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The Third Cornet - with Katie Steckles

The Numberphile Podcast

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Was It Hard Doing a PhD?

It was kind of a project about sort of looking at these coreographies and saying, ocate, what possible things are there given this set of rules that they have to all do the same thing? And then there's also a kind of permutation in there as well, because you can move the particles around in a cyclic permutation. So that theres that aspect of symmetry as well. Was it hard doing a phd? Eh, yes, it should be. It was akind of alternating nightmare of not having any idea what i was doing, and then having loads of stuff to do, and then suddenly not knowing what I was doing. Again, people say that doing

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