This is pure magic: Byrne’s Euclid by Nicholas Rougeux BYRNE’S EUCLID THE FIRST SIX BOOKS OF THE ELEMENTS OF EUCLID WITH COLOURED DIAGRAMS AND SYMBOLS A reproduction of Oliver Byrne’s celebrated work from 1847 plus[…]
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Tag: Maths
The Year in Math and Computer Science
A reblog from Quanta Magazine: https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantas-year-in-math-and-computer-science-2018-20181221/ Several mathematicians under the age of 30, and amateur problem-solvers of all ages, made significant contributions to some of the most difficult questions in math and theoretical computer science.[…]
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Celebrating π day at the office
Celebrating π day at the office thanks to the nice people of people.io
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At the Norwegian Embassy for the Abel Committee Reception
Abel Prize Reception
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Probably more likely than probable – Reblog
Probably more likely than probable
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A new “Mathematician’s Apology” – Reblog
In the two and a half years (or so) since I left academia for industry, I’ve worked with a number of math majors and math PhDs outside of academia and talked to a number of[…]
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Bessel series for a constant
Fourier series express functions as a sum of sines and cosines of different frequencies. Bessel series are analogous, expressing functions as a sum of Bessel functions of different orders. Fourier series arise naturally when working[…]
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Happy π day!
Happy π day!
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Life lessons from differential equations
Ten life lessons from differential equations: Some problems simply have no solution. Some problems have no simple solution. Some problems have many solutions. Determining that a solution exists may be half the work of finding[…]
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n sweets in a bag, some are orange…
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[…]
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