Today I’ll sketch an idea that I fist learned about from David Corfield’s excellent book Towards a Philosophy of Real Mathematics. I read it about six years ago while doing my undergraduat… more →
A Mind for Madnesswrote 18 hours ago: Number Theory (Problems 1st of APMO 2011) ^_^ … more →
wrote 1 day ago: Why the recent breakthrough is important photo sources: UNH and Simons article Yitang Zhang, of the … more →
wrote 1 day ago: The over-glorified title really boils down to this fact: (1) For a given integer polynomial p(x), th … more →
wrote 2 days ago: It has been a busy two weeks all over the math community. Well, at least it seemed so to me. Some of … more →
wrote 2 days ago: This nice article came through on wired today: Unknown Mathematician Proves Surprising Property of P … more →
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wrote 3 days ago: Many of you might have heard about the famous problem of water and jugs. It goes as follows: There a … more →
wrote 3 days ago: Daily Program for 5/19/2013 Today we will be implementing the classic Sieve of Eratosthenes for find … more →
wrote 4 days ago: ទ្រឹស្តីបទចំនួន Try to do all the problems i post here, one by one , 15 to 20 minutes for each exerc … more →
wrote 4 days ago: I’ve participated in several author interviews for other blogs (link to most recent interview: http … more →
wrote 6 days ago: Several weeks ago, I wrote a response to a question a student asked me about the value of , which tu … more →
wrote 6 days ago: It is a long standing conjecture in number theory that there exists an infinite number of twin prime … more →
wrote 6 days ago: The Easy Bit If you don’t know how to find the mode from a table / chart / graph, go back to s … more →
wrote 1 week ago: It turns out I’ve been quite slack lately and haven’t posted anything in over a week! I … more →
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wrote 1 week ago: I liked this MathOverflow question, which asks: are there two non-isogenous elliptic curves over Q, … more →
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