Let me tell you about my thesis

[sqbr]

An explanation of part of my thesis: Black box recognition of sporadic simple groups. Needs some more work but this will do for now. Let me know if it's confusing or there's any mistakes (assuming anyone can be bothered reading it)

Life has been trying really hard to get me to think about maths recently. A guy I met on webcomics (cdave) started talking about this book he read which just happened to be on the same topic as my thesis, which led to me digging it out to give him a reference. And then I went to a supper at my main supervisors house (they were throwing a conference for her birthday) and ended up chatting to two of my old collaborators about how they're going with some of the stuff I was working on (that's right, 2 years after I graduated and it still refuses to work. I'm glad I gave up on that bit :D) And then Someone Who Shall Remain Nameless commented that I never seem to talk about maths any more.

So here you go.

The reason tend not to talk about maths is that I got burned out on learning anything really hard during my thesis, and then got burned out on explaining things at a really low level at Scitech. Also after a while reading stuff like New Scientist started to feel like work and that feeling hasn't worn off yet. The one thing I have felt like doing is explaining my thesis a bit better, but then I'd get sad at the thought that noone would care.

Then I remembered that the whole point of having your own blog/website is not worrying about whether or not people care about what you're saying :D

It really doesn't help that the chronic fatigue has made maths in particular more difficult, so thinking about it is depressing when I am confronted with my own relative stupidity. But I'm coming to terms with that.

Comments

[cdave]

Well you know I'd like to read more on the subject, so you've got at least one person who wants to read it.

/me scurries of to join webcomics.
I think it must have been snarkoleptics.

[alias_sqbr]

Maybe I meant a different cdave, did you think of that, huh?

:)

[cdave]

I must admit linking to my LJ had me fooled completely :P

[alias_sqbr]

I'm tricksy like that.

[melberon.livejournal.com]

Mwahaha! I have power! (:-p)

Your page on your thesis makes sense to me! Though I'm pretty sure I saw it when it was in poster form, way back when - but the comics are new?

I did a summer scholarship project on sporadic groups about a year ago. It pretty much put me off doing that kind of group theory for life. And I completely understand the "maths makes you feel stupid" thing. Curse you, interesting things, for also being tricky...

[alias_sqbr]

The comics have been revamped a bit but were drawn for the poster. Also I added the section on black box groups.

I did a summer scholarship project on sporadic groups about a year ago. It pretty much put me off doing that kind of group theory for life.

Doing a Phd on it had a similar effect :)

[grahame.livejournal.com]

Awesome web page, makes me want to learn more about groups!

[the-riviera-kid.livejournal.com]

You should! Go groups!

[alias_sqbr]

Huzzah! Now you can read my thesis! :D

[cdave]

Well you know I'd like to read more on the subject, so you've got at least one person who wants to read it.

/me scurries of to join webcomics.
I think it must have been snarkoleptics.

[alias_sqbr]

Maybe I meant a different cdave, did you think of that, huh?

:)

[cdave]

I must admit linking to my LJ had me fooled completely :P

[alias_sqbr]

I'm tricksy like that.

[melberon.livejournal.com]

Mwahaha! I have power! (:-p)

Your page on your thesis makes sense to me! Though I'm pretty sure I saw it when it was in poster form, way back when - but the comics are new?

I did a summer scholarship project on sporadic groups about a year ago. It pretty much put me off doing that kind of group theory for life. And I completely understand the "maths makes you feel stupid" thing. Curse you, interesting things, for also being tricky...

[alias_sqbr]

The comics have been revamped a bit but were drawn for the poster. Also I added the section on black box groups.

I did a summer scholarship project on sporadic groups about a year ago. It pretty much put me off doing that kind of group theory for life.

Doing a Phd on it had a similar effect :)

[grahame.livejournal.com]

Awesome web page, makes me want to learn more about groups!

[the-riviera-kid.livejournal.com]

You should! Go groups!

[alias_sqbr]

Huzzah! Now you can read my thesis! :D