Who would have thought, way back in high school, that I would one day be applying for a job as an assistant statistician and hopefully to become a statistician?!!! Exciting, scary, funny, crazy,,,,,statistician's and mathematicians (eek, maths is very hard!!) are often painted as wierd and wonderful people..
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take for instance the man I read about in the Sunday Telegraph, Grigory "Grisha" Perelman who has worked out a century old riddle called the Poincare conjecture - if a loop can be shrunk down to a point, no matter where it is drawn, the surphace must be spherical!!! He is tipped to win the Field's Prize (the Nobel Prize of mathematics), but he does not think that anyone will take any notice of his work or that it will be of any interest. Poor guy, I hope he does claim his prize!...
So, are all mathematicians and statisticians crazy or "bonkers" as the Telegraph equation states?! ...
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I hope not! I like to think that I am changing the look of statistics in some ways - it's not all boring and can be fun and interesting (at times!! - I actually enjoyed this article!!) and life is not all about stats!
Speaking of stats....back to my dissertation!
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