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    A puzzle for another day

    By Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted September 29, 2018

    A drawing of a waiter looking confused

    A few months ago, my faculty’s PR person sent an email round asking if anyone would like to write a puzzle for the Today programme’s “Puzzle for Today” slot, to be broadcast during the programme’s trip to Newcastle in Freshers’ Week. A colleague said this might be the kind of thing I’d like to do,…

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    HLF Blogs: Why you’re already an algebraic geometer

    By Katie Steckles. Posted September 29, 2018

    Quadratic, Cubic and Quartic graphs

    This week, Katie and Paul are blogging from the Heidelberg Laureate Forum – a week-long maths conference where current young researchers in maths and computer science can meet and hear talks by top-level prize-winning researchers. For more information about the HLF, visit the Heidelberg Laureate Forum website. The HLF included a talk from 2018 Fields medalist…

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    Atiyah Riemann Hypothesis proof: final thoughts

    By Katie Steckles and Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted September 28, 2018

    After Sir Michael Atiyah’s presentation of a claimed proof of the Riemann Hypothesis earlier this week at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum, we’ve shared some of the immediate discussion in the aftermath, and now here’s a round-up of what we’ve learned.

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    HLF Blogs: Leslie Lamport Thinks Your Code Is Bad

    By Paul Taylor. Posted September 27, 2018

    Leslie Lamport. Photo © Bernhard Kreutzer, Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation

    This week, Katie and Paul are blogging from the Heidelberg Laureate Forum – a week-long maths conference where current young researchers in maths and computer science can meet and hear talks by top-level prize-winning researchers. For more information about the HLF, visit the Heidelberg Laureate Forum website.     At last year’s HLF, Turing Award Leslie…

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    Curvahedra Geometry

    By Edmund Harriss. Posted September 25, 2018

    Longtime friend of the Aperiodical, artist, mathematician and #BigMathOff semifinalist Edmund Harriss has come up with a new puzzle/toy/exploration set, developing his Curvahedra system. We asked him to explain the maths behind it in this guest post. Curvahedra is a flexible system of connectors that can make all sorts of different things, combining puzzles (and…

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    Atiyah-Riemann Proof: banter summary

    By Katie Steckles and Paul Taylor. Posted September 24, 2018

    Sir Michael Atiyah (image by Pablo Costa from ICM 2018)

    Today the internet has been getting excited about Sir Michael Atiyah’s claimed proof of the Riemann Hypothesis, which he presented at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum this morning. We’ve collected all the relevant links and tweets to help you make sense of what’s going down in critical-line-town.

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    HLF Blogs: What is the Riemann Hypothesis?

    By Katie Steckles and Paul Taylor. Posted September 23, 2018

    This week, Katie and Paul are blogging from the Heidelberg Laureate Forum – a week-long maths conference where current young researchers in maths and computer science can meet and hear talks by top-level prize-winning researchers. For more information about the HLF, visit the Heidelberg Laureate Forum website. This year at the HLF there are multiple sessions…

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