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Dave L Renfro

Primary Mathematical Interests:

Study and use of negligible sets, especially involving porosity notions and fractal dimension notions.

Application and refinements of the Baire category method for proving existence.

Classical point set theory and real function theory.

History of nowhere differentiable continuous functions and history of the topics above.

My email address has the form "firstname period lastname at YAHOO period COM".

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25 Did Galileo's writings on infinity influence Cantor? Nov 13 '14
15 Were tables of square roots ever in use? Jun 8 '19
15 Did Galileo's writings on infinity influence Cantor? Nov 14 '14
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12 Who is Donald L. Webb Feb 10 '17
9 Any account of the history of determinant of a matrix? Oct 23 '15
9 Examples of papers co-authored by parent/child, or siblings Feb 22 '19
8 Riemann's Contribution to Integration Jan 18 '19
7 After Archimedes's *Sand Reckoner*, who considered very large numbers? Mar 16 '16
6 Who first drew the Weierstrass function? Nov 17 '15
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