Papers

[Dave]

Since the forum really does run the risk of going completely sour if someone doesn't post something in it, I thought I'd try to liven it up a bit.

 

I don't know whether anyone who reads these forums has ever written a maths thesis/paper, but I think it'd be quite interesting to find out whether anyone has any particular areas of mathematics that they're fascinated/interested in, or whether you've ever written any papers/theses/short proofs/whatever on anything.

 

Personally, I'm quite interested in the convergence of infinite series and finding their limits (mainly from all of the work we've been doing on it in Analysis this term). Hope we get some more people replying

[NSX]

I like math, but Engineering tends to rush math, and jsut get you to plugin stuff & make it work.

 

:/

 

I like reading the math articles when i can as a supplement to my calculus text. It's available to the public.

 

Here's the site:

 

http://www.matharticles.com/ma_clc7e.html

 

Myself, I like dy/dx and :lint:. I'm waiting for differential eq'ns, which will be a 2 weeks or so...

 

I also like playing with patterns, ie. fractals, series, and the like.

[Neurocomp2003]

i am a big fan comp/math blended fields

chaos theory/perturbation/dynamic systems, whatever you want to call it, as well as fractals and number theory/crypt. I am currently teaching my self number thoeyr in crypt and spiking neurons.

[NSX]

Neurocomp2003 said in post # :

i am a big fan comp/math blended fields

chaos theory/perturbation/dynamic systems, whatever you want to call it, as well as fractals and number theory/crypt. I am currently teaching my self number thoeyr in crypt and spiking neurons.

 

What is spiking neurons?

[Neurocomp2003]

it could be technically called "mathematical neuroscience" but in my opinion it is a subfield of it. Basically it studies/models the behaviour of neurons, and biological neural networks at the firing pattern/conductance/current level for computational modelling. You get a bunch of PDEs and ODEs and its comes down to studying dynamical systems with application in NNs. It ignores ion concentration, channel flow etc and some other stuff that comes with studying the brain that you could model, which is more biophysics related.