At the change of semester, I am again in a brief planning stage (the calm before the storm), trying to work out where to direct my efforts. A major consideration is where I have been. Last time I was in this position, back in September, I wrote a blog post Where I’ve been and what…
Macro November
If you read the previous blog post, you will realise I am slightly remorseful at the reduction in blog posts since I started using Twitter and am attempting to quickly catch up ready to post more often in future. Here is a catchup post for November. By the start of November, I had noticed the…
Macro October
Longer term readers of this blog who follow me on Twitter may realise that I have posted considerably fewer posts here since I’ve been ‘micro-blogging’. The podcasts resumed in October, and the show notes posts were regular through the autumn. The non-podcast blog posts in between were less common. Here is a catchup post for…
A life in the IMA
I am writing to draw your attention to the blog “A Life in the IMA“, in which Dr. Dan Tilley, IMA Council member, Chair of the IMA Early Career Mathematicians Group and committee member of the IMA North Hants, Surrey and Berkshire Branch, gives his personal account of his mathematical life. His postings are infrequent…
"Substitution ciphers: Ancient – Renaissance"
I have produced a talk in what will hopefully become a series, History of maths and x. This aims to offer mathematical histories for various topics, x. The idea is that each topic is covered in a talk at the University of Nottingham that is available to view online, in an article for iSquared Magazine…
22, 38, 54, 26, 42, 58, 30, 46, 62
Happy 2010! Any guesses on the meaning of the sequence of numbers in the title (it is a bit arbitrary)? Leave them in the comments. No prizes but smug self-satisfaction.
Podcast: Episode 50 – Sebastien Guenneau, Invisibility cloaks
These are the show notes for episode 50 of the Travels in a Mathematical World Podcast. 50 is one half of the square of the base of our number system, a fact which seems to give it an arbitrary significance. So as this is the special half-century episode of the podcast I have a treat…