{"id":365,"date":"2011-12-02T15:59:37","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T13:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2011\/12\/02\/on_ugly_and_not_so_ugly_maths\/"},"modified":"2011-12-02T15:59:37","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T13:59:37","slug":"on_ugly_and_not_so_ugly_maths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2011\/12\/02\/on_ugly_and_not_so_ugly_maths\/","title":{"rendered":"On Ugly and Not so Ugly Maths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I&#8217;ve been writing a grant application. This has meant trawling through a pile of literature I wasn&#8217;t terribly familiar with. During that trawling I found this piece of rather ugly maths:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Screenshot at 2011-12-02 16:34:02.png\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/boboh\/Screenshot%20at%202011-12-02%2016%3A34%3A02.png\" width=\"484\" height=\"352\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center;margin: 0 auto 20px\" \/><br \/>\nwith, on the next page<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Screenshot at 2011-12-02 16:35:21.png\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/boboh\/Screenshot%20at%202011-12-02%2016%3A35%3A21.png\" width=\"418\" height=\"454\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center;margin: 0 auto 20px\" \/><br \/>\nThe authors describe the route to these expressions as involving &#8220;tedious but straightforward algebraic manipulations&#8221;.<br \/>\nI also came across this,<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Screenshot at 2011-12-02 16:38:46.png\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/boboh\/Screenshot%20at%202011-12-02%2016%3A38%3A46.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"132\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center;margin: 0 auto 20px\" \/><br \/>\nwhich is altogether prettier.<br \/>\nMy application was to apply the second piece of maths to some specific cases, and extend it a bit, and then apply that to an idea published recently, and try to apply that to real data. In practice this probably means turning the second piece of maths into something like the first. This, ladies and gentlemen, is why we hire students and post-docs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I&#8217;ve been writing a grant application. This has meant trawling through a pile of literature I wasn&#8217;t terribly familiar with. During that trawling I found this piece of rather ugly maths:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aaaaaagh","category-friday-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}