yesterday i pared down the number of webpages on my mathematical homepage. (it's starting to look confusing: too many unnecessary links.)
while editing my research page, i ran a Math$ciNet search on myself. it occurred to me:
ye gods, i don't have very many papers;
i have to do something about that.
with that in mind, last night i printed out another copy of my latest manuscript and i packed a red pen into my bookbag. maybe, after a thorough edit, i can submit it by the end of january.
this morning i woke up early and brought the 35-page manuscript with me to a coffeehouse. i was on page 15 when someone from another table began,
"say, is that .."
already i began to wince.
great, another "mathematics" conversation with a layperson. why me? i'm minding my own business. i just want to get some work done ...
".. ana1ysis?"
i blink.
huh. interesting ..
we ended up chatting a bit; he's a visiting prof in ec0nomics at ¢arnegie-me11on univer$ity and has gone through the gamut of theoretical maths -- topo1ogy, mea$ure the0ry, and the like.
he explained to me how the philosophers over at ¢MU are studying interre1ations between 1ogic and oddly enough, g@me the0ry. i sketched out, in br0ad strokes, what ge0metric mea$ure theory was -- indeed, he seemed to have a decent grasp of what c0mpactness means.
later, he gave me his card. i did something similar: i jotted my name, my email, and "mea$ure the0ry" on a piece of paper and gave it to him. he chuckled, and we went our separate ways.
i'm on page 23 now: no serious edits have come up, but i would still like this thing shorter.
4 comments:
When you don't have many papers yet, it is especially important to have invited seminar talks to put on your CV.
By the way, did you write "mea$ure the0ry" with dollar sign and zero, just by force of habit?
hi L,
i take this as a reminder to send you guys my title/abstract and other particulars. i'll book a flight soon, but i'm still unsure what to talk about.
besides, i'd rather hear what you guys have to say about invertibility of $0b01ev mappin9s. q-:
also: nowadays i write most mathematical terminlogy in funny typography, and it's an attempt to hide from g00gle. you wouldn't believe the searches that lead to this blog. \-:
It's fine if you don't have a title or abstract yet; they don't go up in price the way plane tickets do.
Schoenflies extension would be a good topic, possibly combined with other results if you can link them, or even if you can't.
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