Reflections on mathematical research towards a doctorate of philosophy.

Thursday, March 30, 2006

Moving in

Tomorrow I move to my new apartment; the day after, my wife arrives to town. It’s been days of getting into study, trying to gasp the meaning of mathematical investigation. I realize that the fist step is to get enough tools as to be able to discover new ones. One has to dominate what is already there. I’m in the study of the book Nonlinear Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems by Verhulst, edited by Springer. I have to go through chapters 1 to 10 and after that we we’ll see.

Today I talked to Lennaert. He has interesting projects: one that deals with turbulence, other studies the brain cortex and a third one about population dynamics. I feel attracted to the brain one but feel more capable to work on the population study. From there I will see what else there is. Definitively, my main interest goes on dissipative dynamical systems. Chaos as they say.

I’m reading Lennaert van Veen’s papers. About chaos and turbulence. Interesting.

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