Albert Wood

I'm a professional mathematician, specialising in geometry, working at King's College London.

I'm also on Mastodon: @[email protected]

[Albert Wood @albert_maths]

@kimdayers @bielleogy I agree!

[Albert Wood @albert_maths]

@MayorofLondon Please no! Rent control doesn't work, it will decrease the supply of rental properties and make it harder to find homes.
The price of rentals is an INDICATOR that shows demand outstrips supply. The solution is to build more high-density homes!

[Albert Wood @albert_maths]

@deborah_bucher @CSTONE22280386 How can you believe that when there are two clear examples (Australia, UK) of the opposite being true?
The fact is, if a country outlaws guns, then it becomes harder to get them, and gun crime will decrease. If someone does try to get one, they stand out, and are noticed.

[Peter Frampton @peterframpton]

I have posted this before but ..

26 years ago, a gunman entered
Dunblane Primary School in Scotland,
killing 16 kids and a teacher. The UK
govt responded by enacting tight gun
control legislation. In the 9400+ days
since, there have been a total of O
school shootings in the UK.

[Albert Wood @albert_maths]

@artwalaszek @austwitnerd Ah, how convenient!

[Albert Wood @albert_maths]

@austwitnerd @artwalaszek No it isn't. Zero isn't a meaningful value, so there's no reason for it to be included in the graph. In this case, including zero would obfuscate the data.

If instead you graphed the difference between US and average life expectancy, then zero would have meaning.

[Albert Wood @albert_maths]

@Bustersrealdad @TasteAtlas Stinking bishop

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@BrownSulabrown @Kit_Yates_Maths It is chatGPT that is missing something!

[Albert Wood @albert_maths]

@EmmaKennedy @DianneWorthing6 @SuzanneNossel @suzifeay @PENamerica @roald_dahl If you wrote a book today, would you be happy for people to change your words after you die?

[Albert Wood @albert_maths]

@NoContextBrits One of the beans

[Albert Wood @albert_maths]

@Whitehughes @mathillustrated Actually, it's the 1 on top of the fraction that's unnecessary! 😃

[arXiv math.DG Differential Geometry @mathDGb]

Chung-Jun Tsai, Mao-Pei Tsui, Mu-Tao Wang: Mean Curvature Flows of Two-Convex Lagrangians https://t.co/28wSZoSeXs https://t.co/OPezyK6IU4

[Thom Yorke @thomyorke]

https://t.co/dLtwSWVJqG

[Albert Wood @albert_maths]

@tomrocksmaths I love all 50 of Hans Christian Andersen's 14.159%-of-a-story, they are my favourites

[Albert Wood @albert_maths]

@ScottAdamsSays Please stop spreading misinformation. This kind of speculation will get a lot of people killed.

[Albert Wood @albert_maths]

@eleanordotcomm Atomic habits was genuinely life changing for me, and I consider it a great book (not a great piece of literature or great academic text). There is a lot to be said for good advice, said in a compelling, easy to understand and memorable way.

[Albert Wood @albert_maths]

@SpinVector @natashazc Well said!

[Albert Wood @albert_maths]

@natashazc I think it's bad advice. I think feeling compelled / like there are no other options, is independent from whether it's a good life decision.
I don't think that people should be encouraged into PhDs though.

[Albert Wood @albert_maths]

@TypeForVictory @0Balaam In fact it should move faster than life expectancy, because the proportion of elderly is increasing.
People don't seem to understand that our quality of life will otherwise decrease tremendously as the working population diminishes...

[Albert Wood @albert_maths]

@Will_Overgard And as a footnote, that reasoning IS wrong: the vast majority of people who buy this game are doing so because it looks really really cool

[Albert Wood @albert_maths]

@Will_Overgard Just don't listen to JK's reasoning! The game's success is only tied to JK's beliefs by as much as we believe it is, and your video forges that connection ever stronger. Ignore JK, don't link her to this game, and then you won't need to be angry when it does well.