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Unscheduled Post: Penrose vs Zeilberger
Being able to see the searches people use to arrive at Maxwell’s Demon can be quite amusing. Two hardy souls even managed to come from a search for Mathematics. Just how deep in google do you have to...
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Unscheduled Post: The Silver Ratio
John Cook on The Endeavour has just mentioned the wonderful silver ratio. As this is probably my favourite number I can’t resist the chance to put up some pictures. The silver ratio: , is as John...
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The strange quest: Mathematics as Concrete Art
I have to confess that this post has not been an easy one to write. I wanted to express some ideas that are difficult to put into words. The central, rather playful, thesis is that pure mathematics...
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Will the next generation act?
Mathematics and policy need to meet in preschool [A recent collaboration with Vinay Gupta, available as a pdf] We are all products of our environment, so education is one of our best chances of...
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