David Morris qlkzy

Mathematics: What do grad students in math do all day?

A lot of math grad school is reading books and papers and trying to understand what's going on. The difficulty is that reading math is not like reading a mystery thriller, and it's not even like reading a history book or a New York Times article.

The main issue is that, by the time you get to the frontiers of math, the words to describe the concepts don't really exist yet. Communicating these ideas is a bit like trying to explain a vacuum cleaner to someone who has never seen one, except you're only allowed to use words that are four letters long or shorter.

What can you say?

	You appear to be advocating a new:

	[ ] cloud-hosted [ ] locally installable [ ] web-based [ ] browser-based [ ] language-agnostic
	[ ] language-specific IDE. Your IDE will not succeed. Here is why it will not succeed.

	You appear to believe that:
	[ ] Syntax highlighting is what makes programming difficult
	[ ] Garbage collection is free
	[ ] Computers have infinite memory
	[ ] Nobody really needs:

	;;; minimial-cedet-config.el --- Working configuration for CEDET from bzr

	;; Copyright (C) Alex Ott
	;;
	;; Author: Alex Ott <[email protected]>
	;; Keywords: cedet, C++, Java
	;; Requirements: CEDET from bzr (http://cedet.sourceforge.net/bzr-repo.shtml)

	;; Do checkout of fresh CEDET, and use this config (don't forget to change path below)