Testing MathML
One of the tools I want to use in this blog will be MathML. I think MathML is so far the best solution to present mathematical content on the web even though the discussion on Terence Tao’s blog shows...
View ArticleWorking on the workflow
Since I do want to try to post something once a week, I’ll recap my work towards a reasonable workflow. As I hinted at before, I’m currently aiming at a workflow of LaTeX via tex4ht to mathml to...
View ArticleGood news, bad news
Just so that not another week ends without me writing a post. The bad news is that my departure for Michigan gets closer and the technicalities take up more and more time. Therefore I’m not sure I’ll...
View ArticleWhat is…? Seminar new videos
One of the most valuable experiences during my time as a PhD student lay in helping to establish a ‘What is…?’ seminar at the Freie Universität Berlin and later/now at the Berlin Mathematical School ....
View ArticleTools for your online collaboration
So the winter school in Hejnice ended two weeks ago is long past — and despite my intentions I did not find the time to blog. This is primarily a sign of the quality of the winter school, both...
View ArticleThe end is near
Well, as promised, the end is near. I have begun moving thelazyscience. The future location will be at peter.krautzberger.info. It’ll probably take me a few more days to (manually…) move the old posts...
View ArticleWelcome! (again)
Welcome to the new home of thelazyscience. I hope the new setup makes everything better. For myself, writing and posting has been simplified considerably by the use of Jekyll with Textile as markup....
View ArticleYoung Set Theorists Network starting
The Young set theorist network has been opened to the public! Although I have yet to make it to a Young Set Theorist Meeting (I always failed for some technical reasons) I feel it is important to get...
View ArticleA virtual visit to Prague
Tomorrow, I will be visiting Prague! Well, only virtually, but for the second time in 8 days — yay! Back at BLAST 2010 I had a chance to meet up with David Chodounsky — he is one of the PhD …
View ArticleA small website update
You probably wouldn’t have noticed, but I worked on the website a little. The only visible change is that I have added some more permanent content. You can find the about page page as well as a page...
View ArticleTiddlywiki or the end of my LaTeX notes
How can I not even have mentioned this? The single greatest tool of the last three month is… Tiddlywiki What is Tiddlywiki? Tiddlywiki is a wiki in a single html file. It can be full fledged wiki by...
View ArticleIntroducing mathblogging.org
I think I mentioned at some point that I had started a secret little project a few months ago. Well, Felix, Fred and I have decided that the new year should be plenty of reason to put some more …
View ArticlePunkmath, annotatr and gender discussions
So last week was pretty abysmal as I spent most of the time in bed with a cold like I haven’t had in a while. Since this led to a major shutdown of my brain I failed to do anything …
View ArticleEpub and mathematics
A while ago Martin Fenner had written about the BeyondPDF workshop and released his epub export plugin for wordpress and started the WordPress For Scientist Google group. I had joined that group right...
View ArticleThe Mathematician’s Homepage — can it be more?
Yesterday I went on a rant about Keith Devlin’s homepage and twitter. That was, like all rants, a little unfair on him. I guess idols are always more disappointing. However, although the rant was...
View ArticleWhy markdown, not $\LaTeX$?
Coming from $\LaTeX$ and its text-editor driven writing style, working with wordpress can seem a step back — after all, most people, if they get excited about $\TeX$, very much despise the wysiwyg...
View ArticleWordPress in a VM
When you’re using wordpress, it comes in handy to have an installation to play around with. When I first joined the WordPress for Scientists Google Group, I promised to write a tutorial. Well, it took...
View ArticleA posting on wordpress-for-scientists
I just finished a long posting at the mailing list/google group WordPress For Scientist. This was spawned by today’s meeting with Sam and this week’s trouble with the papercite plugin. We really need...
View Articleepub, mathjax and the iPad — another attempt
It’s a funny thing. I don’t even own an iPad. But a lot of people are interested in getting an epub file with mathjax working on the iPad. Why is that? Well, as far as I could find out the …
View ArticleHanging out with Sam
Sam already wrote about the g+hangout that he hosted last Saturday and I wanted to jot down some of my own thoughts on the experience. I thoroughly enjoyed the whole thing and I’ve been looking for...
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