There are now some videos available from the Beyond Part III / Young Researchers in Mathematics conference I attended earlier this year. Of particular note is David Spiegelhalter’s plenary lecture on probability and uncertainty. I summarised one of the ideas from that talk – the micromort – on Everything2, mentioning a comparison between the risks [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Pop.Maths category.
Genetic Algorithms with Processing
A processing applet to tackle a genetic algorithm challenge.
iSquared: The limits of Computation
The cover article of this quarter’s iSquared magazine is by me!
Distributed Computing
Mathematical study is often thought of as ‘purer’ than scientific research- instead of labs full of chemicals, fruit flies or lasers, our work could in theory proceed with nothing more than a chalkboard; rather than believing theories through weight of evidence and an absence of counterexamples, we prove theorems as undeniable consequences of our base [...]
Greedy Pig
A simple maths game about probability.
Understanding Public Key Cryptography with Paint
An introduction to public key encryption and Diffie-Hellman key exchange by mixing paint.
The Anatomy of a Maths Degree
The contents of my MMath course at the University of Bath.
Beautiful Young Minds
Updated now that I’ve obtained a copy. If you’re in the UK, have a windows computer and are willing to use Internet Explorer, then you can currently download the program through the BBC’s iplayer service. It’s wrapped up in DRM, but the 7 day viewing licence granted means you can liberate it with FairUse4WM. During [...]
iSquared Magazine
A new UK magazine for mathematics.
