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Ursula ([personal profile] ursula) wrote2019-10-01 09:23 pm
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TQFT for vampires

My first AMS Feature Column, Topological Quantum Field Theory for Vampires is now live, with art from [personal profile] cassyblue. Thank you to everyone who helped me workshop this!
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[personal profile] yhlee 2019-10-03 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
Heh! I graduated with distinction in all subjects...I would have had a higher GPA if I'd been smart enough to get out of the CS classes before I really started having trouble. But I bombed the math GRE...I am a slow thinker, and the only reason I could do the weekly problem sets is that I literally read them as soon as they were assigned and then spent the entire week slowly cogitating over them. I'm not sure I would have gotten into a decent grad school if I'd pursued a doctorate.

I agree that the 100-term tensors looked horrifying and awful, but they were regular features of Joe's problem sets out of the textbook. One more reason I'm not a physicist!

(That, and I tend to break lab equipment.)
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