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Open-Access Mathematics Journals2 comments

Rich wrote 3 months ago: I have written here a number of times before about the movement toward providing open access to scho … more →

Tags: Education / Teaching, Internet, Math, arxiv, episciences, journals, Math 2, open access

Math journals and the fight over open access1 comment

mixedmath wrote 4 months ago: Some may have heard me talk about this before, but I’ve caught the open source bug. At least, … more →

Tags: Expository, mathematics, mooc, polymath, Math, mathematics 2, Journal, tao, Research

The Two Cultures of Mathematics: A Rebuttal1 comment

galoisrepresentations wrote 5 months ago: Gowers writes thoughtfully about combinatorics here, in an essay which references Snow’s famou … more →

Tags: mathematics, Waffle, Combinatorics, Grothendieck

TEST WEEK!

medschoolsurvival wrote 5 months ago: One test day down. Three more to go. Then, we will be officially done with 1/8 of our med school jou … more →

Tags: med school haps, Fall Qtr Part 2 2012, test, Medicine, Med School, Journey, Advice, study, Disease

True Tiger give away Eye of the Tiger Vol. 2

katerinche wrote 8 months ago: In case you have missed the Facebook update, the True Tiger team is giving away their latest release … more →

Tags: Beats, blue bear, Chunky, Dubstep, Eye of the Tiger, stanza, sukh knight, true tiger, UK

Update on the Open Access Petition at the White House

Luis R. Guzman, Jr. wrote 11 months ago: Timothy Gowers posted on Google+, Although it happened about a month ago, I’ve only just heard … more →

Tags: Wordpress links, open access, International Mathematical Union, WordPress

How to split an infinitive and live happily ever after

Philip Lee wrote 11 months ago: An anecdote in Sir Ernest Gowers’ Plain Words (1948) under “Troubles with Prepositions” recounts how … more →

Tags: Writing / Writers, English, Fowler, preposition, split infinitive

On Gowers' post "Polymath paper published"

Luis R. Guzman, Jr. wrote 1 year ago: Tim Gowers’ post about Polymath paper published On January 27, 2009 Tim Gowers’ blog he … more →

Tags: Wordpress links, elementary proof, massively collaborative mathematics, published-papers, polymath, density Hales-Jewett theorem, WordPress

Civil Servants and Saving Civilisation1 comment

Mark Hainge wrote 1 year ago: Long, long ago in 1948 a civil servant decided he was tired of battling through the pompous, over-el … more →

Tags: General, complete, Plain, WorDs, Civilisation, Civil Servants

Elsevier's first concessions to its "enablers"6 comments

Ghoussoub wrote 1 year ago: In October 2001, more than 30,000 scientists signed an open letter in which they pledged to exclusiv … more →

Tags: Op-Eds, elsevier, Mathematics Community, Mea Culpa, Public Relations Nightmare

Statement on the Elsevier boycott1 comment

JSE wrote 1 year ago: A group of mathematicians, myself included, have prepared and signed a statement which attempts to s … more →

Tags: Math, Academia, Commerce, Publishing, elsevier, Boycott

Dunglish: How English should a text be?

Ingrid Tieken wrote 1 year ago: This will be one of the topics discussed at the SENSE panel discussion ‘Varieties of English: How pr … more →

Tags: dunglish, Dutchlish

Best Writing on Mathematics 2011, and Nathanson on massive collaboration5 comments

JSE wrote 1 year ago: In my mail:  The Best Writing On Mathematics 2011 (Mircea Pitici, ed.) from Princeton University Pre … more →

Tags: Books, Math, Genius, Princeton, earthball, Nathanson, pitici, massive collaboration, crowdsourcing

Pay $100 to get $1,000,000?

Luis R. Guzman, Jr. wrote 1 year ago: Rohit Gupta, who has an educational background in Chemical Engineering and describes himself as … more →

Tags: Mathematics Posts, India, Indian Mathematicians, rohit gupta, online workshop, The Riemann Hypothesis, massively collaborative mathematics, mathematicians, non-mathematicians

Is massively collaborative mathematics possible?

Luis R. Guzman, Jr. wrote 1 year ago: In reference to the post below, here is the 2009 blog entry about massively collaborative mathematic … more →

Tags: Wordpress links, massively collaborative mathematics, Blog, polymath, WordPress

Duke Research Blog: Open source science

Luis R. Guzman, Jr. wrote 1 year ago: Interesting question: “In 2009, mathematician Timothy Gowers posed this question to the blogos … more →

Tags: Mathematics Posts, mathematics, massively collaborative mathematics, Blog, Duke research, Open-Source

Math linkdump Nov 111 comment

JSE wrote 1 year ago: Tim Gowers destroys and rebuilds mathematical publishing. Mosteller and Youtz randomize Mozart. The … more →

Tags: harvard, Lists, Math, Music, Philosophy, Graph Theory, Habegger, journals, Linkdump

Gowers: Giảng dạy và học Toán bậc đại học ở Cambridge

utvle wrote 1 year ago: Trong loạt bài này, TS. Gowers, huy chương Fields năm 1998, giới thiệu việc giảng dạy và học Toán ch … more →

Tags: Giáo dục & Khoa học quốc tế, Cambridge, Đh Cambridge

Học lô-gíc cơ bản với Tiến sĩ Gowers, giải thưởng Fields 1998

utvle wrote 1 year ago: Lô-gíc học gắn liền với các suy luận liên quan đến và, hoặc; từ hay cụm từ liên hệ như nhưng, bất cứ … more →

Tags: Khoa học & đời sống., Giải thưởng FIELDS, Lô-gíc


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