Second-Rate Minds
For writing practice, Samuel Hansen and I are collaborating on a new blog, Second-Rate Minds. We take the name from a quote from the beginning of A Mathematician’s Apology by G.H. Hardy (1940): There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men…
Key-ring model of the Hopf fibration by David Richter
Fibonacci Wedding Cake by Kim Arbios
Crocheting the Lorenz Manifold
From Our Own Mathematics Correspondent
You may remember I contributed a piece last month to the Pod Delusion Podcast on the unplanned impact initiative. Well, this week I’ve done it a second piece. This is becoming a habit. The Pod Delusion describes itself as a weekly news magazine podcast about interesting things. From politics, to science to culture and philosophy,…
Hot research question: Do mathematicians like pizza?
I took part in a fun exchange on Twitter this afternoon. I’m preserving it here because Twitter tends to lose these things. Anyway, go and fill in Alison’s survey! It really is only two questions and is just a bit of fun. (By the way, do you remember the 2010 Pizza Hut ad campaign “People…