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Comment on Monsters and Moonshine : a booklet by Isar

Isar — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:50:41 +0000

Great booklets! Keep up the good work! See you soon,

Isar.

Comment on how noncommutative geometry shot itself by Bobito

Bobito — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:25:43 +0000

Errol: there is a reason the monotheistic religions ban idolatry.

Comment on The martial art of giving talks by Errol

Errol — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:51:34 +0000

I am beginning to like this scientific anarchist. Connes in his IPM interview refers to heretics, I think that this scientific anarchist is being just that.
But how does one access the validity of approaches, having also read your piece on this, different methodologies does seem to pose a unique challenge, esp. with respect to investment of research time.

Comment on how noncommutative geometry shot itself by Errol

Errol — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 01:01:28 +0000

She seems to be referring to Connes. As I too idolize both himself and Witten I was rather curious about the view from the inside.
I do agree with her point though, science should always be about science.

Comment on Brigitte Bardot, miniskirts and homological algebra by lievenlb

lievenlb — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:43:40 +0000

???

- either look at the bottom of the right side margin for my google+ account
- or, lookup http://www.neverendingbooks.org via the WhoIs service http://new.whois.net/ (but, please, don’t phone me!)

Comment on Brigitte Bardot, miniskirts and homological algebra by C. Huyghe

C. Huyghe — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:23:16 +0000

Very nice story ! After all mathematicians are human being…. But what is your real name in case I would like to properly cite you if necessary ?

Comment on On the Reality of Noncommutative Space by Eric

Eric — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:08:34 +0000

I’m trying to understand this non-commutative space since first reading about it in Brian Greene’s The Elegant Universe (Where he cites Alain Connes). It shows us the possibility that the material universe (in which strings, and resultant matter and energy) isn’t “everything”, leading to possible harmonization with religion. Yet it seems string theory has since moved away from this idea in favor of an 11D superspace.
Most sites on this just go into all the formulations, so it’s hard to get a sense of what this is. This article seems to try to simplify it, but there is still stuff I don’t understand, such as “subplaces”.

Comment on wp-latex’ sweet revenge : wp+MathJax-> ePub by Peter

Peter — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:40:40 +0000

Lieven, great post. Even though it makes me squirm to use pngs… (sorry, Pavel)

epub3 is coming soon, so there’s hope for smoother solutions (either svg as Pavel pointed out or javscript solutions). Right now, I luckily use calibre which accepts mathjax integration. But we’ll have to see.

Comment on wp-latex’ sweet revenge : wp+MathJax-> ePub by Pavel Holoborodko

Pavel Holoborodko — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 00:55:08 +0000

@”Today, everyone uses MathJax …”

Have you checked QuickLaTeX – plugin for WordPress?
It has much more functionality than WP LaTeX + MathJax combined. Although it still uses PNG images (vector graphics is coming soon), it provides seamless interface to complete LaTeX distribution without the need of installing one.

You can setup custom preamble (include packages, define new commands) and use LaTeX directly in the text without any ugly tags like [latex] – which gives you one-to-one copy-paste interchange with offline LaTeX papers.

Besides, QuickLaTeX does (auto-)numbering of display equations on the webpage, supports embedded TikZ graphics and many more…..

Comment on the Bourbaki code : offline by Steven E Landsburg

Steven E Landsburg — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 03:33:07 +0000

I realize you asked for email, but I don’t see your email address. So I hope you’ll forgive this request-via-comment. I’d like very much to have a copy of this booklet, strictly for my personal use; I won’t share it. Thanks for making this available.