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Nov-11-07
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| hitman84: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail...
Nice article on John Nunn!
Here is a good site for amateur astronomers...
http://www.wikisky.org/
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| Feb-09-08 |
| dotty hill: I tried to find some of Nunn's mathematical works but there appears to be only one publication: J.D.M. Nunn, The homotopy types of finite H-spaces. Topology 18 (1979), no. 1, 17–28. It was reviewed by the famous J. Frank Adams
"(...) This satisfactory result is established using ordinary cohomology with mod 2 coefficients (of the H-space X and of its projective plane), and roughly the technical means one might expect, plus a strong ability to solve problems and construct a proof using the techniques. (...)" Quite a nice paper that ends with
"Finally we should mention that the upper bound given here is highly extravagant, e.g.
when k = 2 it is approximately 10^(10^18,8) whereas the least upper bound is known to be 14!" |
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Feb-10-08
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| KingG: <dotty hill> That was probably his PhD thesis, and I guess he concentrated on chess after that. |
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Feb-10-08
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| rgr459: That paper probably is not his thesis, but a publication of part of his thesis research |
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| Feb-10-08 |
| dotty hill: <KingG> I tend to agree with <rgr459> even though the paper in itself would qualify for a good thesis. Mathematical theses tend to be quite a bit longer, usually around 50-100 pages. |
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| Feb-10-08 |
| dotty hill: "John Nunn (1955-), Chess Grandmaster, D. Phil. (from Oxford Univ.) in 1978 at the age of 23 (and the youngest undergraduate at Oxford since Cardinal Wolsey, I've heard). PhD thesis in Algebraic Topology and author of the paper [3]" (from http://cadigweb.ew.usna.edu/~wdj/ma...) Speaking of his thesis: does anybody know who his advisor was? |
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Feb-10-08
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| mack: <dotty hill: Speaking of his thesis: does anybody know who his advisor was?> I shall find out for you; give me a week. |
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Feb-10-08
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| littlefermat: <dotty hill: Speaking of his thesis: does anybody know who his advisor was?> Probably Henry Whitehead, Ioan James, or John Hubback. Those were the algebraic topologists at Oxford, at least those I know of. |
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Feb-11-08
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| KingG: <rg459> <That paper probably is not his thesis, but a publication of part of his thesis research> Yes, that's kind of what I meant, but I should have been more precise with my language. <Speaking of his thesis: does anybody know who his advisor was?>
Normally, this would be the place to look http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.ed... , but I can't seem to find him there. |
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Feb-11-08
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| rgr459: <King> Understandable. I was not 100% sure about my previous kibitz as I am a PhD candidate in cell biology and I assumed that publications work the same way in mathematics as they do in my field. |
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| Feb-12-08 |
| dotty hill: <<mack> I shall find out for you; give me a week.> That would be great! Thank you in advance.
<<KingG> I can't seem to find him there.>
I asked here for precisely that reason. |
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| Feb-12-08 |
| dotty hill: <little fermat> Who is John Hubback? Never heard of him and couldn't find anything about him. |
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Feb-18-08
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| littlefermat: Check out Mathscinet. If you're at a college/university, you can access it for free--otherwise, it'll cost money. All of his papers, along with Nunn's, are available there (at least they are reviewed there). |
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| Feb-18-08 |
| HeMateMe: Nunn was quite the prodigy, huh? I think he had finished either his Masters, or a Doctorate, in math at the age of 18. I think he entered Cambridge as a 14-year-old. If they had a chess team, I'm sure he was on it. |
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| Feb-21-08 |
| dotty hill: <littlefermat> I tried MSN and Google but I couldn't find anything from or about a John Hubback there (are you sure about the spelling?). |
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Mar-26-08
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| heuristic: <dotty hill> I went to Math Geneology project. Obtained a list of all PhDs from Oxford for 1975-1979. No Nunn listed. For all aforementioned PhDs, i obtained the names of their advisors. Hubback is listed for one in 1979. Note that Hubback is not one for documentation, his thesis or PhD date is not listed. i searched the Radcliffe library for theses. no Nunn listed. curious.....
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| Mar-30-08 |
| dotty hill: <heuristic> thanks for the effort. The genealogy project is known to be rather incomplete - it has grown out of a one-man initiative and is based on voluntary contributions. As far as I know there was no systematic effort outside the US, quite certainly not that many years back. That Nunn's thesis fails to be in the Radcliffe library *is* rather strange. I checked the mathematical libraries in Oxford as well, result negative. Well, be it as it may, I still hope someday somebody will find out. Maybe I should contact Edward Winter... |
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| Apr-09-08 |
| Jim Bartle: In 1990, in Reykjavik, England defeated the Soviet Union in a team match for the first time. Nunn's comment: "The Soviets cunningly prevented a repetition by splitting their country up." |
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Apr-25-08
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| MaxxLange: many happy returns for the good Doctor |
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| Apr-25-08 |
| DeltaHawk: In that old picture, he looks like he can be in The Warriors. |
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| Apr-25-08 |
| Riverbeast: Happy birthday to one of my favorite players. A true tactical genius ! |
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Apr-25-08
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| littlefermat: Happy Birthday.
And thank you for the many fantastic books you've written! |
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Apr-25-08
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| Tessie Tura: Many happy returns of the day. 'Understanding Chess Move by Move' is a wonderful book. |
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Apr-25-08
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| MaxxLange: Another amazing old Nunn book is "Tactical Chess Endings" Nunn says that he will never write another opening book (in the style of his work on the Najdorf, or NCO), since it is all database now. |
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Jul-09-08
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| arsen387: One of the greatest tacticians ever, for sure. I'd put him in the chain 'Morphy->Alekhine->Tal->Nunn,Christiansen'. It's generally interesting to observe the chess history as consisting of some chains of players with resembling styles. Another chain could be 'Nimzowitsch,Capablanca->Petrosian->Karpov->Kramn-
ik,Leko'. |
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