Charles Dickens, who inspired the name for “Pip,” the combined alter ego of bloggers Dick Lipton and Ken Regan.
Lipton and Regan write mainly about computer science, mathematics, and the history of those subjects, but they always put people first. Most posts start with a brief bio sketch of the person or people whose research they discuss, followed by a little background on the question they’re writing about and the technical content. In the “About” page, Lipton writes, “my real reason for making “who” central is to explain what researchers do when they work on hard open problems. They make mistakes, they go down dead-ends, they make progress. Also students may not know, but even experts sometimes forget, that ideas that we now see as easy were once unknown.”
Read the full post about the computer science blog Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP at the AMS Blog on Math Blogs.
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