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Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread the joy and love in doing maths, figuring stuff out, getting stuck and getting unstuck again.
You’ll need to forgive a slightly brief end-of-summer DMFT; it’s the sort of week where there aren’t enough days to do everything that needs doing.
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I think it’s fair to say that Danny Leon won the eclipse.
“When are we ever going to use that, miss?” “Shut up and read about the topology and geometry of balloon polyhedra.”
I once had a terrible journey: EVERY level crossing gate I came to was down. Worse than that, my train was late. Here’s a project to predict when your local level crossing is likely to be closed.
A recent DMFT mentioned the reliance of the Apollo missions on seamstresses. Weavers – the “Little Old Ladies” also played a key role.
It’s always good to see Gerard Westendorp getting nerdsniped. Here’s the top of a thread about mutant buckyballs, and the foot, in which someone has made footballs that way by Thomas Fernique, who also seems like the sort of person whose nerdsnipes are often fruitful.
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At MathsWorld, you can still get tickets for September 21st’s Pseudorandom Ensemble show, with special guest Helen Arney. (Still feel like that’s the wrong way round). In the meantime, if you’re nearby, you can check out Samira Mian‘s InHERited Lines exhibition until the end of August.
Do send in your Carnival material so Karen can make a post from it, please and thank you. The summer bumper special is up at Theorem of the Day.
Looking further ahead, Kit Yates is talking at the Stratford Literary Festival on November 1st, 2-3pm UK time.
That’s all I’ve got for this week. If you have friends and/or colleagues who would enjoy Double Maths First Thing, do send them the link to sign up – they’ll be very welcome here.
If you’ve missed the previous issues of DMFT or – somehow – this one, you can find the archive courtesy of my dear friends at the Aperiodical.
Meanwhile, if there’s something I should know about, you can find me on Mathstodon as @icecolbeveridge, or at my personal website. You can also just reply to this email if there’s something you want to tell me.
Until next time,
C