About

This is a repository of pictures I have been drawing to further my understanding of low dimensional topology. Some are finished; some will never be.  I do most of my drawings with SketchUp, Xfig, or good ol’ chalk on a blackboard.  Lately I’ve been doing some work with the pre-beta Rhino OS X port of Rhino 3D.

And in case you’re wondering who I am:
I am Kenneth Baker.


14 Responses to “About”

  1. lol and behold!

    jdg said this on December 14, 2007 at 10:48 am | Reply

  2. Nice blog, but can you put an RSS subscription link in on the side navigation? Find it in the wordpress dashboard somewhere

    Ryan H. Lewis said this on January 3, 2008 at 2:24 am | Reply

  3. penrose diagrams
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_diagram
    global hyperbolicity and cauchy hypersufaces
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globally_hyperbolic
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy_surface
    http://www.hawking.org.uk/pdf/time.pdf

    Bradley said this on February 8, 2008 at 6:22 pm | Reply

  4. Hello Baron Baker. Wonderful pictures. Do you guard them closely, or would you be happy for me to post one or two on my website (with full credit and a link, of course)?

    Richard Elwes said this on July 17, 2008 at 9:25 pm | Reply

  5. By all means, post and link all you like.

    Ken Baker said this on August 1, 2008 at 4:11 pm | Reply

  6. Dear Ken,
    I am writing from the American Mathematical Society (AMS) to request permission for the use of one of your graphics in literature to be published for the annual Joint Mathematics meeting in January 2009. You can view information about the meeting at: http://www.ams.org/amsmtgs/2110_intro.html
    I would very much appreciate it if you could contact me at your earliest convenience.

    Best regards

    Erin Buck, Assistant to the Publisher said this on September 17, 2008 at 2:54 pm | Reply

  7. Dear Ken,
    The Mathematics Department at Rice University will be having Ian Agol as our annual Wolfe Lecturer this year. We try to put an interesting graphic on the poster announcing the talk and Dr. Agol suggested using one of yours. May we (with full attribution, of course). Thanks.

    Bonnie Hausman said this on February 23, 2009 at 10:12 pm | Reply

  8. Great pictures!

    Successful Researcher: How to Become One said this on May 26, 2009 at 10:20 pm | Reply

  9. Very interesting – so if understand well you studied law, went into politics and now you are a hobby mathematician?

    MathOMan said this on June 15, 2009 at 2:57 pm | Reply

  10. OK, I think you are making fun of us. Above on this page you say your are Kenneth Baker, the politician, then you are Kenny Baker, the actor…
    Well, I am really http://www.mathoman.com and http://film.tunes.org
    (no fun)

    MathOMan said this on June 15, 2009 at 8:14 pm | Reply

    • Of course I’m only joking around. Why not? If one truly cares, there is information enough within this blog to determine who I really am.

      Ken Baker said this on June 15, 2009 at 9:38 pm | Reply

  11. KB, you didn’t need to link to Wikipedia. Everyone already knew you were the Baron of Dorking. Sry we didn’t talk much at Davis – at least I get to see your interesting pictures and comments.

    Jonathan Williams said this on July 8, 2009 at 10:13 pm | Reply

  12. Great visualizations.

    S.C. Kavassalis said this on November 5, 2009 at 12:45 am | Reply

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