Posted in math, personal, tagged automorphic forms, barry mazur, bulletin, journal, l functions, math, mathematics, number theory, paper, popular science on April 16, 2008 | No Comments »
Most people, on coming to know that I do research in pure math, respond with a nod or a wide-eyed, “Ohh, that must be so hard!” Occasionally however, someone goes further and asks me what my research is really about. And then, I am usually in a fix.
How do I respond? There’s no way to [...]
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“The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.”
- George Cantor.
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Posted in math, on certain arts, writings and performances, personal, tagged blog, blogging, grad student, graduate student, life, math, Mozart, music, personal, phd, research, student, student life on March 17, 2008 | No Comments »
I haven’t had much time to blog this weekend. Ideas for posts came and went. News broke, and got stale. I gave them all a haughty ignore and, with single minded devotion, concentrated on my L-functions.
One of the drawbacks of being a fourth year grad student is that you need to do a lot of research quickly enough [...]
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“It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to prove new theorems, to add to mathematics, and not to talk about what he or other mathematicians have done. Statesmen despise publicists, painters despise art-critics, and physiologists, physicists, or mathematicians [...]
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This term looks rather busy. I am taking two (possibly three) classes and teaching one. Blogging is likely to suffer as a result.
I am excited about the class I am teaching. It’s called “How to solve it” and teaches techniques for solving mathematical problems. It also doubles up as a training program for the Putnam [...]
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So how is it listening to Serge LANG?
For starters, awesome! On second thoughts, phew!
Well, Lang is a guy who actually jumps around while lecturing and every five minutes or so, comes up to a member of the audience and asks the poor creature questions!
So Jennifer was sitting there along with the rest of us, when [...]
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