I remember thinking at school when will I ever in my “real life” use maths. Well much to my utter surprise I’ve come to the stark realisation that there is a link between mathematics and crochet. Yes its true… In fact, … Read more
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Abstract:We investigate the combinatorics of permutations underlying the the daily word game Waffle, and learn why some games are easy to solve while extreme games are very hard. A perfect unscrambling must have precisely 11 orbits, with at least one … Read more
You might think there’s unlikely to be any interesting mathematics arising from incense appreciation, but that’s only because you’re unfamiliar with the peculiar character of Muromachi (室町) era (circa 1300-1500) Japanese nobles. There has never been a group of people … Read more
Open Mathematics Depository Depository The primary intention of this project is to provide open access to mathematical texts in PDF format which individual mathematicians find particularly useful and which are clearly in the public domain or under open license. This … Read more
About This Course This subject offers an interactive introduction to discrete mathematics oriented toward computer science and engineering. The subject coverage divides roughly into thirds: Fundamental concepts of mathematics: Definitions, proofs, sets, functions, relations. Discrete structures: graphs, state machines, modular … Read more
Invites are going out for AI Engineer Summit! In the meantime, we have just announced our first Actually Open AI event with Brev.dev and Langchain, Aug 26 in our SF HQ (we’ll record talks for those remote). See you soon … Read more
It’s not mathematics that you need to contribute to. It’s deeper than that: how might you contribute to humanity, and even deeper, to the well-being of the world, by pursuing mathematics? Such a question is not possible to answer in … Read more
I have written about mathematics for The New Yorker and, lately, also in my book “A Divine Language: Learning Algebra, Geometry, and Calculus at the Edge of Old Age,” and I thought that I had said everything I had to … Read more
A mathematician hands out a pack of cards to a group of five people. They repeatedly cut the deck and then take a card each. The mathematician tries to use telepathy to divine the cards that the people are holding … Read more