I had my annual professional review recently. This is where staff in the University have a meeting with a senior colleague to discuss what they have done and where they are going. Naturally, given the success of HTTLAM I put on my review form that I would like to write another book. Perhaps not surprisingly [...]
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No more books?
Posted in Uncategorized on August 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ledermann Obituaries
Posted in Uncategorized on July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The mathematician Walter Ledermann has dies. There has been a Times obituary and a better one in the Independent.
Ledermann was very influential in my undergraduate learning. I used his book on Group Theory to learn the subject and the series of books he edited, and in some cases wrote, called the Library of Mathematics was great. [...]
Making science fun
Posted in Uncategorized on June 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A link to an interesting article on making science fun:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/jun/16/science-lessons-inspiration
Strange Maps
Posted in Uncategorized on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As part of my research into map projections I came across a blog on strange maps: http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/
I particularly liked Pogue States (to do with songs by the Pogues) and the World War II: If maps could fight (a history of WWII).
Grants
Posted in Uncategorized on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Have to rewrite a grant application and produce a new one too. The details of why are too complicated to get into but it does mean that this week will be very busy. Next week even more so (for different reasons). But – hopefully – the week after I will get cracking with next phase [...]
Valencia
Posted in Uncategorized on March 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m in Valencia, Spain for the first Workshop on Singularities in Generic Geometry.
So far I’ve only seen the hotel as it was night when I arrived!
Up the Amazon
Posted in Uncategorized on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It would seem that I can’t hype my book up the Amazon charts:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/feb/23/algorithms-internet-google-amazon-itunes
Nice to see an article about mathematics in the national press though.
Lest we forget…
Posted in Uncategorized on December 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An obituary for Douglas Keen of Ladybird books.
Peter Giblin Meeting
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Peter Giblin, Singularities on October 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On Saturday I travelled to Liverpool to attend a day in honour of Peter Giblin on the occasion of his 65th birthday. (Lecturers have to work on Saturdays sometimes.) There were four talks. All of them were good. One reason for this (other than the skill of the speakers!) is that they were, for the most part, [...]
Clara
Posted in Uncategorized on September 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I haven’t posted for a number of weeks. This is not because I have grown bored of the blog already. No, it’s much more basic than that – I haven’t had time! Why? Well, I had decided my blog would not contain too much of my personal life since I’m sure not very few people [...]
