nLab Frank Quinn

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Selected writings

On $E_\infty$-spaces and $E_\infty$-ring sectra:

• Peter May with contributions by Frank Quinn, Nigel Ray and Jørgen Tornehave, $E_\infty$-Ring spaces and $E_\infty$ ring spectra, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 577, Springer 1977 (pdf, cds:1690879)

On TQFT and HQFT:

• Frank Quinn, Lectures on axiomatic topological quantum field theory, in Dan Freed, Karen Uhlenbeck (eds.) Geometry and Quantum Field Theory 1 (1995) [doi:10.1090/pcms/001]

On the relation between the practice of mathematics and physics (for historical context see Hitchin 20, Sec. 8):

• Arthur Jaffe, Frank Quinn, “Theoretical Mathematics”: Towards a cultural synthesis of mathematics and theoretical physics, Bulletin of the AMS, Volume 29,Number 1, July 1993 (arXiv:math/9307227)

  we claim that the role of rigorous proof in mathematics is functionally analogous to the role of experiment in the natural sciences (Jaffe-Quinn 93, p. 2)

On rigorous mathematics and formal proof:

• Frank Quinn: Proof Projects for Teachers (2009) [pdf, pdf]

• Frank Quinn, A Revolution in Mathematics? What Really Happened a Century Ago and Why It Matters Today, Notices of the AMS (2012) $[$pdf$]$

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