Monthly Archive: May 2010

Nature of singularities in gravitational collapse

A very terse article giving an overview of the state of cosmic censorship in 99/00. Given it’s brevity I recommend a technical background in the differential topological techniques of GR. I assume that the article was written specifically for the conference proceedings, as this would explain a lot. Despite the lack of exposition I still …

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Topos methods in the Foundations of Physics

This is a well written expository article summarising the topos approach to physics. In essence the claim is that general relativity and quantum mechanics live in different categories and that by building a new category for them both a unified theory should result. This is a commendable aim. I don’t do much in category theory …

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jsMath

As a bit of a future reference for myself and perhaps as an indicator for those of might eventually start coming here. I found a blog that clearly discusses how to install jsMath for wordpress. For the time being I’ll stick to mimeTex, but what I really want is something that’ll convert latex into MathML …

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Latex and WordPress

Who would have thought that getting Math onto a webpage would be a huge hassle. Not me. I’ve ended up using a remote mimetex cgi script via the wordpress plug-in “WP-Latex” which also allow one to use a local mimetex.cgi file if it was installed. TEST: , I would have preferred to use a plug-in …

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