"The man who doesn't read has no advantage over the man who can't read."
— Mark Twain.
Links
This is the site of Chrystal Cherniwchan, who also works in the maths department, and who took the lovely picture of me at the top of this page!
The massive fun of Bristol Maths Seminars. I regularly attend Fluids and Materials Journal Club and Seminar, and irregularly attend the Mathematical Physics seminar and Analysis seminar.
Here is a link to the colliding droplets video I used for my 2 minute talk.
Physical Review Letters. Nice journal of physics with 4 page limit, good if you are after some light reading ;).
Oxford university undergraduate maths lecture notes. Great online resource for undergraduate level mathematics.
I strongly support the use of open source software, especially including the Ubuntu operating system, though Windows 7 is not too bad, I use it at work, but mainly Ubuntu on my own computers.
Quotes
"It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul." — Sofia Kovalevskaya
"It's like you've got a magic key, and it opens the door... just a little bit." — Valeriy Slastikov on a research result.
"This example illustrates a fundamental fact of life, that although a function u belonging to a Sobolev space possesses certain smoothness properties, it can still be rather badly behaved in other ways." — Lawrence Evans.
"We build too many walls and not enough bridges." — Isaac Newton
"There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about." — John von Neumann
"A boundary value problem has gotta be a Goldilocks problem, the number of boundary conditions needs to be just right." — Neil Ribe.
"A samosa is bigger than its capillary length." — Jens Eggers.
"Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists" — David Hilbert.
"People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results." — Albert Einstein.
"If you don't feel stupid on a regular basis, then the research you are doing isn't hard enough." — Nic Shannon
"The man who doesn't read has no advantage over the man who can't read." — Mark Twain.