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  • Graduated in physics from Harvard University ('06)
  • Grad student in physics at Harvard University ('12... '14?)
  • Slow-starting engine, specializing in less action and more torque, with a solid, high-pitched whine to let you know when it's working.
  • Highly developed procrastinatory instincts, and good research abilities.
  • Joanna, highly amused by the above philosophy button.

 


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Year:G2
At:Harvard
Email:make a guess from this website's url
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Fission Statement:

Of designing websites, my sagacious-ninja former-roommate tells me "Either your page makes your audience or your audience makes your page. If you don't keep your audience in mind when you're making it, then it'll just turn out to be a self-indulgent piece of crap." That's pretty much what I'm going for here. Self-indulgent peice of crap.

And Now in French (I'm told):

Au sujet de la conception des sites internet, mon ancien compagnon de chambre sagace-ninja me dit: "Soit ton site crée ton audience, soit t on audience crée ton site. Si tu ne souviens pas ton audience quand tu le crées, il deviendra un morceau de merde individu-indulgent." Essentiellement, ça c'est ce que j'essais de faire. Morceua de merde individu-indulgent.

 

In accordance with this end... Behold! A metaphorical characterization:

Lie Groups

If I were a Springer-Verlag Graduate Text in Mathematics, I would be Frank Warner's Foundations of Differentiable Manifolds and Lie Groups.

I give a clear, detailed, and careful development of the basic facts on manifold theory and Lie Groups. I include differentiable manifolds, tensors and differentiable forms. Lie groups and homogenous spaces, integration on manifolds, and in addition provide a proof of the de Rham theorem via sheaf cohomology theory, and develop the local theory of elliptic operators culminating in a proof of the Hodge theorem. Those interested in any of the diverse areas of mathematics requiring the notion of a differentiable manifold will find me extremely useful.

Which Springer GTM would you be? The Springer GTM Test