A very occasional blog about maths things which interest me.
Monday, 24 October 2022
The 24 Hour Maths Game Show
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Following the 24 Hour Maths Magic Show two years ago, this coming weekend brings the 24 Hour Maths Game Show! Starting at 7pm on Friday 28 ...
Monday, 18 April 2022
Mathematicians' diaries in the time of Covid
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How did mathematicians cope with the Covid lockdowns? COVIDIARY of Mathematicians is a new book published by the Mathematical Society Arc...
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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