http://egri-nagy.hu/ 2009-12-24T01:03:30+01:00 http://egri-nagy.hu/ http://egri-nagy.hu/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2009-12-22T22:50:40+01:00 Egri-Nagy Attila http://egri-nagy.hu/doku.php?id=hogfather&rev=1261515040&do=diff Slowly but steadily I became a fan of Mr Terry Pratchett. One thing is to create a fantasy world, not a big deal. But writing a series of books that are consistent and enjoyable that is a top class writer thing. Still not talking about the book: I managed to read under the best possible circumstances: perfect timing - beginning of the festive season, perfect weather - real winter in England (bloody boat frozen in the canal). text/html 2009-12-22T22:47:48+01:00 Egri-Nagy Attila http://egri-nagy.hu/doku.php?id=reading_diary&rev=1261514868&do=diff 2009 2009 December * Terry Pratchett: Hogfather 1996. 2009 November * Fekete István: Gyeplő nélkül 1947. * Avner Ash, Robert Gross: Fearless Symmetry:Exposing the Hidden Patterns of Numbers 2006. 2009 October * Umberto Eco: Focault's Pendulum 1989. 2x text/html 2009-12-01T10:09:30+01:00 Egri-Nagy Attila http://egri-nagy.hu/doku.php?id=egri-nagy_attila&rev=1259654970&do=diff [fiddler] [skipper] Dr Attila Egri-Nagy semi-mathematician (i.e. computer scientist doing more and more math), fiddler, skipper Publications - scientific (and philosophical) publications Algebraic Lab Book - some documented computational experiments text/html 2009-12-01T10:07:53+01:00 Egri-Nagy Attila http://egri-nagy.hu/doku.php?id=publications&rev=1259654873&do=diff Some papers can be accessed from UHRA archive provided by University of Hertfordshire. In Preparation * Symmetries of Automata * Symmetry Groups in Biological Networks * On Finding Permutator Subsemigroups of Finite Transformation Semigroups * On Straight Words in Finite Transformation Semigroups * Transformation Semigroups as Constructive Dynamical Spaces text/html 2009-10-17T15:12:31+01:00 Egri-Nagy Attila http://egri-nagy.hu/doku.php?id=dr.riemann_s_zeros&rev=1255777951&do=diff A popular science book on the Riemann conjecture. Not the only one. This one is a good read for anyone interested, maybe a bit too much psychology (I mean the recurring case of Louis de Branges), but a very accurate picture of the mindset of today’s practising mathematicians. text/html 2009-10-17T14:20:21+01:00 Egri-Nagy Attila http://egri-nagy.hu/doku.php?id=focault_s_pendulum&rev=1255774821&do=diff Superb. Truly. I read some 15 years ago, in secondary school. Boys 2 years older than me said this was great read. I accepted their opinion without any thinking, I read it and I hated it and forgot. Then recently I was asked by a friend to read Da Vinci Code. That is a pageturner but that is all you can say about it. I felt that I should reread Focault's Pendulum. Probably the age or the perspective from a really low-quality book on the same topic, but the book is now one of my favourites. Every…