A while ago I became interested in `captured lightning‘ Lichtenberg figures, but without access to megavolt-scale physics gear, I wondered if I could simulate them in software instead. I was reminded of this when I had my JMM art exhibition entry printed on glass, as this would give me something a bit closer to the [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Pop.Maths category.
The Smoothness Spiral
I’d recently ordered Ben Fry‘s Visualizing Data and started reading it this weekend; just a few pages in I learnt how to import data to processing and a project was born… Since New Orleans I’ve been increasingly interested in mathematical art, and whether in particular I could create something interactive. Here’s what I’ve come up [...]
Changing Perspectives
A crochet Lorenz Manifold, as spotted in the Changing Perspectives exhibition in Bristol.
Joint Mathematics Meetings 2011
I spent last week in New Orleans for the Joint Mathematics Meetings 2011. I’d made a rather last minute booking after noticing a couple of sessions could be useful, and hadn’t quite grasped the scale of the event. I’d normally think of 200 mathematicians as a large gathering, but the JMM had over six thousand [...]
Christmas Doodling
After watching Vi Hart‘s latest video I found myself thinking about patterns, because I’m the weird sort of number theorist who’s more interested in general structures than specific instances like actual numbers. Because I’m doubly weird, I tend to doodle with computer code rather than pen and paper, so over the christmas break I cobbled [...]
The Bristol Chaotic Pendulum
Mathematical tourism in Bristol: the chaotic pendulum.
Exploring Cambridge
I’ve recently returned from my second ‘Young Researchers in Mathematics’ event in Cambridge, a city I never tire of visiting. At over eight hundred years old, Cambridge University has more history than some countries, so there are plenty of mathematical connections to be found as a result- I thought I’d share just a few of [...]
Maths at the Science Festival
(Cross-posted to the frontpage) Just a quick note to mention two talks from the Edinburgh International Science Festival, which my flatmate chaired and I took some photos at: Marcus du Sautoy’s The Num8er My5teries and Ian Stewart’s Cows in the Maze. Summaries, courtesy of Haggis the Sheep, can be found here and here respectively.
Easter (±ε) Activities
Conference and Outreach Activities for March/April.
Discovering Mathematical Tourism
Sometimes you don’t have to go far to find travel inspiration and a change of scenery. In my search of the world for sites of mathematical significance, it turned out I’d been overlooking one practically on my doorstep! The Union Canal, near Falkirk In 1822 the Union Canal opened, providing (with the Forth and Clyde [...]
