La Recherche, one of the leading French popular science magazines, has a monthly piece in which they present a Mathematician’s work in two pages. I had the honour and great pleasure of being featured in this month’s issue. Philippe Pajot interviewed me for over an hour about my work on models of language diversification and did a pretty good job at summarizing it in a few hundred words, with a presentation of the linguistic question, the data, and a mention of the issues of validation and error bars. There is also a brief attempt at explaining MCMC.
A scan is below, for French-speaking readers.
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Tags: La Recherche, linguistics, phylogenetics, popular science, proto-indo-european
06/03/2011 at 22:35 |
Quite a decent entry. Congrats for the clear explanations! But, ouch!, “Cette arbre” hurts…
07/03/2011 at 09:38 |
Ouch indeed… :s
09/03/2011 at 00:13 |
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