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Re: guidance requested

Posted by Prof David West on Aug 18, 2020; 4:51pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/guidance-requested-tp7598346p7598359.html

Silly me; I just discovered that Nicolas Bourbaki — despite publishing numerous papers and authoring a classical math text, inventor of injective, surjective, and bijective functions — did not exist (at least as an individual person).

On Tue, Aug 18, 2020, at 7:32 AM, Prof David West wrote:
thank you Carl and Frank.

On Mon, Aug 17, 2020, at 10:46 PM, Carl Tollander wrote:
Ok, there are various mathematician's blogs, but this one is pretty up front with how she thinks.
I particularly appreciate her ability to illustrate her thought processes with diagrams.

For examples, I was particularly fond of
and

I liked the illustrations of more basic stuff as well.

For another less, um, colorful reference, I'd direct you to "Drawing Theories Apart", by David Kaiser.

Haven't gone into it much, and I doubt it addresses your question as much as the other links, 
but the brilliant.org folks look interesting.  

Enjoy!
Carl


On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 8:42 PM Prof David West <[hidden email]> wrote:
The following is a simplistic article about how mathematicians think.


I find the idea behind the article interesting and, when I have time, will follow up trying to find 'real' stuff to read. But, if any of you are feeling generous and would supply me with some pointers or directions; I will really appreciate it.

davew

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