I wish to be a successful mathematician. I want my papers to be read, enjoyed, even eagerly anticipated. I struggle, however, to write well. Most of my posts are stream of consciousness. They are my thoughts, with only a little reflection thrown in. This I don’t mind. My blog isn’t to advertise myself, allow inclusion …
Category Archive: tips
Python tips, tricks and hacks
My new position involves quite a bit of python coding. Before this I’ve only known java, so I keep trying to do things the java way not the python way. Python tends to give me this feeling that there are short simple ways of doing things, but that I can’t figure them out. For example, …
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 …