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Jacques Hadamard, who lived from 1865 to 1963, was a French mathematician whose most important result was about the distribution of prime numbers - basically, the bigger the numbers, the more sparse are the primes (the number of prime numbers less than n grows as fast as n/log(n) ). However, he also wrote quite a famous piece on the way in which ...

I've noticed many theses seem to include some kind of caveat in the preface or elsewhere early on. I've found I don't quite know where I sit with them, so here is a loose rambling on about exceptions and clauses... ''Such-and-such is beyond the scope of this study'' aka ''please don't mark me down for theorist X's absence in the lit ...

The UWA Library has recently upgraded its subscription to ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Database to allow access to documents in full text. The ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Database (PQDT) is a comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses, from all fields of study, from around the world. The full text version includes 2.4 ...

My thesis may be taking a sudden turn towards psychoanalysis. Yikesies.

It all started with me first being able to squeeze out a hundred words or so yesterday. I'm starting a new chapter so it's all weird and scary at the moment and I have no real structure to work with yet. As I agonised with the lack of existing structure, Sandra imparted some of her wisdom on me. Just write for an hour and a half in the morning - ...

My family headed over to the US to meet relatives a few months ago, and a local newspaper published this article about their travels (the image quality isn't fantastic): The Great Michigan Tour of '08 On my thesis front: not much going on at the moment, I've been tinkering on an article on the Eurovision Song Contest that I want to submit ...

Behold, some advice on staying motivated on past/long term projects. The bit about writing-down-your-ideas has, in admittedly a different format and context, kickstarted me in my thesis work after four consecutive semesters of teaching/procrastinating. My greatest recent moment in terms of thesis productivity occurred one night a week or ...

After briefly flirting with the idea of setting up at blogger, I've decided to revive my trusty Procrastinatrix. Perhaps if one day I really desperately want more people to read my insights and insipidity (is that a real word? it should be) I'll migrate, but for now I'll stay. Research So far all my excellent gimmicks at becoming more ...

...but not yet in this time zone. I've been out of town for three months, of which six weeks were dedicated to sitting in libraries reading. I might get back into blogging soon. As soon as I figure out how to sleep during the nights.

Yamin Ma submitted her PhD thesis today. She doesn't run a blog, so I'm making sure that recognition for her achievement reaches as many in the UWA community as possible. Yamin's thesis ended up with the title ''Vegetation as a biotic driver for the formation of soil geochemical anomalies for mineral exploration of ...