About a month ago, I started watching Arrested Development on Hulu.com. I don’t know why I didn’t watch it when it was on, but I’m glad I found it now. Anyway, I finished the show, and found this video yesterday, a compilation of the various Bluth family chicken dances. I love it.
No time for a real post right now, but I thought some of y’all would appreciate this. I’m playing on the math grad students co-ed rec flag football team (brilliantly named the Mathletes). We won our first game last night by forfeit, and so we had time for a practice. We designed four basic plays […]
If only I could’ve done this on my algebra exam the other day…
FACT: Paul Erdős is the Barry Bonds of mathematics.
QUESTION: Is Barry Bonds the Paul Erdős of baseball?
Discuss.
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 […]
This makes me feel wonderful about writing a dissertation someday.
