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A (de?)motivating Feynman’s quote
If an ape can make a discovery, so can you. Richard P. Feynman as quoted in this book What do you think about this quote? Stumble!
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More on choosing problems to work on: advice from John H. Conway
1. Work at several problems at a time. If you only work on one problem and get stuck, you might get depressed. It is nice to have an easier back-up problem. The back-up problem will work as an...
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Recently updated posts
As I often update old posts instead of writing new ones , below is the (possibly incomplete) list of most recent updates: Career advice from the Fields medalists and some other mathematicians (last...
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Walter Rudin (1921-2010). R.I.P.
Walter Rudin died on May 20, 2010 at the age of 89 after a long illness. From Dick Askey: Many of us learned mathematics from some of his books or papers. His being at the Univ. of Wisconsin was one of...
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Vladimir Arnold (1937-2010). R.I.P.
One of the world’s greatest and most influential mathematicians, Vladimir Arnold, passed away today in Paris, France. He made major contributions, inter alia, to the fields of dynamical systems (the...
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Videos of the Fields medalists 2010 lectures at ICM in Hyderabad
Elon Lindenstrauss: watch online | download FLV file Ngo Bao Chau: watch online | download FLV file Stanislav Smirnov: watch online | download FLV file Cedric Villani: watch online | download FLV file...
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Math 2.0 and Peer Review 2.0, or A revolution in math and science publishing...
It all began with the blog post Elsevier — my part in its downfall by the Fields medalist Timothy Gowers which has caused quite a stir and culminated in the creation of the web site...
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More on Peer Review 2.0
What follows is an extended comment on the proposal of pre-print peer review by Sabine Hossenfelder. She suggests, inter alia, that the authors pay a submission fee for each paper and the referees get...
View ArticlearXiv.org recently added Google Scholar search links to all preprints’ pages
The links in question can be found in the bottom right of the preprints’ arXiv pages in the References & Citations area. IMHO this is an important feature with a great potential. It is surprising...
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