I’ve been waiting for the new season of Relatively Prime for more than three years. I’ve listened to Chinook, the highlight of Season 1, countless times since then. And finally, finally, it’s arrived in my podcast feed. Woo, and for that matter, hoo!
My university is advertising 30 fully funded PhD scholarships for autumn 2016. Basically, there are a list of projects and which ones get funded depends on applications. I am lead on a proposal for a topic in maths/engineering higher education. The description is below, and I would be grateful if you could bring it to…
Once again, it’s time for our traditional trawl through the New Years Honours list for mentions of “mathematics”, hoping that better-informed readers will fill in the people this crude method has missed. I’ve found the following names: Steve Humble (Dr Maths) awarded MBE for services to Education (via Garrod Musto on Twitter); Lynn Churchman of…
Reader Marc Chamberlain sent this video in a bit too late to get in our advent calendar, but it’s about the 12 days of Christmas so we’re still cool, right?
Looking for something to do with your Christmas tree, when it gets to twelfth night? Here’s an idea: cut it into a beautiful platonic solid. Follow these step-by-step instructions from Dan Beyer. This the last entry in the Aperiodical Advent Calendar. We hope you’ve enjoyed it, and we wish you and yours a wonderful holiday season. See…
Today’s entry is a Theorem of the Day: The Robin-Lagarias Theorem: Let $H_n$ denote the n-th harmonic number $\sum_{i=1}^n \frac{1}{i}$ , and let $\sigma(n)$ denote the divisor function $\sum_{d \vert n} d$. Then the Riemann Hypothesis is equivalent to the statement that, for $n \geq 1$, $\sigma(n) \leq H_n + \ln(H_n) e^{H_n}$ . While this…
The Gingerbreadman Map is a two-dimensional piecewise linear map, defined by: \begin{align} x_{n+1} &= 1 – y_n + \lvert x_n \rvert \\ y_{n+1} &= x_n \end{align} The region in which the map is chaotic looks like a gingerbread man! In true festive spirit, one blogger has baked some cookies in the shape of the gingerbread…