Useful odds and ends

Some random, but not entirely random, math stuff

Grants, outreach, profile links, useful resources and a few items that do not fit cleanly elsewhere.

This page is the website drawer. Some drawers are messy. This one at least has labels.

For laypersons. A research career is not just papers: it also includes grants, public communication, mentoring, community infrastructure, and the occasional joke paper that may or may not be the summit of human knowledge.
CV YouTube papers GitHub

Grants

ARC-funded projects around categorical representation theory and analytic aspects of monoidal categories.

Outreach

VisualMath, public lectures, media, and LGBT+ mathematics outreach.

Links

Profiles, identifiers, math resources and other useful internet archaeology.

Grants

Outreach

  • Quanta Magazine published a piece on the Bar-Natan–van der Veen knot invariant. Click. I was happy to contribute a few comments for the story.
  • My YouTube channel is Click. It has its own home on my website.
  • I support and I am part of LGBT+ mathematics outreach. Click, Click, Click.

Also follow me here

ResearchGate

MathSciNet (ID 1067860)

My best paper

This is the height of my research: Click

My philosophy

"There are two ways to do mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else, but persistent." - based on a quotation from Raoul Bott.

Math links

  • List of open access math journals (in 2023). Link
  • Lean (proof assistant). Link
  • Mathoverflow. Link
  • The n-lab. Link
  • The n-category cafe. Link
  • The Secret Blogging Seminar. Link
  • History of Mathematics archive. Link
  • Mathgen: randomly generated mathematics research papers. Link
  • Database of integer sequences. Link
  • Atlas of Lie groups and representations. Link
  • Theorem of the day. Link
  • ProofWiki. Link
  • Inkscape (for pictures). Link
  • MathJax. (Click for some examples.) Link
  • “Caution! Functor!”. Link
  • “Connections on ArXiv”. Image. Original source. Link
  • Periodic table of finite simple groups. Link
  • Map projection transitions. Link
  • The library of babel. Link

The cost of knowledge

Publishing one's own result is hard work. Still please note the following.

  • A list of open access math journals. Link
  • The cost of knowledge. Link
  • Math journal prices. Link1, Link2
  • Timothy Gowers original blog. Link
  • Elsevier's Response. Link

MathJax

Note that I use MathJax on my homepage. (If you have problems please make sure you have Javascript enabled and update your browser.)
For some fancy examples click here.