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I was lucky to take a grad-level math course in error correcting codes from Dr. Andrew Odlyzko, the author of the essay. I read a lot of his papers ( http://ww
by jamesmishra 5y ago
I was lucky to take a grad-level math course in error correcting codes from Dr. Andrew Odlyzko, the author of the essay.
I read a lot of his papers ( http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/ http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/ ) in the hopes that I would learn something to improve my exam scores, but he has a knack for asking questions so fundamental that they have almost never even been properly formulated before.
If you have some time, I recommend reading a few of his papers. He completely changed my view of mathematics.
- akoluthic 5y agoWow, what a diverse body of work. Could you give an example of a paper that you feel fits your description of having "almost never even been properly formulated before"?
- paganel 5y ago> what a diverse body of work Indeed, for example this page [1] is absolutely fantastic, it hits a lot of right buttons in my case (history of railways, history of finance/economics, a combination between history of railways and the history of finance, which is even more interesting). [1] http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/bubbles.html http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/bubbles.html
- pottertheotter 5y agoI was also in need of some 1990's WWW nostalgia tonight, which this website provided.
- miobrien 5y agoI remember coming across his essay on Newton. Very interesting. https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/PT.3.4521 https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/PT.3.4521