Author: jeremy
Clear Proofs
The best part is when I write something along the lines of, “Clearly, this is true…†I want to strangle past-me at that point.
Ahead
Death By A Thousand Cuts
If you’ve ever listened to a scientific presentation or read a piece on some research topic, you know it’s super easy to get lost. Even if you have a vague idea of what’s going on, the sheer density of many presentations or expositions can be intimidating. Couple this with the tendency people have to give too much information or to assume too much of the reader, and it’s no wonder that most scientific work is…
Change of Variables
This comic might make it seem like only physicists have these notational conventions, but don’t worry, those mathematicians are just as caught up in their ways!
Theory Building
Trivial
The above word is one that I think a lot about as a physicist. That’s because there are two ways in which the word is used around me, with one being very detrimental to students. The first is the mathematical use of “trivialâ€. This is often tied closely to something being true or a solution by definition. For example, if you are working with a matrix equation of the form Ax = 0 (where A…
Multidimensional
“Wait, just give me a chance!†“Sorry, I’ve already projected you against one axis, so I’ve lost any other information I had of you.â€
