"No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort. "

[OwlHoot]

No area of maths is "complete". Anyway this is Masters level, i.e. I don't really need to produce new knowledge, just analyse existing.
As it happens I'm investigating Lie Groups and certain diff. equations. If only I could find some new technique though, that could be the germ of a PhD.

Have you been involved with non-Archimedean analysis? It's a bit of a specialised area; but I would imagine there are more open questions in p-adic Lie Groups than the usual ones on manifolds with Archimedean metric.

[vetran]

if you can't find a new technique, then maybe find a new way to explain.

from my limited googling (maths wasn't my strong point.) its a way to calculate / expose symmetries.

maybe a stupid idea but why not pick something such as the effect on money supply due to Libor fiddling (or a way to calculate Libor looking at global patterns) and use that to illustrate the point? its a bit tacky to use a bad pun, but its bound to be where the smart mathematicians go (into finance) so it might be CV enhancing and probably quite interesting.

Mines the pint in the cask!

[sasguru]

Ah, the Prussian military selection principle, summarized by General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord



So how do you propose to advance the theory of Lie Groups, Sas? I'd have thought they had been done to death over the last 100 years or more.

No area of maths is "complete". Anyway this is Masters level, i.e. I don't really need to produce new knowledge, just analyse existing.
As it happens I'm investigating Lie Groups and certain diff. equations. If only I could find some new technique though, that could be the germ of a PhD.

[OwlHoot]

Ah, the Prussian military selection principle, summarized by General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord

I divide my officers into four groups. There are clever, diligent, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and diligent -- their place is the General Staff. The next lot are stupid and lazy -- they make up 90 percent of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the intellectual clarity and the composure necessary for difficult decisions. One must beware of anyone who is stupid and diligent -- he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always cause only mischief.

So how do you propose to advance the theory of Lie Groups, Sas? I'd have thought they had been done to death over the last 100 years or more.

[oracleslave]

There are 4 kinds of workers;
- stupid lazy people; these are useless
- stupid hard working people; these can be put to work carrying out important but simple menial tasks, and thereby benefit society
- clever lazy people; these people brilliant things or instruct stupid hard working people so as to get maximum returns from minimal effort
- clever hard working people; these people should be regarded with suspicion. Many of them are political extremists or zealots. They're dangerous arseholes anyway.

As a PM, am definitely number 3

[Mich the Tester]

said Teddy Roosevelt.

And with that in mind, I'm going to sit in the shade in the garden, cold beer in reach, and ponder how to move my dissertation on Lie Groups forward.
Enjoy the rest of your day ...

There are 4 kinds of workers;
- stupid lazy people; these are useless
- stupid hard working people; these can be put to work carrying out important but simple menial tasks, and thereby benefit society
- clever lazy people; these people brilliant things or instruct stupid hard working people so as to get maximum returns from minimal effort
- clever hard working people; these people should be regarded with suspicion. Many of them are political extremists or zealots. They're dangerous arseholes anyway.

[sasguru]

said Teddy Roosevelt.

And with that in mind, I'm going to sit in the shade in the garden, cold beer in reach, and ponder how to move my dissertation on Lie Groups forward.
Enjoy the rest of your day ...