about 3 months ago - 4 comments
Via Tanya Khovanova I learned yesterday of the 50 best math blogs for math-majors list by OnlineDegree.net. Tanya’s blog got in 2nd (congrats!) and most of the blogs I sort of follow made it to the list : the n-category cafe (5), not even wrong (6), Gowers (12), Tao (13), good math bad math (14),
about 6 months ago - 5 comments
To most mathematicians, a good LaTeX-frontend (such as TeXShop for Mac-users) is the crucial tool to get the work done. We use it to draft ideas, write papers and courses, or even to take notes during lectures. However, after six years of blogging, my own LaTeX-routine became rusty. I rarely open a new tex-document, and
about 8 months ago - 5 comments
To mark the end of 2009 and 6 years of blogging, two musical compositions with a mathematical touch to them. I wish you all a better 2010! Remember from last time that we identified Olivier Messiaen as the ‘Monsieur Modulo’ playing the musical organ at the Bourbaki wedding. This was based on the fact that
about 11 months ago - No comments
A comment-thread well worth following while on vacation was Algebraic Geometry without Prime Ideals at the Secret Blogging Seminar. Peter Woit became lyric about it : My nomination for the all-time highest quality discussion ever held in a blog comment section goes to the comments on this posting at Secret Blogging Seminar, where several of
about 1 year ago - 3 comments
It all started with this comment on the noncommutative geometry blog by “gabriel” : Even though my understanding of noncommutative geometry is limited, there are some aspects that I am able to follow. I was wondering, since there are so few blogs here, why don’t you guys forge an alliance with neverending books, you blog
about 1 year ago - 2 comments
Bloomsday has a tradition of bringing drastic changes to this blog. Two years ago, it signaled a bloomsday-ending to the original neverendingbooks, giving birth (at least for a couple of months) to MoonshineMath. Last year, the bloomsday 2 post was the first of several ‘conceptual’ blog proposals, voicing my conviction that a math-blog can only
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
“Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk.” and after the original from Abstruse Goose. Print Friendly blogging
about 1 year ago - 6 comments
A comment to Charles Siegel’s ‘big theorems’-series got me checking my stats.
about 1 year ago - 5 comments
A few recollections and a very quick number game by Hendrik Lenstra.
about 1 year ago - No comments
A few thoughts on the ‘beyond the blog’ post by David Corfield over at the n-Cafe.
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about 2 years ago
Well, I hope all is well, anyway. I’m sure it was more interesting than my Valentine’s day.
about 2 years ago
What a coincidence, shit (of a different nature) happened to me also on Valentine Day this year…Anyway, good to hear you are OK now…
about 2 years ago
I got my ER visity and surgery safely in advance of V’s Day this year. And I seem to be doing fine without a gall bladder.
about 2 years ago
Hi, I’m glad all is well, but if you don’t mind me asking, did the doctors recommend anything? (It’s just that my mum has been experiencing them symptoms for the past few days…)
about 2 years ago
@beans : someone susceptible to syncopes usually has a history of (near) faintings and has a pretty good idea what causes them. basic recommendation is to avoid these triggering events…
other tips ive learned in the process are :
agree on a signal with ThePartner to warn that it’s going downhill (you feel it coming for several seconds, if not minutes) in order to avoid panic around you when it happens. when i collapsed the default assumption was that i was having a heart attack, so on the way to the hospital blood was taken as well as an ECG, i was hooked up to monitors for a whole night and the next morning they insisted on taking a full echo of my heart mesassuring all dimensiona of cavities and arteries and only then they concluded it was ‘just’ a syncope…
if you have children with ThePartner, agree beforehand on how to communicate with them on such events in order to prevent them from freaking out…
about 2 years ago
Hi again! Thanks for your tips, and knowing the second one before might have helped. (Not me of course, I don’t freak out externally… just internally!)
My mum didn’t have what you linked. She’s got a problem with her blood pressure and blood sugar level. (The plus to this is that the house is always stocked with chocolate now!)