Comments on: best of 2008 (2) : big theorems http://www.neverendingbooks.org/index.php/best-of-2008-2-big-theorems.html lieven le bruyn's blog Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:50:41 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: lieven http://www.neverendingbooks.org/index.php/best-of-2008-2-big-theorems.html/comment-page-1#comment-6395 lieven Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:32:18 +0000 http://matrix.cmi.ua.ac.be/?p=854#comment-6395 <p>Masaom, thanks! It's always good to know one doesn't blog in vain (although my little stats-experiment already gave me alrerady a better feel on this).</p> <p>Charles : a picture a post goes with the current theme i'm using. if the guy isn't you, blame it on google images. whoever it is, isn't in too bad company if you have a look at the front-page. there are blackboard-pictures of 'the guy', connes, lenstra, manin and kontsevich... if you would believe in stats, the guy is in for a fields medal (or should have gotten it long ago).</p> <p>oh, and masaom, there will be longer math-posts soon, only one more 2008-post is on my mind....</p> Masaom, thanks! It’s always good to know one doesn’t blog in vain (although my little stats-experiment already gave me alrerady a better feel on this).

Charles : a picture a post goes with the current theme i’m using. if the guy isn’t you, blame it on google images. whoever it is, isn’t in too bad company if you have a look at the front-page. there are blackboard-pictures of ‘the guy’, connes, lenstra, manin and kontsevich… if you would believe in stats, the guy is in for a fields medal (or should have gotten it long ago).

oh, and masaom, there will be longer math-posts soon, only one more 2008-post is on my mind….

]]> By: Masaom http://www.neverendingbooks.org/index.php/best-of-2008-2-big-theorems.html/comment-page-1#comment-6387 Masaom Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:04:24 +0000 http://matrix.cmi.ua.ac.be/?p=854#comment-6387 <p>Hi, I'm a student studying math at the University of Tokyo. I'm one of those who are taking the time to read your recent post (Mumford’s treasure map), and hopefully I'm planning to introduce this post to my friends studying in Japan.</p> <p>I appreciate you taking the time to write this great post, and I'm looking forward for your future "longer technical math-posts".</p> Hi, I’m a student studying math at the University of Tokyo.
I’m one of those who are taking the time to read your recent post (Mumford’s treasure map), and hopefully I’m planning to introduce this post to my friends studying in Japan.

I appreciate you taking the time to write this great post, and I’m looking forward for your future “longer technical math-posts”.

]]> By: Charles Siegel http://www.neverendingbooks.org/index.php/best-of-2008-2-big-theorems.html/comment-page-1#comment-6371 Charles Siegel Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:58:04 +0000 http://matrix.cmi.ua.ac.be/?p=854#comment-6371 <p>Ack, and I meant to put this into my comment, but hit "post" by accident: what's the relevance of the picture on top? That's actually from a program I was in as an undergrad, and I know the guy (there's a picture of me giving my talk from that on the webpage that originally appeared on).</p> Ack, and I meant to put this into my comment, but hit “post” by accident: what’s the relevance of the picture on top? That’s actually from a program I was in as an undergrad, and I know the guy (there’s a picture of me giving my talk from that on the webpage that originally appeared on).

]]> By: Charles Siegel http://www.neverendingbooks.org/index.php/best-of-2008-2-big-theorems.html/comment-page-1#comment-6370 Charles Siegel Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:56:25 +0000 http://matrix.cmi.ua.ac.be/?p=854#comment-6370 <p>Alexander, I also do this. And as for that comment I got...it's best just to ignore Noted Scholar...he's trying to make a point, but can't articulate it well to the rest of us.</p> Alexander, I also do this. And as for that comment I got…it’s best just to ignore Noted Scholar…he’s trying to make a point, but can’t articulate it well to the rest of us.

]]> By: lieven http://www.neverendingbooks.org/index.php/best-of-2008-2-big-theorems.html/comment-page-1#comment-6356 lieven Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:42:51 +0000 http://matrix.cmi.ua.ac.be/?p=854#comment-6356 <p>Alexander, true enough. Ive checked returning/new visits and altered the too drastic conclusion of the post. Thx!</p> Alexander, true enough. Ive checked returning/new visits and altered the too drastic conclusion of the post. Thx!

]]> By: Alexander Ellis http://www.neverendingbooks.org/index.php/best-of-2008-2-big-theorems.html/comment-page-1#comment-6355 Alexander Ellis Sat, 03 Jan 2009 20:55:59 +0000 http://matrix.cmi.ua.ac.be/?p=854#comment-6355 <p>Another possible explanation for the longer page-views later on is the following sort of behavior: I check for new blog posts quite frequently (say, once per day). But it's not every day that I feel like reading a long post. In particular, while I was probably part of one of your big yellow peaks, I think the day I actually read the post lies in the "blue-dominated zone".</p> <p>Does anyone else do this?</p> <p>(Although I haven't played with Google Analytics, it's probably not too hard to look for this sort of behavior.)</p> Another possible explanation for the longer page-views later on is the following sort of behavior: I check for new blog posts quite frequently (say, once per day). But it’s not every day that I feel like reading a long post. In particular, while I was probably part of one of your big yellow peaks, I think the day I actually read the post lies in the “blue-dominated zone”.

Does anyone else do this?

(Although I haven’t played with Google Analytics, it’s probably not too hard to look for this sort of behavior.)

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