Still haven’t finished the videos for HTTLAM. I have laryngitis so can’t do the voiceover.
Anyhow, leaving that aside, David Mitchell (curmudgeon from Peep Show) wrote an excellent attack on the the Government’s replacement for the RAE, the REF. See it at http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/sep/27/david-mitchell-pointless-studies-survey.
He makes a number of good points, I particularly liked
Research which will obviously make [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Videos and REF
Posted in Fun and nonsense, How to think like a mathematician on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Updates
Posted in How to think like a mathematician on September 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The videos for HTTLAM were held up a couple of weeks ago. I was ready to start recording but the restaurant near my house had a refrigerator malfunction and so they had a refrigeration unit in their car park. The unit created sufficient noise to be detected on the sound track and so recording had [...]
Solutions to HTTLAM
Posted in How to think like a mathematician on September 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve started producing solutions for How to Think Like a Mathematician, see my HTTLAMÂ web page. This will be a large task and so I’ve started with the chapters that people have requested so far, i.e., the one on sets and the two chapters on induction.
