Time for a poll

[chickenfeet]

I needed an excuse to use the user pic voted most popular by a random sample of sentient beings. I've also had some interesting on and off line convos and comments about math(s) recently so I thought what we really need is more ticky boxes. Lo, I bring you the great math(s) poll!

[Poll #826509]

Comments

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Spinor theory is somewhat off the mainstream of current mathematical research but I thought you might just have come across it as it's the field that Andrew Hodges works in.

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

Nope. After I read his book on Turing, I did spend some time looking at his website, but quickly realized that I was hurting as when I once tried to understand tensors. There really does seem to be a physics way of talking about math and a CS way of talking about math, and despite their both being really algebraic, I can't understand the physics one at all. And physicists who write in our journals drive me crazy.