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| Jun 15, 2021 | » | Thoughts on Academic Research
7 min; updated Dec 3, 2022
Going to a talk is difficult for everyone because nobody understands the whole thing, but it’s especially difficult for undergraduates because they still expect to. is a rich resource for understanding scholarly literature. Browse it. Some of the listed items are familiar, e.g. Google Scholar, SCImago, Sci-Hub, but it’d be informative to zoom out to the larger picture, e.g. good alternatives to Google Scholar. Why Even Read Papers?... |
| Sep 17, 2018 | » | Why Mathematicians Can't Find the Hay in a Haystack [Quanta Magazine]
1 min; updated Sep 5, 2022
Why Mathematicians Can’t Find the Hay in a Haystack. Kevin Hartnett. www.quantamagazine.org . Sep 17, 2018. Irrational numbers occupy most of the number line. If you were to pick a number on the number line at random, there is literally a 100% chance that it will be irrational (probabilities with inifinities are spooky). Yet, we almost never encounter irrational numbers for we can’t write them down.... |