A very occasional blog about maths things which interest me.
Sunday, 12 September 2021
Did studying maths help Emma Raducanu win the US Open?
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Emma Raducanu's feat of winning the US Open as a qualifier, without dropping a set in her ten matches, was astonishing. In feature art...
Sunday, 4 July 2021
Another dubious probabilistic argument
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Here's a variation on my previous post - another piece of hand-waving probabilistic reasoning, which I think is basically correct, but ...
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Saturday, 12 June 2021
Is this analysis correct?
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When I was an undergraduate, I was walking through the town centre one morning when a journalist from the student newspaper asked my views o...
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Wednesday, 10 March 2021
Tomorrow's Mathematicians Today
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I spent last weekend at the online conference Tomorrow's Mathematicians Today , hosted by the University of Greenwich and the Institute ...
Monday, 28 December 2020
Reading "The Queen's Gambit"
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I haven't watched the Netflix series The Queen's Gambit , but (prompted by a review in Private Eye ) I've just read Walter Tevi...
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Sunday, 20 December 2020
Memories of Peter Neumann
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Peter M. Neumann (1940-2020) (Photo by Bert Seghers, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain) A very sad post - the mathematician Peter M. Neuman...
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Monday, 7 December 2020
Two mathematical magic tricks
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So over the last few weeks I have performed a couple of mathematical magic tricks which I have put on my Youtube channel. As part of the 24...
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