I have a weird collection of skills. Mathematics, talking about mathematics, art, making… I am certainly missing opportunities, maybe because few know the skill set even exists! So its time to advertise myself.… Read More
Consider two numbers with no common factors, and take the sum of their squares : In many cases the result is a prime, twice a prime, a prime power, or twice a prime… Read More
March the 24th is the birthday of Ada King, Countess of Lovelace. An icon for mathematicians and computer scientists as the first programmer. She developed algorithms that could be run on Babbage‘s analytical… Read More
As promised here is a draft of my article on ideas for the LMS and using the internet for society communication. Please comment! Currently the LMS has two main mean of communication. The… Read More
I have been asked to write a short proposal on internet communication for the council of the LMS (London Mathematical Society). More specifically, how the internet can be used to get better communication… Read More
I take on Doron Zeilberger on laptops and talks
The importance of communication the the future of the LMS and mathematics
To start with a little housekeeping. I have rather neglected this blog, as the summer science exhibition rather took it out of me. I am also going to retire the unscheduled post tag.… Read More
Why English social fears did not stop me joining twitter and starting to like it.
There has been a recent blog discussion on the topic of attribution. As a piece of plankton (not even a small fish) in this world I only suffer from the occasional automatic link… Read More
With the DLR post and now this one I am sailing dangerously close to becoming an observational blog. I am going to hide that in a little rambling about blogs. One of the… Read More
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… Read More
