On Polysemous Mathematical Illustration [video](icerm.brown.edu)
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On Polysemous Mathematical Illustration [video]
https://icerm.brown.edu/video_archive/?play=2034
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His webpage: https://www.math.upenn.edu/~ghrist/calculus.html
The book he mentions, Visual Complex Analysis by Tristan Needham, is awesome.
If you feel little bet insecure and lost with complex numbers, their relation to e and all the other things, just buy that book and look at the pictures. One hour looking a the pictures in the book is equal to 30 hours of studying the subject. You can use the book as a companion to any other book on complex analysis.
The book he mentions, Visual Complex Analysis by Tristan Needham, is awesome.
If you feel little bet insecure and lost with complex numbers, their relation to e and all the other things, just buy that book and look at the pictures. One hour looking a the pictures in the book is equal to 30 hours of studying the subject. You can use the book as a companion to any other book on complex analysis.
Best math talk ever.
Mr Ghrist, if you read this comment (I hope you check HN before Reddit), you are the Umberto Eco of math.
As a way of thanking you, here's a poem which I hope you will enjoy. The poem was written exactly 100 years ago, although I'm not sure if there's any meaning in this.
Mr Ghrist, if you read this comment (I hope you check HN before Reddit), you are the Umberto Eco of math.
As a way of thanking you, here's a poem which I hope you will enjoy. The poem was written exactly 100 years ago, although I'm not sure if there's any meaning in this.
I do not crush the world’s corolla of wonders
and I don’t kill
by means of mind the mysteries I meet
along my path
in flowers, eyes, on lips and graves.
The light of others
destroys the spell of mystery concealed
in darkness depths,
but I,
I with my light enhance world’s secret –
And as the white moonlight
doesn’t diminish, but shimmering
more it increases the secret of the night,
so I enrich the dark horizon
with greater chills of sacred mystery
and all that is unknown
becomes even more enigmatic
under my eyes
because I love
flowers, and eyes, and lips, and graves.
Prof. Ghrist is an excellent educator and has a knack for presenting complex materials in a very engaging way. His papers on computational topology are also very well worth a read even if you are not interested in topology or topological data analysis.