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Last 50 Posts

• A Model for Elliptic Geometry May 13, 2021
• Improving Weather Forecasts by Reducing Precision May 6, 2021
• Can You Believe Your Eyes? April 29, 2021
• The Size of Things April 22, 2021
• Entropy and the Relentless Drift from Order to Chaos April 15, 2021
• Circles, polygons and the Kepler-Bouwkamp constant April 8, 2021
• Was Space Weather the cause of the Titanic Disaster? April 1, 2021
• The Dimension of a Point that isn’t there March 25, 2021
• Making the Best of Waiting in Line March 18, 2021
• Differential Forms and Stokes’ Theorem March 11, 2021
• Goldbach’s Conjecture: if it’s Unprovable, it must be True March 4, 2021
• Mamikon’s Theorem and the area under a cycloid arch February 25, 2021
• Machine Learning and Climate Change Prediction February 18, 2021
• Apples and Lemons in a Doughnut February 11, 2021
• Complexity: are easily-checked problems also easily solved? February 4, 2021
• Euler’s Product: the Golden Key January 28, 2021
• Euler: a mathematician without equal and an overall nice guy January 21, 2021
• The Basel Problem: Euler’s Bravura Performance January 14, 2021
• We are living at the bottom of an ocean January 7, 2021
• Derangements and Continued Fractions for e December 31, 2020
• Arrangements and Derangements December 24, 2020
• On what Weekday is Christmas? Use the Doomsday Rule December 17, 2020
• Will RH be Proved by a Physicist? December 10, 2020
• Decorating Christmas Trees with the Four Colour Theorem December 3, 2020
• Laczkovich Squares the Circle November 26, 2020
• Ireland’s Mapping Grid in Harmony with GPS November 19, 2020
• Aleph, Beth, Continuum November 12, 2020
• Weather Forecasts get Better and Better November 5, 2020
• The p-Adic Numbers (Part 2) October 29, 2020
• The p-Adic Numbers (Part I) October 22, 2020
• Terence Tao to deliver the Hamilton Lecture October 15, 2020
• From Impossible Shapes to the Nobel Prize October 8, 2020
• Mathematics and the Nature of Physical Reality October 1, 2020
• 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