OSS Sinavi uzerine Favorite Quote Research interests
Orbifolds and all that is hyper: hypergeometry, complex hyperbolic
geometry,
hyperplane arrangements, topology of hypersurface complements.
Nowadays I am reading.. Geometric Galois Representations, arithmetic
fundamental groups, etc.
Introduction to Mathematical Logic and Set Theory (yeditepe)
Introduction to Mathematical Structures (yeditepe)
Linear Algebra (yeditepe)
Calculus I-II (lefke)
Mathématiques à FIT
Pour acceder aux documents pédagogiques sur l'enseignement de
mathématiques à FIT, consulter kikencerePublications/Preprints (pdf files)
Just finished translating to Turkish (March 2008)...
Favorite Quote: "How does a
normally talented research scientist come to concern himself with the
theory of knowledge? Is there not more valuable work to be done in his
field? I hear this from many of my professional colleagues; or rather,
I sense in the case of many more of them that this is what they feel. I
cannot share this opinion. When I think of the ablest students whom I
have encountered in teaching - i.e., those who have distinguished
themselves by their independence and judgement and not only mere
agility - I find that they have a lively concern for the theory of
knowledge. They like to start discussions concerning the aims and
methods of the sciences, and showed unequivocally by the obstinacy with
which they defend their views that this subject seemed important to
them. This is not really astonishing. For when I turn to science not
for some superficial reason such as money-making or ambition, and also
not (or at least exclusively) for the pleasure of the sport, the
delights of brain-athletics, then the following questions must
burningly interest me as a disciple of science: What goal will be
reached by the science to which I am dedicating myself? To what extent
are its general results `true'? What is essential and what is based
only on the accidents of development?... Concepts which have proved
useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us,
that we forget their terrestrial origin and accept them as unalterable
facts. They then become labelled as `conceptual necessities', `a priori
situations', etc. The road of scientific progress is frequently blocked
for long periods by such errors. It is therefore not just an idle game
to exercise our ability to analyse familiar concepts, and to
demonstrate the conditions on which their justification and usefulness
depend, and the way in which these developed, little by little..."
(Einstein) top
