How to write mathematics badly
Jean-Pierre Serre (Collège de France)
Serre explains how to write mathematics badly.
Date Filmed: January 1, 2007
Location Filmed: Unknown
Public lecture by J.-P. Serre, exact date and location unknown.
(this is for test purposes only).
- 10:43 Slide 4: should read
- 30:21 Audience question “Is this related to the work of A. Smith on Ricci flow?”
- 32:21 Audience question “could you go back to slide 10, what is the difference between this equation and the one shown there?”
- 45:21 Slide 15: The first theorem was incorrectly attributed to J. Doe. It was proved earlier by XYZ in the 2008 JAMS paper “On the number of solutions of ”
- Since giving this talk, related work of Y.M. has appeared in a preprint available at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.01594.