Posts In Category egotism
Don’t realize how lucky I am
on September 27, 2009 by lieven in egotism, Comments (1)
After a difficult time for us all, PD1 tells me she finally ‘found her drive’ again : she hopes to finish her 2nd(!) master in fine arts this year as well as her teaching-diplome. Besides, she teaches evening arts-classes twice a week, organizes exhibitions, enters competitions, wins prizes … Looking at the time-stamps on her [...]
vaCation reading (3)
on August 10, 2008 by lieven in egotism, general, Comments (0)
Over the last month a pile of books grew in our living room to impressive heights, intended to be packed for our usual 3+week vacation to the south of France. From the outset it was clear that ‘circumstances’ (see title for hint) forced us to slim it down to 2 weeks-max, this year.
So, last [...]
bloomsday 2 : BistroMath
on June 16, 2008 by lieven in egotism, iMath, rants, Comments (0)
Exactly one year ago this blog was briefly renamed MoonshineMath. The concept being that it would focus on the mathematics surrounding the monster group & moonshine. Well, I got as far as the Mathieu groups…
After a couple of months, I changed the name back to neverendingbooks because I needed the freedom to post on any [...]
valentines_night@intensive_care
on February 17, 2008 by lieven in egotism, Comments (6)
Not your idea of a romantic evening out? Neither it’s mine, but then, sometimes shit happens…
Blogging and monitoring this server’s status are no priorities at the moment, so please switch to RSS-syndication, if you haven’t done it already.
ps. all’s fine now and, I’ll be back.
censured post : bloggers’ block
on February 6, 2008 by lieven in egotism, general, Comments (0)
Below an up-till-now hidden post, written november last year, trying to explain the long blog-silence at neverendingbooks during october-november 2007…
A couple of months ago a publisher approached me, out of the blue, to consider writing a book about mathematics for the general audience (in Dutch (?!)). Okay, I brought this on myself hinting [...]
recycled : dessins
on December 27, 2007 by lieven in egotism, geometry, groups, Comments (1)
In a couple of days I’ll be blogging for 4 years… and I’m in the process of resurrecting about 300 posts from a database-dump made in june. For example here’s my first post ever which is rather naive. This conversion program may last for a couple of weeks and I apologize for all unwanted pingbacks [...]
44 32′28.29″N, 4 05′08.61″E
on April 16, 2007 by lieven in egotism, Comments (1)
Twenty five years ago I was amazed that writing merely “Le Travers,Sablieres,France” on an envelop did the job. Today I’m even more surprised that typing just “Le Travers,Sablieres” into Google Maps or Google earth brings you there in seconds with an offset of about 100 meters!
Actually, the Google mark may be more accurate as it depicts the spot [...]
le travers – april 2006
on April 9, 2006 by lieven in egotism, Comments (0)
Here is a solution to the Intel-Mac schizo-situation of having GAP running on the Mac-partition, whereas Singular and Maxima had to run on the WindowsXP-partition (see this post for the problems) : get and install Sage! var map = new GMap(document.getElementById(“map”)); map.setMapType(GSATELLITETYPE); map.addControl(new GLargeMapControl()); map.addControl(new GMapTypeControl()); [...]
Meyers-Briggs INTJ
on February 7, 2006 by lieven in egotism, general, Comments (0)
Freewheeling on your interests may lead to interesting discoveries. Today I wanted to add some meat to my FoaF file and discovered in the vocabulary the foaf:meyersBriggs tag The foaf:myersBriggs property represents the Myers Briggs (MBTI) approach to personality taxonomy. It is included in FOAF as an example of a property that takes certain constrained values, and to [...]
my (temporary) blogger code
on February 3, 2006 by lieven in egotism, Comments (0)
My blogger code: B7 d+ t+ k- s u- f i- o++ x– e l- c- (decode it!)
Hi, I'm a professor of mathematics at the University of Antwerp, in Belgium. My research areas are non-commutative algebra and non-commutative geometry. Sometimes, you can also find me here :
