The year in proofs has started with a big result in combinatorics: the existence conjecture for designs. As usual, weightier minds than ours have comprehensively explained the result, so I’ll just give a brief summary of the problem and then some links.
All Squared, Number 11 – Maths Jam
MathsJam is an annual conference in the UK, and a monthly night in pubs around the world, organised respectively by mathematician and juggler Colin Wright, and stand-up mathematician Matt Parker. We cornered Matt and Colin at the MathsJam conference last November, and talked to them for just over half an hour about the conference, the…
An Approach That Uses Computers a Bit to Ask Questions on Numbers and Stuff in Big School
Here I attempt to write the abstract for my thesis, ‘A Partially-automated Approach to the Assessment of Mathematics in Higher Education’, “using only the ten hundred words people use the most often“.
Carnival of Mathematics #106 – December 2013
A round up of blog posts from around the internet, carefully collected during December 2013.
Puzzlebomb – January 2014
Puzzlebomb is a monthly puzzle compendium. Issue 25 of Puzzlebomb, for January 2014, can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 25 – January 2014 The solutions to Issue 25 can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 25 – January 2014 – Solutions Previous issues of Puzzlebomb, and their solutions, can be found here.
A morning in the office with CP and Cushing
CP walks into the office. Cushing: Christian, look at this. I’ve asked Wolfram Alpha to plot a quadratic going through three squares.
Manchester MathsJam Recap, December-ish 2013
Since I haven’t written a MathsJam recap for a few months, due to extreme busyness, this post will recap things which happened at December’s MathsJam as well as some other things I found in the pile of scrap paper when I went to tidy it all away over New Year.