In summer 2003, I put my MSc in computing into part-time mode to take up a part-time job in e-learning in maths at the University of Nottingham. Since then, I have done various combinations of paid work and education, until I handed in my PhD this summer. Viva notwithstanding, ((Though, in fact it’s quite something…
Had Wuzzit Trouble been around in 2001, when I was teaching Diophantine equations… well, there wouldn’t have been an iPhone to play it on, and it would probably have been too graphically-intensive for the computers available at the time. However, I’m willing to bet fewer of my students would have fallen asleep in class.
Puzzlebomb is a monthly puzzle compendium. Issue 20 of Puzzlebomb, for September 2013, can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 21 – September 2013 The solutions to Issue 21 can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 21 – September 2013 – Solutions Previous issues of Puzzlebomb, and their solutions, can be found here.
Math Munch is a groovy website run by three groovy people from the USA. Imagine this site, but less presumptuous about your mathematical schooling and run to a strict weekly schedule. Each week’s post contains a few links to interesting maths things and an interview with a person of mathematical interest, all on a chosen…
[vimeo url=https://vimeo.com/70587267] Time tilings by Pablo Valbuena via NotCot.org
Vuoristo coffee table by Fabien Barrero+Carsenat. Nice conic sections!
In this short series of articles, I’m writing about mathematical questions we don’t know the answer to – which haven’t yet been proven or disproven. This is the third article in the series, and across two parts will discuss various open conjectures relating to prime numbers. This follows on from Open Season: Prime numbers (part 1).…