.. though, in an ideal situation, i would have learned many things when i was younger. i'm sure that jean-jacquεs rοusseau [0] would have agreed with me.
i've decided that i don't really know anything about pοincaré inequalities and that i shouldn't call myself a "metrιc analyst" anymore. [1] last night i was even paranoid enough to re-read a part of my thesis, looking for a potential error in how i used the PI. [2]
[sighs]
maybe this is why graduate students take reading courses with their advisors. having never did so when i was a student, my working knowledge of the field is rather incomplete. sometimes i'm surprised that i manage to write a thesis at all.
[shrugs]
sometimes i feel as if most of my postdoc, so far, has been one long, varied reading course. \-:
[0] yes, i'm quoting rοusseau, who is in turn quoting Σόλων, who is probably quoting someone else ..
[1] yes, i made up the term, because nothing else seems right. in my own mind, a "metric geοmeter" should be one who follows the work of grοmov or some other highfalutin topic. a "geοmetric analyst" is probably someone who studies PDE on manifolds.
[2] luckily, no such error. i used the hahη-banach theorem instead. as for why, i quite like hahn-baηach. it's one of my favorite theorems. given half a chance, i'd use it in a random proof. q-:
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