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An organ recital
Last week, the refurbished organ in the Great Hall of the People’s Palace at Queen Mary was officially inaugurated. Along with the Purcell, Bach, Handel, Wesley, Ketelby, Coates, and so on, was… more →
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An organ recital
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wrote 3 months ago: Last week, the refurbished organ in the Great Hall of the People’s Palace at Queen Mary was of … more →
Strange Attractors
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wrote 6 months ago: Barry Mazur wrote a book Imagining numbers:(particularly the square root of minus fifteen), which wa … more →
Necessity
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wrote 8 months ago: While reading Thomas Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur, in Chapter 25 of Book 8, I came upon th … more →
Circles disturbed
wrote 10 months ago: My review of the book Circles Disturbed: The Interplay of Mathematics and Narrative has just appeare … more →
Raymond Brownell's exhibition
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wrote 1 year ago: Raymond Brownell is one of a select group of artists whose work is informed by mathematics. Raymond … more →
Overheard
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wrote 1 year ago: On the Piccadilly line this morning, one side of a phone conversation: You know square and cube? The … more →
Lex poems
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wrote 1 year ago: Samuel Taylor Coleridge said, “poetry = the best words in the best order”. Now lexicogra … more →
When I walk into the room
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wrote 1 year ago: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that too few women reach the level of permanent academic app … more →
Impact factor engineering
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wrote 1 year ago: Goodhart’s law asserts: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. This … more →
Tessellating in the rain
wrote 1 year ago: On the left, the Giant’s Causeway in Ireland: a periodic tessellation of the plane by hexagons … more →
Poetry and science
wrote 1 year ago: In The Age of Wonder, subtitled “How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror … more →
Bob Dylan is 70
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wrote 2 years ago: Happy birthday, Bob! I mention this here not just because I like his work, but because he is an arti … more →
Fear of mathematics
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wrote 2 years ago: I am a great admirer of Ben Goldacre. An advocate of evidence-based medicine, he is the person behin … more →
After the Gold Rush
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wrote 2 years ago: Although string theorists and fans of J. W. Dunne may disagree, most people are convinced that we li … more →
Ambiguity, 2
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wrote 2 years ago: JoAnne Growney has recently referred again to our small disagreement about the role of ambiguity in … more →
Farewell to astronomy?
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wrote 2 years ago: Whoever then has the effrontery to study physics while neglecting mathematics, should know from the … more →
How to have impact
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wrote 2 years ago: In the bizarrely-named “research excellence framework” bearing down on UK academics, som … more →
LMS website, 2
wrote 2 years ago: I have just removed the link to the blog A new website for the LMS. The beta-test version of the web … more →
Eliot's yew
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wrote 2 years ago: London is a walkable city. From time to time I have meetings at the London Mathematical Society … more →
