Least world records
This morning I saw a tweet from Tony Mann about Berry’s Paradox, formulated by Tony as “The smallest integer not identifiable in a tweet“. (A paradox, of course, because that phrase identifies a specific integer.) This reminds me that I have noticed a few times recently people online reciting the joke that goes like: “I…
Sun Ray Ricochet by Matt W. Moore
Second-Rate Minds: my second post
I just published my second post over at Second-Rate Minds, the mathematical writing blog launched by Samuel Hansen and I back in August. This is a comment/review piece about my reading of G.H. Hardy’s influential 1940 essay A Mathematicians Apology. You may remember we took the name of the blog Second-Rate Minds from a quote…
Flightpattern by Gwen Vanhee
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Sarah
It has been nearly a month since I posted here. Sorry about that. My friend Sarah Shepherd died last month. I expect many people reading this blog will know Sarah for her work on iSquared Magazine or perhaps you’ll have heard Sarah as my guest on the maths news episodes of the Travels in a…
Wholemovement by Bradford Hansen-Smith
[youtube url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgoG_xEi2N8] This dude is sailing very close to the edge of the whirlpool of crazy ju-ju, but the sculptures he makes are so pretty! Wholemovement