Terence Tao has uploaded to the arXiv a paper “Every odd number greater than 1 is the sum of at most five primes“, submitted to Mathematics of Computation. He says this result is: in the spirit of (though significantly weaker than) the even Goldbach conjecture (every even natural number is the sum of at most…
Interesting Esoterica Summation
I feel like it’s time to do another summary of my recent additions to the Interesting Esoterica collection. A reminder of what it’s all about: every now and then I encounter a paper or a book or an article that grabs my interest but isn’t directly useful for anything. It might be about some niche…
Buchstabengewitter by Inigo Italic
MATH PROBLEMS?
Maths in the City posted this on twitter: In order to make a number we can call, we need both of \[n=(10x)(13i^2)\] and \[m=\frac{\sin(xy)}{2.362x}\] to be integers. Click here to continue reading MATH PROBLEMS? on cp’s mathem-o-blog
Ceramic sculpture by Eva Hild
Ceramic sculpture by Eva Hild:
Mathematicians are people too
Last Saturday in the Telegraph there was a feature announcing the start of a numeracy campaign: Make Britain Count. This included an article by Rachel Riley about “the stigma around maths“. She writes about the “image problem” of maths and numeracy: I’m a blonde Essex girl, so I’m well used to being talked down to,…
A 17×17 4-colouring with no monochromatic rectangles
Described on The Math Less Traveled