Schlagwort: Mathematik

Staubsauger statt Wasserhahn.

  • 2014-02-13

So, you think about new things that you can do with vacuum cleaners. So, first, you're like: I can use a vacuum cleaner to clean bookshelves! That'd be super-useful! But then you do a Google Scholar search and it turns out that someone else did that like ten years ago.

OK, your next idea: I can use a vacuum cleaner to clean cats! That'd also be super-useful. But, alas, a bit more searching in the literature reveals that someone tried that, too, but they didn't get good results. You're a confident young grad student, so you decide that, armed with some additional techniques that you happen to know, you might fix the problems that the other researcher had and get vacuuming cats to work. You spend several months on it, but, alas, it doesn't get you any further.

Yasha Berchenko-Kogan answers to What do grad students in math do all day?

Beautiful Nuclear Dualities.

  • 2013-12-29

I think we mathematicians are a little bit behind the curve. We are not fully aware of the Frankenstein that we may have already created or could create. I think that’s another aspect of this responsibility of mathematicians to take a more public role—to educate the public by giving them access to the beauty and power of mathematics.

Edward Frenkel

Life after Bach and Bourbaki.

  • 2013-11-20

I like living in this time. Having missed many good musicians is compensated by logic and math being in a both stable and interesting shape.

What academia should always be and feel like.

  • 2013-10-13

And now I have learnt it. I understand orbifolds and the group theory necessary to prove Conway's theorem. I have proved the theorem myself, and the corollary that there are only seventeen periodic tessellations of the plane. I still like the subject a lot and I am happy to have written my bachelor thesis about it.

Emma Brakkee: Conway’s Theorem (Bachelor Thesis)

Equilibrium Pages.

  • 2013-06-07

Good and new ideas should always fit on two one page.