Posted in math, tagged arxiv, attempt, claim, conjecture, math, mathematician, mathematics, proof, riemann hypothesis, theorem on July 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
They keep cranking them out, don’t they?
Of course, there is the minutest possibility that this time its for real, but just going by history, I am prepared to bet all my savings against it.
Update: I apologize if my post seems to suggest that Xian-Jin Li, the author of the purported proof, is a crank. In fact, he is [...]
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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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Posted in personal, travel and getaways, tagged Mozart, math, life, camping, hiking, hike, san gabriels, angeles national forest, mountain, nature, scenery, seclusion, solitude, weekend, hoegees, chantry flats, bear, tent, camp, forest, wilderness, travel, campground on April 8, 2008 | No Comments »
The reason there were no posts over the weekend is that I went solo-camping in the San Gabriel mountains just north of Pasadena.
The idea of spending a weekend alone in the wilderness first occurred to me during a hike I did in the San Gabriels with a couple of friends last summer. I was awestruck by the utter [...]
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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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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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