i have been doing very little math recently. the closest i've come to mathematical thinking has been writing; i wrote briefly on saturday morning, but since then it's been nothing.
i tell myself that looking for apartments is a worthy task, and of course it is: without an apartment for the fall, how can i start my postdoc -- teach, and conduct research?
while on the bus yesterday, i tried to think of the last good mathematical idea i had. i couldn't. [1] i quickly thought about ideas and premises which make no sense -- these which i suspect, as drawn from the work of others -- so when i sit down and have my books and papers and mathscinet, perhaps i can think it through.
it's easy to develop an inferiority complex in maths.
[1] well, there is this one mediocre idea, but i don't think it will work out. in fact, it's more of a research thought or a question. the only good aspect of it may be its geometry and concreteness. moreover, it's not for me.
say, m@rsha11: if you're reading this,
i'll tell it to you sometime.
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