Oops! First week back, and I’m late posting this up — it’s on today (obviously) and it looks to be a cracker, so make sure to get to the Physics Podium at 1pm! More details below. —————
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Ever had one of those surreal-ish, bizarre days? I woke up this morning with a plan to go in to the Maths Library at uni (for the first time ever) and track down a few books before lunch with friends. First, just off the bus, an old friend from Ballarat managed to recognize me from [...]
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Blaaaaaaargh. I’m not feeling particularly well today. Not sure why, but I’m working on the assumption that it’s an extremely temporary situation. Nevertheless, I’m not in a ‘writing lots of information mood’, so just know this: The event this week will be awesome, it will be on tropical geometry, and (as always) there are more [...]
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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 [...]
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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!
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It’s interesting what one finds just scrambling around the internet aimlessly. Sure, most of the time you just stumble accidentally into porn sites (or ‘accidentally’); but occasionally you come across gems like pretty wild narcissistic numbers — numbers that pwn. According to the site, a pretty wild narcissistic number is… … an integer n that can be expressed [...]
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I think we can safely file this one under how not to motivate mathematical problems…
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Henry Segerman, to the best of my knowledge, is a reasonably recent addition to the academic staff at the University of Melbourne — having come in this year as a research fellow (or last year — as ever I’m a bit hazy on the details). He’s got an extremely interesting website on all sorts of [...]
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As you can see, I’ve decided that it’s about time I gave these weekly notifications some kind of label — thus is born the MUMS Friday Event category of my blog which, considering there is an event every Friday of every week, should be getting a fair bit of love from me until the end [...]
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Such an awesome, awesome song… Oh, and some extra bonus fun:
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