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Last 50 Posts

• Bernard Bolzano, a Voice Crying in the Wilderness June 13, 2019
• Spin-off Effects of the Turning Earth June 6, 2019
• Symplectic Geometry May 30, 2019
• Chase and Escape: Pursuit Problems May 23, 2019
• The Rise and Rise of Women in Mathematics May 16, 2019
• Bouncing Billiard Balls Produce Pi May 9, 2019
• Kepler’s Vanishing Circles Hidden in Hamilton’s Hodograph May 2, 2019
• K3 implies the Inverse Square Law. April 25, 2019
• Closing the Gap between Prime Numbers April 18, 2019
• Massive Collaboration in Maths: the Polymath Project April 11, 2019
• A Pioneer of Climate Modelling and Prediction April 4, 2019
• A Chirping Elliptic Rocker March 28, 2019
• Joseph Fourier and the Greenhouse Effect March 21, 2019
• The Kill-zone: How to Dodge a Sniper’s Bullet March 14, 2019
• Hokusai’s Great Wave and Roguish Behaviour March 7, 2019
• Don’t be Phased by Waveform Distortions February 28, 2019
• Multiple Discoveries of the Thue-Morse Sequence February 21, 2019
• Folding Maps: A Simple but Unsolved Problem February 14, 2019
• Rambling and Reckoning February 7, 2019
• Our Dearest Problems January 31, 2019
• From a Wide Wake to the Width of the World January 24, 2019
• Discoveries by Amateurs and Distractions by Cranks January 17, 2019
• Really, 0.999999… is equal to 1. Surreally, this is not so! January 10, 2019
• Trappist-1 & the Age of Aquarius January 3, 2019
• Gaussian Curvature: the Theorema Egregium December 27, 2018
• Consider a Spherical Christmas Tree December 20, 2018
• The 3 : 2 Resonance between Neptune and Pluto December 13, 2018
• Random Numbers Plucked from the Atmosphere December 6, 2018
• The Two Envelopes Fallacy November 29, 2018
• Gravitational Waves & Ringing Teacups November 22, 2018
• The “Napoleon of Crime” and The Laws of Thought November 15, 2018
• Listing the Rational Numbers III: The Calkin-Wilf Tree November 8, 2018
• Johannes Kepler and the Song of the Earth November 1, 2018
• Saving Daylight with Hip-hop Time: a Modest Proposal October 25, 2018
• Who Uses Maths? Almost Everyone! October 18, 2018
• Listing the Rational Numbers II: The Stern-Brocot Tree October 11, 2018
• The Many Modern Uses of Quaternions October 4, 2018
• Listing the Rational Numbers: I. Farey Sequences September 27, 2018
• Tom Lehrer: Comical Musical Mathematical Genius September 20, 2018
• A Trapezoidal Prism on the Serpentine September 13, 2018
• Face Recognition September 6, 2018
• A Zero-Order Front August 30, 2018
• The Flight of the Bumble Bee August 23, 2018
• The Miraculous Spiral on Booterstown Strand August 16, 2018
• Euler’s “Degree of Agreeableness” for Musical Chords August 9, 2018
• Tides: a Tug-of-War between Earth, Moon and Sun August 2, 2018
• Grandi’s Series: A Second Look July 26, 2018
• The Empty Set is Nothing to Worry About July 19, 2018
• Grandi’s Series: Divergent but Summable July 12, 2018
• Trigonometric Comfort Blankets on Hilltops July 5, 2018