Unscheduled Post: Recent Blog Carnivals
A couple of recent carnivals are out. Firstly the second edition of the Art Showcase, this has descriptions of the work of five blogging artists, of which I am one. The entries are eclectic… Continue reading
Monthly Archive: November, 2008
How to improve your talks
There is one thing that can improve any talk. From the most brilliant piece of oratory to the dullest seminar. It is not even hard to achieve, and requires very little skill, just… Continue reading
Unscheduled Post: A couple of interesting posts
This is a glimpse into my browsing habits. It starts with an interesting post on the Secret Blogging Seminar, on bidding games. The basic idea is to take any game, add a stack… Continue reading
Book Review: Mathematics a Very Long Introduction
I recently received my copy of the wonderful The Princeton Companion to Mathematics. In the title of this piece, I could not help making the obvious joke, as the editor Tim Gowers also… Continue reading
Carnival of Mathematics #44
44th Carnival of Mathematics, a feast of maths blog links.
About my art
This piece was originally written for a poster on my art work (shown below). It had to be shortened, partly as a poster can only have so much text and partly as the… Continue reading
Unscheduled Post: Mathematics and Pseudo-mathematics
Mathematical language is complicated, in order to make ideas completely precise and rigourous we often make them unclear to each other. One side effect of this is that it is easy to write… Continue reading
Unscheduled Post: Blog Carnivals
Blog carnivals are a wonderful idea. They include an editorialised list of links to blog posts on a given subject. There is so much out there that it can hard to find new,… Continue reading
Rep-tiles, or how mathematicians start to puzzle and open up questions.
Some thoughts on rep-tiles (mathematical tilings no animals) with ideas about the mathematical thought process and lots of pictures.
Working with constraints
There is a theory that one can have too much freedom, at least in art. With constraints the imagination is forced to work harder, and might achieve an elegance and beauty unobtainable when… Continue reading