ThatsMaths

Last 50 Posts

• Image Processing Emerges from the Shadows May 19, 2022
• Parity and Partition of the Rational Numbers. Part II: Density of the Three Parity Classes May 12, 2022
• Parity and Partition of the Rational Numbers. Part I: The Three Parity Classes May 5, 2022
• A Finite but Unbounded Universe April 28, 2022
• The Whole is Greater than the Part — Or is it? April 21, 2022
• Following the Money around the Eurozone April 14, 2022
• Mamikon’s Visual Calculus and Hamilton’s Hodograph April 7, 2022
• Infinitesimals: vanishingly small but not quite zero March 31, 2022
• The Chromatic Number of the Plane March 24, 2022
• The Improbability Principle and the Seanad Election March 17, 2022
• Hyperreals and Nonstandard Analysis March 10, 2022
• A Prescient Vision of Modern Weather Forecasting March 3, 2022
• Why Waffle when One Wordle Do? February 24, 2022
• Sources and Scenes of Mathematical Inspiration February 17, 2022
• Where is the Sun? February 10, 2022
• Mathematical Equations are our Friends February 3, 2022
• Gaussian Primes January 27, 2022
• Letters to a German Princess: Euler’s Blockbuster Lives On January 20, 2022
• Euler’s Journey to Saint Petersburg January 13, 2022
• Some Characteristics of the Mathematical Psyche January 6, 2022
• De Branges’s Proof of the Bieberbach Conjecture December 30, 2021
• Number Partitions: Euler’s Astonishing Insight December 23, 2021
• Bernoulli’s Golden Theorem and the Law of Large Numbers December 16, 2021
• Set Density: are even numbers more numerous than odd ones? December 9, 2021
• Buffon’s Noodle and the Mathematics of Hillwalking   December 2, 2021
• Chiral and Achiral Knots November 25, 2021
• Émilie Du Châtelet and the Conservation of Energy November 18, 2021
• Cantor’s Theorem and the Unending Hierarchy of Infinities November 11, 2021
• Topsy-turvy Maths: Proving Axioms from Theorems November 4, 2021
• How to Write a Convincing Mathematical Paper October 28, 2021
• Mathematical Scandals and Scoundrels October 21, 2021
• The Square Root Spiral of Theodorus October 14, 2021
• A Grand Unification of Mathematics October 7, 2021
• The Spine of Pascal’s Triangle September 30, 2021
• Embedding: Reconstructing Solutions from a Delay Map September 23, 2021
• Earth System Models simulate the changing climate September 16, 2021
• The Signum Function may be Continuous September 9, 2021
• The Social Side of Mathematics September 2, 2021
• Real Derivatives from Imaginary Increments August 26, 2021
• Changing Views on the Age of the Earth August 19, 2021
• Carnival of Mathematics August 12, 2021
• Phantom traffic-jams are all too real August 5, 2021
• Simple Models of Atmospheric Vortices July 29, 2021
• Finding Fixed Points July 22, 2021
• All Numbers Great and Small July 15, 2021
• Approximating the Circumference of an Ellipse July 8, 2021
• Kalman Filters: from the Moon to the Motorway July 1, 2021
• Gauss Predicts the Orbit of Ceres June 24, 2021
• Seeing beyond the Horizon June 17, 2021
• Al Biruni and the Size of the Earth June 10, 2021