Chomsky's Linguistics
Zeno's Paradox
Jorge Borges
Generic Topological Properties
Hyperbolic Flows on Smooth Manifolds

Teaching Interests

Spellbinding lectures
Technology and its impact
Appropriate use of computers
Sensible and meaningful assessment

Other Interests

Snowboarding
Crossword puzzles
Fountain pens
Mountaineering

Publications

The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel
Oxford University Press, 2008
http://tinyurl.com/5vf83c

'Fractal Boundaries are Not Typical,' Topology and its Applications 154 (2007), 533-539

'The Unimaginable: Catalogues and the Book of Sand in The Library of Babel,' Variaciones Borges 19 (2005), 23-40

'Typical Sets and Meager Spaces,' Topology and its Applications 131 (2003), 39-49

'Fire and Water: A Natural Setting for Certain Chaotic Phenomena,' preprint

'No More (Math) Teachers‚ Dirty Looks,' preprint

'Tension in Generalized Geometric Sequences,' College Mathematics Journal 32, no. 1, (2001), 44-47

'There are no Attractors with Boundary for Axiom-A Diffeomorphisms,' preprint

'Extending Flows from Isolated Invariant Sets,' Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems 15, no. 6, (1995), 1031-1043