The other day in the news there was a note about a particular question in one of the national curriculum exams… I thought it was a bit of an odd thing for a maths question… Read More »n sweets in a bag, some are orange…
This is a reblog of a post by Thomas Redman in the Harvard Business Review: Slowly but steadily, data are forcing their way into every nook and cranny of every industry, company, and job. Managers… Read More »How to start thinking like a Data Scientist – by T Redman
ICM2014 — opening ceremony // Gowers’s Weblog I’d forgotten just how full the first day of an ICM is. First, you need to turn up early for the opening ceremony, so you end up sitting… Read More »ICM2014 ― opening ceremony
Donaldson one of five to win most lucrative mathematics prize ever established Simon Donaldson received the ‘Breakthrough’ $3m (£1.8m) prize and trophy for “new revolutionary invariants of four-dimensional manifolds”. The Breakthrough prize in mathematics was… Read More »Prof Simon Donaldson of Imperial College, London, wins 1.8 million pound prize #Maths
Essential Matlab and Octave – Author Page I have now updated my Author Page at CRC Press. Take a look here.
I am very pleased to announce that I have submitted the final version of my book entitled “Essential MATLAB and Octave” to CRC Press. Also I have seen a preliminary cover, and they indeed have… Read More »Update on Essential Matlab and Octave
Ever since the previous Java update for the mac, my Gephi installation was not happy. I resorted to uninstalling version 0.8.2-beta and going back to 0.8.1. Not a bad version, but definitely not one with… Read More »Getting Gephi 0.8.2 to work with a Mac
Some people use statistics like a drunk uses a lamp-post, for support rather than illumination.
