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Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread joy and delight in maths.
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I recently enjoyed Allen Downey’s article on the inspection paradox — it links to an “updated version” at Towards Data Science, but the article is nowhere to be seen there.
In “when will we ever use that in real life” news, Stephen Glasby has looked at the combinatorics of the daily word game Waffle, which you can play here.
Have you ever wondered where divisibility problems come from? I bet you have now. Fortunately, Chris Grossack has thought about this in extensive detail and they get a bonus point for referring to “the lemma which is not Burnside’s”. The wikipedia article about that links to my favourite scientific law.
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Two of my favourite maths communication superstars, Ayliean MacDonald and Sam Hartburn have teamed up to make a phenomenal video about curves of pursuit with a Geogebra demonstration. It’s always a treat to have something to play with and think “why does it do that?”
Alexandre Muñiz has just put out Carnival of Mathematics #236; if you enjoy DMFT, you’re likely to get a lot out of the Carnival posts. Incidentally, I’ll be hosting the next one in early March at my blog, and you can submit posts here. Or you can leave a comment here, I’m always interested to see cool maths things.
I’ve also spotted that Katie Steckles, who is generally always everywhere, is specifically going to be talking in Norwich on Monday February 17th about maths in games. That’s during our half-term, but it’s unfortunately a long way from Weymouth.
That’s all I’ve got for this week. If you have friends and/or colleagues who would enjoy Double Maths First Thing, do send them the link to sign up — they’ll be very welcome here.
If you’ve missed the previous issues of DMFT or — somehow — this one, you can find the archive courtesy of my dear friends at the Aperiodical.
Meanwhile, if there’s something I should know about, you can find me on Mathstodon as @icecolbeveridge, or at my personal website. You can also just reply to this email if there’s something you want to tell me.
Until next time,
C