I just realised I never introduced myself here. God knows if anyone's following the post, but:
Hi, I'm Kaz, and I'll be your token person in STEM today! I'm doing a PhD in maths, specifically pure maths, specifically specifically noncommutative algebra. I study certain properties of certain abstract structures, and am perenially frustrated by the fact that it is actually completely impossible to explain what the hell I mean by that and what my question is exactly to anyone who doesn't have something along the lines of an undergrad-level background in pure maths. :( I can explain the rough basic philosphy underlying it if you give me an hour so?
I am sometimes jealous of people who actually get to work on stuff that I do/talk about in my free time for their PhDs and have been known to steal my friends' textbooks on gender studies and read them for fun, and also people where the papers they have to read could not easily fit into a game of ArXiv vx snarxiv, but honestly I do think maths is gorgeous and the question I'm working on is really, really interesting. Even if I can't explain it to anyone. Ever.
I'm also in my final year and will probably start writing up in a few months' time which is absolutely terrifying. *wibbles*
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Date: 2012-12-16 12:33 am (UTC)Hi, I'm Kaz, and I'll be your token person in STEM today! I'm doing a PhD in maths, specifically pure maths, specifically specifically noncommutative algebra. I study certain properties of certain abstract structures, and am perenially frustrated by the fact that it is actually completely impossible to explain what the hell I mean by that and what my question is exactly to anyone who doesn't have something along the lines of an undergrad-level background in pure maths. :( I can explain the rough basic philosphy underlying it if you give me an hour so?
I am sometimes jealous of people who actually get to work on stuff that I do/talk about in my free time for their PhDs and have been known to steal my friends' textbooks on gender studies and read them for fun, and also people where the papers they have to read could not easily fit into a game of ArXiv vx snarxiv, but honestly I do think maths is gorgeous and the question I'm working on is really, really interesting. Even if I can't explain it to anyone. Ever.
I'm also in my final year and will probably start writing up in a few months' time which is absolutely terrifying. *wibbles*