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)

Personally I found my (American-based international) mathematics - all about manipulating numbers and formulae - almost entirely useless as a preparation for university maths (all about proving theor… (View Post)

I agree with you that making extreme statements should not be conflated with murder. I think you may be straining the point by implying that Carlson is noted for "reasonable questions/criticism&… (View Post)