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Category Archives: math
Hallways of the CMB: electrocution in the name of math
Came across this news clipping on the noticeboard today.
Posted in CMB, humour, math
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A bouquet of freshly sharpened pencils for the most beautiful girl in the lab?
Contrary to popular belief romance can apparently blossom at the lab bench, at least that’s what I am told. Of course there are no lab benches, pipettes, conicals, or centrifuges at the math and stats department, so what do I know? Thinking of … Continue reading
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The future of math is statistics
Three minutes of pure truth – the future of math is statistics. This raises the question whether the name of my current affiliation, Centre of Mathematical Biology, really should be Centre for Statistical Biology. Curiously enough, according to Google there … Continue reading
Posted in math, statistics, TED
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The benefits of doing math for a living
Notwithstanding a previous post, I love doing academic research. Until now, my main argument for why my job is so great is that I get paid to do what I love. A recent study has, however, added some unexpected icing … Continue reading
Posted in academia, jobs, math, Mathematical biology, science, statistics, theory
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Two new theoretical journals
There are two new journals on the block that should be of interest to ecology-evolutionary-theory minded folks. Theoretical Ecology with Alan Hastings as the Editor in Chief. A few phrases from its aims and scope that caught my attention are; … Continue reading
Posted in Alan Hastings, ecology, manuscript, math, theory, writing
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Mario’s Entangled bank, redux!
The observant blogger may notice a few changes on my blog. First and foremost, I have switched from Blogger to WordPress. Why did I abandon Blogger? Because in WordPress I can do this… To simpify the basic Lotka-Volterra model, the … Continue reading
Posted in blog, LaTeX, math
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Where is all the Open Source computer algebra software?
For a long time I have been puzzled by the apparent lack of a comprehensive Open Source computer algebra software, i.e. what Octave is to MatLab and what R is to S. In other words, where is the Open Source … Continue reading
Posted in Maple, math, Mathematica, MatLab, Octave, R
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