March Mathematics Madness!

Written by Steve
Categories: linklings



Today being the first of April I thought I’d run down my “top list” for March. I just finished having a good laugh at finding myself on Google cited as a reference in a very dense technical study on fractal geometry from some years back. Despite working as an auditor these days, I originally started out in mathematics including some time in PhD school. I foolishly skipped the master’s program and went directly into the doctorate program after getting my BA because I were so smart. But apparently even while I was getting overwhelmed by my first year in PhD school I managed to blurt out one piece of vaguely useful technical information that made it into a scientific article. I’m not talking sciencestuff.com, either – this was hardcore, or dare I say “nerdcore“, stuff.

I focused on two areas in my studies: chaos theory and game theory. I spent a whole semester working on one theorem. My math hero was a guy called John Nash, who later had a movie made about him. Surely that’s one of the only movies about crazy mathematicians ever made – I don’t count Weird Science or Real Genius since they weren’t crazy enough. Suffice it to say that I haven’t heard any voices recently, or at least not any I’m going to tell you about. They don’t like it when I tell people about them.

OK, back to dishing out gratitude (seriously):

Top Referring Sites

(the people who sent the most visitors over to brip blap)

Top Commentators

(the people who make the comments even more fun to read than my posts!)

Most Visited Posts for March

As always, I deeply appreciate everyone who reads, comments, subscribes, stumbles and even lurks! I get a lot of positive feedback (and occasionally some negative) but I love it all – it makes maintaining this blog and sharing my thoughts a lot of fun. I also want to thank, again, all of the members of The Money Writers who have been very helpful behind the scenes (as well as very entertaining)! I’d also like to say thanks to the various writers over at the M-Network, who have always been very supportive even though I’m not a member.

Remember, if you want to subscribe you can hit the funky orange buttons or click here. I should also point out that in the scientific book above, it helps if the author is a professor whose research assistant was my brother. :)

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  1. Hunter Nuttall
    April 1, 2008 at 10:02 am

    LOL! You totally had me going until halfway through when I realized what day it is…wait a minute…I think this is the first real post I’ve read today. Either that, or you’re very convincing.

  2. FFB
    April 1, 2008 at 10:56 am

    You lost me at Math. I used to be decent at math. Now I take a shoe off to count to eleven. Oh well.

    I didn’t realize I commented so much in March. Must mean you have something interesting to say. Thanks for all of the great content!

  3. Pinyo
    April 1, 2008 at 11:13 am

    I have no idea what you are talking about in the first two paragraphs, but I am very happy to be associated with you and Brip Blap. Great conent and I wish you the best in the second quarter.

  4. dawn
    April 1, 2008 at 6:30 pm

    If he really is a hero -
    Did you ever get to meet Nash?
    What did you think of the film w/ Russel Crowe portraying him?
    I think it would be so incredible to meet a personal hero…

  5. Four Pillars
    April 1, 2008 at 7:22 pm

    Thanks for the link. “A beautiful mind” was a pretty good movie as I recall.

    Mike

  6. Steve (Brip Blap)
    April 1, 2008 at 9:33 pm

    @Hunter: Nope, that was real! My April Fool’s joke was NOT to publish an April Fool’s post…

    @Dawn: Actually, he was. I didn’t really realize he was so kooky until I saw the movie. I only knew him from general reputation and from his work, which is quite good. I found game theory to be an amazing thing. I never have met him, although I’ve been to Princeton several times for business. He’s supposedly a recluse, but you’re right, meeting him would be cool. I should make a list and try to interview them or something…

    Thanks everyone!

  7. 7million7years
    April 5, 2008 at 11:01 pm

    @ Steve/BrBl – We know he’s a recluse only from our perspective … from his perspective, there’s always a party …

  8. Curmudgeon
    April 6, 2008 at 12:50 pm

    Ah yes, the Nash Equilibrium; I do remember it, in fact. I did some game theory, but I was mostly into applied math. Another Princeton luminary in that area is John Tukey, I believe professor emeritus now. I heard an apocryphal tale many years ago that in the days before computers, his amazing memory was used to generate each semester’s class schedule at Princeton.

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