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Blum’s Advice
Manuel Blum has some unique and helpful advice for graduate students starting a PhD. A lot of the advice applies to anyone, however. Blum advises to not use books like scrolls and read everything from...
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Blum’s Advice (part 2)
Manuel Blum has some helpful advice for graduate students starting a PhD. This is a sequel to the previous entry. Blum refers to the joke that ‘a PhD knows more and more about less and less until he...
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Good Mathematics
Arxiv is where you normally expect preprints of technical papers in mathematics, physics and computer science. However, it was a surprise to run into a general essay on ‘good mathematics’ by Terrance...
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Mathematics Jobs
There was recently an interesting survey on the ‘best’ jobs. The findings were compiled by Les Krantz, author of Jobs Rated Almanac, and are based on data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and...
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The Power of Graphs
Graphs are mathematical structures that model pairwise relations between objects. They are represented by vertices and edges where the edges may be directed or undirected. Whenever I am working on...
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Two Game Theorists
I recently wrote a short note for the university economics society publication. It consisted of brief profiles on two game theorists who passed away in 2008. The following is taken from the note:...
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Gordon Brown and science
The economics recession has been having an effect in every area. However, Prime Minister Gordon Brown pledged that UK research will not be a victim of the recession. He said that the recession is an...
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AMS Blog
The AMS (American Mathematical Society) is one of the premier mathematics organizations. It is well known for its research programs, surveys, employment services and publications including Mathematical...
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Elementary versus Easy
Peter Sarnak is a well known mathematician who is also a permanent member of the Institute for Advanced Study. In the ‘Final Perspectives’ of The Princeton Companion to Mathematics, Sarnak makes some...
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Mathematics and Art
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas. I am interested in mathematics only as a...
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