The mathematics of wheel reinvention
The Accidental Mathematician 2018-03-12
Summary:
The first talk I attended at this year’s JMM in Seattle was Tim Gowers’s lecture on how the internet and mass communication might change mathematics. Tim started out by listing some of the more dysfunctional features of how we do mathematics today, then suggesting how they might be improved. I very much agree with that … Continue reading "The mathematics of wheel reinvention"