MUMS Friday Event: The wonderment of the finger and D’Alembert’s dream.

If that title sounds cryptic, that’s because…well, it is. This week the MUMS event is sort of a mixed bag approach. Antoinette Tordesillas, from the applied maths tribe of the maths department, has gathered together five of her students, and each of them will be giving a short presentation on some problem or issue they [...]

It’s always nice to see an open problem solved.

I put up this open problem on a whiteboard in the MUMS room well over a month ago now: And finally, someone has come along and solved it! Huzzah!

Oh, holy crap — did the war end? Sorry, I wasn’t paying attention…

Well, this about sums it up…