Do Androids Dream of Symmetric Sheaves?

Colin Adams is the Thomas T. Read Professor of Mathematics at Williams College. He primarily works in the areas of hyperbolic 3-manifolds and knot theory. Adams also writes the "Mathematically Bent" column for the Mathematical Intelligencer.

• Preface.- Introduction.- Immortality.- Gold Rush.- Prime Suspect.- The Cabinet of Dr. Möbius.- On Another Plane.- The Modern Prometheus.- Aftermath.- Looking Backward.- A Denial.- Algebrexit.- Fields Candidacy.- Leonhard Euler and the Seven Bridges of Königsberg.- The Great Storm.- All Tied Up.- The Adventures of Robin Caruso.- Hardy and Ramanujan.- Introduction to the Collected Works.- Mathematicus.- Happiness is a Warm Theorem.- Motivational Seminar.- Cylindra Ella.- Referee's Support.- Silence of the Lemmas.- The Seven Labors of Hercules.- Presidential Address.- A Pi Day Carol.- GUI.- Math is Everywhere.- Job Solicitation.- CSI: MSRI.- Do Androids Dream of Symmetric Sheaves?- A Ghost Story.- Equinox.- Secrets of Math Destruction.- The Book.- A Grader's Dream.- The End of Mathematics.- Definitions that Sizzle.- Edutainment.- A Prisoner's Dilemma.- The Intergalactic Congress of Mathematicians.- The Gulag.- Where do Theorems Come From?- The Lord of the Rings 1: The NSF Fellowship of the Rings.- Piracy.- Notes.