http://www.egri-nagy.hu/ 2010-06-25T15:20:42+02:00 http://www.egri-nagy.hu/ http://www.egri-nagy.hu/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2009-10-17T14:17:24+02:00 http://www.egri-nagy.hu/doku.php?id=da_vinci_code&rev=1255774644&do=diff Yes, there is a Plan. Firm answers, culprit found. Crap. It is a pageturner but that's it. No more good can be said about this book. Highly manipulative on people with weaker educational background - something that could be called intellectual crime. I'm not a native speaker of English but I could read it without looking up a word in a dictionary. This shows how shallow its language is... text/html 2009-10-17T15:12:31+02:00 http://www.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 2010-06-01T14:51:44+02:00 http://www.egri-nagy.hu/doku.php?id=egri-nagy_attila&rev=1275389504&do=diff Narrowboat 42 FOR SALE! [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 2009-10-17T14:20:21+02:00 http://www.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… text/html 2009-12-22T22:50:40+02:00 http://www.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 2010-04-04T14:33:45+02:00 http://www.egri-nagy.hu/doku.php?id=math_quotes&rev=1270377225&do=diff “Mathematics will never be fully known... Mathematicians are explorers in an abstract world that touches the real world in unpredictable ways.” Mark Ronan: Symmetry and the Monster - One of the Greatest Quests of Mathematics, Prologue, Oxford University Press, 2006. text/html 2010-06-21T02:16:04+02:00 http://www.egri-nagy.hu/doku.php?id=nb42&rev=1277072164&do=diff Advertisement External Link text/html 2009-12-01T10:07:53+02:00 http://www.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 2010-06-21T02:21:09+02:00 http://www.egri-nagy.hu/doku.php?id=reading_diary&rev=1277072469&do=diff 2010 June * Philibert Schogt: Wild Numbers 2000. * Philip K. Dick: Visszafelé világ (Counter-clock World) 1967. May * Logicomix April * Mark Ronan: Symmetry and the Monster - One of the Greatest Quest of Mathematics 2006 2x * John Gribbin: In Search of Superstrings: Symmetry, Membranes and the Theory of Everything 2007 text/html 2009-08-31T20:36:16+02:00 http://www.egri-nagy.hu/doku.php?id=start&rev=1251736576&do=diff text/html 2009-10-02T20:11:58+02:00 http://www.egri-nagy.hu/doku.php?id=the_calculus_friendship&rev=1254499918&do=diff Good book. I can't figure out what makes the story emotionally loaded, but it really is. And meanwhile the math is great (but not enough as it is a very short book). It is not easy, so I wonder how it is readable without some calculus background. Watch the talk and the interview as well: