The average human being spends over 20 years of his lifetime asleep. Yet, most people never practice this aspect of their lives, nor worry about it but often just seem to take it for granted. Sometimes, one can get too fixated on it and develop sleeping disorders. This is a story of my experience with the topic of sleep.
The mentality of a good mathematician (and I suppose this does not restrict to mathematicians) is to persevere and never give up solving a problem. But maybe this is dependent on the situation and it can be better to relax this mentality?
How taking topics classes prompted me to start studying in a top-down approach.
Guest blogger: Ryan's story from grade school to a PhD in ring theory!
I have finished my first months as a freshman in Bonn. Nothing was ordinary this year. It is an extraordinary experience in an extraordinary setting.
Some thoughts on chronic illnesses.
One journey has been finished. It's time to head into the next.
During the attempt of proving Statement T, I first-handedly experienced glimpses of real research on the forum Matheplanet.
We give the example of (affine) group schemes to demonstrate the importance of the Yoneda Lemma. In part 1, we discuss how basic matrix groups relate to algebras via representable functors.
A short essay about spending time with mathematics in places that you wouldn't expect at first.
