It's not my experience that private sector call centres are more efficient than civil servants - quite the contrary. (View Post)

You're very kind - I feel genuinely pleased at that thought. (View Post)

Indeed. Running Britain will be just practice for the main event for him... (View Post)

My adviser on point-set topology (he field) was quite distinguished: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Dowker/ He said at the start of the PhD that ,most students were either lions or… (View Post)

Er...I'd need to look it up. It was something to do with certain theorems that had only been proved for topological spaces with which we are familiar (e.g. if you have two points, you can draw n… (View Post)