While I was writing the previous post, an e-mail appeared in my inbox to say that DMJ has finally accepted The Pony.

Definitely going for a swim.

This morning I woke up with the realization that while lying in bed late last night, I'd had a good idea for how to prove something that I've wanted to prove for a long time ( Read more... )

I just saw the following written on a bathroom wall at my workplace:

Hier gilt E = mc2. Geniesse es, solange das der Fall ist.

Translation:

E = mc2 is the law here. Enjoy it while it's true.

Egad, wtf is going to happen to physics when the revolution comes?

Yesterday evening I reformatted a new short paper to submit to a journal, while the other half of my brain was listening to the speeches at the Republican National Convention. This combination had unintended consequences ( Read more... )

"Math is hard. Let's go to Sweden."

Dear Lmpshd ( Read more... )

The bad news: Hillary lives on.

The good news: my second paper was just accepted for JEMS (Journal of the European Mathematical Society).

You know what they say, there are two subjects never to discuss if you want to keep your friends: math and politics.

I just woke up from the most ridiculous but horrible dream ( Read more... )

The names have been altered to protect my fragile anonymity.

von: Geometry and Topology antwort an: them@there.ac.uk ( Read more... )

Since I was already chatting with rigel today about lucid dreams, I am moved to post the following excerpt from the book Mathematical Apocrypha by Steven Krantz (which lives in my bathroom):

It used to bother Littlewood a good deal that he seemed to dream at night of solutions to the problems he was working on. But he could never remember the details ( Read more... )