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London Day Trip Stop 2: Russell Square
Having visited the British Library on stop 1, I bought a sandwich for lunch and walked down to Russell Square. The clue I tweeted to my location (below) was nicely ambiguous, looking like a fairly standard London scene. David Ault, winner of the photo clue competition at stop 1, attempted a “CSI ‘Zoom… Enhance…’” on…
The months are drawing in
February was two days shorter than January. “I’m worried”, I tweeted, “If this carries on, how long will December 2012 be?” Another way of looking at this is that February is about 93.5% the length of January, so I asked which would produce a shorter December:A. losing a fixed 2 days each month; or,B. each…
London Day Trip Stop 1: British Library
In a previous blog post Things to do in London on a Tuesday I asked for suggestions of things to do on my day trip to London. I went because I was invited to attend the inaugural London walking tour from Maths in the City – we’ll get to that – and apparently the date…
PRISMATICA by Kit Webster
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Stereotype-abiding mathematicians of the world, unite!
Recently I wrote a post, Mathematicians are people too, about the image problem of mathematicians and called for examples of mathematicians who do not fit the traditional stereotype. On Google+, Christian Perfect said: ok, so, as an autistic white male mathematician, I’m going to steer clear. I said that as a glasses-wearing, bearded white man,…
Math/Maths 87: Faulty Cables, Ridiculous Buses & Intergalactic Steroids
A new episode of the Math/Maths Podcast has been released. A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Samuel’s ridiculous bus trip; Computer programmes with IQ 150; IBM’s Watson and data analytics; Extracting Dynamical Equations from Experimental Data is NP-Hard; OPERA faster-than-light neutrinos experiment UPDATE…