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 the ‘How to think like a mathematician’ Category
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 HTTLAM 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.
Updates
Posted in How to think like a mathematician, Videos on August 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Have been away at conference in Aarhus and on holiday in Crete and have been working very hard so haven’t kept the blog up-to-date.
How to Think Like a Mathematician
The book seems to be selling well, it regularly makes the Amazon chart of 100 best-selling mathematics books. I’ve also added a list of corrections to my [...]
After reading How to Think Like a Mathematician
Posted in Fun and nonsense, How to think like a mathematician on July 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The website Bookseer allows you to enter the name and author of a book to give you a recommendation for a related book to read. Of course I entered HTTLAM and got quite a good list.
The website just uses Amazon and LibraryThing to generate its suggestions. Unfortunately, LibraryThing gives “Nada” as a suggestion for HTTLAM.
HTTLAM news
Posted in How to think like a mathematician on April 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Two points of interest this week regarding How To Think Like A Mathematician – I’ve been busy running a conference so I haven’t had time to mention them.
1. Negotiations for a French translation are nearly complete. I hope I’m being too quick to advertise the fact, after all it may fall through.
2. The book has [...]
HTTLAM – The Movie
Posted in How to think like a mathematician, Videos on March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well, my planned launch for yesterday (Thursday) of How to Think Like a Mathematician videos didn’t quite work out. On Wednesday night I had the first video prepared and uploaded to YouTube all ready to go. My wife sat down with me to watch it. On the first slide she noticed a particularly bad typo, [...]
Book published
Posted in How to think like a mathematician on February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Long time no post! The reasons are simple. I spent a month in Brazil and upon my return to a chilly Leeds I was straight into exams. I finished the marking on Sunday and so decided to have a day off on Monday. That turned out to be a good idea as the country was [...]
How to Think Like a Mathematician: The Movie
Posted in How to think like a mathematician on November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
At the weekend I bought a Canon HG10 camcorder. I believe it’s what people in the know call ‘a lovely piece of kit’. The picture quality is fantastic and the sound is good as far I can tell – I haven’t done a proper test, although I’ve found that the operating buttons are small and fiddly.
Obviously I [...]
Pictures for How to Think Like a Mathematician
Posted in How to think like a mathematician, tagged HTTLAM on October 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In a previous post I mentioned that I was a little unhappy with the pictures for How to Think Like a Mathematician. This morning I got an email with the new versions with the dreaded words “Unfortunately at this stage we cannot take in any further corrections.” So I opened the pdf of the new [...]
