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Dave L Renfro
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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.

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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
12 Riemann's Contribution to Integration Jan 18 '19
12 Origin of the concept of dimension? Dec 4 '14
12 Who is Donald L. Webb Feb 10 '17
9 Examples of papers co-authored by parent/child, or siblings Feb 22 '19
8 Any account of the history of determinant of a matrix? Oct 23 '15
8 Is Kline right that Cauchy believed that continuous functions must be differentiable? Mar 16 '16
7 Was the idea that the result of division of positive number by negative number should be negative ever been controversial? Jan 29
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