So, it’s finally happened. I ordered a Macbook Pro on Wednesday. I won’t get it for a little while, but I am quite excited, let me tell you. Also, I took advantage of the $200 off an iPod deal for college students to upgrade from my 20GB 3G iPod to a black 80GB video iPod. […]
Courtney has a new Brown Sharpie comic regarding Ben and myself. See previous post for a bit of elaboration.
We have a guest speaker named Gerald Beer coming in about a week and half, and one of our professors wrote a list of things we need to cover before he arrives.
1.) Normed Spaces
2.) Attouch-Wets < X,d>
4.) Countability
5.) Seperability
This list is copied word-for-word, number-for-number from the board. Ironic that #4 is countability.
Courtney wrote a math haiku, expressing the Newton polytope of the product ideal of two monomial ideals I and J in terms of the Newton polytopes of I and J (denoted K(I) and K(J)):
K of I times J
Equals K(I) plus K(J)
Minkowskily so.
Zach (our professor), responded by shaking his head, sighing, and saying “Nothing good can […]
This morning we took a brief break during our algebra lecture. As we were wrapping it up and getting back to lecture, there was a bit of an outburst in the back of the room. Evidently a math joke had been cracked, and the jokester did not want to repeat it. After some prodding, Alex […]
Well, I’ve been in Nebraska for a little over a month now, and things are going all right. Lincoln is great. I recently started the Nebraska IMMERSE program, which has been an adventure, to say the least. I just need to remember that IMMERSE is not identical to grad school, and so if I’m sick […]
So, the time has come to seriously consider my next computer purchase. It will not happen until August at the earliest, but planning is important this time. Why, you ask? Well, I plan to build a desktop computer, and I am challenging, you, the readers of this blog (especially Sherm) to offer some input as […]
Well, I defended my thesis today. It went well. I spoke for about fifty minutes to most of the math faculty and a wonderful turnout of friends. After the non-committee members left, I took a few questions from my committee, left the room, and they talked for a few minutes. Then […]
Jack sent this over. Maybe you’ve seen it, but I hadn’t. I laughed the whole way through.
I wonder if this is how my thesis defense will sound to the ordinary person on Monday.
Hilarious.
Edit: Apparently the paper is available here.
Another edit: The powerpoint used in the talk is here.
