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Last 50 Posts

• Doughnuts and Dumplings are Distinct: Homopoty-101 September 24, 2020
• Will mathematicians be replaced by computers? September 17, 2020
• TeX: A Boon for Mathematicians September 10, 2020
• Suitable Names for Large Numbers September 3, 2020
• Jung’s Theorem: Enclosing a Set of Points August 27, 2020
• Is There Anyone Out There? The Drake Equation gives a Clue August 20, 2020
• Think of a Number: What are the Odds that it is Even? August 13, 2020
• Resolution of Paradox: a Gateway to Mathematical Progress August 6, 2020
• Berry’s Paradox and Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem July 30, 2020
• Does Numerical Integration Reflect the Truth? July 23, 2020
• Cornelius Lanczos – Inspired by Hamilton’s Quaternions July 16, 2020
• Buridan’s Ass July 9, 2020
• The Ever-growing Goals of Googology July 2, 2020
• The Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences June 25, 2020
• The Geography of Europe is Mapped in our Genes June 18, 2020
• Dimension Reduction by PCA June 11, 2020
• Pooling Expertise to Tackle Covid-19 June 4, 2020
• The Monte-Carlo Method May 28, 2020
• Changing the way that we look at the world May 21, 2020
• A New Perspective on Perspective May 14, 2020
• John Casey: a Founder of Modern Geometry May 7, 2020
• Order in the midst of Chaos April 30, 2020
• John Horton Conway: a Charismatic Genius April 23, 2020
• Exponential Growth must come to an End April 16, 2020
• The Ross-Littlewood Paradox April 9, 2020
• The Mathematics of Fair Play in Video Games April 2, 2020
• Bang! Bang! Bang! Explosively Large Numbers March 26, 2020
• Covid-19: Modelling the evolution of a viral outbreak March 19, 2020
• Samuel Haughton and the Twelve Faithless Hangmaids March 12, 2020
• Samuel Haughton and the Humane Drop March 5, 2020
• Zhukovsky’s Airfoil February 27, 2020
• How many numbers begin with a 1? More than 30%! February 20, 2020
• A Ring of Water Shows the Earth’s Spin February 13, 2020
• Using Maths to Reduce Aircraft Noise February 6, 2020
• The Rambling Roots of Wilkinson’s Polynomial January 30, 2020
• Adjoints of Vector Operators January 23, 2020
• The “extraordinary talent and superior genius” of Sophie Germain January 16, 2020
• Grad, Div and Curl on Weather Maps: a Gateway to Vector Analysis January 9, 2020
• The knotty problem of packing DNA January 2, 2020
• Divergent Series Yield Valuable Results December 26, 2019
• Having your Christmas Cake and Eating it December 19, 2019
• The Intermediate Axis Theorem December 12, 2019
• A New Mathematical Discovery from Neutrino Physics December 5, 2019
• Archimedes and the Volume of a Sphere November 28, 2019
• Airport Baggage Screening with X-Ray Tomography November 21, 2019
• Elliptic Trigonometry: Fun with “sun”, “cun” and “dun” November 14, 2019
• The Vastness of Mathematics: No One Knows it All November 7, 2019
• An Attractive Spinning Toy: the Phi-TOP October 31, 2019
• Some Fundamental Theorems of Maths October 24, 2019
• Maths and Poetry: Beauty is the Link October 17, 2019