User:Mat cross

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\sum_{i=1}^{\infty}{1 \over i^2} This user is an advanced mathematician.


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Mix This user has been influenced by too many dialects of English to use one orthography, vocabulary and grammar consistently.
0.\bar{9}=1 This user knows that 0.999... is exactly 1, but acquired a migraine learning it.
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The page owner, propping up a brewery.
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[edit] Primary interests

  • Mathematics (differential geometry, algebraic topology, numerical analysis).
  • 20th and 21st Century history, and international relations.
  • Punk rock.

[edit] Brief CV

  • MSc Applied Numerical Computing, Manchester, 2005.
Thesis: `Symplectic Integrators and Optimal Control'. Advisor: T. Shardlow.
  • MA Mathematics, UPenn, 2004.
Thesis: `If a Finitely Generated Group is of Near-Polynomial Growth
then it has a Nilpotent Subgroup of Finite Index'. Adviser: J. Block.
  • MMath, Warwick, 2002.
Thesis: `Causality on Spacetimes'. Advisor: J. Rawnsley.