Double Maths First Thing is somewhat ready to rock
Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread the joy and love in mathematics, the pleasure of puzzling things out and getting people to notice the sense of satisfaction that comes from everything clicking into place at once.
I’ve been in Peterborough for the weekend rocking out with the Pseudorandom Ensemble who, as hinted over the last few weeks, will be playing a rare show at MathsWorld on Monday September 21st. Tickets aren’t on sale at the time of writing, but I believe they will be soon – keep an eye on the events page, you (presumably) don’t want to miss out.
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Let’s start with another daily puzzle, sent to me by Gabriel Sobrino: a riddle of the day, which I’ve only had a glance at; I’m not a fan of the AI tutor thing, but the puzzle I saw was interesting enough. You might also enjoy Suat Ayöz‘s posting of the AMS Epsilon of Maths calendar.
Also doing an invaluable service to the community, here’s an English-language version of Petra Schwer’s “How To Read Mathematics”. These are six pages I could really have done with earlier in my mathematics career!
I sometimes feel like Terry Tao does more things than a single person should be able to, and that I’m going to turn around and find him mowing my lawn with one hand, reading a textbook with another, and giving a cheery wave with another. This second, he’s announced that he’ll be an editor at a journal dedicated to maths research videos, Mathematical Discourse. Full announcement to follow, apparently. Also in superhumans news, Hannah Fry has been awarded the Leelavati prize for increasing public awareness of maths.
Glasgow – which will host the next ICM, I gather – currently seems more interested in hosting sports. I’m more interested in the Reuleaux triangle medals (thanks to Em Bell for sending that my way).
Proportional representation is in the news again – one of those things where almost any other system is obviously an improvement on the current one used UK-wide – and The Guardian has a nice piece on how the political map might look under different systems. Also in mainstream media, here’s Kit Yates on the game theory of the Tour de France.
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At MathsWorld, upcoming lates include June Barrow-Green on August 12th from 6:50pm UK time and – as I mentioned before, the best maths band you’re likely to see at MathsWorld this year.
We’re coming up to the deadline for the summer Carnival of Mathematics – submit your links for Robin Whitty here.
The next Finite Group livestream is on Thursday August 13th at 6pm UK time, and Scroggs will be coding up solutions to Peter’s historical maths challenges.
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