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Undergraduate Tripos final year results [18 Jun 2009|10:11am] First class honours to me! I'm almost certainly not graduating, so that I can more cheaply take a fourth year MMath. 4 comments|post comment

Probabilistic Combinatorics (Random Counting)! [05 Apr 2009|10:38am] Here is a question sheet I wrote, for anyone interested. It's quite elementary, but fast-paced. Questions/corrections welcome. ( Read more... ) EDIT: Q4 should say "find a lower bound". 3 comments|post comment

UKIMO training [08 Dec 2008|04:18pm] I may possibly be talking at the UK IMO team training camp at Trinity over Easter. I will be doing one of the following topics in an elementary manner. People who want me to practice on them are welcome to ask. Only comfort with secondary-level mathematics is necessary, though some experience with competitive mathematics will be of use. 1) The real Riemann zeta function as a distribution and its properties. 2) Probabilistic combinatorics, looking at applications to graphs and hypergraphs. 7 comments|post comment

Results. [18 Jun 2008|06:38pm] 2:i Hmm. Should have done better. Oh well. 3 comments|post comment

I have funding! [27 May 2008|10:43pm] Specifically, I will be working, if things go to plan, with Imre Leader on The Neighbourhood Conjecture. I am getting 1/5 or so of the money I'd get on an internship, and I may have a high probability of proving absolutely nothing [original], but oh well! ( Maths ) 6 comments|post comment

BBC2 [27 Sep 2007|08:01pm] http://www.channel4.com/blogs/page/fourdocs?entry=britdoc_british_feature Any thoughts? The film will be broadcast on BBC2 on Sunday 14th October at 9pm. (The film will mostly concern the three who got to the IMO itself, I think, to be honest.) post comment

Incidental [12 Sep 2007|12:54pm] First. I might have a chance in studying maths. Need to do better next year, though. Need to investigate a summer research project. 1) Learn more algebra. 2) Find a pure fellow who does abstract algebra. 3) Find a project. 4) Get funding. 1 is the important one at the moment, need to talk to Anastasia about the elementary rings she's probing. Any advice? 24 comments|post comment

I don't think I'm very wise [12 Apr 2007|10:49pm] ( So, what relationship model do you use? ) 21 comments|post comment

I like cuddles. [04 Apr 2007|07:45pm] When I was in year 7/8 I knew lots of trivia about natural sciences, as one does from reading. My science/biology teacher took a friend and me aside at the end of one lesson and said something like "You think you're good scientists because you know lots of facts. You're really not good scientists at all." He was right. I got better. ( I am motivated to correct others. Sometimes it fails. ) 11 comments|post comment

Argh, amateur philosophy [29 Mar 2007|03:37pm] ( Thought: I'd better go back and read more about philosophy of knowledge, science and maths (A quick skim of resources reveals developments in the 1970s of which I am ignorant.) ) 6 comments|post comment

Gah, economics [09 Dec 2006|03:02pm] P: ( (-100, +inf), ~), given that a~b = (a+100)(b+100)/100 - 100 Do you agree that this is a pretty stupid group? 32 comments|post comment

Ooh, reasoning (slightly personal)... [25 Sep 2006|05:35pm] ( Um, what? ) 70 comments|post comment

Arbitrary matters. [12 Aug 2006|01:47pm] I verify this and confirm all of it. Those with an interest in my integrity would be advised to read. Edit: ( Details, details ) EDIT: ( More details, this time subjective: disregard at will ) 47 comments|post comment

Mutual friends [14 Jul 2006|09:55pm] ( What I think of these people. If I'm on your friends list, I've probably written about you. ) ( Things to do if backed into a corner. ) 53 comments|post comment

For Jenna [11 Jun 2006|12:24pm] patternsofchaos is a genius, I assert. ( To Jenna ) 10 comments|post comment

ego [17 Jan 2006|09:28pm] Cong: A dream of mine is that someday someone will be so envious of my divers skills that she will learn everything I know and then summarily thrash me, which will of course be motivation for me to go and learn more. 12 comments|post comment

I am incompetent! [28 Sep 2005|11:01am] Now we've established that, who's up for a game of chess? Also, and most irrelevantly, a fair assumption to make about me is one of intelligent ignorance; and another is that I miss you. amandi estis, after all. 24 comments|post comment

quaesivi; [04 Sep 2005|11:38pm] intellego 41 comments|post comment

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