"Les mathématiques sont la porte et la clé des sciences." – Roger Bacon (v. 1215-v. 1290)
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"Les mathématiques sont la porte et la clé des sciences." – Roger Bacon (v. 1215-v. 1290)
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"Mathematics is the door and the key to the sciences." – Roger Bacon (c. 1215-c. 1290)
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Theorem of the Day (July 19, 2025) : The Bungers–Lehmer Theorem on Cyclotomic Coefficients
Source : Theorem of the Day / Robin Whitty
pdf : https://www.theoremoftheday.org/NumberTheory/Cyclotomic/TotDCyclotomic.pdf
notes : https://www.theoremoftheday.org/Resources/TheoremNotes.htm#175
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19 juillet 1894 : #CeJourLà naissance de Alexandre Khintchine (†18/11/1959), mathématicien soviétique dont les travaux portent notamment sur la théorie des nombres (cf. constante de Khintchine) et les probabilités (cf. loi faible des grands nombres).
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Khintchine
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Approcher la beauté des mathématiques… avec Étienne Ghys
Source : Podcast Canal Académies / En Habit Vert
https://www.canalacademies.com/emissions/en-habit-vert/approcher-la-beaute-des-mathematiques-avec-etienne-ghys
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"Chess combines the beauty of mathematical structure with the recreational delights of a competitive game. Mathematical magic combines the beauty of mathematical structure with the entertainment value of a trick." – Martin Gardner (1914-2010)
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"Les échecs combinent la beauté d'une structure mathématique avec les plaisirs récréatifs d'un jeu compétitif. La magie mathématique combine la beauté d'une structure mathématique avec la valeur divertissante d'un tour." – Martin Gardner (1914-2010)
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Theorem of the Day (July 18, 2025) : The Large Prime Gaps Theorem
Source : Theorem of the Day / Robin Whitty
pdf : https://www.theoremoftheday.org/NumberTheory/LargeGaps/TotDLargePrimeGaps.pdf
notes : https://www.theoremoftheday.org/Resources/TheoremNotes.htm#241
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Remarques et comportements sexistes subis par des mathématiciennes à l'Institut Fourier.
On en reste coi...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKH7Dpkclao
Basically, I feel like I'm completely full of shit. I look at my academic record since I left school, and see a record of mediocrity. I've spent all that time asking people for faith in me, and clearly I must inspire it, because I keep getting it, but I don't want to be a religion; I want to live up to my promises and *prove* that everyone was right to believe in me. The opportunity to do another master's might arise in the reasonably near future and I've been thinking about it as a possible do-over. I'm wondering if it would actually help, and if there's anything else I could do instead.
Thanks for any advice you can give.
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I wrote a whole long-ass spiel on this, but I cut it down to the essential information; do ask if you want me to elaborate.
Two questions:
1) Would doing another master's degree, with another dissertation, improve my chances of getting into a PhD in the UK, Ireland, or the rest of the EU?
2) Is there anything short of doing another master's degree that would achieve the same thing?
Relevant facts:
* I got 81% for my integrated master's degree, which is a decent-ish first (highest degree classification, ≥70%).
* I got 79% for my master's dissertation; both examiners noted, unprompted, that it was very well written; but it doesn't demonstrate a real knowledge of general relativity, the intended subject of my PhD, and I wasn't able to take a class on it.
* I hate my dissertation and think that it's shit; "well written" is about it's only redeeming feature in my view.
* My diss examiners were my academic advisor and my diss supervisor, with whom I have a strong rapport; both have said they'll write me good letters of recommendation when I come to apply for my PhD (which has to be a few years from now for personal reasons).
* I have several other lecturers who I also have a rapport with who can attest to my academic ability in classes I took with them should I need a third letter (my advisor seemed to think this was not standard in the UK).
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"Once a model has been satisfactorily worked out, the generativity of mathematics comes into play. Once this happens, it becomes possible to feel as though you're doing physics, when what you're really doing is studying the model from a strictly mathematical point of view." – Alain Connes (1947-)
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"Dès qu'un modèle de la physique est suffisamment élaboré, la générativité des mathématiques entre en jeu : on peut alors avoir l'impression de faire de la physique en étudiant ce modèle d'un point de vue strictement mathématique." – Alain Connes (1947-)
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Source : Quanta Magazine / Steve Nadis
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-geometry-for-einsteins-theory-of-relativity-20250716/
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Theorem of the Day (July 17, 2025) : Torricelli’s Trumpet
Source : Theorem of the Day / Robin Whitty
pdf : https://www.theoremoftheday.org/Analysis/Torricelli/TotDTorricelli.pdf
notes : https://www.theoremoftheday.org/Resources/TheoremNotes.htm#208
17 juillet 1975 : #CeJourLà naissance de Terence Tao, mathématicien australo-américain médaillé Fields en 2006 pour ses travaux sur les équations différentielles partielles, la combinatoire, l'analyse harmonique et la théorie additive des nombres.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Tao
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"Quand je travaille sur un problème, je ne pense jamais à l'esthétique. Je ne pense qu'à la façon de résoudre le problème. Mais quand j'ai fini, si la solution n'est pas belle, je sais qu'elle est mauvaise." – Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)
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"When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only of how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." – Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)
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Double Maths First Thing: Issue 2D
Source : The Aperiodical / Colin Beveridge
https://aperiodical.com/2025/07/double-maths-first-thing-issue-2d/
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Complex knots can actually be easier to untie than simple ones
Source : New Scientist / Matthew Sparkes
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2487444-complex-knots-can-actually-be-easier-to-untie-than-simple-ones/
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