{"id":147,"date":"2007-02-26T22:36:03","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T22:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/?p=147"},"modified":"2020-03-14T19:29:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T19:29:30","slug":"how-to-write-mathematics-badly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/?p=147","title":{"rendered":"How To Write Mathematics Badly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk\/Biographies\/Serre.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jean-Pierre Serre<\/a> (and also see <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jean-Pierre_Serre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wikipedia<\/a>) is one of the most eminent mathematicians alive; he was part of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nicolas_Bourbaki\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bourbaki<\/a> in the later stages, and he has been awarded many mathematical prizes. So it is a pleasure to watch a video of him explaining how to write good mathematical papers. He does this by explaining how to not to write mathematics which is why his talk is entitled <i>How To Write Mathematics Badly<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>You can forgive the amateurishness and poor sound quality of the 56-minute video for the sageness of the advice he gives. I don&#8217;t know when the talk was given but if it was recent he is doing very well for a man in his eighties.<\/p>\n<p>You can find the video on Google video at <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=8266735963828183844&#038;q=how+to+write+mathematics+badly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jean-Pierre Serre &#8211; How To Write Mathematics Badly<\/a> and is a must see for postgraduate students who appear to make up the bulk of the audience.<\/p>\n<p><i>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/complexzeta.livejournal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ComplexZeta<\/a> for the link.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean-Pierre Serre (and also see Wikipedia) is one of the most eminent mathematicians alive; he was part of Bourbaki in the later stages, and he has been awarded many mathematical prizes. So it is a pleasure to watch a video of him explaining how to write good mathematical papers. He does this by explaining how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}